tara can do a flip off a wall now! sort of!
and molly can juggle now! sort of!
and we can both swing dance now! sort of! but you don’t get video of that until we’re good and ready, darnit.
February 15, 2009
Undead Event… kind of dead.
Posted by tarapeze under culturejam, photos, urbanfun | Tags: flash mob, friday the 13th, london, london bridge, thriller, zombie |Leave a Comment
Zombie Flashmob: Thriller-Dancin’ Undead to Invade London Bridge Tube Station on Friday the 13th!
Sounds cool, no? Well… The event was publicized (as an ‘organized’ flashmob to ‘promote’ the London Bridge Festival) on Facebook, and the Met police, afraid of an actual, successful flashmob, like the awesome one last week, asked the organizers to take down the event. So they did, and the hundreds of people planning to go figured it was canceled…
We thought we’d head down anyway (after all, you know we can’t resist an opportunity to dress as zombies), but when we got there anyone with fake blood had been banished outside, though the photographers outnumbered the zombies. Lame. Still fun, as long as you were listening to Thriller on your iPod!
For a more detailed play-by-play, this twittering blogger was there and totally had things sussed:
“7:20pm -random fat guy comes along in a “London Bridge festival” T-shirt and Michael Jackson hat and starts bossing everyone around! He orders everyone to attack him and then asks us to dance. Twat. We attack him and I bite his head cos he’s a twat.”
On the upside, now there are more pictures on the Interwebs of us dressed as zombies:
molly wants to eat your brainz
molly and tara are on the far left of the zombie lineup
and a few more, of our own:
this poster just happened to be there. coincidence?
surprise! the flash mob is actually the photographers...
February 14, 2009
a representative sampling of our recent culinary exploits:
blackberry pancakes and eggs
pesto polka-dot pizza
lentil soup, freshly made whole wheat bread, salad
February 11, 2009
eating breakfast this morning, blackberry pancakes and eggs
We have been cookin’ and bakin’ and eatin’ up a storm here. That may have something to do with the fact that our default HQ has become the awesome enormous kitchen at the top of the house..
But we have been documenting all our delicious creations, in the form of tasty photos. Molly definitely has a career in cookbook photography ahead of her. I bet her commission will be paid in edibles. (Don’t ask for recipes, ’cause more or less we were just looking things up online and then changing them so much they don’t even count as the same dish! Totally the best way to make food.)
orange chocolate chip scones
lemon chocolate chip triple berry shortbread
More food pics later, we’re about to go out on the town!
-tara and molly
February 8, 2009
my main preparation for molly’s visit was making legwarmers for us – brown & black crocheted ones for me, rainbow knit ones for molly! now we shall have toasty shins whilst traveling…
February 8, 2009
from london with love
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hello hello! (that’s two hello’s, one from each of us.) we are reunited in London – and have been since last Thursday – but we’ve been too busy hijinking to post. here’s some of the things we’ve been doing:
setting up our bikes all ready to transport us around london, seeing a honkingly good clown/klezmer show, playing with babies, juggling, cirque-it circus skillshare playtime, teaching ourselves to swing dance from sketchy youtube videos, and baking bread!
yum! tara wants to give you bread.
February 3, 2009
Graphic Design, Feminism, and Me – Part 1
Posted by Molly under general thoughts, media, soapbox | Tags: celebrity, chip kidd, dave eggers, feminism, graphic design, heresies, milton glaser, technology |[4] Comments
As I’ve become more familiar with the graphic design and typography “world,” and begun to identify more of my favorite artists and type designers (Robert Slimbach, Matthew Carter, David Carson…) I’ve started to wonder why I don’t have more female role models.
The other day I happened upon this fantastic video (I highly recommend it) of a panel discussion on the art of the book, with Milton Glaser, Chip Kidd, and Dave Eggers, moderated by Michael Beirut. I’m very familiar with all of their work, and all four of them are some of my top heroes – my idols! The coolest, savviest, most interesting designers I know! And seeing all of them together in the same room talking about book design, it was a real treat. Until the very end during a Q & A, when there was a question about why there were so few female “superstar” graphic designers – “is there a glass ceiling in graphic design?” Milton Glaser’s response:
He said that the reason there are so few female rock star graphic designers is that “women get pregnant, have children, go home and take care of their children. And those essential years that men are building their careers and becoming visible are basically denied to women who choose to be at home.” He continued: “Unless something very dramatic happens to the nature of the human experience then it’s never going to change.” About day care and nannies, he said, “None of them are good solutions.”
The crowd was silent except for a hiss or two and then Eggers piped up that he and his wife both work from home and share child care responsibilities — but added that maybe New York was different (although we don’t think Eggers really believes this). Then it was clear to everyone in the room that it was time to move on.
In Helvetica (the greatest movie ever) why are only two of the two dozen interviews with women?
Shira asked me once when the first time I was really conscious of my gender was. There are probably some times in my youth that I can’t clearly recall (other kids questioning whether I could play Huck Finn because I was a girl), I think the first time was in a class my freshman year of high school. After completing a month’s worth of assignments for an Intro to Technology class in one day, my parents and teachers realized something should be done. So I was transferred into Visual Communication, where I was the only freshman and the only girl. I thrived on the material, but I felt really uncomfortable and out of place in that environment.
I’ve take a number of computer and technology oriented classes in both high school and college, and I’ve always been in the minority. I think it always made me subconsciously want to work harder, to prove that I could be as good or better than the boys.
Graphic Design, Feminism, and Me – Part 2: what I’ve learned from doing design and animation on the documentary film Heretics: Stories from a Feminist Art Collective for the past two years… coming soon.
-Molly
(p.s. if you read this, you should comment! the more you comment on our blog, the happier we will be, and the more often we will update. it’s nice to know when your writing is read.)
January 31, 2009
Food & TED inspiration
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Really tasty food I’ve made for dinner over the last two days:
• hummus, cheese, garlic, lentils, in a tortilla
• quinoa with onions and black beans
SO GOOD.
If you have 20 minutes to kill, I highly recommend heading over to TED (technology, entertainment, design) talks for some über inspiration. There are dozens and dozens of 18-22 minute talks (I hesitate to call them lectures, because they’re so engaging and dynamic)…
“We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.”
I just watched this one of Larry Lessig, about the remix culture of the internet, democratic creativity, copyright and creative commons.
January 29, 2009
I’m a little dissapointed I only just found out about this, but as my bike isn’t single or fixed gear, I wouldn’t have been part of it. The pictures of the event are truly great! Only in London would people dress in tweed to ride bicycles. Sigh.
Though I am off to my first-ever ‘official’ Critical Mass ride tomorrow!
**days later**
Critical Mass is amazing. Apart from a Critical-Mass inspired Palestine solidarity ride in the Valley last spring (see the adorable shaky vid I made of it here), I’ve never actually been to a full-scale, urban ride. As a London biker, it was empowering to be in the majority for once, forcing traffic to pay attention and make concessions for our speed and size. To be one of two hundred bikes surrounding a single car, rather than the one bike being squeezed off the road by two hundred passing cars was exhilarating – not to mention being able to bike at my own pace, and in the middle of the road, in Leicester Square!
Also, the experience was so much more social than riding in a car can ever be -chatting to other riders, chanting, singing along to the songs played on the bike-mounted sound systems (yeah, they played Aretha Franklin’s RESPECT). Not being enclosed by metal makes you vulnerable in more than the physical sense. I made friends, and smiled at passerby, and learnt how to dance on a bike… it was practically three hours of pedaling before we broke up, a bit chilly and a bit sore, but oh so worth it!
