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Nike SB Dunk Low "Michael Lau Gardener Wood", originally released in 2006.

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1: Crazychildren 15 Meter Chen (2002) - Michael Lau

2: Davy LMK from Crazysmiles series (2002) - Michael Lau

3: Run Lam Dog from Crazysmiles series (2001) - Michael Lau

4: Scratching with Gravity with DJ Jammie (2003) - Jason Siu

5: Monkey Playground DJ BASS (2003) - Jason Siu

Love these figures from when the urban vinyl movement was at its peak, blending street culture with toy design. Michael Lau and Jason Siu, both from Hong Kong, were key pioneers in the designer toy world. Their bold and innovative creations helped shape vinyl culture in the 2000s.

Lau’s iconic Gardener and Crazysmiles series captured street fashion and expressive character design. Siu brought music and urban influences into the mix with pieces like Gangs of the Monkey Playground DJ Bass and his Speak Your Mind speaker-toy series.

The images shown here were originally featured on the Kidrobot website in the 2000s, capturing the moment when these vinyl figures were making a global impact. You can still find some collectors selling them today, but they’re pretty rare. Does anyone own one?? and looking to sell lol

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Art Toy Movement: History of Art Toys #42 Questioning Art Toy Gama #42

Can we pinpoint the moment when Takashi Murakami flipped the script—when instead of elevating street culture into art, like Michael Lau, Eric So, and Bounty Hunter, he took the high art world and injected it with the energy of mass culture? When his Superflat philosophy crushed the boundaries between museums and mainstream, proving that fine art could be as accessible as a Louis Vuitton bag, as playful as an anime character, and as disruptive as a viral trend?

¿Podemos considerar el momento en que Takashi Murakami le dio la vuelta al juego—cuando, en lugar de elevar la cultura callejera al estatus de arte, como hicieron Michael Lau, Eric So y Bounty Hunter, él tomó el mundo del arte elevado y lo impregnó de la energía de la cultura de masas? Cuando su filosofía Superflat dinamitó las barreras entre los museos y lo mainstream, demostrando que el arte podía ser tan accesible como un bolso de Louis Vuitton, tan juguetón como un personaje de anime y tan disruptivo como una tendencia viral?

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