Long time overdue but time isn't fleeting, simply extending.

THE WEBSITE IS UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!

Ok, ok it's not much but there first signature shirts are ready for purchase!!  I took the time I used for waiting for a website guru and just started making the site piece by piece.  Not bad for a total novice!!!

Check it OUT!

Check it out and tell us what you think on the contact page.  What are we missing?  What did I forget?  Where did I screw up?  You might get a little something back!

Either way, website is up and running, shop is functioning, shirts are getting made, fundraiser is starting, water wars planning is in the works and next up payoffs!!

So keep an eye out for more on the website, water wars, pink bottle challenge and more!!

First block plan executed.  And I think we doing good.  But let us know?!

Cheers!!

MOPEs Signature Series Shirts - First up Milan!!

Get em in person Friday at MOPEs Art Crawl in The Milk District... this month we're doing a Circus theme!  Arts for sale, free games, photo booth with Circus props!
https://www.facebook.com/events/153757604799993/

A new Trip for MOPE

We're putting in motion a hopefully brilliant idea.  We're gonna acquire an RV and looking to go on a creative tour hopefully in March.
Just launched a fundraiser on Indiegogo to help raise the funds.  Dave and Sam made a short stop action video to show a brief outline of our trip.  Haha.
But in reality looking to go up the East Coast for our first trip.  In January we're gonna start booking some spots, planning out the details, and getting confirmations from which Pink Elephants will be able to go on the tour.
Thinking about creating some unique ideas for the shows.  Maybe some art mixed with some performances.  Gonna get on the ball with that!  Send us any ideas on facebook.

When there aren't venues we'll just open the RV and prop up a gorilla creative art show!

so check out the fundraiser here.

Hard work but good creative fun :)

It's hard work to keep up with life but as we play along the game always gets easier at times.

The Art Crawls in The Milk District have been fantastic!  A cold front (however long it may last) allows for those winter clothes we keep hidden in Florida.  Creative juices are churning... 

with that said, what do yah think of the new mugs we been working on?

Much more to come.  This cool weather gets the blood pumping, the heart beating, and creative energies stirring!

These beauties and more will be available for you to take home for hot cocoa's and coffees soon on our new website OR at the next Art Crawl, November 9th.

At the 2nd Friday Art Crawl we get our Photo ON

Check out the photobooth from Octobers Art Crawl... 
got some lively characters :)  and deadly...
MOPEn Photo Booth for October
Preview:

New shirt ideas...

and more to come!!

2nd Friday Art Crawl... doesn't crawl

We're on our third month for the 2nd Friday Art Crawl in The Milk District.

Good things... Milk Bar has officially joined the Crawl;  Venders are coming back and more will be there; the photobooth has mad awesome MOPEn props;  and MOPE has cooler shirts too!
It's been an interesting crawl but increasingly MOPEtastic!!
Oh snap, almost forgot, there'll be some baked yummies in celebration of Halloween. Nom nom...
If you missed the first two here's the event page for October.
As always David Wilcox has created a fantastic MOPEmercial, check it!

SO MUCH TO DO... SO FREAKIN LITTLE TIME!  See you next week :)

Parking available on side streets and on Robinson.

First MOPE Commercial!!

We are filming our first commercial today! 

It's super exciting...  people will come dressed as a color, those in pink get extra prizes.  Actually all that come out get a surprise but the pinks get a little something extra!!  wink wink...

So if you haven't heard, go hear about it on our facebook page and come out!!!  Have a few beers on us, dance, cry, have fun and go home making a part of MOPE history with a little somethin somethin from us at MOPE!!

whacha...   keep your eyes peeled for the final cut!

Up and Coming...

Got some awesome shows coming up!!

First April 22 our next sidewalk art show is happening!!!  In the Milk District off Robinson in front of Space Bar and Etoille.  There will be food trucks, our awesome art booths and some vinyl and vintage!!

After that we're having a storybook show at Substance (date tba) on a Wednesday.

We did a poll on facebook and turns out NO ONE wants to see MOPEsters, a new allstar dance team (which whew, rehearsals were aweful anyway), few wanted free shiat (including OxyContin) - thank goodness we're not into sharing our drugs anyhow, and a few more want interactive art which we try to have regardless of your wants!  But hot damn a lot wanted some mindblowing art so...
One of these weekends we're having a Mind Blowing Art Show at Substance!!!  It's all in the works right now but hot damn we all can't wait to finish just so we can attend it!!

More to come...  more posts shall be seen... more art shall be made... so if you like more of stuff...  keep coming round!!

Show today... say whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!?!

Well MOPEs Winter Solstice Celebration is today!

We're all super psyched about the show today.  Hope to have a great turnout.  The art looks amazing and we have a booklet with some amazing written pieces!!  Books are limited but can be ordered. 

Foods great at Oblivion, beers always awesome and the art well you don't wanna miss this!

previews of the Winter Solstice Show's art pieces

preview of

Amaterasu celebration, Requiem of the Dead (7th century Japan)

preview of

Beiwe Festival (Sami of Northern Fennoscandia)

preview of

Midvinterblót (Swedish folk religion)

Come out to Oblivion Taproom to see the pieces finished!  This Sunday, December 18, 4pm-2am, in Orlando Florida!  (map is on previous post)  If yah can't make it to the show, the remaining art pieces will be posted for purchasing on the website (www.MOPE-Designs.com).  Pictures of all pieces can be seen after the show on http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mind-Of-Pink-Elephants-Designs/250271293712 as well as snip-its of the show... HERE on the blog!

Next Art Show: MOPEs Winter Solstice Celebration

  

MOPEs Winter Solstice Celebration

@ Oblivion Taproom

December 18th, 2011

4pm to 2am

 

    The winter  solstice occurs in the Northern Hemisphere in December.  Many interpretations of the event occur worldwide and differ from culture to culture.  The most common are Christmas and Hanukkah.  MOPEs Pink Elephants will demonstrate through different creative mediums the various celebrations of the winter solstice.

The show will feature artwork and writings while you dine at Oblivion Taproom.

Art, stories, beer, pool, darts, great food, learn cool shit... what more could you want!?

Holy crapaloids!! so much... so much...

So much has happened!! 
The big news: MOPE is solo-owner, uno-owned, down to one queen on the thrown... I, Sam Myers is now the sole owner of MOPE!  Which entails much more craziness than ever expected!!

Things are definitely looking up through the craziness!  The website is ACTUALLY getting updated because instead of trying to hire someone, it's down to me making it.  So it'll be amazing and will hopefully work! 

Next month MOPE is putting on an awesome winter solstice art show at Oblivion Taproom!  This should be super exciting.  All the Pink Elephants are creating pieces of various celebrations for the winter solstice (excluding Christmas and Hanukkah).  Other than art, we hope to have some awesome commercials to promote the show; an awesome winter solstice celebrations booklet from our writers; and overall an amazing winter solstice experience!!  I'm so freakin psyched!

So heads up for all the awesome changes!  woowoo

MOPEs amusement with Musings

An excellent and anticipated new addition to MOPEs merchandise is the new and ever growing series of MOPEs Musings.  Around 50 pages of doodles and collected written works from the most creative Pink Elephants ever!!

Some authors include:
  Molly Gaudry, Kim Chinquee, Francesca Lia Block, Laura Sobbott Ross, Nicole Monaghan, Sarah Herrington, Darlin' Neal, Sam Myers, Trish Michecl, Moira Madden, Brian Gaskill, Allison Campbell, Allie Firman, Sara Linker, Andrew Henderson, Cecile Poulain, Cristina Ione, Mccabe Russell, Mika Jones, Ryan Haskings, Amanda Lager, Alex Mujica, J. Bradley, Jenn Karr, Chris Wiewiora, Bryce Emley and more and more and growing...

    The work is amazing and there will now be some pieces read at the Full Frontal Lobes show friday!!
We also have a new position filled at MOPE:
  Ashley Inguanta (pictured working on the book above) is now our head literary person aka: Parietal Lobe of MOPE Designs.  The parietal lobes of your brain basically take in from your sensories and put it into coordinated motions with your body.  Ashley will be taking all the sensories from writers and doodlers and putting them together  in a coordinated motion of a book for our reading and viewing pleasures...  i think her title fits quite nice!

Welcome to the ever growing mind of pink elephants; it's good to have a parietal lobe!

Like so much cool stuff...

The Pink Elephants have been slave laboring some stickers...  which are now packaged and ready to be sold OUT at the show next Friday!!
At least that's our hopes.  They're pretty badass as you can clearly see above but this snapshot doesn't even begin to explain the epic proportions of how ill these stickers really are.  So you just gonna have to buy one and find out for yourself!   Woohah!

Illest cashier art show box ever, in my humble but awesome opinion!!

Still working butts off, still having fun, still living large, still hoping to see a massive turnout for the Full Frontal Lobes show June 10th at the Cameo Theatre!!  (i hear a plug)

Can we string it up?

Trying to figure out how to hang art at the show. 
First idea: chains... may look cool and even be totally possible but alas too pricey.
Second idea: rope...  looks less cool, still may work, but how does it work to build an actual wall?

ok basically the Cameo has great ordeal of space.  We want/need to make walls to not only break up the area but to supply more availability to display art.  So our delimma; we can hang stuff from the ceiling, and need to create a makeshift wall or way to display art in the dotted lined area above.

Any suggestions?

FIRST FLYER FOR FULL FRONTAL LOBES

And so it begins...

Here we go. MOPE is full up and starting the creative process of kicking a$$!

Super busy busy busy with getting the website done, finding a few new good elephants, making my own art pieces, and living life!! I can't wait for everything to be running and all I need to do is keep up with it.

So welcome to the blog spot, talk some smack, show some new art, collaborate, or just be silly zone for the Pink Elephants of MOPE Designs.

I am Sam, Executive Left Ear Elephant of MOPE aka Boss #2, aka the illest (in my own words).

and here's my current art piece I am working on: that is located at the top. i'm new to this...