Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Jaguar Dunny in Rolling Stone Magazine

Yup its the truth, The Hernandez Jaguar Dunny is in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine, pg.78 It's the very first thing mentioned in the 2009 Gift Guide!
Thank you Rolling Stone!


The Jesse Hernandez 8-inch Warrior Dunny drops in on Rolling Stone Magazine in the December 10 issue. [Download the PDF] Courtesy of Kidrobot

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

"New Video" Angry Woebots on Vinyl Addiction!

What up Everyone!
Just uploaded the newest installment of Vinyl Addiction featuring "Angry Woebots" aka Aaron Martin to peep more of his work check out armyofsnipers.com and dont forget to hit vinyladdiction.myx.tv
Peace,
Jesse

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Suckshow custom available online now!



JEDI DRAGON

From the Suckadelic Super Suck-off 2 custom toy show

$300

Please direct all sales inquires to:

Store@Suckadelic.com

Friday, September 4, 2009

Sucklord Custom Show Tonight!!!
INFO HERE

THE LONG AWAITED SEQUEL TO 2008's MUNKY KING CUSTOM EXTRAVAGANZA!

OVER 40 NEW ARTISTS AND RETURNING FAVORITES TAKE A SHOT AT CUSTOMIZING THE FAMOUS SUCKLORD 600 VINYL MASTERPIECE!

COME GET LOOSE AT THE EXCITING OPENING PARTY AT THE GIGANTIC
APW GALLERY IN LONG ISLAND CITY NYC.

SEPTEMBER 4 2009. 6-9 PM

48-18 VAN DAM STREET LIC NY

Monday, August 17, 2009

Print available in 1 hour! INFO HERE!

From Silent Stage

Well, our good friend at Immortal Studios decided to bless us with this new amazing print from Jesse Hernandez. The new Silent Stage x Jesse Hernandez print features two of Jesse’s characters battling it out for victory. Once framed or hung, you can flip the print upside down depending on which character you would like to be on top winning. The Giclee’ print will measure 16″ x 20″ on museum archival paper, edition of only 33 & will retail for $100 each. The print is set to drop today, August 17th at 11:00am PST onwww.SilentStageGallery.com in the “Collectibles” section. This release will also celebrate the release of the new BIC Buddy series featuring Jesse Hernandez.

Please Note: Pictures below show copyright watermarks but will NOT be on the final production prints.

Jesse Hernandez
“FlipFlop”
Edition of 33
Measures 16″x20″
Signed & Numbered by the artist

FLIP



FLOP

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Bic Buddy Release Signings in LA and Chicago!



Catch me in LA next week on SAt. AUG 15th from 6-9pm alongside superstar artists MArka27, Dave Flores, Angry Woebots, and Ritzy Periwinkle, as the 1st series of Bic Buddies designed by Marka27 drops at Crewest, in LA!

Also for anyone in Chi-Town

I'll be signing with MArka27 at Rotofugi on Aug. 22nd from 5-8 pm we're both rarely in the CHI so come holler at us if you can, and swoop whats sure to be a must for all vinyl collectors out there. This series is bringing the Heat!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Hernandez SDCC EXCLUSIVE TOY REVEALED!!!

What up Folks, so the secret is out, they're dropping a SDCC Exclusive
variant of my design for the new BIC buddies platform with Toy Tokyo.
Come thru for the signing on Saturday from 3-4 pm to get the goods,
Marka27 and myself will be there gettin our scribble on. Holla!

Thursday, July 9, 2009

New Kidrobot x Hernandez Jaguar Warrior Dunny Shirts available at KR

The shirts are now available on their Website, featuring the Immortal Jaguar Dunny!
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE
"Jesse Hernandez's heroic Jaguar Warrior Dunny is immortalized on this 100% cotton jersey tee featuring a large gold foil graphic on the front, gold foil Kidrobot logo on the sleeve, and Jesse Hernandez's logo on the back. "
Jaguar Shirt
Shirt Back

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Bic Buddys Unveiled

Click Here to Peep it on Vinyl Pulse

BIC Buddy's are now official , Peep the first 3 designs unveiled now up on VP with designs by Graffiti Legend COPE2, the homie Kano, and yours truly. The series is looking mad fresh If I say so myself big props to my homie MARKA27



Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Fear no art 3 (BOSTON)

New art show opening this weekend

They had me up as a featured artist yesterday peep the blog here.





Fear no Art 3 opens this weekend in Boston, MA.

Here's all the info

FEAR NO ART 3 is an exhibition of original, versatile, and culturally diverse art—featuring prolific artists whose influences range from contemporary, pop, low brow, graffiti, and street art forms. Curated by Marka27 & NineRevolutions...

FEAR NO ART
is dedicated to promoting and exposing underground art forms to a larger audience by bringing together some of today’s best artists from Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco! Check out the artist line-up!!

Boston:: Enamel Kingdom. Margaret Singer. Kenji Nakayama. Massiel Grullon. NineRevolutions. Sarah Laws "FunCupcake". Frantz Cadet. Deme5. Problak. Kwest. Marka27
New York:: COPE2. Lichiban. Pen Tha Black Krayon
Los Angeles:: David Flores. Kofie. Sherm. Werc Alvarez
San Francisco:: Jesse Hernandez

MUSIC BY:: DJ's Gucci-Vuitton & T-wreXX

Sunday, June 21st
Private Showing:: 4 - 6pm
Public Opening:: 6 - 11pm

Venue Info
The Achilles Project
283 Summer St.
Boston, MA
ph: (617) 423-2257
www.achilles-project.com

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Thought Processor Show tonight at Super 7


Come thru and peep the cardboard skills, of a few of your favorite Bay area artists as they grace the first SF wave of PFOM member Phonetic Control's Thought Processor


My Piece for the Show "MICTLAN" you've seen this character in some of my previous work. Thought he'd be a cool match for this toy.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

"Berkeley to Beijing" with cover art by Jesse Hernandez



At long last the new book, "Berkeley to Beijing" written by my cousin Karen Kendall has debuted. She had me do the cover illustration years ago in 2004/2005 and am so happy to see it all finally come together. It turned out amazing, It's available all online at Amazon.com Barnes and Noble.com Iuniverse.com or you can get signed copies HERE

In 1973, twelve-year-old Karen Boutilier was invited by Shirley MacLaine to become the youngest member of the First American Women’s Friendship Delegation to China. The delegation consisted of eleven women, a four-woman film crew and Karen. The resulting Oscar nominated documentary, “The Other Half of the Sky: a China Memoir” aired in 1975. This extraordinary life altering experience was preceded by a most unusual childhood.

She lived, breathed, and experienced history in a way that exposed her to amazing, fascinating, and sometimes frightening situations. She was a preacher’s kid raised during the sixties. But, her father was not the stereotypical minister.

Karen had grown up living in communal strike houses, walking United Farm Worker picket lines, working on political campaigns, surviving the violence of Washington, D.C. and the Poor People’s Campaign, as well as attending marches and protest rallies for civil rights and the anti-war movement. While other kids drew in coloring books, she made picket signs. While other kids played with dolls, she took care of her brothers and sister. While other kids reveled in the innocence of childhood, she obsessively worried about the social and political problems of the day.

The stories in Berkeley to Beijing will lead you on an amazing journey through a remarkable and exciting childhood.

Congratulations Karen!!!

Saturday, April 18, 2009

It came from Skullbrain Show Tonight



Come peep this show at Super7 tonight, for some Custom Kaiju Goodness!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Ozomahtli - Hernandez Original Toy and interview up on Vinyl Pulse

Here's the Link
http://www.vinylpulse.com/2009/03/proto-monday-jesse-hernandezs-ozomatli.html

Here's the Interview

Your work is deeply rooted in ancient cultures such as Aztec and Mayan -- does Ozomathli come from one specific culture or is it a mix? How do you approach the balance between cultural accuracy and compelling toy design ?

Ozomahtli literally means "Monkey" in Nahuatl the language of the Aztec people. My work generally reflects the Aztec culture, but I'm definitely influenced by the Mayan as well. I try to make art that will spread knowledge, and also inspire other people, in much the same way as my canvas work.

Ozomathli makes its own way with a seated pose. Did you make this choice to convey the sense of regality ? Was he seated from the jump -- throughout the design process ?

Yes as you can see in the original design he has always been sitting. I think the crown gives him a lot of regality, and also puts fear in any potential enemies. I wanted to put him in an original pose that was natural for a monkey.

While you've done several platform toys (FLCL Canti, Kaniza, and Dunny), this will be your first original vinyl figure. Making that jump is a considerable challenge -- did you consider resin as an alternative to relying on a company to do vinyl ?


I'm very excited to finally have my first original vinyl piece come out. It's been a long time coming. I've had deals with a lot of companies that fell through the cracks, for various reasons over the last 4 years or so. No I never considered resin for this design, but am looking into doing some short run resins in the near future, so keep an eye out.

[We'd like to congratulate Jesse on Ozomahtli and thank him for slogging through the interview in the wee hours of the morning!]








Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Vinyl Addiction - Officially drops today



What up everyone I'm very excited to announce "Vinyl Addiction" the new TV show I've been workin on for over a year now for MYXtv. This is the first segment to introduce the show to everyone featuring an interview with "Minigods" creator and insanely talented artist Marka27. Don't forget to check out the website vinyladdiction.tv we have 2 other exclusive interviews from the first episode with Biddies creator Roy Miles, and legendary DJ and art collector Linkin Park's own Joe Hahn.

Vinyl addiction is a behind the scenes in depth view of the Designer toy world, with information packed Artist interviews , Art shows, profiles of our favorite stores, and a sneak peak into the Art collections of some well known celebrities you may not have known were hard core Art collectors.

We’ve got interviews coming up with the likes of Greg Craola Simkins, Marka27, Huck Gee, Frank Kozik, Brian Flynn, Gallery 1988, Munky King, MAD, Kano, DJ Qbert, Joe Hahn, and many more.

I hope you enjoy the show, feel free to let us know what you think.

Any companies interested in sponsoring the show or advertising on air give us a shout or if you have something you’d like featured feel free to contact me at immortalstudios@hotmail.com

Peace,
Jesse

Don't forget to peep the link on VinylPulse!
http://www.vinylpulse.com/2009/03/vinyl-addiction-designer-toys-on-tv.html

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Fan gets Jaguar Dunny Tattoo




Just recently I was sent some pics of this Jaguar Warrior Dunny Tattooed on the arm of VIK ROKIT aka ROBOLORD. Apparently he's a very dedicated fan , thats dope man! Big Props too you I'm honored! Thanks for the Pics!!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Sold Out!!!

What up! I just got back from the whirlwind of a signing tour, I Had a great time meeting everyone who came out, in all the cities. I hope you had as much fun as I did. The Tour was a big success and the dunny is sold out everywhere! Big shots out to All the Kidrobot staff in each city, and all the collectors who came out to score the Piece.

New York:
Props to all the folks that came out in the semi cold NY weather. hahahha IT wasn't to bad out there. Shoutz out to My Homie Kano for coming through OG style, Dave cortez and the homies from INU Art, and The Big guy Paul Budnitz for making it out to say hello. Also Flygirl/store Manager Jenny , and her crew did a dope job out there.

Miami:
You guys held it down , it was dope meeting everyone out there. I have to say Miami may have been the most hardcore, since I was so late thanks to that Piece of crap "American Airlines" that could not put a working plane on the ground for us. I swear to god they made us deplane and reboard 3 times. So I didnt make it to the Signing until 8:40pm way after the original time scheduled, but most the people stuck around, and for that I was very impressed. Big ups Miami! And the crew there kicked Ass, Big Ben was in the house, very cool guy, Mrs. PHI you go girl, it was real cool meeting you , and chillin at that well researched Thai spot, gonna have to do that again! Don't be a stalker now... lol

Los Angeles:
LA always represents shouts to all the new homies and collectors out there, I always love comin down to LA. Big ups to GINO at dvwarehouse.com thanks for everything brotha, and for dropping me off in style, I have to say that may have been the pimpest entrance so far. Shoutz out to my man Jack Muramatsu from Vinylpulse.com showed up and we grubbed down afterwards at a dope Japanese spot with my primo Andre. Good times fo sho! Big ups To my man Ace for comin through and hookin me up! You da man son, lil Cooper that gave me an impromptu interview on the spot, that was fun, keep doin your thing lil dude! My homie from Valentine's in SD was first in Line good lookin out dog! hahaha congrats on that chase!

A big F.U.to LAX and the Random search/Frisking, of all my personal sh!t while I was trying to catch up with my homie Yujiro who happened to be passing through the security area at the same time as me, good to see you again bro, sorry I couldnt talk...lol Luckily I'm used to that sort of thing having grown up in the face of Police Harrassment and racism. Nothing new to me. Which also makes me want to thank the Oakland Airport, where I don't get discriminated on, Big Ups Oaktown!

San Francisco :
What can I say it was good to be back in the BAY, and the hometown people came through for sure. The Manager Carrina and the staff were awesome, thanks so much for everything, the endless supply of Redbull, and hooking up my lil shorties. I'll def have to come through again soon, you guys rule! I had the whole familia chillin with me, and we shot some footage for a Vinyladdiction segment too (vinyladdiction.tv) Know about it! It was really good to see everyone out here. Big ups to Dragatomi (Ray and Joanne) Kyle and Yvonne, Holly and Magnus, Joe from Savage Style, Old School Jaime De Galeria delaRaza , my boy Dino Ignacio for comin through, Str8-Laced producer Pete Songsiri and Emil, my main man, camera man extraordinaire and only other latino at TFC Big Joe Perry, and intern turned Field Producer Dave Nip , Special shoutz out to my boy Metatron1050 aka Francis Ramos for coming out and shooting photos of the event for me, thanks brotha good lookin out!!

Thanks to Joanna , Meryl, Gabe, Nichole, Delphine!, Fumi, and everyone else at Kidrobot for helpin put this all together. It was dope, lets do it again soon!!

Mexica Tiahui - Aho Mitakuye Oyasin

Jesse Hernandez

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Signing tour begins tonight in NYC

From Vinylpulse Post



As the designer of the newest Dunny from Kidrobot, Jesse Hernandez is taking part in a four city signing tour for the release of his Jaguar Warrior Dunny. The first stop takes place at Kidrobot NY (03.04), then going down south to Kidrobot MIA (03.05), back to the West Coast he goes to the Kidrobot LA (03.06) store, and then ending up back home at Kidrobot SF (03.07). All signings begin at 6 PM and end at promptly at 8 PM. So be sure to pick up your very own Jaguar Dunny from your local retailers this Thursday and for those close to a Kidrobot store, get yours signed by the man behind the design. Also don’t forget that 1 out of every 12 Dunny’s comes a special super rare variant!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Hernandez Dunny up On Juxtapoz


Here's the link to go peep it out



Thanks to Katie over at Jux!

Interview On Spanky Stokes.com

Interview on Spankystokes.com

Thanks to the good folks Joanne and Ray from Dragatomi, It was a lotta fun choppin it up with you guys! Click the link or the Picture to peep the full interview on their site.

wondercon2009043-1



(Click Image to go to Interview)


Monday, February 23, 2009

The Nutshack at Wondercon 2009

The Nutshack is going to have a booth at this years 2009 WonderCon! Last year we had Jeri Lee and Carla Maria. Good times…check the pictures in our gallery. This year we’re coming with Justene Jaro!!! Super Hot…super fine. She’s been in Show magazine, Penthouse, car shows…etc. So come see what’s up with the Shack and Justene. This Feb.27 - March 1, 2009. at the Moscone Center in SF. See you there!! And don't forget to get the EXCLUSIVE Nutshack vs Justene Poster!!








2 All new T-Shirts will be available at the Convention this Yea including the All new TITO DICK Shirt, and the Allmighty GOT NUTZ T so you can rep to the fullest!!!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Hernandez Jaguar Dunny dropping real soon!!!



Jaguar Warrior Dunny 8-Inch
Jesse Hernandez’s Jaguar Warrior is fierce and ready to fight. Wearing war paint and a headdress, he is on the lookout for his elusive chase version. You can help him with the hunt starting March 5 for $75.00. Only 1500 made!

Keep it locked for info on Signings!!!
Jesse

Monday, February 2, 2009

Sharpie Show Piece



Here's a sneak of my piece for the Sharpie Show!

Thursday, January 29, 2009

2 art shows coming up this February

I'm in 2 dope group art shows coming up this February. The shows are sure to Represent, each one has some serious Heavy Hitterz involved!

I hope you get a chance to check them out, I'll post pics of my pieces Soon.

Peace,
Jesse


Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Street Tribe Artwork now available for sale online!




I want to thank everyone who had a chance to come out to the show, and say whats up . I had a great time out in NYC, the show was a big success.

The artwork from the show is now available online, here’s the links, to that, and also some event coverage.

Artwork is now available for sale here



You can see some photos of the show here
Myplasticheart's Flickr Account

And also up on Vimby’s site.
Vimby coverage of Street Tribe Par1
also
Vimby Coverage Part 2

We also had writeups
on Juxtapoz.com
Event blurb on Juxtapoz


and also in the magazine Timeout New York

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Street Tribe next FRiday!




Here's the final Flyer for the show! Comin up next week in NYC, holla at a playa!