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Hope you all had great weekends and remembered to call your pops on Pappy Day yesterday! We took the Bainbridge Island Ferry yesterday, and Monocol First (Canine) Mate, Cosby, got to feel the cool sea breeze on his snaggle tooth for the first time. We've also heard from some Monoscouts that our WPZ Pengies have been spotted around Seattle! Off to find their locations later this week ... It's like hide-n-seek! |
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Here are our finished pengies. More about dem Seattle marching penguins here
Those penguins were heavy to move! More piccurs at the Flickrrrrrr.
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Hola Monoamigos! Its that time again for the bimonthly update, har har! We're slowly gaining momentum for our usual summertime project blitz -- it must be something about how ice cream trucks are starting to jangle their way down our street (WHY DO THEY DRIVE SO FAST PAST OUR HQ), or the sun setting at 9pm, or conversations that start with "we should go camping...no really!" -- that makes us more productive. We are happy to say we've preservered through porky flu epidemics and other unpleasantries and are working on some projects for June. We will be participating in Woodland Park Zoo's Penguins on the March art exhibit. We have two penguins to decorate ... pics to follow soon. The new WPZ pengie exhibit is cooler than a polarbear's toenails (except, Humboldt penguins don't live in snow, but you know what we mean) and we are excited to be a part of the event! Are you guys ready to go camping? ... No REALLY! See you on the flipside!
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PHEW, we survived SxSW and have been recovering the last week. There were some amazing music videos we were up against in Austin, so we felt very special and intimidated to be included in the mix. The week was a blur of line waiting, late shows, getting to see old friends, sleeping 8 to a room with the Flagpole camp, burrito carts, and 80 degree weather! Gwynne also celebrated her birthday last week and got lots of fantastic presents including: a red ryder bb gun, a comic book, a new bike, a Chomp Chain soccer ball ... And a remixed MIA music video made by Tom. INTERWEB PREMIERE!
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Hallo, hallo! Oh how we've missed all of you monofreens the past few weeks! Since we last updated several exciting things have been going on over here in the basement HQ. Seattle froze over and thawed, holidays came and went, history making presidents were inaugurated, and we got to work on our first music video! "Count It Off" - The Saturday Knights from Lincoln Leopard Films on Vimeo. When Travis of Lincoln Leopard asked if we'd like to do some animated shorts for The Saturday Knights in the style of retro Sesame Street, we were on the project like crumbs on Cookie Monster. We spent a lot of time revisiting our favorite Sesame Street animations and skits from our past (Typewriter Guy! Teeny Little Super Guy! Grover! Grover! Grover!) In even more exciting pawesome news, we recently found out that the video is an official SxSW Film Festival selection! Three cheers and salted caramel ice cream all around! We've also updated the Monocol website and started a Twitter ... PHEW! Time for a nap and some comic books.
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We got a snow day here in Seattle! We took advantage of the day by "working from home" -- which involved drinking lots of coffee, watching Cosby Show reruns, and answering e-mails from the couch. We are working on a top secret project to be revealed in a few weeks (we hope!), and we can't wait to see it finished. Otherwise we've been making cheese straws , playing with our new Mac books (!!), and thinking up new Monocol ideas for the new year! Keep warm, mono-freens, and see you at the sledding hill! |
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It's that time again here at Monocol HQ where we celebrate Sinterklaas with gifts wrapped in syrup and mean poems about one another!Hot off the Gocco press, we finished our 2008 Holiday card last week. We've put some in the shop. We will be sending them out to our freens and families over the next few days.
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Have you ever met a Rock Hyrax? We have! We met him over the summer at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington D.C.! He is a distant relative of the elephant -- who is one of my favorite animals in our solar system. Speaking of distant relatives, we can hardly believe the Holidays are upon us and with them, family, friends, and lots of dinners! Tomocol celebrated his birthday yesterday with much fanfare and some of the best chocolate cake in Seattle. American Thanksgiving is next week and the rest of the mess of December is on the horizon! PHEW! We are slowly assembling our gnome/elf/kitten army at the Monocol factory to get some holiday items out into the interwebs and into our favorite local stores. Daruminals and their prints can be currently found at TWIG in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle (and of course at our Etsy store). We are making a super early New Years Resolution to update the blog and interweb store more often -- how's that for being one step ahead of the Holiday game? See you soon!
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1. "Veículo" Heiko, The State of Things What a crazy week its been and its only/already Wednesday! I am glad that the felt ribbons went over well yesterday in Ballard! A big Monocol thank you for the places that we dumped them (guerilla style)! Above are some of some of our favorite things to look at during a those quick 15 minute breaks during a crazy week at work, between election coverage, or when deciding if a third donut is really necessary. Man, Beartato's Dance Time is like a snapshot of a typical evening at Team Ballard HQ. We hope you American MonoFreens had some Election Cupcakes like we did over at the HQ ... What flavor? LINCOLNBERRY of course! With stovepipe frosting hats, too! Three cheers for voting!
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Fellow Suffragettes and Suffragents! Ever since MonoGwynne was allowed to punch a ballot card for her mother at the tender age of six, she one day dreamed of voting and getting that coveted I Voted! sticker as a symbol of her patriotic duty... Little did she know that absentee ballots voters were denied the basic freedom of stickers! UNAMERICAN! We here at Monocol believe all ballots were created equal, mail-in, absentee, and polling stations alike! We've created felt 2008 I Voted ribbons for the big day tomorrow, and they will be available to our Ballard MonoFreens free of charge at the counters of your favorite Ballard merchants and coffeehouses tomorrow, Tuesday November 4th! Please help yourself to a ribbon - regardless if you sent in your ballot weeks ago or grab one on the way to the polling station. Or if you didn't actually vote but like to pretend that you did, we can't really prevent you from taking a ribbo. But just ask yourself WWHAD -- What Would Honest Abe Do? Vote, of course! Pick up your complimentary I Voted felt ribbons at these fine establishments: Download black and white printable ribbon here!
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O HAI MONOFREENS!! We hope you've had a fantastical summer full of funnel cakes, potato-sack races, push-pops, and mini-adventures. Since our May show at Verite, we've been taking a bit of a summer vacation from shows and work. So far we've been to Hong Kong, Washington DC, Anacortes, Port Angeles and have hosted a lot of Sunday BBQs and bonfires at the Team Ballard HQ. But as Summer draws to a close, we rallied together a back-to-school show for the stupendous Herkimer Coffee in Phinney Ridge. Herkimer is one of our favorite coffee places in Seattle, so we are excited to have work up there for the next two months. Daruminals are based on the Japanese wish dolls called Darumas. The wisher makes a wish, colors in the right eye. If the wish comes true, the wisher then colors in the left eye.
We've created our own Daruminals out of paper mache, a new horizon for Team Monocol. Say... do some of those Daruminals look like a few of our close MonoFreens??? (I think so!) They are all hand-drawn and painted with the help lots of coffee and listening to the Best of Curtis Mayfield. They hope to fufill your heart's secret desires!
We also created a series of Daruminals Gocco prints. This is the first run of prints we've done with the Gocco and we love that little printin' machine! You can learn more (and help save) Gocco at Save Gocco! . Daruminals also feature a new series of Woodgills by Tom! We will be updating the store with Daruminals prints, new items, and lots of ideas soon! We hope our Seattle freens visit the Daruminals at Herkimer (you should get an Americano while you are there -- the best in the city)! See you soon!
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Extree extree, Team Monocol makes excuses for being crappy! Getcher excuses here! No seriously, we got lots of excuses for not updating the website, the blog, and the store. All of them are boring and most of them are true and only a few of them have to do with MarioKart coming out on Wii (we swear!) at the beginning of May.
However, perhaps we can redeem ourselves with the fact that we did somehow also manage to churn out work for Ballard's May Artwalk at the venerable Verite/Cupcake Royale on Market Street. The Mesopolonica Theatre was deliriously finished (and almost didn't even get to hang) by May 8th and will be on display till June 8th. Thanks to all who have already come out! More pictures of the art itself to come ...
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This is how most of our conversations go 70% of the time. Other times we talk about wombats eating popsicles. |
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Fall blew into Seattle quite suddenly this month! Though, I suppose Summer never really made its full appearance this year to begin with. Regardless, work at the Monocol Lab is finally winding down after a busy busy three months. I can't believe we actually had three shows in two months! Monocol officially turned one-year-old in September, and we can't wrap our heads around people letting us put up "art" in their stores! Seriously, the next round of cakes are on us...
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote up an article on the Anne Bonny and Spencer, and they even mentioned our show! I never imagined Mt.Plushmore making it into anywhere but the funny pages. Not enough thanks and gratitude could go out Spencer, who so graciously let us set up in his space, provided Oreos at our opening, and generally was just the definition of "pawesome" for running one of the most amazing antique thrift operations in Seattle. THREE CHEERS! Even though Summer is gone, Monocol is happily here to stay! We're excited to regroup after our shows and will be coming out with lots more sloth-inspired, plush-driven, happy-fun-time seeking items for the site and for our Etsy store. See you all soon! Wom-to-the-bats,
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 Monocol has been working hard with fellow Ballard!Attack freens Chris Smith and Demian Johnston to bring you a PAWESOME end of the Summer show!       Fold up your Monocol posters into paper hats, put your slingshots in your back pocket, and head down to the Anne Bonny TONITE! RALLY AT THE FORT, MONOFREENS!!! MONOCOL www.monocol.com THE ANNE BONNY www.theannebonny.com Myspace 1355 E. Olive Way
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Hallo, hallo there! We hope everyone had a great 4th of July (well, those who are from the US, otherwise, we do hope that you had a good day last Wednesday as well)! We sat around in the front yard, grilled food, and watched Ghostbusters until it was time to go see fireworks (if left up to me, I would do a 30 minute firework show of just those smiley-face fireworks). We've been scurrying about in the summer heat to put together everything for the next few shows. Tom has painted a few more Woodgills which have already been snatched up, much to my dismay.  Where global warming and DIY meet in a moral battle, recycle or start knitting those mittens. Quandry!: We get rather attached to every single Woodgill, but know that other people like them, too. Solution!: You can now buy high quality matte-photo prints of any Woodgill you may want! Tom presented me with one of the prints of "Ugh, Not Another Ice Age" because I was inconsolable after the original was sold and would not come out of my room to eat Otter Pops or sushi. If you want your very own global warming dino (Al Gore, are you reading this?) or any other Woodgill print, direct yourself to Etsy. For 15 clams you will still have money for a box of Otter Pops and a down payment on a hybrid car. Hope your summers are progressing nicely! SNOCONES FOR ALL, NO SLIP-N-SLIDE LEFT BEHIND! Love,
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That's BatPig in PigLatin, duh!  Its Summer and we've got schooners of Manny's, popsicles, and new projects churning away at full steam at the Monocol Factory. We've got our Summer schedule booked with shows - the first being a group show next week on July 3rd at the Anne Bonny in Capitol Hill. It's a great little store with every nook and cranny of the downstairs crammed with vintage treasures and a beautiful little gallery loft space upstairs. Spencer was kind enough to ask us to create our very own show in September, we are going to make it our end-of-summer spectacular show. We're also working on entries for a Summer/Pool themed group show at Ballard mainstay 20Twenty in August. We're also booked in August for Coffee Animals in Capitol Hill ... Obviously, we are the busiest of Bees (unrelatedly: have you heard of the concerning bee extinction? We are concerned)! No fear, though, Monofriends, be comforted that Tom and I aren't toiling away too much to forget the important stuff: looking for agates on the beach, planning camping trips, cooking out, riding bikes, learning the ukulele, and singing Kenny Loggin's "Danny's Song" with Meghan at the top of our lungs. We will be updating the site with all of our new works very soon, so stay tuned! HUP SUMMER!!
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