Have not been keeping up very well with web stuff. Sorry ’bout that. We been busy filling orders. THANK YOU to our EPIC CUSTOMERS!!
And….. WE ARE OPENING A REAL SHOP!!!!! Have been working on it a few weeks. Niluh and the Kid have been looking forward to this for a loooooonngggg time. Above is the mock up in CAD its turning out remarkably like the picture Go fig. We going to flip the sign this Saturday. We’d be ready on Friday. But a certain salty character that works for Bombastic used to be a sailor and has a rule about setting sail on a Friday. So we will use the Friday to have the Balinese priest come in and get it all sorted with the shrines and Bali stuff getting the good juju in the store. Will post pics of the genuine article next week with all the info how to find us when you come to Bali. Whoa gotta go! The fiberglass resin over the recycled plywood cabinets is going off a little hot. Is it 2 % catalyst or 3%? Uh Oh! Think its 2%.

So I’m trying to design something for young teens and like I try to think of what I would have liked when I was 13 and make a product a kid might think is cool or maybe the kid in an adult. So I put my head back at my desk when I was 13 and made something. My desk was a great place in a sometimes not so great world. But I could stay busy making rockets, models, leather stuff, drawing cartoons, even vacuum forming plastic and cooking up silicone monsters and everything was cool. Most of all I could just dream of the possibilities coz when your 13 you think anything is possible so its a lot to keep up with. There a lot to be said for keeping the 13 year old alive inside you I think. And if I could pick up the Interdimensional Timephone and call that desk I’m sure that little dude would be happy to know that someday he would be this big dude living in Bali, making stuff out of plastic and even catching the occasional epic wave. As far as the designs? Think we’re getting somewhere.

We were asked to have a phone interview from someone in Tokyo and we are like- “Kyo wana ga sakana ga oishi des ga?!” And they are like-all quiet for a sec and then asked what did we mean “What kind of fish is good?” And we are like- “Well its the only Japanese we know from slumming in Osaka trying to hook up with some tasty hamachi so we thought we’d try it and see if it got us anywhere – Hajimemashite! Domo arrigato Mr. Roboto Super Important UN person! HAI!”
Thank Sailor Moon on Mt Fiji it wasn’t any stuffed shirt PR suit but the wonderful Ms. Carol Smith on assignment in Asia who totally gets the Bombastic Plastic Ninja’s flying shirken razor sharp type sense of humor. We in fact believe she could easily join us dressed in black going rooftop to rooftop through the night looking for unsuspecting plastic bags to abduct and turn into fantastic products. And so, we  do hereby bequeath the title of  Honorary Jonin Plastic Ninja of the 13 Prefecture Polymer City to Carol-san writer of wonderful things about the B.P.N clan. Thanks Carol-san for the sweet cherry blossom of an article!!  Bombastic is humbled to make your esteemed acquaintance. Deep bow. Je mata ne! – See you later!
PS Any good cheap ramen shops up near you in Tokyo we might want to pay you a visit!
Fashion from Trash Article Our World 2.0

Maybe you the kind of person that likes to travel light. A card, bit of cash and a piece of ID. Maybe you have like a mini helicopter or a jetpack or something and can’t be overloaded. Maybe you’re superhero! You don’t need any big bulky wallet messing up that slick super hero suit’s sleek look. Maybe you’re a naturist and you live in the boonies on your organic farm and just wear boots and a hat and just want to slip your wallet in the side of your boot. We don’t need to know your reasons. We just want to make any clothing optional superhero organic farmers with mini-helicopters and/or jetpacks happy if they come shopping for Bombastic products. We know it’s a small market. But you are fun, hard working people with needs. And that’s our job- to satisfy our customer’s needs. So for this important niche and others that share your eccentric minimalist sensibilities we present- The Micro! Good things do indeed come in small packages.

We like to be innovative. We want to bust our tails thinking through stuff to give you the best products we possibly can. There are times when the tried and true is exactly that and you shouldn’t mess with it. Tried and True is good.
So here is The Bombastic Standard a classic billfold. Once you load it up and use it for a few days you will notice how it develops a nice supple feel. Wears like iron. It is probably our most optimized environmental product. Only the heavy duty nylon stitching and the ID window are from new material. We do have some fun with the colors. Shown in our Trashionista style material with an emphasis on found designs in the plastic itself. This guy will stand with you through the thick of it.

SO below is a little storyboard action for a new product. It’s name comes from a videographer friend of our ours that was over in Bali on surf vacation and also shooting a mini documentary of … you guessed it! Bombastic Plastix™ itself. So we are chatting and Mr Mason Seay says, and we quote” I just want to Efficienize my entire operation, and I know that’s not a word but it should be a word coz it’s cool” And we are like Whoa! Whoa Dude! Did you just say Efficienize! And he’s totally on it and says “Yeah I said Efficienize” ” That’s IT dude That is the name for the new travel wallet!!!” And we start doing the ba da ba ba trumpet kind sound in all the Bond movies and Sam starts riffing about ” THE EFFICIENIZER It’s a dangerous world, somebody has to organize it. BOMBASTIC! The Efficienizer Ba- da-ba-da-da- da-da” etc. ad infinitum and so forth. TG coz we had the lame name Travawally hiding in the alley behind HQ. Bravo Poppa X Ray to Base, Bravo Poppa X Ray to Base- Efficienizer has neutralized the name Travawally repeat Efficienizer has neutralized the name Travawally. Mr B Tell our operatives in the foreign service… The parcel is in the mail. You should be able to buy The Efficienizer and a full range of other killer products direct from Bombastic Bali HQ beginning by the end of the week. The webstore is definitely finally opening. Over and out”

Surfer Girls Saving World

We worked on some special products for Surfer Girl Surf Shop here in Indo. The design was a bit challenging. As a matter of fact we used that word, it’s actually got kind of an Indonesian sound to it- “NUH-YES”. It’s what you say when somebody asks you to do something AND you try to say NUH-OH to but want to do it so bad you say- NUH-YES. And why was it so difficult? Coz it’s lots and lots of little tiny pieces all different pattern and different color and each one has to be cut individually applied individually and VERY carefully laminated so it all comes together right.We ended up having to figure out some new methods and got better at the process and now are better off because of it. But we knew it was gonna be tough. I think at one point time Niluh threw a flower at in Ketut’s general direction or something REALLY out of control. Not like Sam. When he gets frustrated he just calmly walks into the other room, kicking the door down to get there, but at least he’s not launching frangipangis at the staff . And why would we want something that much? Because we think they are a really great fun company that shares a lot of our values. Because they don’t forget about the local market and keep a lot of really reasonably priced products in their store so local Indo girls can afford to shop there and buy sweet products and feel all happy and cool. Because they have an awesome homegrown design team that pushes us to higher levels and collaborates effectively. Because they are concerned about the environment and have been using a lot of MODAL fabric in their production and of course the world’s most amazing recycled plastic products from the Bombsters. But maybe mostly because they give the surfer chicks respect by taking a chance and making a store just for them. The boys get plenty. Recently one of the big multinational surf companies had a contest they paid top prize of 100,000 USD to the boy winner and paid 5000 USD to the girl. How lame is that. That is sometimes the mentality still in the surf world. The girls look good on the beach and the boys do the real surfing. Those days are so over. Some of the big boys are having a hard time understanding that. We surf, and if those big guys with their global empires would paddle out now and then and could see the chicks shredding here in Bali. It’s just so OBVIOUS. So the girls have their own special surf shop and it’s called appropriately Surfer Girl. http://www.surfer-girl.com It’s a great place. Check it out. We think you’ll “heart” it too.

Project Runway?

So These are prototypes for a client that is sending our stuff to FRANCE. As in Eiffel Tower,Riviera and Yves,Chanel and Tom Ford when Gucci buys Yves and sends him there to work on perfume thereby giving old boy a big kick in the derriere after dude made them like 3 billion dollars. That France. So we don’t want to get in trouble with that crowd those high fashion guys are ruthless. But. Like the song sez if you can make there you can make it anywhere. OK that’s New York. But we couldn’t find a single quotable line in La Marseillaise that seemed appropriate, ya know “Tous ces tigres qui, sans pitié, Déchirent le sein de leur mère !” is some pretty heavy stuff. But maybe it is applicable. Something about tigers ripping stuff apart. Any French tiger gets a hold of one of these bags is gonna have his paws full. We are so scared of those Haute Coture-ians we made the final products like Jean-Claude Van Damme tough. Right. Really? OK he’s from Belgium. Whatever! Anywoo our stuff really well made and is going to FRANCE and that’s a BIG DEAL. And Heidi Klum is NOT representing our products. We just have her in the picture because we wanted to have an image in a somewhat satirical communication to associate our stuff with a fashion runway and FRANCE. What? But she’s from Cologne, as in Eau de Cologne. Criminey! Right. OK Heidi is from Germany I’m told. This high fashion world is REALLY confusing. Suffice it to say we are READY for you confusing French fashion world because Bombastic thrives on confusion and we are quite certain that if you put a Bombastic Plastix™ handbag on the arm of some really tall girl in 9 inch heels  wrapped in aluminum foil with a spaceship for a hat and have her walk down,stop,turn,turn again and exit everyone will come out of their chairs screaming bravo, bravo or whatever AND you will sell bazillions of the the finest recycled plastic products in the world. And you don’t have to charge 2000 Euro for one as a matter of fact we’d prefer if ya didn’t. Merci!

The Shorty in TXT2C pattern

We get around on motorcycles here in Bali. We have a lot of flowery designs because a lot folks expect a flower on it when they get something from Bali. Our day to day wear is not that flowery , OK maybe Niluh wears a flower or two but Sam? Ha! The last time he wore a flower was when somebody was still feeding him milk out of a bottle. Since then it’s been a black motorcycle jacket, side zip boots, jeans and any one of a large collection of black T-shirts. Some actually without burn hole in them from welding up something. So we like to do some streetier stuff and have fun with that. This is the Shorty wallet in txt2c pattern. Some people ask what ” WTF?” means It means “Where are The Flowers? ” you silly goose. What’dya think it meant? Gotta go now! CU L8R

As in YEN Magazine out of Australia. Who is getting their BOMBASTIC on.  Representin’ for the finest Recycled Plastic Products in the Land. Thanks for the love  YEN-sters! Mr B giving you a flower back straight up MAXIMUM Power Pop.  You are the PRODUCERS of one fine magazine. We are very grateful for you  including us in it.  For real.

If you ever see a web page on the Bombastic Site that has that crazy color pink in it, you be sure to tell us. We published a page that wasn’t ready to be published. That is Sam’s test color for editing web pages. Hex code #FF00CC easy to type,easy to see that’s why he calls it FOC Pink . That color means this page is Under Construction not ready for prime time. And boy has there been a lot of electronic FOC Pink ink flowing around this neighborhood. Ya see Sam is not a web designer. He has been teaching himself this stuff and it is FOC Pink hard dammit. All this FOC Pink around kind of makes you seasick. But Bombastic is getting better and we believe we are going to eventually have one of the coolest web spaces around. So bear with us as we get our FOC Pink act together. You’ll be happy you did. : )

Amazing Store in Singapore

Some people complain that Singapore is all about Big Stores and Big Brands and it hard to find anything cool or fun. That is changing rapidly and this store Trolley is leading the way. Over next to Chinatown on Amboy Street in the beautiful design district Trolley has the most awesome collection of unique home decor and urban personal items. One of the owners Mindy met with the Bombsters and is looking like she might partner up the the Bombastiticians for a little Singapore market research. Thanks and Shouts out to Mindee for help and hospitality. Check her shop out next time in your in S’pore.