Happy Fourth of July week from Maine. New studiograss.com coming soon! Until then, enjoy this picture from Old Orchard Beach of Erin and our nephew of Joseph.

Wire-Mesh Products, Inc.

Here is a recent logo that I just finished for Wire-Mesh Products, Inc.

Here's a little bit about WM:

Since 1975, Wire-Mesh Products has been committed to producing the highest quality custom wire mesh belts in the business. From basic carbon steel belts to high metal alloy compositions to china to food processing equipment, we’ve supplied over 500 customers in more than 100 industries worldwide. And we’re ready to serve you.

Whether your belting needs are at low or elevated temperatures, low or high corrosive environments, our experience, engineering and manufacturing capabilities can meet and go beyond any wire mesh belting requirement you have. We look forward to the opportunity to surpass your expectations with our custom engineered solutions.

For more information, check out their website (which this lovely logo will be added to soon) at:

www.wire-mesh.com

Now blogging via iPhone

It's been forever, I know. But with the new blogger app on iPhone, maybe, just maybe, blogging will be more frequent. I won't make any promises though.

I have started writing regular comic book reviews over at ifanboy.com if you're just dying to read about what I have to say or if you just like comic books. Just look for grassman.

We're heading to Costa Rica in a little under a month for our 6 year anniversary. Maybe I'll blog pictures from there if we have wifi.

Til next time, here's a picture of little Scooter on my lap.

British Invasion: Blog #7: A Bittersweet Symphony

The title for this blog comes for 2 reasons: 1. The guy at the desk in front of mine today had the song playing quite loud and 2. It was my final full day in London. IN fact, it was my last day for all intents and purposes. Tomorrow, I'll get up and head to the airport and then home!

As you can tell from these blogs, it's been a really fun and extremely knowledgeable trip. Not that I think any of them will be reading this, but I really want to thank everyone who I met at the Ogilvy offices here. They made a pseudo-Southern boy feel quite nice and right at home.

I spent my last night going back to Forbidden Planet (I couldn't resist) as well as another comic shop, Comicana, which I found was right around the corner. The two stores could not be more dissimilar. Where FP was huge, clean and well kept, Comicana was small and dingy.

Afterwards, I walked on down to Piccadilly Circus and went through some of the Souvenir shops, not buying a damn thing, and ended up eating dinner at a nice little Chinese restaurant in London's Chinatown.

A stroll up Regents Street then took me past the Apple store and a Quicksilver shop, which I regret to say, was closed for the evening, but that was ok. It was all made better when I found Hamly's, a SEVEN STORY TOY STORE!!!

That place was incredible. It had a boy's floor with nothing but action figures on it. A Hobby floor with models and movie prop replicas (ton of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings items).

So that was it, I walked back up Oxford Street to Paddington and here I am. It's been a blast, but I'm ready to be home with Erin. Hopefully I'll be able to come back soon and she can come with me.

Blogging daily has actually been fun. I'd like to say that I'll keep it up, but I know me too well. I will say, that I'll try to do it more often from now on.

That's it from London. Next stop, the second star to the right.

British Invasion: Blog #6: Drizinking

Not much to post today. It was another busy day at work. The "chaps" took me to their local pub, The Union, for a very, very long lunch (and 3 pints to boot), which was very fun, and very nice of them. as it worked out, I was also taken to dinner with a couple of the creative directors, Christine and an IHG client tonight at a very cool "Interacive" restaurant tonight where you interacted with the table to order your meal, drinks, etc. You could even change what the ambiance of the table was which was pretty cool.


After dinner me and Gregg and Hugh (the London CDs) went to the Toucan, which was the first place Guiness was poured in London.

I must say, it was definetly the best Guiness I've ever had.


Must apologize, not a lot of picts today, but there are a few new ones to see on FB from the dinner tonight. Hope to get some last minute sight seeing in tomorrow night.

Cheers!

(yeah I said it!!)

British Invasion: Blog #5: Canary Wharf and the TARDIS

Welcome to the 5th edition of the British Invasion Blog! Today started with a trip to the Ogilvy "East" office to visit their Digital Lab. It was very, very cool and impressive to say the least. Here is a link to their current sizzle reel of technologies they've been testing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylm-2_1TaM4

Did you watch? Pretty cool shyte. Especially in person. By the way, not to be overshadowed by yesterdays post of the Ogilvy "West" office, here's a shot of the "East" office, which is very, very swank.

I got to work on some Motorola work today with the team here, which was pretty cool. Doing some photoshoots and animations. After leaving work, I had to go to take a picture of the coolest, yet nerdiest thing I've seen during my whole adventure:

The last standing Police Box in London! For those of you in the know, Dr. Who's time machine is a Police Box just like this called the TARDIS. It was very cool. I'm sure Erin will be super jealous ;)

So that was my day. Aside from doing some cool stuff and talking comics with my new friend Tarrick at work, it was a very lonely, sad day. I'm ready to come home. I'm missing Erin and everyone a whole lot.

I'll leave you with a video I HAD to take while eating at a pub near Earls Court this evening.

Til tomorrow, when I'm having lunch with the creatives at work and then dinner at an "Interactive" restaurant. Enjoy this very British, very drunk old chap:

British Invasion: Blog #4: Off to Work I Go

Hello Chums and welcome to Day 4 of the British Invasion. So today was my first day at the Ogilvy London West office and tomorrow I'm heading out to Canary Warf to visit the Digital Lab at Oglivy London East. It was pretty cool seeing how different the London office is compared to ours in Atlanta. It was very wide open and EVERYTHING is white which is pretty cool, I guess. Here's a couple picts of the office:

No just kidding, that's Buckingham Palace, here's the office:
After work, I took a walk down Oxford and Bond Streets before picking up a sandwich to eat back in the room. Can't wait to see Canary Warf tomorrow, I've seen it in many Dr. Who episodes (I KNOW).

Anyway, as I said last post I went to Buckingham palace last night which was pretty cool. Last time I was here I was just able to see it from a distance. After that I went to the original Hard Rock Cafe where I had the picture I'll leave you with. Til Tomorrow. BTW, I'm adding some more pictures over on Facebook so if you haven't seen any of them yet, head back to:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/fans-of-studiograss/308930455802?ref=ts

and click on the British Invasion 2010 album

And here's the pict from HRC: