Introducing: Pomona! She is an Alice in Labyrinth "Chloe" head in white resin. I think her and Ermengarde should run away together and join the circus... sadly, they're both just heads living on borrowed bodies.
Gallery: Au Revoir, les Enfants!
Asian Ball-joint Dolls: 2009 Archives
Gallery: Au Revoir, les Enfants!
The Littlest House of Blastmilk Inductee! Elfdoll Hana Devil...
Having the best Solstice, Saturnalia, Holiday, Christmas! No work + Volks FCS Extras order + New SLR Camera (thanks Bro!!!) + Chibi Unoa + Small Dog + Kitties + Hunky Husband...
Check out flickr link below for Blastmilky House of Christmas Fun!
Gallery: Hello Christmas, I'm still here!
VOLKSUSA.com: Home Town Dolpa Nagoya 4 Regular Items. November 21st at 11:00am PST.
My Yo need more chibi duds!
Love the Dollfie Dream lingerie!
Dolpa 22, see DoA: And word is coming down the pipes about Dolpa 22! I think SD16 Kira looks like SD13 Yori, whom I always took for a variation on the 4 sisters theme... can't wait for official non-blurry pix!
Official pix are in on the Volks' Owners Appreciation Event in Kyoto for March 2010... which is Alice in Wonderland themed.
See Superdollfie.net: Little Alice & The White Rabbit
Did I mention I got all my FCS extras ordered? Doh! Sailor Dress, white tabi feet, wigzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Exploding with delight! I never thought this day would come... but Alchemic Labo in partnership with Crescent Shop are staging an all you can eat preorder for the Chibi Unoa released in extreme limitation earlier this year.
Note: You need to set up an account with Crescent Shop to place a preorder with them.
Gallery: Chibi Unoa on Preorder
Several new Alice (of Wonderfland fame) coming down the pipes... the catch is that they are LE or very hard to get. Sad meh!
Classic Alice - Koron: from Azone, LE edition for Amazon.co.jp ONLY
Black Alice - Lien: from Azone, LE edition for Amazon.co.jp ONLY
And then there is Volks' Owners Appreciation Event in Kyoto for March 2010... which is rumored to be Alice themed. Lots of pix on DoA!
NOTE: If anyone is going and willing to give a try for the Alice YO for me, please contact me by commenting here. I'm in love with her bushy eyebrows ^_^
Lets hope we can look forward to more easily available Alices and Friends next year with Tim Burton's release "Alice in Wonderland." Both Tonner and Medicom are slated to collections related to the film!
Yayayay! Volks USA is offering special extra parts now with FCS, and they've decided to retroactively offer it to those who've ordered FCS in the U.S.
This is very exciting! *covet*
No zoukies though, they are precious!
The heater is on, the rain is around the corner and the tomato plants are drying up. Its Halloween!
We've also had a new addition to the family, Elfdoll Hana Devil... mew! She was a surprise from Mr. Kallisti who bought her from an online friend in need. (Hugs to Leah! Hana Devil is in loving hands!) Little imp doesn't have a name, and she wants to be a girl but she needs some pigtails or sumfin. But I've been pining for this tiny since it was released, and I'm just floored with the gorgeous delicacy of the faceups on all four faceplates. Wowie.
It has been nearly 2.5 years since I've brought a ball joint doll... I recently got a promotion and chose to celebrate with the tiniest Sweet Dream Nana! I was delighted she came with her little star fairy outfit by Kaori Saito. What a treat!
Superdollfie.net : All about Yo SWD Nana
I made this dress (the blue chiffon) a couple summers ago and never photographed it. it is my own pattern, and I'm particularly fond of the back.
La Petite Miette sports vintage Madame Alexander scavanged from a garage sale. And has the weathered, attic stains and dust to prove it. Miette thinks it adds authenticity to her impish aristo on the down-and-outs character. Right.
View more at the flickr gallery linked below!
Gallery: Aschenputtel et Miette
MSD Mihmi... a cross between a mini Mimi and SD Luna? S'cute! Also, nice to see Pirate Sylvie in a hot spread again. Where is "Elizabeth"???
Hot Info via: DoA News Thread
Volks news scans courtesy of this blog: Kobe cruise et Dollpa Nagoya
First time in nearly two years I've managed to schedule myself for a Volks USA shopping event! But I made it, 10:59:47 fingers poised at the ready for Dolpa 21 Regular Items sale! It is like getting concert tickets, oy! Too stressful.
You can go see what is left over now.
Cutie Witch Dress & Whiterose Tea Brown Dress Set are comin' home to meeeeeeeeeee!
I was in the garden this morning pruning flowers and snipped off a few flowers and realized they happened to be blue and red in a white pitcher. Cute! I put them on the mantel above the fireplace and realized that half my dolls/ornaments were red and blue.
So here it is, a collection of my red, white and blue toys from around the house. Mew!!!
Homepage: www.blastmilk.com
As Documented on Flickr (more photos there!): Mijn Schatje & Blastmilk Comparisons
And by Radiotrash: radiotrash.org/mijn/
And hilariously, by Bel: Nice work if you can steal it
Fierce Art Ninja Indra: Marie Blanco Hendrickx aka Mijn Schatje is an Art Thief?
From family ^_^: When a big brother steps in
Armeleia's Doll-A-Day: Scandal du Jour: Mijn Schatje
Artist in Question: Marie Blanco Hendrickx - Mijn Schatje
www.mijnschatje.fr
www.myspace.com/mijnschatje
Sunday night I got a message in my inbox from Armeleia that there was an artist who'd been shown to be tracing bjd photos for her digital paintings, and that at least two of the images appeared to be mine. She included Radiotrash's link radiotrash.org/mijn/ where numerous comparison mockups had been posted, and has been carefully updated since.
A google image search instantly confirmed it was much worse than that.
Google image searches showing digital paintings and publications sourced from my work and photography.
While I didn't recall giving any such person permission I have gotten requests in the past for permission to use my photos as models. A deep search of the vast swampy regions of my mailbox turned up a little query from a couple years go. In July 2007 I gave her permission to use a single photo of a doll to "draw" from, she now states, June 2009, that this "drawing" didn't work out and she never showed the print. I've always tried to be supportive and sharing with fellow artists, hence my original enthusiasm to help (I'd also just been to Paris for the first time), and since I never heard from her again I never thought anything of it.
As it turns out she'd already been using photographs from my website for well over a year, including for profit endeavors for Sony Playstation et al.
The grand total to date is SEVEN source photos have been turned into countless prints, magazine covers, etc. The images in question are so exact that it is fair to say they are imported into a vector drawing program like Adobe Illustrator and traced. The final digital painting often maintains the face-shape, lighting, distinctive make-up features, etc. Eyebrows are one of the non-sculpted features of these dolls that are generally painted by the face-up artist. In somecases she's removed these. Other cases, not, and these are telling.
Here you can clearly see the distrinctive BlastMilk Effect™ swoopy eyebrows on Lulu.
I'd like to believe that her intentions were originally honest and fair, but that she perhaps took it too far. The dolls themselves (the effort of the artists who sculpted them, the manufactures who produced them, not to mention the time I put into painting and photographing them) are very compelling, but as their luminous faces are the central theme to 99% of her gallery work, it seems a bit disingenuous to claim them as products of her own imagination.
Sincerely,
Becky Head (AKA Kallisti)
www.blastmilk.com
Saint Trinian here is completely recognizable. Eyebrows, eyecolor, and even her distinctive *overpainted* lip shape. Her lips are about an 1/8th of an inch larger than standard Unoa.
Licensed Deals:
Fornorina *
Playstation (Sony) *
Taschen Illustration! 2009 Calendar & Diary *
Garden of Eye candy book
Crackpot 2009 Calendar
(* using blastmilk images without permission)
Update 6/4/09: on 6/2/09 after a brief exchange, she stated that she would be "deleting the photos that were done using you own sources pictures... the said pictures are not for sale anymore, two of them have never been." I would like to state that those prints that were "not for sale" was because they were already sold out at this time (not sure of her edition size but at $1000+ a pop, you do the math). Not to mention the numerous licensing deals for books, calendars, fashions etc that have been done.
She claims she assumed she had my permission in perpetuity since I had offered to let her "draw" from a photo of one of my dolls. She never used that I've seen the image I *did* send to her, but her use of my images as source material pre-dates the 7/2007 request by almost two years, so the point is moot.
Mr. Kallisti and I had already developed an affection for Jonathan Ross after watching his highly affectionate series from the 80's on cult film The Incredibly Strange Film Show that included in depths on John Waters and Russ Meyer among others.
Recently we ran across his Japanorama series. News to us, don't know how familiar non-brits are with this series, we've been spellbound all week with his presentation and enthusiasm for the subject, including eighteen episodes spanning three seasons over six years. Beneath his dapper English exterior, and charming lisp, he is a self proclained Otaku, and his enthusiasm for all things Japanese, especially robots, is contagious.
"JAPANOWAMA! LOOK! I'm widing an electwic panda!!!"
View: Japanorama on YouTube
More info: Japanorama Wikipedia
Super Dollfie (and other kewl toys) make an appearance in Series II, with a full profile excerpted below. Booya!
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Not sure how long this has been out there (as I've been off the circuit for awhile :p ) but I love her! I've often lusted after Bleuette and certainly bought enough of her wigs for my dolls.
From Ruby Red Galleria, thanks Melissa for the link!
