Cheeming Boey likes to draw, both at his computer, working as a computer game designer and animator out of Newport Beach, CA, and on foam cups. As the Orange Country Register recently put it: “Styrofoam, or, rather, the foam products most people refer to as Styrofoam, gets a bad rap: It’s cheap. Disposable. Never degrades. The coffee cup you toss away today will still be polluting some ocean or landfill after your grandchildren die.
“About the only time it makes the news is when some city bans its use – as more than 20 California cities have done. Or when some art auction sells a foam cup with a dead ladybug in it for $29,900 – as happened in 2001. All of which makes the simple, 4-cent cup the epitome of pop art. It’s at once kitschy and unhip and dismissed by all. Yet it can be a demanding medium to master. It’s curved. It smudges. You can’t redo mistakes. And every drawing must re-connect to its start.”
Master it, Boey has. His cups are such a hit, they sell for more than $200 a piece. Check out some of our favorites here, but for more great photos of his cups, take a stroll over to WildAmmo.com and drink it all in.
<< See more photos over at WildAmmo.com.
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This stuff’s great! Thanks for posting, David.
posted by Mangesh Hattikudur on 10-21-2009 at 3:01 pm
I absolutely ADORE it!
posted by Karen on 10-21-2009 at 4:59 pm
Looks like my dog.
posted by FilthyRichmond.com on 10-22-2009 at 1:01 pm
Simply Amazing! Love creative minds. Mad skills – Mad props!
posted by preston taylor on 10-22-2009 at 2:33 pm
Beautifull!
posted by eu mesmo on 10-22-2009 at 2:55 pm
LOL! Wow you got some talent. You should change your medium to something more monumental.
posted by e cigarette on 10-22-2009 at 4:02 pm
THIS PISSES ME OFF IVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS AND EVERYONE SAID IT WAS STUPID. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
posted by grrr on 10-22-2009 at 4:15 pm
Puts me in the mood for a hot drink, very effective.
posted by Ruth Ferez on 2-7-2010 at 1:04 am
Dang, that first cup was great!
posted by Shopalu on 3-15-2010 at 8:45 pm
That’s beautiful creativity, that first cup was great!very impressive.
posted by Trent Jordan on 7-7-2010 at 6:53 am
Cool medium, something from the unexpected.
posted by UpsetUnicorn on 7-14-2010 at 7:54 am
Holy crap , that is cool
posted by kateweb on 10-12-2010 at 5:39 am
“Styrofoam,… Never degrades. The coffee cup you toss away today will still be polluting some ocean or landfill after your grandchildren die.” that doesnt make sense? It will eventually break down, maybe taking longer than most plastics which means it’ll be around longer polluting the earth. Crazy…
posted by Matt on 10-18-2010 at 7:42 am
inspiering.who says a cup shouldnt make a statment?
posted by ebony on 8-20-2011 at 10:51 am