taking a break from slow illustrator. ten minutes to open/twenty minutes to save/thirty minutes total time of bah!

additionally. illustrator has chosen to crash approximately three hundred and thirty two times. it makes it hard to get mad anymore. you just become borderline suicidal. 

if you can’t tell by the illustrator rant, we have been continuously cranking on creative concepts and crap for our lovely clients who need to take a hint on time (via this blog) in concern to their own ridiculous timelines and deadlines. (sidenote: in no way, shape or form is this blog meant to be intentionally mean)

in the midst of it all we are welcoming a new intern Kate. thus far she has been exposed to a dead squirrel on his on board of driftwood. ironically the piece of taxidermy is related to one of our projects. she has also exposed to multiple words that when written have asterisks in them followed by exclamation points (ie F*CK!!!!)

with those words WELCOME KATE.

and per jynn’s best advice: you get a lunch break. so take advantage of it.

here is a little update on whats going on without breaching any contracts. we don’t want anyone to be sacrificed (especially the messenger). apologies for any obscure references that may not make the most sense. but i do believe that is the true essence of the skip report.

in the design world it has been a few crazy weeks of production and concepts going left and right like flying ninja stars or michaelangelo’s nunchucks. one hint to some of the work is “old mcdonald had a farm…eee i eee i oooo.”  another project involves massive doses of pills, a million dollars, honeycombs minus the milk and bowl, beer koozies, mating moose, and its not christian dior. 

those lovely teasers should have you coming back for more, remember i can’t give away too much.

on another note, luke is back from his rendezvous in Switzerland. he is just going to have to make his own skip report with a picture or two.

the ping pong playing is steadily going down by 37.35% ever since micah has left. either everyone is just working harder now that there is one less or everyone is just too sad to play with micah gone. i’ll leave you to make your own conclusions.

that catches you up just a little bit. just working hard to play hard. 

Discovered these sweetastic buttons and thought they deserved to be shared.

*credited to Effektive

http://www.effektivedesign.co.uk/badges/new-cassette-badge-sets/

The other day was Micah’s last day with us at D.O.E. * sniff sniff * To mourn his last day we went to his favorite lunch joint in the area-Georgetown Liquor Company. Note all the old school video games in the background. Perfect work farewell for Micah and all his geek ways that we’ve come to rely on & will greatly miss. * sniff sniff *

Micah has always wanted to order a pitcher of whiskey…simply for the shock & laughter of it. (It’s Micah’s sense of humor for those who don’t know him.) Therefore Styk did his best to surprise Micah & make this desire come true. Either the bartender balked or Styk’s wallet prevented it from being a pitcher, but I think an entire PINT of whiskey is still a rare order in a bar & will accomplish messing one up. One should note the 2 gin & tonic’s Micah had consumed before the pint showed up.

Oh yeah…we gave him something to remember us by…if he remembers the night that is.

The tale of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary comes from the Middle Ages, a traveler’s tale from the far east. It’s full name was ‘Planta Tartarica Barometz’ - ‘barometz’ is the Tartar word for ‘lamb’. The fruit of the Vegetable Lamb was cotton, but travelers from Europe knew nothing about cotton in those times. They reasoned that the material was wool - a fabric they did know. The figured that since wool came from sheep, and that the plant was some kind of animal/plant. They thought that the puffs of cotton were tiny sheep attached to the plant by their navel. It is said that the plant bent to let the sheep graze on the grass beneath it, and that when all the grass was gone, the sheep dropped from the plant and ran off, the tree dying.

text source: “Vegetable Lamb.” Encyclopedia Mythica from Encyclopedia Mythica Online.

Most people have heard of Mr. Snoop Dogg. When asked about Mr. Dogg, people say “he’s a rapper right? he’s that tall skinny rapper guy.” These things are true. Snoop has been on top of the “rap game” for the past 16 years with no shortage of rap music hits along the way. I would even go as far as to say that I really like Snoop Dogg’s music, hell I might even say I love it! So when Mr. Dee Oh Double G put out a new album I had to check it out.

After listening I have this to say. Most of the album rules! It’s much more consistently interesting than most Top 40 hip hop records that are generally limited to one or two singles and 13 tracks of filler, 4 tracks that are skits, and an intro. Snoop keeps it going! I was sitting, working, and grooving to this record at work when all of a sudden something changed, I almost spilled my coffee. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

Snoop was dedicating a song to Johnny Cash, who was, as Snoop put it, “a real American gangsta.” Then Snoop launches into a FULL ON COUNTRY SONG. For real. It never turns into rap, it’s just a country song. By Snoop Dogg.

Whoa.