![]() ![]() ![]() But I don’t collect < $10 objects based on QC. A couple even had what appear to be fingerprints or spots where the paint is clearly warped. If you are the type of collector who cares a great deal about quality control, you will likely have trouble with this series.Įvery one of my ten figures had prominent scratches (and seams). As one would expect, the $8 dogs are crude and cheaper looking. The proportions and overall aesthetic of Kidrobot’s balloon dog are different than Koons’ Balloon Dog. Once you get over the semantic similarity of “balloon dog,” you’ll notice that Kidrobot’s balloon animals don’t look that much like Koons’ piece rather, they simply look like balloon animal toys. There are no chase figures (of which I’m aware). Nineteen of the 21 figures are distributed 1:20 and 2 are distributed 1:40. I bought ten boxes off the shelf at Urban Outfitters and got the selection shown above, with only one duplicate. Beyond the dog, there’s a horse, giraffe, swan, bear and cat. The Pop! Super Shiny Mini-series contains 21 different injection-molded balloon animal toys. And these things include balloon animals.Įnter Kidrobot. Then one of my blogging heroes, Regretsy, brought us back to earth with the sobering revelation that basically, there are some things you can’t copyright. It’s gotten to be such a “thing,” that when an Etsy seller claimed that Urban Outfitters stole her jewelry designs, the Internets got all Salem Witch Trialsy. Countless people claim that UO has infringed upon their work. If you could take all of what some people loathe as Jeff Koons’ appropriation antics and put it into a retail business model, you might have Urban Outfitters. By February, Koons’ attorneys had dropped the (absurd) claim, and Park Life sold out of its suddenly very in-demand bookends.Įnter Urban Outfitters. Everyone from The NY Times to BoingBoing weighed in, and Artinfo posted Park Life’s (awesome) response to Koons’ cease and desist. At the tail end of last year, Koons attempted to block Park Life, a San Francisco retailer/art gallery, from selling $55 balloon dog bookends. In this post-etsy world of tiresome yetis and redundant owls, the balloon dog holds special relevance. Nonetheless, Koons’ website opens with his name splashed across a billion dollar Balloon Dog. However, in the grand scheme of things, making balloon animals has been going on since the late 1930s, and Koons name is in absentia on the balloon modeling Wiki. Koons’ balloon animals are so iconic within the context of contemporary art that they merit a mention in the first sentence of his Wiki page. Jeffrey “Jeff” Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects-such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces. ![]() The toys are sold blind-box style for $8 each and are being misidentified as the work of artist, Jeff Koons, whom Wikipedia introduces as: Here’s something kind of interesting: For about a week, Urban Outfitters has been quietly selling The POP! Super Shiny Mini-Series of balloon animal toys produced exclusively for them by Kidrobot. ![]()
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