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Just about a week ago, right before the Socchi trip, the Design Studio was in San Francisco for the annual Founder's Day Parade. Lancelot was honored to be chosen as the parade's Grand Marshal. In keeping with Lancelot's new position as "Creative Lifestyle Ambassador" for the well known grocery chain "Kale and Hearty", Lancelot chooses the theme of tropical goodness for the 2014 carnival.
As good will ambassador for the natural food chain "Kale and Hearty" Lancelot naturally carries their bags while enjoying the Sochi Winter games.
Having accurately predicted 6 more weeks of winter the Ground Hog has few friends left. Lancelot feels P Phil totally reneged on their understanding .Print from a "Presto Foam" printing plate. Acrylic ink
More important than Davos. Lancelot is called upon to be chief negotiator with Punxsutawney Phil regarding the Ground hog's appearance on February 2nd. Marshaling his strongest arguments Lancelot tries to persuade P. Phil to call an early end to winter....
While Lancelot poses for his portrait, Agile practices Zazen, meditating on an insoluble Koan, ( a type of unknowable riddle) namely " which data package should he choose?"
Lancelot poses for a formal portrait, prior to the Deign Studio's departure for Japan
Lancelot and co are not in fact hunting a wild turkey for their thanksgiving dinner. In fact they are hunting the rare Thanksgiving wild birthday Cake. Threatened by habitat loss, this delicious birthday cake is now close to extinction. Luckily through a rare combination of skill and guile they finally manage to capture one and bring it home as part of the annual November birthday celebration.
Cunningly disguised as early pilgrims, our intrepid trio set out in pursuit of their thanksgiving dinner.
What a strange sight, it looks almost like a witches' coven dancing around their bonfire... In fact it is Lancelot and co melting down their Halloween candy. Worried by the prospect of rain the Design Studio went trick or treating early and scored a record haul. Now they are applying great heat and in a top secret process extracting the corn syrup. The syrup is then solidified and converted into bio fuel which the studio will sell back to the government. (Since Congress mandated higher bio fuel usage in 2007 corn prices have reached record levels. See the Financial Times, Wednesday, October 30 th). With luck, the profits from today's work will allow them to relax over Christmas. It's a good thing the squirrels completed their core class work in organic chemistry and that Agile will be spared his annual tooth ache. What a good thing too that Lancelot subscribes to the FT!
With the weather seemingly set fair, and Halloween only a week away, everyone at The Design studio is working hard to ensure a successful Halloween this year. Anticipating a record haul, Lancelot has arranged to borrow Cinderella's pumpkin carriage for the evening. In exchange Lancelot will provide Cinderella with some much needed brand repositioning. (Remember that ugly libel case between Cinderella and her step sisters?). We hope their hard work will be rewarded.
Agile adored apples and is totally unable to resist temptation.
Still lots of time left to work on their costumes. Inspired by Lancelot's creative example, one of the squirrels decided to go as an acorn.
Agile, Wilfred and the squirrel interns have all been busy working on their costumes. Finances are somewhat tight this month so Lancelot has encouraged everyone to use their imagination. Wilfred will be going as a crow. His beak is made of paper mâché, painted black and his wings are that old standby, black garbage bags. Agile will be a dragon, with cardboard wings. Agile has craftily dyed a string vest red to suggest scales. Only the squirrels were unable to resist temptation and bought super hero capes. Everyone is crossing their paws for fine weather.
Remembering the devastation wrought by Sandy last year, Lancelot and co are especially keen to ensure that Halloween is properly celebrated this year. Taking a little time off from their many work projects the studio begin planning their costumes. This is Lancelot dressed as an Mummy. Who could resist a charming young hedgehog disguised as a mummy?
Lovely late Summer, early Fall days. Lancelot and co enjoy a blackberry picking expedition in perfect weather. Sadly the end of their holiday is in sight but with luck Agile will make them blackberry and apple pie.
Like many of his peers, Lancelot is frequently frustrated by the short battery life of his iPhone. Lancelot also often finds himself rather thirsty during the long hot days of Summer. Suddenly the genius hedgehog has an inspiration - why not design a nano fridge that would clip onto the back of his phone? The coolant would serve to cool the phone and thus prolong its battery life and he would be able to keep a small water bottle chilled and ready to hand. Lancelot knows that nothing betrays one's identity as a tourist like carrying a water bottle. Now no one need ever know. Brilliant. Lancelot immediately contacts the patent office.
Agile was very disappointed - he had been expecting a mobile, free food, avian delivery service but all he got was some very annoying short messages. So what exactly was the point of Twitter? Editor's note. No image available at this time as there is no wifi on the beach.
Agile is very happy, his first day on vacation and he has just signed up for a free live twitter feed. Visions of sugar plums are dancing in his head.
A hoot of the car horn and a slam of the door and they were gone. Pausing only to snatch up his pipe, Lancelot and Agile left for New Hampshire. A snake was somewhere on the loose within a fraternity. Remembering Lancelot's skills as a snake charmer, see January entries on this blog, 2013, the year of the snake, the Frat was now summoning Lancelot to their aid, to help them recapture the 3 ft python.
Dartmouth police urged great caution when approaching the snake.
For more details on this story, please see http://thedartmouth.com/2013/07/19/news/python.
Editor's note. Lyude, the missing python was found this morning, (7/24) in a dark, warm hole by the Frat's front door. He is now safely back in his terrarium. Lancelot and Agile will be back in the office tomorrow, 17/25.
In his younger days Lancelot would sometimes disguise himself as Madame Prickeoffski, the famous Eastern medium, gaze into his crystal ball and tell fortunes. (It was a way to finance his studies.) Now anxious to raise capital for a promising new venture, Lancelot, as Madame Prickeoffski, is hired by the Meteorological Service, to help improve the accuracy of their predictions.
