two-headed monster: Archive

Thank God no one ever messed with my ponytail!

So I couldn’t figure out how to embed this video because I am sick and my brain isn’t really working, but I promise, it is worth the trip to the espn website. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4629837 Thanks Squatch!

Nov 9th

Oct 20th

1 note

I went to iceland some more

So Iceland was great. I met a kitty. And I saw lots of neat art. I rode bikes and saw rainbows. And I saw a cemetery and a big waterfall. We went to the blue lagoon and watched people smear mud all over their faces. And I learned that Icelandic teeth are very strong and have big noses. Iceland was great. I would like to go back with my hlm one day.

Oct 18th

I went to Iceland

and now I am famous! Well, not really, but I am in quite a few of those pictures.

Oct 14th

1 note

dear amanda,

where are we going? love, christina

Aug 12th

End Prohibition!

Designers aren’t waiting for the legalization of marijuana… they are already jumping on the opportunity to flex their design skills in an homage to the green bud. I love the Heads of State, and they are always giving me new reasons to continue my crush. This was their packaging solution to the distribution of the smashable breakable lose-able little joint: Check out this article...

Jul 30th

Jul 24th

Fields of Lavender

I have been hard at work saving money for our JMT trip, and I know for a fact Tina-butt has been doing the same, so two-headed monster has been getting no love. (It’s just the quiet before the storm.) While doing research for some drawings of herbal plants I am working on, I found the above image, which made me smile… so I thought I’d share it. Love, Amanda

Jul 22nd

JMT here we come!!!!!!!

Dear Christina, Here are a couple things for your check list: Yes, I am bringing the tent. (You can breath a sigh of relief.) No, somehow I don’t own hiking shoes anymore either… what’s up with that?! Yes, I will be sporting clothing more akin to the spirit animal spandex tour than the boring stupid hat black and white PCT garb we chose our first time out (Ha! rookies). No...

Jul 1st

Guest blogging!

I’ve noticed that your blog consists of two major themes. Food and Art. Other than Josh’s amazing sidetracking the math realm (nerd alert). So, why is your blog two headed monster? If you’re blog is about food and art you should word smash them and call the blog f-art. C’mon. At least write something about a two headed monster to even things out, seriously. I mean for...

Jul 1st

it takes four years...

to forget how to backpack. In case you didn’t know, Amanda and I are trying to plan for our next epic adventure backpacking in the Sierra Nevada for two weeks in September. I was just given the go ahead for time off from my boss, so now what once served mostly as daydream material is about to become reality. The two-headed monster will roam the mountains again! This is really exciting and...

Jun 30th

last week in christina

Because I know your week wasn’t nearly as amazing as mine, you loser. Monday June 15- Got paid to make/eat ice cream all day. Boyfriend played show at Crocodile Cafe with the Oh Sees and Jay Reatard. Hadn’t seen crowd surfing at a show since AWK. Awesome. Sang Happy Birthday to my friend Jamie Quist and sent him a birthday text message. He turned 27. Tuesday June 16- Slept until noon...

Jun 23rd

Let me kill you!

This video entitled “Immersion” is really fun to watch. Except when that one kid cries a single tear… what’s up with that?

Jun 17th

(my) best chili recipe ever:

That’s right… I am sharing my first recipe blog style! I make food in my tiny apartment all the time, and I get so caught up in the world of interneting and art when I am at my computer I often forget to share the adventures of my kitchen. (Plus, that is Christina’s department for the most part, and I try to leave her to it… however, since this is a non-pastry/non-foodie...

Jun 17th

Design crush of the month:

Gina and Matt! Well, that’s not entirely accurate. The “of the month” part I mean. I’ve really had a crush on the art these two make for maybe over a year now? I sneak peaks at their portfolio for inspiration constantly… and I usually come away creatively boosted. One of their clients is Urban Outfitters (jealous? yes.) and they seem to have an endless outlet for...

Jun 11th

'$4.00 for some whoopie or a creme pie' said the...

So at one of my billion jobs, I bake. I get to work at 5 am and I bake all sorts of yummy treats; muffins, scones, bundt cakes, cookies, brownies, lemon bars, cereal bars, and my latest claim to fame, The Whoopie Pie. People love The Whoopie. Whoop! Whoop! The Whoopie was such a hit that I thought about making other awesome sandwich cookie treats. I thought way back to my days of...

Jun 3rd

1 note

I'm back bitches!

MY COMPUTER IS FIXED! Why is this great news? I will tell you: 1) Now Amanda doesn’t have to blog all by her lonesome, which I can only assume is something like talking to oneself… 2) I can blog about my new favorite YouTube obsession: Keyboard Cat! Stay tuned! 3) I can start a brand new collection of stories, photos, and mp3s and back them up on an external hard drive, that I have...

Jun 3rd

May 29th

Layer Tennis, the ultimate in Graphic Design...

I can hear the response even before I officially post this blog: “Graphic Design sports? WTF?” Well, it’s true! (Ok, maybe not the plural part.) I’ll let the Layer Tennis HQ explain the basic rules and set up: “Two competitors will swap a file back and forth in real-time, adding to and embellishing the work. We’ll be playing matches using video,...

May 28th

Guest blogger (and genius) Josh Bishop stopped by...

This here blog needs some math! Seriously, art is awesome. I love it. But how about some math? Who doesn’t love math? Well, it turns out that Stephen Wolfram sure does! The british mathematician, scientist, author and inventor is, for one, the creator of the coolest mathematics software EVER. No joke, I use his symbolic math package Mathematica almost every day. The number of things...

May 20th

are we still on Christina stand-by?

In the extended absence of my partner-in-crime, I have logged onto our temporarily one-headed-monster blog to provide you with some eye candy and idea inspiring linkage. Today I discovered two pretty awesome women who will be delivering the above promised dosage of inspiration. In a nutshell, these ladies are both in love with design, the art of letterpress, are both very good at DIY-ing and...

May 19th

one reason people buy houses...

Apparently Oscar had a barking party while we went out to see the new Star Trek last night… evidenced by the following note found on my doorstep when we returned home: Now, Oscar is a pretty smart dog. So, working with that assumption, I am intuiting that what was going on in his head during these 4 hours of barking and howling, was a sort of retaliation. Tit for tat. He thought to...

May 13th

As promised:

I meet my opponent, Mermaid Lady, and Round One begins… DING! After trying some holds on her I didn’t even know I knew… I beat her decisively, and then BAM, Round Two! Kicking her ass proved to be a hilarious conquest. Me and the loser post battle (I’m back in my street clothes, which somehow made the commentator pick me out of the crowd as a likely wrestler… I...

May 12th

O.A.D. '09 = Success!

OK… I know I live in Louisville, and that the Kentucky Derby was this past weekend… AND that some might expect me to, therefore, write a blog about my city’s most famous event. However, there are only two quick things that I have to say about “the most exciting two minutes in sports”, and then I really must move on to more pressing matters in the life and times of...

May 5th

Go buy my buttons!

Dot Fox, my favorite boutique in Louisville (this is an opinion based on both the wares and the proprietor), is now selling my tiny 1” pieces of art for the basement bargain price of a buck a piece. So go say hi to Sally, because she is awesome, and pick up a couple of my hand made one of a kind wonders! Don’t worry, if they sell out before you get there, I’m hard at work...

Apr 30th

1 note

design crush of the month:

Ma + Chr! Reasons why you should check them out: 1. They are two french girls named Matilde and Christine. 2. They make seriously cool 2D art: 3. They make sweet masks and then give them out to their friends at parties: 4. They make their living doing impressive graphic design for impressive clients (like the champagne company perrier-jouet): 5. For more reasons you should have a...

Apr 29th

sick as a dog.

I now understand a little bit better where that saying comes from. Oscar has been incredibly sick the past two and a half days and, as a relatively new dog-mom, it has been really f*@#ing hard to watch. I’ll spare you the gruesome details, but I couldn’t even figure out what was wrong with him after 4 trips to three different animal hospitals (we’re talking x-rays, multiple poo...

Apr 29th

Watch

My response to Christina’s blog. ‘Nuff said.

Apr 22nd

4/20 Sunburn

Hi. It’s been a while. I am Christina. I also contribute to this blog but you wouldn’t know that right away seeing as how my posts have not been nearly as numerous as my co-blogger Amanda’s. Why is this you ask? Well, my computer is still broken, but my super genius roommate (and brother of aforementioned co-blogger Amanda) has vowed to do his best to recover the data stuck on my...

Apr 21st

In the absence of any web-related...

Apr 21st

Apr 20th

dear amanda,

i still don’t have a computer. this is sad for me so i will not capitalize anything in this post to try to emphasize the eeyore-esque-ness of my depressing situation. this post will also be void of any pictures as i don’t have any anymore. ever. did i say i’m getting over it? your news about that possible new job is very exciting and i am proud of you and also not surprised....

Apr 16th

j. peterman is a real company.

I think that I have decided that I am going to mark “success” in my life as the day that I no longer feel the need to look at craigslist to search for something that is going to help pay the bills. This has become a habit almost like brushing my teeth: wake up, eat some cereal, do some work, take the dog for a walk, check craigslist for pertinant job posts, eat lunch… you get...

Apr 15th

Apr 14th

732 Social

I’ve heard this sentiment leave the mouths of three seperate individuals in reference to the new restaurant/bar that opened last Tuesday in Louisville: “I don’t feel like I’m in Louisville when I’m in here!” This is an interesting statement to me, because I felt exactly the same way, but it is both damning of Louisville and testiment to the fact that people...

Apr 7th

the agony

So it is dead. My computer’s hard drive is done. According to Apple Genius Bar, err, genius, Chris, my hard drive just couldn’t handle how funny my blog posts were, or the sheer written brilliance of all the stories that I’ve been working on for the past three years, or how time consuming but impeccable all my resume and cover letter type documents were, or how cute and awesome...

Apr 7th

bikes + poster art

“these are a few of my fa-vor-ite things… la la la laa…” Right? Right. Yeah, yeah… I KNOW it’s been a million years since I made a peep on this ‘ole bloggy. But like Christina said, I’ve been partying on the west coast (my real home), AND moving into a place solo like I’ve done in the last three weeks is a lot harder and more jarring than I...

Apr 6th

Apr 1st

surrounded by artists... and i like it

Ever since I moved to Seattle eight years ago, I have, for whatever reason, surrounded myself with artists. Friends, boyfriends, co-workers, roommates, almost everyone I have become close to is somehow significantly involved in the Seattle art community. I feel like I got the better end of this deal, especially in college, as I was buried in a forestry textbook studying the diagnostic...

Mar 20th

Creative Time!

The title of this post sounds like something a totally awesome mom would say after making PB & J while pulling plaster of paris or flavored play-doh out of the cupboard. What it means for Louisville however, is perhaps a change of face when it comes to our future vision of art in the public sphere. Creative Time is the firm our city has hired to create a plan. (If you are too lazy to go to...

Mar 19th

Bummer, Dood.

I knew that Christina had some sweet-ass post brewing over there on the other side of our great nation, and I was right. However, I will never get to read it, at least as it was originally penned, which totally bums me out. I hope she takes the necessary break from her trusty computer that will allow her to return to it without violent intentions and write it again. Sigh. Do it Tina-toes! For...

Mar 19th

sometimes I hate computers...

… because sometimes they decide to abruptly close the window you are writing an amazing restaurant review in and then, when you realize it’s really gone and you go into nerd shock, you go to see if the blog host saves automatically and you learn it doesn’t and then you look at the hammer beside your computer on your desk that was helpful in hanging pictures earlier but would now...

Mar 18th

Three times the pleasure...

Oh man. My apologies for being absent from this blog over the last week or so but somehow I have acquired not just one more job but two more jobs. I now have three jobs. I don’t know how this happened. All I wanted was a part-time job to supplement my meager income at my full-time job, but things have spun wildly out of control. Here is the breakdown: JOB 1) I currently work full-time at...

Mar 12th

a new ajb illustration:

I did this for an invitation to a talk for Louisville’s Public Art Committee. The second half of the quote is: “From the earliest times, we have created art to record our history, mark our territory, build community, and inspire a sense of awe.”

Mar 6th

It's 2 in the morning and oscar is snoring.

So I am experiencing a bit of uncharacteristic insomnia. I am currently house/dog sitting for my parents, and it is weird being in such a large house all by my lonesome (well, not totally alone, I’ve got two dogs and a cranky cat to keep me company). I probably would have been asleep for at least an hour by now if it wasn’t for the fact that I brought this super bright and endlessly...

Mar 5th

Friends with you

We met these guys in Miami at Art Basel in December, and I visit their site every once and a while when I’m feeling down and need a little magic rainbow pick-me-up. The dudes behind all this art/installation/and ridiculously happy and hilarious design are equally awesome and I hope that eventually my sis and I will be able to use the Ground Floor Gallery to get them up to Louisville. (This...

Mar 4th

Chilly Hilly 2009

So on Sunday, my friends Josh, Nick, and Liz and I biked 33 miles around Bainbridge Island for the 2009 Chilly Hilly Classic. I brought my camera along for the day to better document our cycling adventure but mostly to capture footage of Josh eating shit on his first ride with clipless pedals. Anyway, here is my photo diary of the day. 8:30 AM Rise and Shine! Josh and I wake up grey and early and...

Mar 3rd