So what have the Monokids been up to this past few weeks? Creating a Digital Harinezumi Short, of course! Many thanks to our pawesome friends Cody and Morgan - Cody wrote an awesome score for our short in two nights and Morgan agreeably walked into the 40 degree waters of the Puget Sound. We hope you like it!
Source: Monocol | 21 May 2010, 7:38 pm
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We are excited to show you our Monocol Badkamer Birthday Calendars! We've updated our Etsy with these little calendars - each month features a painting from the Same Difference series. You may be wondering what a Badkamer Birthday Calender entails and how it may differ from other birthday calendars. Well to begin, badkamer is Dutch for bathroom, so really it's a Monocol Bathroom Birthday Calendar.
Oh dear, we really should explain ourselves better.
This little calendar is named in honor of the Dutch tradition of hanging birthday calenders (verjaardagskalender) in the bathroom. Speculation on the origins of this tradition vary, but perhaps it's because it is the one place all guests probably visit in your house and the one place you probably go every day (the Dutch are very practical people). Birthday calendars only have numbered dates without the accompanying days so that you can use it year after year (see? practical). You don't even have to keep it in the bathroom, but 16.4 million Dutch people do.
Source: Monocol | 21 Feb 2010, 8:54 pm
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Thanks to everyone who came out to our little show last Saturday! We haven't had a new art show up in a long time, and its always great to see everyone, eat Doritos, and drink beer! Of course many thanks and bags of candy should be sent to Amy and Keri at Sugartown Vintage - they are some of the most pawesome gals in business here in Ballard. We can't say enough good things about them, their store, and their high tolerance for Tom's musical picks for the evening (including R.Kelly's entire "Trapped in the Closet" album).
Our Same Difference paintings will be at Sugartown for the rest of the month! We will also be updating the Etsy with a few little surprises, including prints of the original pieces. Mono-over and out!!
Same Difference Sugartown Vintage! Opens Saturday, February 13th! Partying from 6-9pm in Ballard!
Same Difference features 12 brand new Monocol paintings about all the differences in similarities. Dedicated to the siblings with parents who call them by each other's names, Pepsi Challengers, brand-name buyers, and all those who remember that Istanbul was Constantinople. Tomaytos, tomahtos, clamato?? OH LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF!
We hope you can all come down to Sugartown this Saturday and partake in disambiguations, imbibulations, and consternations all evening! We will be partying from 6 to 9pm, after which we are sure hooliganism will take form on the streets of Ballard (aka seeing who can eat the most hotdogs from Dante's SNACKS bodega).
We are especially excited for this show because it was almost 2 years ago that we hung the Inaugural Monocol Show of the 00's at no other than Sugartown Vintage! We can't imagine having had a better start! Three cheers and ice cream sandwiches all around!
... That's the sound of a little bird getting ready to spill the beans (or is it the sound of da police? men working on the chain gang? ... where were we going with this?) ...
We are hard at work on a show that will open next month -- this Feburary will mark the 2nd Year Anniversary of the first Monocol show ("Woodgills!") evarrr! We aren't much for anniversaries, but its been a great adventure so far.
More details and sneak peeks to follow! Here is an unrelated picture that will not be in our show:
Source: Monocol | 8 Jan 2010, 4:21 pm
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Holly jolly, MonoCompatriots! We can hardly believe it is December! However, Gwynne has played her Charlie Brown Christmas Album approximately 120 times already since Thanksgiving.
We hope you guys had a great Turkey Day with your freens and fambly! We were lucky enough to have two Thanksgiving dinners in one week, which we find to be an accomplishment. Besides eating eating 1,000 pounds of sweet poatoes and playing New Super Mario for Wii, we were busy bees in November!
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Sketches for our Lincoln-Leopard documentary animation
A cause for much rumupus was the felicitous happenstance of Tom's birthday!! A joint celebration was held with MonoFreen Emily for a Team Tom vs Team Emily Whirlyball extravaganza. Whirlyball is the lovechild of bumpercars and lacrosse with the ultimate promise of spine cracking whiplash. Gwynne made up some cupcake toppers and team t-shirts to commemorate the ocassion.
We finished two snowmen for the Greenwood-Phinney Chamber auction that benefits the North Seattle Boys and Girls Club. More info on auction and to see the other snowpeeps here. You can see our Snowmen in person at Ballard Viking Bank (Gwynne's) and the Washington Wilderness Coalition (Tom's).
We've also updated our Etsy with new photo prints of some of your favorite Woodgills!! We gots your Bogbots, your Hobo Pengies, your Robots in Ponds, your Sasquatches. Go check it out! 9 out of 9 wombats agree that Monocol provisions are excellent holiday gifts!
WHEW! We've got even more things to put on our list and check off twice, so more updates soon! Now seriously, what is figgy puddin?
Source: Monocol | 2 Dec 2009, 10:15 am
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Happy November, Monofreens! We hope you had a trick and treat filled Halloween. Team Monocol went as Jabba the Hutt and Admiral Ackbar. We like to think that the above picture neatly summarizes our artistic skills, outside interests, distinct personalities, and work style.
Speaking of work, we are working on a bunch of holiday goodies! We are also working away on our illustration project with Travis and Lincoln Leopard .
Also, please check our our PAWESOME MonoFriend Tom DesLongchamp !! He is MonoTom's neighbor (and name-twin) and he just finished an amazing video for Jookabox's "Your Cried for Me" (Asthmatic Kitty). This video is so great it blows our minds, like when we saw Kermit the Frog riding a bike for the first time in The Muppet Movie. GREAT JOB OTHER-TOM!!
WOOO! Look we updated and it was only a 2 weeks since our fake update! GO!GO!TEAM!MONOCOL!
Source: Monocol | 2 Nov 2009, 10:38 am
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WE ARE STILL ALIVE, PROMISE! We are currently working on a film/documentary project with Travis Senger from LincolnLeopard with whom we collaborated with for the Saturday Knights music video. We will make an empty promise to be updating shortly!!
Source: Monocol | 16 Oct 2009, 11:36 am
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This Just In
Shanty Heart A short film by Monocol starring Morgan Ritchie and featuring music by Cody Field.
Monocol is Tom Eykemans and Gwynne Siak; a collaborative duo hailing from opposite coasts, joining forces in a Ballard laboratory to draw, sew, paint, animate, and screenprint.
Tom has never seen a lightning bug, is terrified of getting cauliflower-ear, and enjoys painting sloths while eating his porridge.
Gwynne prefers savory over sweet snacks, is genuinely afraid of the pygmy marmoset, and draws tiny pictures of her weekend adventures on Post-It notes.
Together they are thrifting, snacking, and collaborating to champion toast for all and bedtime for none.
In between projects we also enjoy equal amounts of hijinks and thrifting, chocolate milk and cakes, video games and dance parties, bike riding and record listening, but mostly laying on couches thinking about animals and the types of donuts they eat.
If you are a seabeast, please email us immediately. If you are not a seabeast, but are interested in collaborating, commissioning, buying something, or having a snack with Monocol please email Tom or Gwynne post-haste as well. It would still be awesome if you were a seabeast, though.
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