Spanky Stokes is a website that posts news on art, vinyl toys, culture, & everything in between! John “Spanky” Stokes has kindly reviewed our new “Know Your Destination” theme now available at the Envee Apparel Store.

“Their clothing looks fresh, and is available in both Men’s and Women’s styles, and know that when you purchase a shirt from these guys it goes directly to the artist, and not to some department store, so help em’ out and send some love their way. Also, keep watching for more updates from Envee because they have a lot of great stuff planned in the near future!”

READ THE FULL REVIEW

If you love robots, toys, electronics, headphones and cameras, look no further because this is the place for you! AC GEARS has it all under one roof. From the latest trendsetting electronics, limited run gadgets, imported toys and luxury robots from all over the world, you just can’t go wrong.

You could say this is a geeks dream come true. If that is the case, then I am a geek and I have gone to heaven! This has to be one of my most favorite stores that I have ever walked into. If you are ever in the New York area and you share the same interests in “gadgets and gizmos a-plenty”, then make sure to stop by and check it out! I am sure you will find something you like. Even if you’re not really into that sort of thing, I’m sure you will have a lot of fun just looking around and having a good old poke at the toys and testing them out *wink*

Address:
AC Gears
69 E. 8th Street
New York City, NY 10003
http://www.acgears.com

[via]

We have entered ANOTHER shirts into the Uneetee.com shirt competition. Go check them out and give us some votes! You do have to create an account to vote, but if the design wins we will be giving away 15 free shirts of each winning design to Envee Apparel fans and customers! We only have 21 days to gather together votes.

Click on the shirt designs to go to it’s page to vote.

SHOW SOME LOVE

I love this Ad, big pic!

[via]

ESTATE LA is making a jump further into the realm action sports. BMX has been a long-time love of ESTATE LA family. The brand’s flagship store in Venice stocks BMX frames and accessories and is the staff’s most common mode of transportation.

VERDE BMX is one of the leaders of the new school bmx movement. Created by Cory Muth and Steve Buddedeck, former marketeers of the BMX scene, VERDE (trans. Green in Spanish) is a new fresh force on the scene. Their current roster of riders includes: Ryan Barrett, Kris Bennett, Dave Thompson and Brian Yeagle.

[via]

Love the work of this Tokyo based Illustrator / Art Director.

[via]

I am super over screen printed shirts and then sites like this come along that totally re-kindle my love fetish. Blood Is The New Black is a bad website with some great artists and really good prices on shirts. Get them before they get ripped off by H&M.

[via]

EA’s version of Tetris was fine. There was nothing hugely wrong with it, except that price. And since we’ve all paid for Tetris before on one platform or another, we’ll gladly settle for the iPhone’s free version of Tetris called Tris. Move pieces by sliding your finger back and forth and rotate them by tapping anywhere on the screen. The controls are quite responsive and, yes, the entire design feels like Tetris.

Some updates we’d like to see in a 1.1 version include line completion animation and the ability to rotate pieces before the are wholly on screen (whether or not this is an official break of Tetris rules, tapping just doesn’t do the job when you are stacked high on the board). Still, very, very solid showing. Here’s a clip of the game in motion that, as the pre-pubescent voice will reveal, we did not record:Quick! Everyone download it before EA and Russia team up to sue the developer! [Tris]

[via]

The Vintage Novelty Pistol Gun Hairdryer, I love this gun hairdryer, funny! A working, fantastic condition, rare vintage novelty hair dryer, complete with white plastic holster. No electrocution worries, the silver gun material is plastic as well. Pull the hammer (on top) to the desired heat setting, squeeze the trigger and let’er rip.

[via]

Some guy named Emerson Taymor had himself some 3-D business cards made. It probably isn’t a new idea, but hey, it’s the first I’ve seen it. Regardless, I found them kind of questionable (even ignoring the goofy picture). Don’t get me wrong: I love wearing 3-D glasses as much as the next guy that dropped acid with his bagel this morning, I’m just saying they seem gimmicky. But being the intrepid reporter that I am, I gave Emerson the benefit of the doubt. So I visited his website to find out what kind of act he performs for birthday parties that warrants such an unusual card, and hello placeholder! Wow Emerson, I don’t even know if you can make balloon animals. But you have inspired me. To include a phone number on my business card that I may activate some time in the future.

[via]

Check out this great dripping table design by John Nouanesing. It looks amazing but I hope its built solid, I would hate to spend the money on it and when it’ acceidentally bumped a leg falls off! [Artist Website]

The Flightposite is one of those rare love it or hate it shoes. While some may consider the shoe’s design unorthodox to say the least, the shoe does have a steady cult following of supporters. This colorway alongside the indestructible foot-forming (albeit heavy) Foamposite upper is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated for Nike heads. Look for it to release in December 2008 with a price tag of 0 US.

[via]

We all love fruit but they’re not exactly cheap and usually demand to be eaten sooner than later, otherwise the ravages of time wreak havoc on them. Blue is a concept fruit bowl that utilizes Action Fresh Blue technology - the same one found in the Halo vacuum and many new refrigerators. The blue wavelength inhibits and kills bacteria thereby prolonging shelf life.

The fruits retain their nutritional value and you get a cool looking dockable, rechargeable bowl to boot. If that still doesn’t convince you, how about the thought of a cool blue glowing ring of light? I mean just that alone is enough to make me wanna go out and get one.

Designer: Ahmet Bektes, Koray Gelmez & Eda Kose

Ahmet Bektes, Eda Kose, Koray Gelmez

This is the job I want when I grow up. And no, not because it gives you a great opportunity to cop the occasional feel.

Oshiya, or “pusher”, is an informal Japanese term for a worker who stands on the platform of a railway station during the morning and evening rush hours, and pushes people onto the train. This video is a good example of just how crowded it gets on Japanese trains.

Oh man that’s great. I love how the pusher starts shoving the guy in the white coat when he’s nowhere near the door. So awesome. I could totally do that for a living. I’d love my job so much I’d even go above and beyond the call of duty, constantly honing my ability to efficiently get people on the train. I’ve already got a few new proprietary techniques in mind. Namely kicking and pile driving.

What better way to acquaint yourself with a new love than riding with them on a completely ridiculous and presumably extremely complicated face-to-face tandem bike? Taiwanese inventor Chen Yugang decided to kick it up a notch and develop a bike that is as dangerous as it is ridiculous. Apparently, his new design can be ridden face to face, conventionally or (and here is the real kicker) back to back for couples looking to add a little rush to their romantic life.

Will the face-to-face bike be the next Razer scooter? Probably not, but it’s a nice gimmick.

Bike Riders Facing Opposite - video powered by Metacafe