j.w. :

Randomized "tufness." And I just found out today that The Chinese Stars are coming back to Toronto this month! Woot!

2004-04-02 13:43:11

Cody Pomeroy :

Got this recently...yes..it does indeed rule.

2004-03-26 07:40:50

jasoncross :

fuck tupac....big daddy kane was using the fists long before. :smoking:

2004-03-26 07:35:49

seripop :

i think our version is better i also think you are getting on my nerves

2004-03-12 01:19:41

MaximumFluoride :

Ed Templeton rules. Chloe, I bet you would like a lot of his stuff. It coming from a similar place as your stuff is.

2004-03-12 01:19:32

henri-pierre :

strange to see the controversial about fists/toy machine etc. i made stickers with these fists like 8 years ago, simply copying toy machine ones cause i still skated at this time, liked templeton graphics and ha a record label called Spore ! records. So i made the same fists as templeton did. yep Chloe, writing on fists has alerady done many times. if i asked you if you are a toy machine fan is because if the way your fists are drawn. As JW Buchanan said, ed templeton and yours are really pretty the same drawing.

2004-03-12 01:14:03

newsmarkettransmitter :

why do the fists have extra fingers this sucks wheres the imagination

2004-02-27 12:14:23

Ruthless Cow :

"i mentioned the blues brothers already." Shit - I mean cool. Uh - nice poster.

2004-02-24 18:15:35

raindog138 :

Ruthless Cow 2004-02-24 16:28:38 I've always liked that Pogues cover. Jake and Elwood ring a bell anyone? i mentioned the blues brothers already.

2004-02-24 16:32:11

dennyschmickle :

OOOohhhhh, ok. That makes sense, tuffy.

2004-02-24 16:31:07

lil_tuffy :

l i l T U F f y s e r I P O p I'm going to put IPO on my next poster and return the favor.

2004-02-24 16:29:31

Ruthless Cow :

I've always liked that Pogues cover. Jake and Elwood ring a bell anyone? Very cool poster.

2004-02-24 16:28:38

dspring :

not taking anything away from C&Y, just thought I would drop the Pogues album on there cause it is pretty cool too.

2004-02-24 16:27:17

Delicious :

well, i think we could find a few more examples if you think it might help. :D

2004-02-24 16:26:32

dennyschmickle :

OK, I think we've successfully established the fact that writing/tatooing on the fingers between the first and second knuckles, and even EVEN the addition of fingers to facilitate longer words is not so much an "innovation" in design/illustration, but perhaps a play on the novel and mass-culture phenomenon that it is.

2004-02-24 16:25:28

j. walsh :

i have that toy machine deck. word.

2004-02-24 16:23:01

dspring :

http://www.jpc.de/jpcimages/jpcpics/cover/front/554/5541159.jpg

2004-02-24 16:22:12

Delicious :

http://www.thedishes.com/

2004-02-24 16:09:03

Delicious :

I saw this concept with added finger thing on a Dishes t-shirt. I think it was the dishes.

2004-02-24 16:08:35

dennyschmickle :

Oh. The "TUF" had nothing to do with anything. Yeah, that rules. I just assumed it was something I didn't understand.

2004-02-24 16:04:01

RichieGoodtimes :

Ed Templeton is the gay guy right?

2004-02-24 15:48:30

dace :

ed templeton just has a style that is pretty recognizable to people involved in skateboarding and the toy machine fist logo was a pretty widely used logo - decks, shirts, stickers, etc. i have the sticker on my cd player. i like the added adjective to the poster a lot. i say extra words are the new birds.

2004-02-24 15:41:10

dspring :

that Pogues album cover is great, someone told me that is a real photo, no retouch, some old Irish boxer with 6 fingers

2004-02-24 15:15:46

jason head of state :

very pogues, very nice

2004-02-24 14:48:48

j.w. :

The extra fingers made me smile. Nice poster, Chloe!

2004-02-24 14:46:21

Brendan Jordan :

Oh well, That ruins all my current ideas. I retire.

2004-02-24 12:02:19

RichieGoodtimes :

I think that Toy Machine has possibly been ripping me off.

2004-02-24 11:52:45

dennyschmickle :

You're such an evil dictator.

2004-02-24 11:51:23

Thee Alex :

Very nice indeed..........again!!

2004-02-24 11:49:58

seripop :

afer checking out the toy machine website i must anounce the new list of what is off limits to all artists due to being copywriten by said site : - guns -skulls -robots -monsters -eyeballs -pretty girls -hand lettering - bright colors please do not use any of these aformentioned elements least you be guilty of ripping off toy machine skateboard co.

2004-02-24 11:45:47

raindog138 :

at first i thought of the blues brothers, then ozzy. then when i saw the extra fingers - i immediately thought of this: http://www.driverock.com/DRV_images/drv_music/cover_comp_sm.jpg

2004-02-24 11:24:43

gun sho :

on that note, i saw a kid the other day with a bunch of fresh (as in "new") sailor tattoos all over his arms. he even had "home" "sick" written on each knuckle in old sailor jerry lettering. oh yeah, and a spiderweb on his elbow. i don't think he had been in prison or on a boat. funny considering all the dudes i knew who had been in prison always had the worst fucking un-romantic ball point pen tattoos. i felt bad for the kid. on another note. skateboard art is probably one of the biggest influences on my shit. i don't think that it's very easy to escape it's effect.

2004-02-24 10:59:44

perkins :

Fists smash birds. That's why I like them.

2004-02-24 10:46:46

Dave Bailey :

arrggghhh *falls off roof* I just did a poster for Thee Moths with fists...and i've just seen this, i didn't add extra fingers though - i wrote the extra letter on the thumbnail(lofi). So I hear fists are the new birds... my poster should be up here tomorrow under lucy and dave not that disco stu pays to advertise. I like this by the way!

2004-02-24 10:44:13

J W Buchanan :

I think Ed Templeton was the first to do extra (and fewer) knuckles, so's that the whole name of his company would fit on them. There seems to be a big split between those who think that because Templeton is a cool, underground artist (though not really, I mean he just showed at the Palais de Japon in Paris, for fuck's sake) and that since the weird knuckles are his personal emblem, they're off limits; and those who think their re-use is a cool, neat reference to skater culture, sort of an in-joke that will bring people through the door. I fall into the latter category, as I also liked Tyler Stout's take-off on the Toy Machine logo. I sort of think "What the hell," I mean, we see a lot of Bones Brigade-ish imagery and no one bats an eye. Besides, skateboards are cool.

2004-02-24 10:43:03

John A :

My favorite "finger ink" was Sideshow Bob's tatoos in the Simpsons Cape Fear episode. Being as how cartoon people have only three fingers, they spelled "LOVE" and "HATE" using "LUV" and "HAT" (bar over the A).

2004-02-24 10:35:25

spacerot7 :

OZZY

2004-02-24 10:25:44

dennyschmickle :

That's what they WANT you to believe.

2004-02-24 10:15:30

lil_tuffy :

I think Chloe is trying to tell me something. Tupac=caput is my favorite palindrome.

2004-02-24 10:13:14

dennyschmickle :

"Tupac wasn't the first either." I don't know dude. He was REALLY influential. Like he even influenced people who died before he was born. Heck he's making records from the GRAVE!

2004-02-24 10:04:30

seripop :

well everyone can kiss my ass. :lol: cause i don't even know who that guy is. we make posters for bands. this"tuf" bands that is all.

2004-02-24 10:02:03

perkins :

Tupac wasn't the first either.

2004-02-24 10:01:50

Dance Party :

I dont think Toy Machine was the first to put words on fists...everybody seems to think that you're a toy maching fan/copy off if you use fists.

2004-02-24 09:59:36

seripop :

well i don't follow skate culture or know what toy machine is. also, i think that tattoos on fists are a pretty common lo-culture theme in general

2004-02-24 09:55:09

henri-pierre :

Chloe, Toy Machine is a skate company ruled by Ed Templeton. His did a skate design with 2 fists written toy machine on them.

2004-02-24 09:51:39

dennyschmickle :

I don't think Tupac even had tatoos on his hands like this, did he? I just like typing "Tupac." It feels funny.

2004-02-24 08:22:03

Pat. James Longo :

Nice. Night of the Hunter is so great. But I do feel old that someone thought that a Tupac reference.

2004-02-24 08:11:54

Ron Liberti :

Night of the Hunter Robt. Mitchum, Love/Hate my favorite movie.

2004-02-24 08:08:27

RICK L. :

Ed Templeton

2004-02-24 08:03:50

ROb Weychert :

I was a little iffy at first on the Atari stripes in the background, but I dig 'em now. I like how the hands grow fingers to accommodate the letters. :D

2004-02-24 08:00:22

seripop :

and the meatloaf's charater in "rocky horror"

2004-02-24 07:50:24

dennyschmickle :

I think we ALL owe a great debt to Tupac each and every time we use letters on hands. May he rest in peace.

2004-02-24 07:48:48

seripop :

better copyright fists- i hear they are the new birds. anyway this is a 3 color screenprint 18" x 12" 04

2004-02-24 07:44:26

Dusty! :

hey guys come on now http://www.gigposters.com/posters.php?poster=23964

2004-02-24 07:41:02

seripop :

what is toy machine?

2004-02-24 07:38:42

Shawny :

hah! this poster is tough.

2004-02-24 07:21:11

Grzeca :

Hey Circus Freak Hands!!!

2004-02-24 05:37:47

henri-pierre :

are you a toy machine fan? :wink:

2004-02-24 03:10:16

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