It’s been a long time coming, but Thunderdog has finally helped Tristan launch his own personal site. Why .net? Well, some douchebag in Japan bought tristaneaton.com. But we’ll get it back!

This is a simple, early version of his site. There’s a lot more to come (exhibitions, interviews etc.), but for now we’ve launched a full store featuring Tristan’s work and a fun gallery of random art. There is a huge variety of paintings, drawings, prints and custom work up for sale for a limited time! A lot of this work was only available for a limited time at galleries over seas, so by popular demand we’ve made his art a little more accessible for you guys.

Check him out: www.tristaneaton.net

Also featured on the site is a great time-lapse video of Tristan’s mural at Welling Court for ADHOC Gallery. 9 hours in total, squeezed down to 2 minutes!

Check it out: HERE

This is the moment we’ve been waiting for. The long awaited drop of our first keychains is right now! Head over to the Thunderdog store to pick these babies up!

The MINI-MUTTS stand 1.5 inches tall and are made of injection molded ABS plastic, featuring extremely intricate, multi-color pad printing. They come with a cool Thunderdog plastic strap and keychain and are packaged in an awesome Thundermutt head shaped blister pack.

We are so proud of these suckers - we know you’ll love em’ too!

BUY EM’ HERE

Check out what else Mike Burnett is up to HERE

Finally, we got around to updating our bad ass iPhone app B-BOT. We’ve added about 75 new items to play with including colored eyes, curly hair, new bodies and a ton of other cool crap. Also in B-BOT 1.2 you can now upload your B-BOTs to Email, Facebook and Twitter DIRECTLY from the app! How cool is that?

If you already purchased the app, the update is free - if not, it’s only 2 bucks you cheap bastard! The update is available for both iPhone & iPad versions.

BUY IT ON iTunes

Enjoy.

Big shout to our man Jesse Hernandez for hooking this up! This episode features Tristan’s work in toys as well as the Billy Bananas exhibition at Jonathan Levine Gallery. It was an honor to be featured! Also in the episode are our NY pals Interspectacular and Lev of ToyTokyo. Honorable mention goes to Tristan’s brother Matt who appears to be totally wasted in the video. That is awesome.

Vinyl Addiction - Tristan Eaton

Vinyl Addiction - The Billy Bananas Show

Thanks to everyone that came out to get their MUTTs signed last night!

We all had a great time. And a big shout out to the KR staff! Jed, Hong, Amy & Vince - thanks for your help!!!

Filth & Tris gettin’ ready!

Shout to Everlast for coming through!


Our man on the mic Chris Clarke came thru to show love.






Comedian Travis Pinon, Jenny, Filth & Chris Clark!

Kidrobot Team in effect!


The heart & soul of Thunderdog right here…

Old pals and long time collaborators Tristan Eaton & Lucas FILTH Irwin have come together to create the latest and greatest installment in the THUNDERMUTT vinyl toy series. THUNDERMUTT 3.0 features FILTH’s signature design aesthetic while incorporating Tristan’s iconography on it’s surface, all concealing a special FILTH design deep under it’s head. This installment features both RED and BLUE editions of THUNDERMUTT 3.0.

Each THUNDERMUTT 3.0 is packaged in a special gift box, with a silk-screened, individually numbered, metal print. Prints are randomly assorted and printed on brass or aluminum.

THUNDERMUTT 3.0 RED:  Edition of 500pcs.

THUNDERMUTT 3.0 BLUE: Edition of 200pcs.

If you can’t get to one of the coasts, never fear! THUNDERMUTT 3.0 will also be available on the THUNDERDOG WEBSTORE Sept. 22nd.

Or bug your local toy store to order them for you from: DKE TOYS.

If anyone is down for a party this weekend, roll through the Halcyon 10 Year Anniversary Party at Water Taxi Beach at the South Street Seaport!

Of course, we’ve been fans of the D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn record store since they started, so we’re honored when they asked Thunderdog to design their 10 Year Anniversary logo. Thanks guys!

The event should be a blast. Keep an eye out for some special live painting action and Thunderdog toys in the Charity Auction!!!

Tristan will have some paintings on display this weekend in Portland along side some of his deviant buddies. Come through if you can!

‘SAME STREETS / DIFFERENT CITIES’
A Group Show Curated by Sage.

September 12th - October 8th, 2009

Artists’ Reception: Saturday, September 12th, 6-9pm

Featuring: TRISTAN EATON, LOGAN HICKS, DFACE, SAGE, MEAR ONE, THE LONDON POLICE, SCRIBE, FLYING FORTRESS, PEZ, DABS & MYLA, GALO and more…

DJ + Food + Drink

LUKE DOLGAS GALLERY
2707 SE Belmont St
Portland, OR 97214

After 5 months of hard work, we have completed and launched our very own iPhone App!!! It’s called B-BOT and is up on the iTunes store now! We are so proud and so happy to see this out there in the world and we know you’re gonna love it!

GO BUY IT HERE.

Make sure to write us a review and let us know what you think! 5 stars are appreciated!!!

And make sure you check out the B-BOT Gallery too: www.mybbot.com

B-BOT!

Make friends. Customize your contacts.

B-BOT is brought to you by New York based creative agency Thunderdog Studios and features all new artwork from world-renowned artist Tristan Eaton.

Famous for his work in designer toys (including Kidrobot’s Dunny and Munny), Tristan Eaton has brought his art to the small screen with an app that combines the visual style of the art toy movement with the sleek technology of the iPhone. If you ever wanted to see how you’d look as an Urban Vinyl Toy, here’s your chance!

With B-BOT you can customize your contacts by making awesome cartoons of yourself and your friends. Once you’ve created a B-BOT, you can assign it to a contact on your iPhone or iPod touch directly from the application. Now when you receive a call from that person, the B-BOT will show up on the caller ID screen. Or you can use our built-in shuffle feature to randomly generate B-BOTs ‘til the cows come home!

B-BOT features a huge variety of bodies to choose from along with hundreds of hair styles, accessories, eyes, mouths, sneakers, and more. No matter how fresh or freaky your style is, there’s something in there for you! With over 400 items to choose from, you can make over a billion B-BOTs of yourself and your friends. And if you don’t have any friends, just make them!

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B-BOT was conceived by Tristan and New York creative Peter Cortez while working together on a project for the 2008 Barack Obama Campaign.

B-BOT was developed by Greg Elliott, the creator of SynchStep; the app that automatically synchs your music to your pace. www.synchstep.com

For more information: www.thunderdognyc.com

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Check out the awesome B-BOT promo video we made! This was almost as fun to make as the app itself. Big thank you to Dante Ross for the beat! Also, big ups go out to Tristan’s brother Mat Eaton who brought his DJ skills out of retirement for the scratching!!! Check it out…

Creative: Tristan Eaton & Peter Cortez
Director & Editor: Chris Coots
Illustrator: Tristan Eaton
Executive Producer: Peter Cortez
Editorial Company: Sassguerrilla
Music Production: Dante Ross
DJ / Scratching: Matt Eaton
Mix Engineer: Clay Holley
Recording Studio: 75