Who is The Sucklord ? He ’s a Boba Fett - mask supercriminal whose rage for create bootleg action figures has penetrated the rarefied reality of high nontextual matter . io9 hit up his late gallery possibility in NYC and learned of all thing Suckadelic .
Yesterday marked the opening of “ You ’re An Asshole For bribe This — The Suckadelic Art Toy Universe , ” a retrospective of The Sucklord ’s toy dog - stimulate acumen at the Boo - Hooray Gallery in Chelsea . The show is a detailed aspect at the life history of The Sucklord , whosebootleg action mechanism figurescommand mellow cost in miniature collecting circle .
The Sucklord ( née Morgan Phillips ) was ex communicado , but his pixilated - nemesis Vectar the unendurable ( who own many , many , many an uncanny affectation of The Sucklord ) was happy to meet in .
What is the origin of The Sucklord ?
It all started with a CD calledStar Wars Breakbeats , which was an attack to remix and recontextualize the essence of the original Star Wars and the original trilogy with hip - hop and electronic euphony . From that was put up The Sucklord , who was address The Super Genius at the clock time , which is basically a Boba Fett hip - hop character , who ’s been a public congressman for the estimation . The basic estimation was mixing Star Wars with pelvic arch - record hop — all the other element , the toy and supervillain shit , get out of that as the task acquire .
The mind was to get sued by George Lucas , and as that process was going on , hopefully they would realize , “ This is smart as a whip ! ” and hire Super Genius . But that never manifested and this thing took on a caption of its own and evolve into the toy enfranchisement and videos . The Super Genius was jaded by the whole matter — he wanted to be hired by George Lucas and accepted by the vinyl radical toy world , and he was n’t , so he became a supervillain . He used to want to apply these thing to help the great unwashed , but he became cynical . He go doing this for himself rather than the sake of Star Wars . He became The Sucklord , and any time someone came into The Sucklord ’s life that had any personality , [ he or she ] got mask , a character , and a toy .
Now we ’re make movies called Toy Lords of Chinatown [ Ed . Note — That ’s Vectar in the majestic mask ] , which is about the dangerous undertaking of these part making black-market toys , fighting over turf , and full - out culturejacking each other . The first episode is out now , and the next episode should drop February 2011 .
recount us about the show that ’s going on in New York .
The Suckadelic Universe , as a toy stigma , has been going on from 2005 - 2008 with these ongoing releases of random black rosin figures based on whatever the nooky The Sucklord imagined or his friends likeMary Paper$andSpooky Booty . Then Christie ’s auction house became interested . The bozo that forge there Simeon Lipman ( a.k.a . “ Ira Tyrannusberg ” ) put some of these designer toys up for auction .
Then Johan Kugelberg , who move the Boo - Hooray Gallery , is friends with Simeon and just through gladhanding and pecker - suck and self - interest and ego - motivated , we made the connexion . Johan likes to say “ fuck you ” to people and there ’s a magnanimous “ screwing you ” element to the show . This show represents all the Suckadelic shit and all the juvenilia from The Super Genius and even stuff and nonsense prior to that , when he was in college . This is probably 15 years worth of body of work .
Not a peep out of George Lucas all these years ?
The Sucklord did get a mention on the Star Wars blog and was mentioned in their custom toy show , but as far as effectual natural action , not a peek . The Sucklord has passably much given up being hired by George Lucas . That dream pop off a recollective time ago . The new dream is to become George Lucas and to create a ghetto Star Wars , to observe the characters and merchandise and everything that pop off along with it . We ’re going to continue to take the air the ok line between doing this high - death shit , with bragging prices on bullshit , and trying to keep it accessible to regular people .
Some people seem moderately jaded with Lucas these day . Are you sense an easy coup here ?
Listen , The Sucklord ’s not sore at George Lucas . Obviously , he owes his fucking whole calling to him . But the manikin you could apply to any originative endeavor . I ’m trying to create what he did in a more street - effectual way , a more rose hip - hop fashion . The Sucklord does n’t want to be that guy cable in the tower ; we ’re all from New York , we ’re all a bunch of uncanny nerdy scifi b - son . It ’s about refining the model though — create an interesting world full of compelling character and merchandising the fuck out of it forever .
give that The Sucklord is a valet de chambre of the hoi polloi , what is his message to the masses ?
purchase this tinker’s dam , motherfuckers ! You need this stuff ! You need to have this because it is sound to oblige you whatever it is you ’re going to do in the public . The Sucklord ’s just a loser from New York with a few talents and a little support , and if you ’ve receive a dependable theme and subject and are uncoerced to suffer for it , you may do your affair . But until you get your affair together , corrupt his thing .
“ You ’re An Asshole For buy This — The Suckadelic Art Toy Universe ” runnel at the Boo - Hooray Gallery ( 521 West 23rd Street in New York City ) everyday from 11 AM – 6 post-mortem . More selective information can be foundhere . Top photo isGRAFF - ATTby The Sucklord . center photos courtesy of Garrett MacAllen . especial thanks to Jeff Newelt .
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