End inequitable orgasm!

[imomus]

A couple of cool things to show you before dashing for my Tokyo flight...

Rubenmichi are Ruben and Michi, a painter and a designer based in Madrid. They're branching out into making soft toys, and their latest 'rubenmichi pet' is... a Momus toy! Eat your heart out, Topo the rabbit! (Or mine, perhaps...)



The dolls are for sale, apparently.

I spent a few hours today writing my new piece for the AIGA Voice, 'Design as Religion'. These little sermons are commissioned by Steve Heller of AIGA. Steve is senior art director of the NYT Book Review and a one-man industry when it comes to design books. Googling for his e mail address I found this tremendously cool photo of Steve from his New York Free Press days (back in 1968, in fact) and thought I'd share it with you. 'End Inequitable Orgasm' is the most succinct fusion of Marx and Freud I think I've heard.

Comments

[jake82.livejournal.com]

Where can I get one of those toys?? It's so cute! I want to know when I can pick that up at my local Toys R Us!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Follow the link to Ruben and Michi's website, I think they might be selling them.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

The Momus toy is pretty cool.

Is that your actual family tartan, btw, or just a random one?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The Currie tartan (actually our name was Vurich before it was anglicised) is McDonald:



I've never liked this tartan much. A bit murky. The one the doll is wearing is much better.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the ancient or hunting tartan is lighter? My ancient tartan is virtually pink (naturally).

Didn't know Currie was a sept of MacDonald. But then, I'm a mere lowland breed.

W

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you have options--depending on your particular line, of course:

http://www.clancurrie.com/tartan.html

imomus@currie.cl.sx

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Clans have their own websites?

Some years ago, I was thinking that, if Scotland ever becomes sufficiently independent to get its own top-level internet domain, it could set up a '.clan' (or '.cl') subdomain under it, allowing clan chieftains to have clan web sites/mail services under it (or else flogging the domains to wealthy Americans celebrating their 1/16 Scottish heritage).

Re: imomus@currie.cl.sx

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's practically an industry (little old ladies with clan pins and snappy wool sweaters have needs too). But in this case, this site has some pertinent information regarding the Currie tartan:

The tartan remained in a restricted state, i.e. solely for the use of the Balilone and Garrachoran line of Currie’s until 1991. This explains the virtual absence of the tartan from many of the standard tartan publications, which have never maintained complete catalogs of the vast array of registered tartans. The tartan was adopted as the official tartan for the entire clan in 1992.

W

Re: imomus@currie.cl.sx

[imomus.livejournal.com]

All these tartans look a lot better when you imagine them swishing around the loins of a Japanese schoolgirl, of course.

[serenchwilen.livejournal.com]

That's funny. McDonald must have taken in all the outsider clans in Scotland. My last name, Leith, falls under the McDonald tartan as well. Supposedly, Leith was first used as a surname when an immigrant French family named De Leyth adopted the name of Leith river and seaport as an anglicized version of their own.

I love the doll. I'd buy a bunch and even give them to people who don't know who you are, but 30 euros might be a bit steep for that. But if someone wrote an accompanying children's book, you could be a big as Flat Stanley and Curious George.

I'm trying to find out who the pulga (flea) person is. A Spanish woman wrestler? I wish those artists would make an Edwyn Collins doll, too.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Interesting chronicles, those NY Free Press days of Mr. Heller's. I think he'd written about them in an article in Print some time back. Needless to say he's a veritable pillar of the New York design community.

(Speaking of pillars: I'll relate to you how I discovered the softness of Mr. Glaser's hands sometime.)

You should have a cozy felt saddle fashioned for Topo, then have the Momus doll ride him about the apartment. Hilarity should ensue.

W

[azzy23.livejournal.com]

As a visual image, that flits between hilarious and very very disturbing...

[me-vs-gutenberg.livejournal.com]

I try to imagine what it would be like to be a huggable toy along with David Bowie and -uhm- Marilyn Manson. I keep failing.

[fez-rejection.livejournal.com]

ow, i want one.

Perverts can't be choosers

[(Anonymous)]

Lovely. Spookily enough, from a probable work in progress:



Not sure if it's Hunting Fraser, or Queen Victoria Military School Stewart. Pervs can't be choosers, but UDR Royal Saffron Irish background.

[bardot.livejournal.com]

cute as hell. oh, i'd buy one. i could make a flirty comment about sleeping with a momus doll, but i'm under a sugar rush so i won't.

have fun in tokyo! xo

[eduard-green.livejournal.com]

Does the doll have a halo or are you wearing a hood?

[polocrunch.livejournal.com]

Oh man, gotta get me some of that doll action.

[sarmoung.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! I shall consider stocking Momus dolls when I open my shop next year. I was going to avoid character goods, but I may just make an exception in this case. Obviously I'd want a range of about four or so (Creation Momus, Shibuya-kei Momus, White Archer and so forth) to help establish a healthy pre-teen craze for collecting them. In which case I end up penniless in a flat surrounded by the little buggers when the bottom falls out of the market. I can already see tartan-loined schoolgirls waking in the morning to find one reclining on the pillow in a nod to the Black Magic adverts of yore.

For some reason, the doll made me think you should get little eyepatches made to decorate Jizo statues. Momus was here... (No intended mizuko kuyo reference there, I was thinking more of your roadside Jizo)

[azzy23.livejournal.com]

Adorable!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh by the way, I have only just now heard the accordion version of Heliogabalus played by Martin White and it's wonderful!! It really does sound great. I'm currently in love with the sound of the accordion. There needs to be more of this...do you have any other recordings of your songs on accordion by Martin White? Danke, and enjoy Japan
~/Robyn

[lilita-1.livejournal.com]

Love the doll!

Not Steve but Terese!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Well, Steve Heller tells me that that photo is not, in fact, him at all but some girl called Terese. She was 20 and Steve was 17 at the time. He art directed and took the photo.

[pure-killjoy.livejournal.com]

...a Momus toy! Eat your heart out, Topo the rabbit! (Or mine, perhaps...)

I love it! Did you get a freebie of yourself?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Not yet, *hint hint*, guys!