We just returned from a week in Orlando Florida, checking out The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It was quite an experience, and you can read all about it in detail in the comic that Lucy is drawing all about the trip (which will be available for purchase as soon as it's complete). Those of you who donated to our kickstarter for our Horribly Heartbroken at Hogwarts project, you'll be receiving your copies of the comic within the next few weeks.
Manatee Swim! We had a couple extra days to digest all the Harry Potter candy we were eating for all our meals, so we drove up to a manatee refuge on the Crystal River, where we got to swim with manatees.
Those are Nora's feet... NEXT TO THAT MANATEE.
Studio T-Shirt of the Week:
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We decided to forego the usual Sunday update in favor of doing a Wednesday one, as our DEPARTURE IS IMMINENT.
It's 24 hours until we leave for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The preparations were mighty, but we're all ready to set out on our voyage! See below:
(Alright, so in all actuality we haven't packed at all. There's still 24 hours to pack!)
If you live in or around Orlando and wanna hang out while we're in town, we'll be arranging at least one meetup during the week. Wanna be pals with us and participate in this adventure? More info about the hangouts here:
1. Kick-Ass Annies for Koyama Press: Annie Koyama of Koyama Press has been doing the "Kick-Ass Annie Project," which is a collection of artist interpretations of her Koyama Press logo. Here are The Burrow's additions to the project.
Nora's fabulous printed, appliqued and hand-sewn kick-ass tote bag.
And Lucy's spikey-haired book-stomping rendition.
2. T-Shirts: Keeping with our tradition of enabling one-another's total nerd adoration in the form of T-Shirt Creation Worship, here are another two Burrow Studio T-Shirts. Drawn by Lucy and hand-printed by Nora. The Buffy Shirts are available on our Burrow Store, and the Star Wars Shirt is (for now) only available at Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville. (Online soon!)
Dayum! Look how hot Sarah Michelle Gellar and Mark Hammil look in our sexy T-Shirts!
Don't you wanna be like them?
Studio Outing of the Week: The Static Creep Show at Las Manos Gallery had its opening last friday, and The Burrow was in attendance along with a TON of awesome people. We saw some great art, including original pages by Lucy and our pals Sarah Becan, Corinne Mucha, and the fabulous Nicole Hollander. We drooled over some gorgeous (and unattainably expensive) art by our new friend-crush, Jenny Frison. We chatted with pals, and sold Star Wars T-Shirts and drank wine. Fun times-- thanks to those of you who came out to hang with us! The show will be up through Feb 6th, so check it out if you can.
Studio Jam of the Week: Just in case any of you follow us on twitter, we absolutely (do not) apologize for the recent spate of Buffy-obsessed tweets, especially our total breakdown about the musical episode. Our Buffyquest has brought us into the sixth season, where this glorious pinnacle of television programming has completely taken over all studio airspace. Keeping in mind that, until recently, Lucy was uninterested in this "Joss Whedon" nonsense, we find it pretty impressive that this show has now TAKEN OVER HER LIFE. Please enjoy this musical number. ENJOY IT NOW.
Every moment spent not watching Buffy is a moment spent IN HELL.
#insidejokeforBuffywatchers
#orBuffy'sWATCHER!!!
Kitty Photos of the Week: Ripley's dewey-decimal # is 666. No-one was surprised by this. (Linney's DD# is BLORP).
Well folk, thanks to your generous support, we'll be embarking on our journey to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, to make comics and drink butterbeer and think hard about American consumerism while we balm our broken hearts with manatees. For this adventure, we have you to thank, so LETS HIGH FIVE ALL OF YOU!
HIGH FIVES TO ALL OUR GENEROUS BACKERS! We won't letcha down.
Departing to Orlando January 27th, where we'll stay before hustling back to the frigid wastelands of Chicago on February 4th. If anyone down in Orlando or thereabouts would like to hang out or meet up, please let us know via email or comment. We're especially curious about people who have worked in or live near the parks-- what's it like? Wanna be in a comic?
Studio Jam of the Week:Like it's Quidditch, by Nice Peter
Thanks to our pal, Tana Ford, for the tip off about this song!
Though... We have listened to it an unhealthy amount this week... so...
Tana, you will be getting our doctor bills.
Studio Projects of the Week:
1. Burrow Studio Ukulele cover of JBieb'z "Baby."
(Has... has nobody noticed that one of the posters is not Justin Bieber? Seriously? BONUS POINTS if you can name that face in the comments!)
2. BtheVS Shirt! Drawn by Lucy and printed by Nora:
3. Tree Towels: We made these for holiday presents for friends and family, and we liked them so much we made more! Drawn by Lucy, and hand dyed/screenprinted by Nora.
Lucy will be showing and selling original artwork and comics pages with a group of local Chicago comic artists. The Burrow will be selling some Nora-Printed T-Shirts featuring STAR WARS ART BY LUCY. If you live in or around Chicago, you should check out this show! The opening is next friday. It's gonna be great, and features art by some of our pals who are awesome (Sarah Becan and Corinne Mucha, among others).
And if we have any T-Shirts left over when the show closes, or a high demand, we'll have them available online for purchase.
1. Kickstarter! This is the last week for our Horrible Heartbroken at Hogwarts project fundraiser! We are THRILLED with your support for this adventure, and looking forward to the trip and comic. And the butterbeer. There's only a week left to donate, so if you'd still like a copy of the comic, or one of the other incentives, there's still time.
2. CLANKET! A couple of months ago while joking in front of the TV Lucy mentioned that what she really REALLY wanted for Christmas was a snuggie: a snuggie that was ALSO a costume of her cat. DONE AND DONE. Merry Christmas!
Best. Christmas present. Ever.
Kitty Photo of the Week:
Linney gives her new Clanket two big high-fives!
Studio Munch of the Week:
We've been compiling a collection of interesting snacks we invent to eat while watching our various shows. Every snack is then named after some aspect of our current TV obsessions. As we are nearing the end of Buffy Season 4 (at which time a certain stuttering Willow-fancier joins the cast) we decided to call these jam/peanutbutter/chocolate-filled pastries we've been making lately:
TARABALLS
In honor of our new favorite character.
Studio Quote of the Week:
Lucy: "What's a good synonym for 'Lesbian' here?" Nora: "I was gonna go with... 'Lesbian.'"
Studio Headline of the Week:
Being the serious followers of world news that we are, we thought we should share with you this important headline you might have missed:
Ironically, this story of much adorableness was missed in that particular periodical.
Studio Jam of the Week: "Eeeeevil" by They Might Be Giants. Brought to you by this photo of Ripley, because this is her theme song... Or so we sing.
Studio Outing of the Week:
We went out to ring in the New Year, and managed to see in 2011 in a joyous fashion. Below is the (slightly off) countdown to the new year captured in an old-fashioned photobooth shoot.
It's not really Chicago winter until your gate freezes and locks you out of your apartment where your pipes are frozen and bursting and leaking icy water through your kitchen down through three floors so you have to turn the water and heat off and use your cats as earmuffs in order to survive the 48 hour period during which your landlord is too busy Christmas shopping to call a plumber.
So it's officially Chicago winter.
As soon as you plastic your window, an icicle forms from your faucet... But if we didn't have horrendous winters then everyone would move here and then the rent would be too expensive. It's not a frozen tundra-- the frozen tundra is merely the BOUNCER keeping this city EXCLUSIVE. #crazyfromthecold
Studio Outing of the Week (Because we were LOCKED OUT OF OUR HOUSE... DURING A BLIZZARD):
We went downtown to show our poor North Carolinian native houseguest around town, for lack of access to a warmer haven. Unfortunately, there was a blizzard that day. We had fun anyway. Here is Nelly, Nora and Amanda seeking temporary shelter from the gale beneath Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate (known colloquially as "The Bean").
Studio Jam of the Week: Darren Chris(s) Colfer doing "Baby It's Cold Outside"
Studio Projects of the Week:
1. Holiday Decorations!
Nora made us both Christmas stockings and snowflakes for the studio!
She also made one of our house elves a holiday scarf.
2. Plants: We repotted all our houseplants this week. They're much happier now.
Ripley HATES gardening.
Some of our plants were overdue for real pots, as you can see.
The whole studio smells like Christmas tree and paperwhites!
Confusing Discovery of the Week: Cheap AND tacky? Sign us up!
Movie of the week:The King's Speech (All of your favorite british actors in the 1920s anglophone equivalent of a modern day bromance! Lovely. And we at The Burrow love a good stuffy British king crying frustrated tears).
1. Eff You. The Ukulele Cover. We just happened to have the camera rolling while we were just, you know, hanging out as usual. (just kidding. We did like 14 takes).
2. We made a new T-Shirt! It's got a ZEBRA on it. Buy yours here!
Kitty Photo/Studio Mail of the Week:
This week we got some lovely mail containing two BRILLIANT cat portraits from our new favorite person, Amy C! She totally NAILED them! Thank you, Amy!
PS: If anyone would like to send us more amazing mail, we are HAPPY TO HEAR THAT. Email us. LIKE RIGHT NOW.
Studio Munch of the Week:
VICTORY PIE! Nora made a lovely buck off the Stump Pillows at the Lillstreet Arts Holiday Sale/Party, so she went downstairs to the Lillstreet pie cafe and bought us a WHOLE PIE. We'd have taken a photo of it before we ate half of it, but there was no time in that nanosecond to get the camera.
(Sour-Cherry Cinnamon! Holycrap good.)
Studio Obsession of the Week MONTH:
MORE BUFFY. With season 3 completed, we move onto college and the continued awesomeness.
Let the FANART COMMENCE.
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