Sorry for the delay in posting

I know I know I know I know

you HAVE to keep these things up, or people don't visit your blog. Basically, what happened was; Zoe had her wisdom teeth removed, then we went to Madeline Island in Northern Wisconsin. There was absolutely no internet/ Wi-Fi access there whatsoever.

Now - while we had a great time relaxing, hanging out in the sun, and kayaking... we also had an absurdly horrible experience with the car. Long story short, it broke down en route... then I had to deal with tow-companies pretty much every day for a week (as no one in the area could fix the car). Seriously, somehow they kept being cancelled (not by me)... oh and in the end - Hertz rentals charged us like quadruple what the original price was!!!!

We also took some really great photo's along the water at night. I took them with a slow shutter speed and a large aperture, so they all have a really great 'eerie' feeling to them. I took this one of Zoe sort of 'swishing' around ->

She then took the camera from me and (using the same settings) took one of me... which for some reason - keeps getting awkwardly cropped by Blogger.

The almost smoky haze is caused by moving just a little bit, while the lens was open. There are a few more, but I'm thinking they will actually become items for sale on our etsy site As large-format images.

Oh, and of course - I retain the copyright for these photographs. You are not allowed to use them for your financial gain... or use them without my permission.

Anyways, I digress... Right now - I'm on a fact-finding mission outside of the US. Basically, an opportunity has risen that... I don't think I can miss up. Friends & family already know.... no - it's nothing bad. I don't want to get into detail now, because - if I take this opportunity... I'll have to send a very awkward email.

So what else is new...

oh a friend of mine has just started her own blog -> Wilde About Food

you should check it out

oh - and HOW AWESOME IS THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS' NEW ALBUM?!?!??!?!

Two More Scarves

I was talking to Zoe the other day that we should do at least one more "pattern" scarf, and she asked what I thought it should be...

and I said: "How about a sexual innuendo scarf?"

She didn't get what I meant at first, so I was like - well, let's just put bananas and doughnuts in a repeating pattern all over a scarf. I described how the doughnuts should look - no bear claws, no eclairs, just simple round shapes with some frosting and mmmaybe sprinkles and gave random ideas about the bananas.

Zoe quickly drew up the pattern and I went down to the studio and printed it onto one of our new 'jersey' scarves.

Also - we got a message on our etsy site about a special order... The other photographs are of a 'prototype version' of how we'd do a navy scarf with white cranes. Because of our process, we can't print white. However, we can print the negative space a solid color, and use the cream background for the images. Although, we can print black cranes onto a navy piece of fabric.

Busy Busy

Tonight we're driving out to Cedar Rapids, IA to drop off some more shirts, some scarfs, a canvas bag, and mmmmaybe some prints (it's dependent on getting envelopes to protect the images)

I uploaded the scarves on etsy today. I'm waiting to put up the new bag design and the new shirts for a day or two - as it seems to be the best way to promote yourself on that site...

but anyways - about the scarves. I think they came out REALLY well. We collaborated on each of them to get the final versions.

And although Zoe modeled for all of the scarves... I could easily see myself wearing the striped one

Dogs and Babies

These are photographs from my dog and baby series. The series deals with the idea of parents leaving doggy to babysit. I drew them on nice paper with nice markers in a nice classroom on only the nice days.

Blake and I are done with the University of Iowa (officially) I just graduated and Blake's heading to grad school next fall so we're spending the rest of the summer making stuff. Here's some new lithos I made, but they're all based on old drawings.

30 Minute Mix

I had some free time yesterday afternoon, and decided to do a short mix -

just some random new songs I've bought over the past couple of weeks and some old stuff thrown in...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/olquk1

So how did the show go?

You ask?

Well... it went off quite nicely actually. We had a great turnout, even though it was the same weekend as the big studio art open house (but that was on Friday). Zoe made FANTASTIC cupcakes from scratch and bruscetta (spelling?) with bread that I brought back from Whole Foods in Chicago.

Although, there were some 'snags'. Nothing too incredibly major or distracting from the actual show; basically I didn't get the big audio project done in time. Yeah, I know it wasn't completely necessary (it's not like we were doing an "installation" if you know what I mean)... we ended up just making a playlist of the source tracks for the "audio project" and played them on my iPod. Also, I still need to get Zoe to record some vocals over some instrumentals I've got.... I would have also liked to have done more stuff to the actual place we were showing our work, but that was impossible, as the space gets used on a daily basis.

We ended up having over 130 pieces up. Zoe & I put up the last 30 or so a half hour before the show opened - that, on top of making an absurd number of cupcakes basically made us both zombies for the first hour or so of the show... (side note: I think we kinda weirded out the couple that came in early on in the show.... just b/c we were totally spacing out)

All the pieces were attached straight to the wall, mixing both of our prints & drawings together and just arranging them by color (like how it is in the above picture.)

More photo's and details coming shortly...