Dancing Pooh Moodmat
A yellow bear caught mid stride in a short red shirt, cut to the outline on twelve inches of recycled rubber and printed with reactive ink. Artist series, run of 420.
The Print
A Bear With Somewhere To Be
Everything in the drawing is built for motion. The bear is caught mid step with one leg swung out in front, the other trailing behind, both arms out of phase with the legs and the body tipped slightly forward into the stride. Round head, small round ears set wide, short limbs, soft belly. Two black dots for eyes and a third for the nose, set high and close together, with a wide open smile underneath that takes up most of the lower face. One thick black keyline holds all of it, and the line never changes weight anywhere on the figure.
Color is doing almost nothing, on purpose. Flat golden yellow across the whole body with no shading, no highlight and no texture, and a short red shirt that stops above the belly as the only other color on the mat. No background, no ground line, no shadow, no border, no lettering. Whoever drew it decided the silhouette could carry the entire piece by itself, and at twelve inches with a die cut following every limb, it does.
Reactive ink is in the print, so there is a second version of it under a blacklight, and the maker’s UV shot sits in the gallery beside the daylight one. Look at both. The flat print and the lit print are not selling you the same mat, and on a design this stripped down the lit version is doing more of the work.
A Collaboration
@cleverrooz x @dangervisual
Credited by Moodmats as a two handle collaboration, the same pairing behind the donut fish in this drop. Their house style is easy to spot once you have seen both pieces: one heavy keyline that never varies, flat saturated color with no rendering at all, no background whatsoever, and a die cut tight enough to the character that the print stops being a print and becomes an object.
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On Video
See It In Hand
Photos only get you so far. This is the actual piece, shot in our hands, so you can see the scale, the finish and how it behaves in real light before you buy it.
Made in New Jersey Since 2009
Rubber That Already Had a First Life
Moodmats started with scraps from old wetsuits and discarded scuba and surf neoprene, material that was headed straight for a landfill. That became Lava Rubber, and Lava Rubber is what every Moodmat is cut from. The feedstock now comes from wetsuits, gaskets, weatherstripping, seat molds, and other clean scrap that gets collected or donated. More than two tons of it moves through the New Jersey shop every month, gets pressed into sheet stock, then die-cut and screen printed. Keeping that material out of the ground has been the point from day one.
Closed-Cell Neoprene
Closed-cell rubber does not drink up what you spill on it. Water, reclaim, and terp splash sit on the surface instead of soaking in, so a wipe with soapy water puts it back to new.
It Stays Put
The rubber grips whatever it is sitting on and grips whatever you set on top. A rig that would skate across a glass table or a finished desk stops moving the second it lands on a Moodmat.
Tough and Self-Extinguishing
Heat resistant, self-extinguishing, and built out of material that already survived a first life. This is not a printed coaster that curls after a month on the table.
Where People Actually Put These
It Does Not Have to Hold a Rig
A Moodmat protects a surface and grips what sits on it. Whether that thing is a banger, a camera, or nothing at all is up to you. They are called Moodmats for a reason. Pick the one that matches how you feel and put it wherever it belongs.
Rig and Glass Pad
The job it was built for. Keeps glass off hard surfaces and keeps hard surfaces off your glass.
Display Surface
Figures, models, controllers, dice, cameras, watches. Anything worth setting on something intentional.
Wall Art
Plenty of these never touch a table. Hang it, frame it, or pin it behind the setup and let the print do the work.
Desk and Everyday
Trivet for hot pans, landing spot for keys, pad under a pet bowl, cushion on a camp table.
Why It Matters
Runs End. Prints Do Not Come Back.
Moodmats print in runs, and runs end. Once a design is out, it is out. Artist collabs and drop exclusives regularly land in quantities of ten to twenty five pieces, which is why the people who collect these track drops, trade them, and frame the ones they will never put a rig on. If this specific print matters to you, the time to grab it is while it is still on the shelf.
A Run of Four Hundred Twenty
Four hundred twenty is the stated run for this design, which is a real limit and an obvious joke at the same time. It is also the widest run in this group of six, so this is the least scarce of the numbered pieces here, and we would rather say that than dress it up. No figure is inked on the mat, so 420 is the size of the run and not a position in it. We have one.
No Reprints
Moodmats does not go back and run a sold-out design again. When this one is gone from our shelf and theirs, the only way to get it is from somebody who already has one.
Worth Hanging
A print this limited does not have to earn its keep under a rig. Plenty of these end up on a wall, in a frame, or stacked with the rest of a collection.
The Details
Specs and Care
| Size | 12 inches at the widest point, approximate |
| Shape | Die-cut to the figure, arms, legs and ears included |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color with UV reactive application | |
| UV | Yes. Reactive under a 365nm or 395nm blacklight |
| Artist | @cleverrooz x @dangervisual |
| Edition | Run of 420, not individually numbered |
| Origin | Made in New Jersey, USA |
Wipe it down with warm water and a little dish soap, then let it air dry flat. That is the whole routine. Do not run it through a washing machine or a dryer, do not scrub the print with an abrasive pad, and do not rest a lit torch or a glowing-hot banger directly on the surface. Use a stand or a puck for anything still at temperature.
Straight Talk
Know Before You Buy
Upcycled Means Variation
The rubber is reclaimed scrap, so base color, speckle, and surface texture shift slightly from sheet to sheet. Two mats of the same design will not be photocopies of each other. That is how you know it is the real material and not virgin stock.
Heat Resistant, Not Heatproof
The rubber is self-extinguishing and handles warm gear without complaint. It is not a torch pad. Park anything still glowing on a proper stand or a quartz puck, not on the print.
UV Needs a Blacklight
Reactive ink is not glow in the dark. It will not charge up and shine by itself in a dark room. It needs a 365nm or 395nm blacklight pointed at it, and with one on it the print is a different image. Without one it is a clean flat print with a very good silhouette.
Die-Cut Means Irregular Edges
The outline follows the figure, so you get arms, legs and ears sticking out instead of a clean rectangle. The listed twelve inches is the widest point and not a uniform footprint, and the limbs are the narrowest sections of rubber on the piece. Handle those the way you would any narrow section of rubber.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
We have one of these on the shelf. Both images on this page are manufacturer product shots rather than pictures of the piece in our hands, so treat them as an accurate look at the print and not at the exact sheet. Reclaimed rubber shifts in base speckle from one mat to the next.
Set the Mood
Recycled rubber, made in the USA, printed with art worth looking at. Free shipping on orders over $75, and every order ships from a veteran-owned small business.
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