Category: Rat Babies

“CANCELED” Auction 3 Days ONLY!! April 27-29TH

The “CANCELED” art piece will be available for three days ONLY APRIL 27-29 as part of the ongoing “Drive-By Art Auction” event at The World Famous bar in Athens GA. FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1714364998687339 I was honored to be involved with this “social distance” style event because it’s such a great idea and helps support […]

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Rat Babies new album

Rat Babies are happy to announce the release of their newest album. This self-titled album is Rat babies second official full length album, and features the song “Hard” from their last released the EP entitled “Speak Hard Answers”. Track Listing:1. Hard2. Anchor3. Trunk4. Bury A Friend5. Bleeder6. Empty Parking Lot The album was recorded at […]

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2019 Designer Toy Awards, and Noise & Toys Tour!

I received some very awesome news just the other day… I have OFFICIALLY been nominated as a finalist in the 2019 Designer Toy Awards under the category of “BEST NON-LICENSED” for my Geoffrey The homeless Giraffe figure entitled “NO TOYS 4 US” released thru DKE Toys at SDCC 2018!! This is freakin’ amazing and so […]

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NO TOYS 4 US (series 2) release at Designer Con 2018

Back in July the first of the “NO TOYS 4 US” series of figures was released thru DKE Toys at SDCC. It sold out before the end of the first day. Now the much anticipated second figure in the series is ready just in time for Designer Con!! Here’s a look: I will be hitting […]

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Special 100th Post on Instagram!!!

I’m not really sure where this next year is going to take me but I have already started trying to solidifying a few plans for 2018. They include: Releasing a bunch of new art-toy related merch under my “Mr Blank Toys” label, Getting some of the films I shot in 2017 edited and finished for […]

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What’s Next for Mr Blank Toys?

Now that I got both the “Yoda/Slimer” prototype done (I’m still not confident enough to cast it yet) and the “Rat Babies Shadow Figures” done, I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to work on next… and I’ve got a looong list of ideas floating around in my head, with more coming in everyday! One thing […]

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Speak Hard Answers rough draft Preview

I’m working over the next couple months on the Rat Babies short film (aka music video) for the last EP we put out called “Speak Hard Answers“. We debuted the rough draft last night at the Go Bar show in Athens, but if you missed it I uploaded it to my youtube channel. It’s the […]

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Rat Babies: “Speak Hard Answers” preview night at Go Bar!

I’ve been working all day and night to get a rough draft version of the Rat Babies “Speak Hard Answers” music video ready to project during the Rat Babies show tomorrow night at Go Bar (Athens GA)!! As long as this computer doesn’t crash on me… It should come out nice! I filmed the whole […]

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Mr Blank the Monster Maker?!? (part two)

In the last post I was working on the Yoda/Slimer figure, but since I haven’t started molding it yet we’ll have to get back to that later… Until then, I went ahead and started working on my next idea: a figure for my band Rat Babies! A few months back I managed to get a few […]

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Mr Blank the Monster Maker?!? (part one)

I will be debuting my first “bootleg art toy figure” very soon, it’s actually all still in the works but I was excited to tell everyone about what I’ve been working on since Oct… First off what is this “bootleg toy” thing all about? Well, I’ve definitely used things like: pieces of barbie dolls, electronic […]

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