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NY brand FLüD teamed up with artist Tristan Eaton and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for a cool art project at this year's SxSW festival in Austin, TX. Sponsored by FLüD and inspired by TNMT, Tristan revealed an original 44' x 12' canvas called "Shredder" for an art gala hosted by The HOPE Collective (Helping Other People Everywhere) during the festival.

Shane Jessup combined his love for dogs, illustration & design, & created HACHI Supply, an artist driven dog supply company. The idea behind HACHI Supply originated when Shane looked for collars & leashes for his dog Cortez & he couldn't find a design that represented his lifestyle.

As we have previously reported here on Clutter, 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of Kidrobot, and we finally have some release information we can share with the world! The project, titled "Kidrobot X", will be a large-scale promotion encompassing releases, an online retrospective and, what's slated to be an "explosive" kick off event and gallery exhibition at their NYC flagship store. 

During this years NYCC (October 11th -14th) Kidrobot will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary.  So far details are sparse, but what I have heard is that they will be releasing an 8" version of Tristan Eaton's Gold King Dunny, first releases as a chase in series 1.

Tristan Eaton, the co-creator of the Dunny and Munny platforms, has teamed up with Vannen Watches to produce a limited edition timepiece — entitled "Contaminant" — that pays homage to the AMC television show Breaking Bad.

Last May Street Culture Mash and 323East Gallery began a public art project on Woodward Ave in downtown Detroit. Woodward Ave is known as one of Detroit's most historic streets, It was once known as a colorful shopping district but had recently become more and more vacant, aside from a few night clubs and sushi bars scattered through out blocks 1400-1500.

While Tristan Eaton was in LA, the Sunset Strip Association asked him to paint a one of a kind 10 foot tall Gibson Guitar to be on permanent display. His pieces is based on a portrait of his Mother from when she was in her twenties. The guitar was wheat-pasted then spray stenciled and hand painted with acrylic. Pretty Awesome!!

There's a great series of videos about one of the vinyl kings, Tristan Eaton over on cnn.com. The one shown here is titled "Cops, Guns and Paint: Confessions of a graffiti artist" and tells an interesting tale of one of his graffiti experiences.

OK we've covered this figure previously, and i was less than impressed to be honest. Don't get me wrong Tris is one of the originators of the vinyl toy scenes success in the US with his work with Kidrobot and has been active with KR, Thunderdog and carious other companies for nearly 10 years. However at a time when Tris is doing some exciting things art wise this figure looks so lame and old in comparison. Like something he woulda made 5 years ago - though the iphone app it originated from is probably 4 years old.

Plastic City announce their latest figure due for unveiling at SDCC, this time with Tristan Eaton, one of the oldest players in the US vinyl scene. It's 2 years since Tris's design company released the iPhone app that this figure is from, so for me personally its a bit of an underwhelming release.