Been a while since we've heard from any toy-movements from
Necessaries Toy Foundation, and now they are back with a "homage" piece mashing up KAWS and our favorite (and only) Spinach-eater Popeye (whom I suspect opens a "can of steroid-spinach whoopass" and devours the like a crack addict lol), in the form of a 11-inches tall 'B-KAWZ' - with this Gold Edition limited to 250pcs and a SRP of US$100, as distributed by DKE Toys.
Here are a couple of more pictures, and a lengthy product writeup:
B-KAWZ
APPROPRIATING THE APPROPRIATOR
(THIS IS A PARODY, IT IS ONLY A PARODY, DO NOT ADJUST YOUR RATIONALE)
B-KAWZ there isn't enough shit at Comicon already
B-KAWZ you are not a very discerning toy collector
B-KAWZ absolutely everyone bastardizes everyone else
B-KAWZ art imitating art is still art, geddit?
Call it what you will, is it a blatant rip-off or a noble tribute?
We at Necessaries Toy Foundation consider it a homage
to two successful and very respected artists.
It is also commentary and parody.
Is it an original idea? We think it is, but only in an esoteric sense.
In fact, it is a very original idea if you are a lateral thinker.
Appropriator? Perpetrator? Instigator?
It is what it is, and I yam what I yam.
B-KAWZ is a metaphor du jour. Merely this and nothing more . . .
