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A couple of weeks ago, I was looking around on Kid Robot - a site that sells what have been dubbed "urban vinyl toys", mainly unique toys/sculptures designed by current pop-artists. While on there, I saw they had a listing for this thing called "Totem Doppelganger" which consisted of three white ghosts you could stack, move around, etc. They were designed by an artist named Anton Ginzburg as an installation piece for the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2006 - then scaled down to 3-inches high each for the Kid Robot toy. I bought a set as soon as they went on sale. Upon their arrival last week, I took a photo using my lightbox and posted it to Flickr: 
Today I received an email from none other than Anton Ginzburg himself! Hello Jason, This is Anton Ginzburg (creator of Doppelganger) I came across your photos of the ghosts and really like it. Thank you for taking interest in it. I was wondering if you would permit me to use the photo, (are there are other ones?) for press purposes (with your name credited). Please let me know, With kind regards Anton Ginzburg So that's pretty cool. |
