sauvie island

sometimes you just need to rent a mini cooper convertible and get out of the city.






gold.


too bad we missed the party. bonfire with gasoline & boone's farm?


winter is gray here.






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monica drives! from wktwelve on Vimeo.


simone has a weird sense of humor.

fasciinatiion

mike broke out all his fenagling skills and scored some VIP tickets to the faint concert tonight. they're on tour to promote their forthcoming album 'fasciinatiion'. the faint hails from his hometown (omaha), so we had to go and represent 12... plus the faint is awesome.





it was a really rad concert and we were so close, you could feel their sweat.



the show was at the crystal ballroom, famous for its 'floating' mechanical dance floor. the floor is constructed so that it bounces and has give to it as people move across it - supposedly a lot better for dancer knees and ankles and a lot of fun for concerts.





the place was packed and people were throwing everything from bras to pants onstage. pants? kids nowadays.



so loud you had to text to talk to each other:
OMG! we <3 u faint! (^_~) lol!

12 does Pig Roast 2000 '08

every year rob's family has a hawaiian-style pig roast in their backyard. they dig a huge hole in the ground, line it with bricks, throw in an entire pig all prepped and wrapped up and cover it with coals to cook for about 20 hours.

mike designed an awesome two-color silkscreen poster for the event and early saturday morning we headed down to screen them and lay them out at work. the image was a stormtrooper with bbq sauce on his mask.


mike showed me how to coat the screens with emulsion and burn them the day before so that they would be dry and ready for printing the next day.


since the emulsion was a little uneven, mike had to tape up the parts that we didn't want ink coming through before printing.


we decided to mix 3 parts bbq sauce to 1 part red & brown ink so that the bbq sauce would actually smell and taste real.


curt and karen came to help us out.


karen and i were on salt and pepper duty. each bbq print was dusted with salt, pepper, and even some red pepper flakes for authenticity. :)


curt put the second color on


the problem with using spices on prints is that they get all over your screen


the first print was a little smushy


the rest of the bunch turned out fantastically.




after setting the prints out to dry, mike & curt cleaned the screens and got ready to do some pig-eating.


PIG ROAST 2000!!!!






we got there at 5, the pig had come out of the ground at 4:30. there was already barely any food left because of all these people.


uncle todd with the pig skull






Mackie no snacky


you may be wondering why all the Star Wars-themedness...


rob invited the local nerdlings Star Wars enthusiasts to come make an appearance at the pig roast. most of the kids didn't even know who they were.


peter yue & son




hugs for bollars.

who likes to rock the party?

wieden + kennedy likes to rock the party.



michael illick of scott-themed-art-show and old spice fame is moving to new york, so he had a big shindig at his house as a last hurrah before shoving off to the other side of the country.



a ton of people came; the beer and ouzo flowed freely.





12's AZN krew.



sam tests out one of the two wheelchairs on the dance floor.



i bet you didn't know scott could dance like this.



tony "danger" frusciante

bees, books, n' booze

when WK was attacked by swarms of bees yesterday morning, we thought the apocalypse was coming.



apparently the bees lost their queen and followed her scent to the shrubbery on our rooftop and then smashed themselves against her queenly odour.
a beekeeper was called and came and took most of the bunch away and is going to enslave them to make honey for himself and his beekeeper wife. they say that the bees should produce honey for them in a year.



(for those of you who don't know, there is currently a crazy honey bee shortage, i'm sure he was stoked!)



after weeks of work, 12 finished our first real deck for Wordstock. hurrah! (is this the first time we've posted work on here?)



yes.



at 4 o'clock, we all ran up to the roof for michael illick's art show Scott Phillips: A Life. scott is an account dood here and i guess mike's been drawing him for quite a while and eventually made enough sketches to warrant a kickass hoopla of an art show.



















introducing will: our shining englishman. we finally got our 13th this past sunday. at long last, 12 is complete.



rob's BFF from high school. they also went to school with this guy.



drinks were had...



and scott tattoos were generously doled out.







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