Fun

We’ve been hard at work here at Owl HQ lately and our poor blog has been a little neglected, at least by us. The good news is a lot of people having been leaving comments lately, the bad news is that they are mostly spammers. We will have some exciting news that we’ll be announcing here in the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime let’s have a little fun with these spammers.

Our spammers actually took the time to leave coherent, albeit completely irrelevant comments. Most of these comments are best read in a dark corner of your favorite coffee shop.

Caleb, the consummate existentialist says, “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

Omar, presumably a Wall Street banker left us with, “Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.” Don’t we all, Omar.

Thomas is smarter than all of us.  “I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”

Carlos’ friends make Debbie Downer jokes behind his back. “You can do anything, but not everything.”

Paul probably regretted this comment in the morning. “You wanna come over to my place?”

Luis is very amiable. “In these sentiments, Sir, I agree.”

Carlos is a wise-ass. “Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.”

Vincent has been reading The Art of War. “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”

Big week here at Owl HQ! Thursday, September 17th – Saturday, September 19th we are celebrating the launch of Owl Scooters and the grand opening of the Top Dog Scooter shop with the Kindercore / Owl Hootenanny: 3 days of music and scooters!

We just confirmed that the infamous Athens dance party duo I Am The World Trade Center will be reuniting during the Ruby Isle set at the 40 Watt show on Saturday! For info on the lineup and links to all of the performers check out this previous post.

Don’t forget, we are also giving away 2 Owl scooters to 2 lucky Hootenanny goers!

See you at the shows! Scoot or die!

Ryan

Be careful who you let control your website. They may let the power go to their head.

In all seriousness, the Owl crew owes a big thank you to the designers of our website, Plexus Web Creations, particularly Buck & Stephanie Sharp. They’ve designed our website and also given us a ton of ideas for the rest of our web presence.

Stephanie is spearheading a great project to bring free public Wi-Fi to downtown Athens, GA.  It would be an incredible asset to our community. You can check their website for more information. Athens Wi-Fi Pilot.

As you may have seen, we have done a soft launch of the Owl website. The store isn’t quite ready for prime time and we will also have some better photography up sometime in the next 2 weeks, but otherwise the site is functional and ready to be perused.

To promote the upcoming Kindercore / Owl Hootenanny we rounded up a crew from the bands playing and did an old school scooter gang picture. I haven’t seen the finished shots yet but we all had a blast and I did manage to get a hold of these 2 iPhone pictures taken by Allison Weiss (who is playing the Hoot on 9/19):

Aside from my job as head of Creative for Owl Scooters I also dabble in the music business with my record label Kindercore Records and my bands The Agenda and Grape Soda. To celebrate the launch of Owl and the opening of our flagship dealer Top Dog Scooters, Owl and Kindercore have teamed up to present 3 days of music, scooters and mayhem in Athens, GA on September 17th, 18th and 19th!

Advance tickets are available HERE. Here’s all the info straight from Kindercore.com:

To celebrate the coming of the Fall and the birth of Athens’ own Owl Scooters, Kindercore is throwing a 3 day party! From Thursday September 17th – Saturday September 19 come party in Athens for 3 days of music, scooters and mayhem – plus you are entered to win 1 of 2 Owl scooters being given away just for attending (see bottom of this post for the deets).

Thursday: The Caledonia Lounge – $7

Je Suis France

The Agenda

The Matt Kurz One

GG King

Turf War

Friday: The Caledonia Lounge Presented by Excalibrah – $7

Masters of the Hemisphere (REUNION!)

Grape Soda

The Gold Party

Mark Mallman

Werewolves

Saturday Afternoon Cookout & Scooter Rally: Top Dog Scooters (730 Baxter st) FREE – FOOD! MUSIC! SCOOTERS!

Saturday: The 40 Watt Club – $10 – Get Tickets: HERE

Maserati

Still Flyin’

The Young Sinclairs

Ruby Isle

Venice is Sinking

Allison Weiss

CHECK THIS OUT: Owl is giving away 2 scooters during the Hootenanny! 1 during the scooter rally & cookout at Top Dog Scooters and 1 at the 40 Watt show on Saturday September 19. YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN. You get 1 entry for each event you attend. If you arrive during the first hour that doors are open to any of the three rock shows you get an additional entry. Go to all 3 shows and the rally/cookout during the first hour and get 8 chances to win!

Everyone talks about how much fun it is to ride these little 50cc scoots but only the Vietnamese have learned what little workhorses they are.    Imagine the possibilities?  Moving across country or across town? We’ve got you covered-Owl Moving and Storage….

Even goldfish are at risk!  Ride the Owl…the only safe haven!

As a child of the 80’s I have a nostalgic soft spot for all things 8-bit. While we were programming the blog, I realized I had the perfect excuse to make an 8-bit version of the Owl Scooters logo, since we needed a small simple version to serve as the favicon. For those who are less geekily inclined, the favicon is the small logo that shows up next to the web address in your browser.

Since it turned out so well and since my office here at Owl HQ is so boring, I decided I should make a larger version of it to adorn my wall. Long story short, I chose to use post-it notes as my medium. This made it incredibly easy to do since each pixel on the icon equals one post-it note.

Hope you enjoy the results.  It’s definitely made my office a lot less boring.

More 8-bit stuff:
8-bit Post-it note art
Free Weezer cover album done in 8-bit