It took me 6 1/2 hours to drive down to LA from San Francisco. Since I went to Super 7 in the morning, we didn't get to LA until really about 7pm. I had to eat dinner with my parents and then boogie to the show which began at 8pm, but I didn't get there until around 9pm.
The "We Are All Mad" Show was held on Melrose Avenue at the hip Gallery 1988. The show featured Alice in Wonderland artwork and custom Cheshire Cats by a wide variety of the household and not so household toy designers. The Designer vinyl crowd are an interesting mix of nerdy toy geeks, wannabe artists and some real artists using vinyl as their latest canvas. Although I did my best to look like a hip, grungy, artist type, I probably merely came off as an un-shaven, smelly geek with a camera and a baseball cap. They were passing around the price sheet and I noticed many of the pieces were listed for $125 which I thought was really reasonable given they are one-off customs. As I was about to go up to the cash register and pay for the custom Ledbetter Cheshire Cat, I overheard that these were the starting prices for the online auction later that week. ohhhhhhhhhh, that makes more sense... as I put my wallet away and took the Ledbetter cat from underneath my arm amid stares and burly security bouncers closing in...
Dr. Bao and Cameron Tiede hanging out looking artsy...standing next to these guys, I might look hip...
Ledbetter cat before I took it up to the register....
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