Takashi Murakami for Supreme Skateboards

There’s no doubt about it: we’re unabashedly devoted groupies of Takashi Murakami, who we featured here a few weeks ago and continues to hold his place as one of the main powerhouses behind the Japanese pop art movement. With a highly anticipated (seriously, my palms start sweating when I think about it) show in October at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, his cult status shows no signs of dwindling, even as 2007 begins to close. The latest news is on his hot collaboration with Supreme, a kingpin of streetwear. He’s designed three decks, each with a Crayola color on the top with an animal flanked by his signature curvy and eyelash’d designs on the bottom, made in limited supply and already sold out everywhere, from what I can intelligently deduce from their going rates on eBay. I’m weeping as I write that last sentence, so I hope a sympathetic and enterprising Santa Claus will come through for me this Christmas. For now, most of us will just have to do with the photo. Wah!