Robo- Fan, Sup?

This is Robo-Fan. I met him at the Toy Museum. I am pretty sure he and I would be great friends together....

Creepy Babies

Boy oh boy do I ever love the Seoul Toy Museum in Insadong!!!! I took something like 200 photos in there. The place seems to be operated privately by an eccentric old man and the collection consists of an array of random toys old and new. The museum is so kitchy and strange with its mix of old movie posters and strangely racist toys, and cute, over-the-top Asian toys. And clutter everywhere! The walls are covered and every inch of the museum is being used to display items. This place is by far my favorite place in Korea and it only costs 1,000 Won to enter!!!!!

Visual Stimuli

I am a big fan of plentiful and eyesore visual stimuli so I decided to put together a little something to hold some of the photobooth stickers I have been collecting. I made this little thing by covering a piece of white paper with decorative tapes and then adding the photobooth stickers and glittery, puffy, cute, and gaudy stickers galore.

I shall call this masterpiece: "Smile Happy".

Fantastic Postcards from Liu Ye

I was perfectly enchanted by these lovely postcards I picked up by the Chinese artist Liu Ye. They are so pulp and kitch, yet pretty and refined. Maybe you will enjoy them as well?

Found! Vintage Korean pop cultural artifacts!

My new friend Anes and I spent the day in Seoul and wandered into a super hip little shop in Insadong's Ssamziegil shopping arcade. Score! I found my first vintage anything and all of the kitchy cute stuff at the store brightened my day! Don't worry, all of this solid gold I have been striking here in Korea is not always all for me- there is a good chance I may share some of my treasures if you are nice!

A blonde and a brunette striking a pose

anime style in this cute little poster.

Maybe this was made in the 80's?

Cute, eh?

I like that she is dropping her hamburgers
all over the place and they are
dancing around on the ground.

Even the bag the little shop used to
stuff my vintage goods into was pretty sweet.
The packaging was chip bags sealed
off into a new form.

Retro looking Korean paper dolls.
These girls might be fair skinned blondes,
but their paper doll clothes are 100% Korean!

The pixie sticks might have expired
in 2003, but we ate them anyhoo and
they were really good!

Some crazy pogs or something with
army guys on 'em. Pogs! Strangely enough,
kids here still play with pogs. OH YEAH.