Home For the Holidays!

Wow! What a Christmas, we were so busy it wasn't funny, we were really busy. No days off in December, just show up to the gig and perform like your life depended on it, hardcore, man! We were primed to optimal print performance, I was like a screenprinting machine, with hinges and ink and squeegees....
...Oh what, huh wait a second, sorry, I'm still totally zoned out from Christmas, I was beginning to sound like Henry Rollins or something.

But, man we were busy, and now we're taking some time off!
So the Motmot shop is closed for the holidays, and then uhhh, closed a little bit longer?
We're taking the month of January off! And we will re-open February 10th 2009!
We're a small two person operation, and we've gotta take a vacation!

But we're not just sitting around watching T.V. We're going to travel around, and look for new and exciting ideas and objects. We're traveling, looking for inspiration, and maybe some new things for the Motmot shop.

2008 was a great, busy, demanding, eventful, and exciting year. Not just for the Motmot shop of course, but for the world!
2009 is looking good, to quote James Brown, "we've got a funky new president" and Motmot has already got some things cooking!
We've got about 7 new designs up and ready to rumble; available at the shop, and online in 2009! In the comics department, production of Cheetahs Never Win # 3 is already begun, available sometime in 2009?!?!?!?!

And before I forget, our ETSY shop is online!
So, why don't you stop by and add us as a favorite!
See you next year - Steve and Anna!

We are the Robots

Things - Make a Button with Steve of Motmot from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.

Hi Everybody! The last few weekends we've been making the rounds and participating in local markets and festivals. One Festival we have participated in for the last few years is Roböxotica - Vienna's annual cocktail-robotics festival. While we're not exactly cocktail robotics experts, we have some robot themed shirts, we print the Roböxotica shirts, and we do live screenprinting. It's a lot of fun!
Roböxotica always has some really cool and interesting guests. One of the guests we've been lucky enough to meet is Bre Pettis: video producer, thing-maker, blogger, champion of all things D.I.Y., and all around great guy!

Bre makes all kinds of cool videos showing people how to make-and-do things themselves, and he was cool enough to stop by the shop and make this quick video of how we make our buttons.
And yes, I make all the buttons myself!
Enjoy the video, and thanks again Bre!