My Several Worlds

The Mira Department Store at Core Pacific City Mall (京華城)(also known as The Living Mall) in Taipei hosted the 5th annual Taipei Toy Festival early last month. The show, which ran from July 10-13th, brought thousands of insatiable toy collectors of all ages and uber-cool vinyl toy designers from around the globe through its [...]

A la recherche du temps perdu/In search of time lost - by Yu-fen Guo

Lost in You
Fears and tears mingle.
The divine storms strike a dark age
of diaspora, leaving the modifiers dangle,
lost in you, a subject consumed with rage.
When the sky is clear
will the trampled feathers dry
and soar in full gear?
Lost in you, the vista of [...]

Here’s something most people don’t know about me. I keep visual diaries of everyday things. I love ripping up magazines for photos and ideas, jotting little notes or reminders and adding them to a special binder, which goes into a collection of books that represent all my favorite thoughts and feelings.
I rip for [...]

Ci Boys stole my heart. These are from the We Play Hard Series. 
Vinyl toy collectors, both young and old, will enjoy the 2008 Designer Toy Exhibition running from March 28 to April 10 at Global Mall in Yong He.  The 4th floor exhibit features famous Taiwanese toy designers for Ci Boys, 501st Street Formosa Outpost, Pockyland, [...]

My checklist for Series 15 includes some pretty cute Be@rbricks. The ones highlighted in bold are the ones I’ve managed to collect. We went Be@rbrick hunting today. I almost have a complete set with one left to collect. I would have bought it today at the store but they didn’t have [...]

My checklist for Series 14. The Be@rbricks highlighted in bold are the ones I have. The following percentage is the assortment rate for each figure.
Basic 14.58%
Jellybean 8.33%
Pattern 11.45%
Flag 9.37%
Horror - Saw 9.37% Love love love this Be@rbrick!
SF - DrX 10.41%
Cute 13.54%
Animal 11.45%
Artist Conrad Leach 4.16%
Artist 1.04%

I’ve been a huge fan of Juan Ariel Comia’s blog, Be@rbrick Love for the past year. I just love these cute little bears and he has the largest collection of anyone I know. Plus, he takes the most amazing photos of his Be@rbricks. To date, he holds over 400 of these cute collectibles, some highly [...]

Well, you’ve all been asking for it. Here’s the final series of cultural icons from Yang Liu. These icons were designed to reflect the differences throughout Western and Eastern cultures. Yang Liu was born in Beijing, China and later moved to Germany to further her education. Her work was recently showcased [...]

One of my readers was kind enough to send me a link to Yang Liu’s website. Yang Liu is a graphic designer who has won several prestigious international awards for her work.
These icons illustrate the differences between Eastern and Western cultures (Germany and China). They are from a special exhibition at the German Ministry of [...]

Aren’t these the sweetest dolls you’ve ever seen? I fell in love with these Kokeshi dolls while traveling through Japan. If I could have, I would have bought them all. In fact, I’m starting to think these adorable little dolls will become a collectible item for me. They’re utterly charming and unique.
These dolls were originally [...]