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Dustin Cantrell at VTN '08
Reason #2 to step away from the computer and out into the daylight (via skylight) and forced socialization implicit in a convention (reason 1): you might run into an artist who designed an awesome custom Mad*L that has quickly become one of the most prized items in your toy collection (and by “you,” I mean “me”). The artist with the Dunny above is Dustin Cantrell. He was circulating VTN with his bro and a backpack containing custom Red Mars AsteroiDunnys. Dustin has an eye for aesthetics and a brain for circuitry. He showed me a cell-phone pic of a work-in-progress Munny that conducts electricity like a cooler cousin to something you’d find alternately at a hands-on science museum or at its lowest common denominator, Spencer’s Gifts. Give him some time and this figure could find its way to custoMONDAY. Definitely keep your eye on Dustin Cantrell: He’s doing stuff that other people aren’t, and in this increasingly crowded scene, that’s not always easy to say. Oh and if you are a fan of Guitar Wolf, take note, something’s in the works.
This text was part of a feature I wrote for ToyCyte in December 2008: www.toycyte.com/vinyl-toy-network-winter-2008-the-toycyte...
Dustin Cantrell at VTN '08
Reason #2 to step away from the computer and out into the daylight (via skylight) and forced socialization implicit in a convention (reason 1): you might run into an artist who designed an awesome custom Mad*L that has quickly become one of the most prized items in your toy collection (and by “you,” I mean “me”). The artist with the Dunny above is Dustin Cantrell. He was circulating VTN with his bro and a backpack containing custom Red Mars AsteroiDunnys. Dustin has an eye for aesthetics and a brain for circuitry. He showed me a cell-phone pic of a work-in-progress Munny that conducts electricity like a cooler cousin to something you’d find alternately at a hands-on science museum or at its lowest common denominator, Spencer’s Gifts. Give him some time and this figure could find its way to custoMONDAY. Definitely keep your eye on Dustin Cantrell: He’s doing stuff that other people aren’t, and in this increasingly crowded scene, that’s not always easy to say. Oh and if you are a fan of Guitar Wolf, take note, something’s in the works.
This text was part of a feature I wrote for ToyCyte in December 2008: www.toycyte.com/vinyl-toy-network-winter-2008-the-toycyte...