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.

Well he does for the next 10 days as he spares them his jaws and stomach juices. In the meantime he is content with his apple sauce. What would you like for lunch asks the waitress: “Oh I have mine thanks,” as he chugs his sauce. Happy to be free of Oprah’s insides.

Oprah herself was recently inspired to eat consciously, but we now know different. Bryce said: “Actually that was me! I made a quantum leap into Oprah’s body and had to solve her eating disorder before I could get out. Maybe this next leap will be the one that takes me home. Damn It Ziggy!”

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/

I’ll miss you Tia. Thank you for sharing my life for the past 17 years. You made it richer and I thank you for your unconditional love every day, for putting up with my out-of-tune silly songs I’d sing to you, for sleeping on top of me each night, for licking my tears when I was sad, for your company when I sat on the computer every day, and for just listening when I had something to say. You are forever in my heart & I hope you are sunning yourself in an eternal pocket of sun right now.

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The past month I’ve had in heavy rotation the debut album by Santogold (self-titled). From the first listening, I was a fan. The songs are catchy, diverse song to song, great to sing along to or party with, and have a maturity from her earlier punk band-Stiffed-that shows a song writer who’s been working on her craft for some time now and really beginning to hit her stride.

Vocally, she reminds me of a cross between Dale Bozzio from the Missing Persons & Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s—both whom are unique singers, talented & crowd-awing on their own. Musically, Santogold’s sound is a mixture of 80’s new wave & pop, reggae, 90’s era Pixie’s, electro-dance and current indie. Thrown together, mixed & baked, the sound is uniquely hers.

Santogold, otherwise known as Santi White, has been dating pro-snowboarder Trevor Andrew for some time, otherwise known as musician Trouble Andrew, and her previous music venture, Stiffed, was a featured band in the documentary film Afro-Punk which explores racial identity in the punk scene across America and abroad.

I have an inkling that we’ll be hearing a lot more of her in the years to come, especially since I’ve already caught her tunes as the backdrop for both Bud Light Lime & VO5 commercials, as well as in the soundtrack for an EA sports game my man plays. And for that, I am stoked.