tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56660313315123794662024-03-14T00:23:22.788-07:00Go! Hyperactive Monkey! Go!Monkey, Ninjas, Oh My!!!jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-18773234443983937192014-07-08T09:24:00.000-07:002014-07-08T09:24:10.615-07:00Mega Monkey Update!Whoa! It's been a while since we've had a Hyperactive Monkey update. Here's a quick rundown of all the fun events that have gone down in the past few months!<br />
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First up we had one of biggest cons of the year, Wonder-Con!<br />
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As usual, it was a good turnout and we had a blast! Check out this little Goku hanging out with Great Grand Master!<br />
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After Wonder-Con was over, we had Dragonfest the following month. Dragonfest is martial arts themed convention. It was our first time there and it was a great show for us. We met plenty of smiling faces and supporters.</div>
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Here's Master Gerald Okamura. He's been in countless martial arts movies including one of my favorites, Big Trouble in Little China! Hmmm....a collab is coming soon from us!</div>
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Here's Mr. Lo Pan himself, James Hong. He was a blast to talk to. He even wanted a set of our Monkey Power Puppets!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Next up I was invited to be in Giant Robot's Game Over art show. It was a video game inspired art show. Here's our piece for it!</span></div>
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"Game Girl Buddy Hug"</div>
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That's all for now. We are getting ready for San Diego Comic Con 2014!!! Tootles!!!</div>
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jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-78068281723029900022014-01-30T23:52:00.001-08:002014-01-30T23:52:46.370-08:00"13 Things Which Made My 2013"<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">Howdy Hyperactive Monkeyers!!! Well, we are quite some ways into 2014 and I just thought I'd take a look back at some of our past accomplishments in 2013. I originally was asked by Andy from <a href="http://toysrevil.blogspot.sg/2014/01/13-things-which-made-my-2013-from_27.html" target="_blank">TOYSREVIL</a> what "13 Things Which Made My 2013"? It was a great question and I thought I'd repost my answers here!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was a great way to start off 2013. Through Bait and Capcom I was able to release my rendition of the original 8 Street Fighter 2 characters. It was a dream to see the producers and employees of Bait and Capcom all decked out in my designs based on a game that I spent my childhood allowance on.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wondercon is always a great show for us and it was great to see many returning faces and meet many new people. The icing on the cake was when we sold out of our convention exclusive, The Blue Spirit Monkey Kung Fu bank.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I was invited to do a live painting at Super7 for their May 4th Be With You event, I was so excited to be able to paint one of my favorite movie properties. It was a great day that led to another favorite 2013 moment (see #6)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was an honor to be invited to do a custom for Daniel Flere’s and Dragatomi’s Swanicorn: The Gathering art show. It was such a great platform and I had a blast customizing one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Being invited to do an interpretation of one of the coolest plush lines (for "UGLYCON 2013 at GR2") was amazing. It was an awesome day to hear about how David created the Uglydolls and where he got his inspiration. There were so many happy smiles that day too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The live painting event at Super7 created a lot of buzz for me and there was even a demand to do a t-shirt. I jumped at the chance to design a tee for Super7 and Lucasfilms. It was a dream come true work on this and also become a best seller for Super7.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every year SDCC becomes bigger and better and 2013’s was no exception. The greatest part was getting to paint alongside my brother from another mother, Podgy Panda, at the Munky King party!!! We got to battle/live paint against our friends. It was so much fun.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the first people to invite me to partake in an art show ever was Cooper Berella. Every year he holds his annual birthday/charity/art show and in 2013 it was at TAG. He chose me to do the flyer art (for "Music To My Ears") and I gladly accepted. It’s one of my favorite shows because without Cooper I would not be where I am at today!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Dragatomi Shaolin Storytime" (was) a weekend afternoon filled with Monkey Kung Fu cupcakes, storytime, and puppets was another one of my happiest moments for 2013. It was an honor that Dragatomi wanted us to hold an event there and have a mini pop-up store. They are the best of people!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our exclusive Dynamite Rex Demon Shaolin Raar was released right before 2014. I was so happy how these turned out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Post It Show 9 at GR2 (is) one of the coolest art shows are around. It’s always so crazy to see my name next to so many talented artists that are the best in the biz. It was pretty cool to sell out all of my pieces within the first few days and then be asked to do a couple more. Yay!</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20.020000457763672px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;">I got to do a design for a hat, t-shirt, and sweatshirt for one of my favorite stores right before the New Year’s, for the Fully Laced X Hyperactive Monkey Clothing Capsule Release. It was great to get to do a design that pays tribute to one of my favorite basketball stars!!!<br /><br />There ya have it!!! Again I'm so thankful being able to do what I do everyday because of all of you. I can't wait to share what's in store for y'all in 2014!!! MORE HYPERACTIVE MONKEYNESS AWAITS!!!</span></span>jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-81748659965468496622013-08-08T09:32:00.002-07:002013-08-08T09:32:56.946-07:00San Diego Comic Con Craziness Recap!!!Howdy Hyperactive Monkeyers!!! We are finally fully recovered the craziness from a few weeks ago. What was so crazy you ask? It was San Diego Comic Con 2013!!! This is our third year as exhibitors and it gets crazier every year. BUT WE LOVE IT!!!<br />
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Here was our booth setup for the this year's con. So much Hyperactive Monkey goodness!!! </div>
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This was our convention exclusive, The Adolescent Hyperactive Ninja Monkey!!!</div>
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One of the coolest events that happened at SDCC 2013, was the Munky King Versus Art Battle! Me and my buddy, <a href="http://www.podgypanda.com/" target="_blank">Podgy Panda</a>, got paint along some of the top talent in today's art scene. We came in second but had so much fun!!!</div>
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Go KINGS OF CUTE!!!<br />
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YAY!!! Daisy and I had super fun times as always at SDCC this year. We are always so delighted to see all of our friends and make new ones. SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!<br />
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Tootles!!!</div>
jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-47606836530136156522013-06-20T11:45:00.000-07:002013-06-20T11:45:51.588-07:00Baborilla's Beginnings!Last week Giant Robot held UGLYCON 2013, a celebration of UGLYDOLL! We were invited to create our rendition of a custom plush BABO! Right away we knew we wanted to create BABORILLA, half BABO half GORILLA. Here's how we made him.<br />
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First we created a sewing pattern in the computer and then printed him out.<br />
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Then we cut the fabric and placed all the pieces on top<br />
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Then the stuffing began. Ooops! He needs more purple fur.<br />
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Awwww much better!<br />
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Then we sewed him all up and began the final stuffing!<br />
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BABORILLA was done and off to GR2 for the show.<br />
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Can you find BABORILLA? Here's a hint. He's with all the wonderful custom BABOs!<br />
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Still can't find him. Here's another hint. He's big and purple!<br />
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UGLYCON concluded with David Horvath, the creator of UGLYDOLL, giving us a tour of Sawtelle and explaining the origins of them. It was so inspiring and amazing.<br />
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Here's David and us with BABORILLA. It was a super fun show and we hope to be back next year!</div>
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Below is Daniel's most awesome display!!!<br />
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Here is mine, Shaolin Swanicorn Master and Uni-uckling Student!!!<br />
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This is me and the Swanicorn Maestro himself. He's a stud!<br />
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Here is a group shot of the Dragatomis and all the wonderful artists!<br />
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I always feel truly blessed and honored when I get invited to participate in art shows. Thanks so much to Daniel and Dragatomi for the invite. Well tootles for now! See y'all soon!</div>
jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-81447221608037764062013-03-06T09:56:00.000-08:002013-03-06T09:56:21.120-08:00Hadouken Hyperactive Monkey!!!Sorry Hyperactive Monkeyers for the lack of posts. We been swamped in the Hyperactive Monkey HQ with projects. Here's a fun one we were involved with back in February. We were invited to be in an art show at <a href="http://www.baitme.com/" target="_blank">BAIT</a> in Diamond Bar. I decided to do a wood painting of one of my favorite characters, RYU. Here's my pencil sketch.<br />
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After I was happy with my sketch I transferred it to the wood panel and started to paint in the blacks.</div>
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Then I painted in the colors. I wanted to keep the wood grain as visible as I could so I decided just to paint in the red and white. And Hadouken!!! Here's the final finished painting.</div>
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Not only did BAIT have an art show, but it was also doing a simultaneous artist t-shirt release. KWESTONE, KIDOKYO, and myself were on hand that day doing signings. Here's me decked out in my shirt with Ono-San wearing KWESTONE's shirt.</div>
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We had a great time and thank Tsunami Syndicate, BAIT, and Capcom for all the hospitality. We hope to do more events and collabs with them in the future.</div>
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<br />So I was truly grateful and honored when Eric (Big Boss Robot) asked if I would like to do an event at Giant Robot 2. I thought a live book reading with simultaneous puppet show would be a really fun idea. So we set up on one Sunday afternoon with books, puppets and monkey cookies.<div>
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Plenty of kids of all ages showed up. Stories were told. Cookies were eaten. We even had our own coloring contest.<br />
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We were truly touched to see so many smiling faces and friends. The following week I was also invited to submit art into Giant Robot's Post-It Show 8. There were so many talented artists in the show. I was so honored to partake. Here's a photo of the 9 Post-It's I made!<br /> </div>
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YAY! We just got back and are fully recovered from a few weeks ago where exhibited at Pasadena's Designer Con. It is our 4th year exhibiting here and it definitely was our best show yet. It took us awhile to set up as this year we were given a corner booth. It was an awesome location as we were pretty much by the entrance.</div>
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The cool thing about DCon is all the cool toys all the vendors showcase. I didn't have too much time to look around. But I did have a chance to swing by the Dynamite Rex booth and see our Shaolin Raar on display. Look for this guy early next year. Kung POW!<br />
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We had plenty of cool new items for sale and had fun sketching for anyone who asked. I truly am appreciative for everybody that stopped by to say hi!<br />
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The best part of DCon though is that I get to see all my friends. They are the best because they not only are super nice but support what I do.<br />
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YAY!!! See you next year DCON! Tootles for now!jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-50622477704207112702012-10-29T12:07:00.001-07:002012-10-29T12:07:56.126-07:00Monkey-Con Craziness!!!It's been quite awhile since I've updated the blog and that's because we've have been busy these past few months working on new projects and exhibiting at a lot of conventions. Wanna see a recap? Why of course you do! The first convention of the summer was Anime Expo 2012.<br />
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For this year's convention we decided to get our own booth and due to Daisy's crazy work schedule I decided to brave the convention by myself for a couple of days. It was a pretty tough show for us for a variety of reasons, but rather than focus on the negative I'll say that it sure did make me happy to see everyone who stopped by. <br /><br />Our next convention was amazing and held a super awesome surprise for us. On to our recap of San Diego Comic Con!!!</div>
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Comic Con is always a really fun and super crazy busy show and this year was no exception. <a href="http://www.squidkidsink.com/" target="_blank">Squid Kids Ink</a> was awesome as usual and let us share a booth with them. On preview night we sold out of our Ninja Monkey exclusive within the first hour. What could be more crazy?<img border="0" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUfibVKH_YH6dy7kFXKGc2vGDQWc8Y2qiYBXq0X6KimhXthmmnuloR-4jcGU2WR2RhwlgIBjyQ5WE50z4xIdrL9Ry-DslGtf4w0keQKSAPKWmRXay9yxnsLxncEDCHr3hutbyLccz8hyQ/s400/sandiegocc2.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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Well I'll tell ya! Early the following morning, Comic Con called me at 10:30 am to tell me that they had their own booth for me if I wanted it. So of course I said, "HECK YA!" Only problem was that I had to move into the booth right away. And if you have ever been to Comic Con you know how crazy the crowd is. Setting up and moving during the con was like swimming up a raging stream. But it was all worth it in the end. <br /><br />Up next was San Francisco's 39th Annual Nihonmachi Street Fair!<br />
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This was our first year at the street fair and boy was it fun. Not only was the crowd super awesome and super supportive of our stuff, but there were so much yummy food to be eaten!<br />
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Our last convention of the summer was 2012 Stan Lee's Comikaze. We split a booth with Squid Kids Ink as it was our first time at the show for both of us and just wanted to test the waters. It wasn't the best of shows and was pretty slow for me. But again it was fun chatting with all the folks that stopped by.<br /><br />Doing all these conventions takes a lot of preparation and physical work but in the end it's all worth it when you have so many wonderful friends that stop by and support what you do for a living. YAY!<br />
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<br />jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-54420454515071445172012-08-20T22:16:00.003-07:002012-08-20T22:16:47.002-07:00Memories Are Made of This<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This past weekend I was able to partake in Super Cooper's 13th B-day/Art show extravaganza, "Memories Are Made of This" at Munky King. It would also be Munky King's last art show before closing their retail shop. I've been going to Munky King for several years and it's always been a great place of inspiration and place where many new friendships were made. Here's a couple of awesome pieces from the show.</div>
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Here's my piece below. I called it "9 Childhood Monkey Memories". I painted 9 wooden sake boxes and each box represents a monkey character I wanted to be when I was young.<br />
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Super Cooper asked me if I'd like to do a live painting at the show. And of course I said, "YES!!!" Here's a couple of shots of me in action and the finished piece.</div>
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All in all it was a super fun show and there were tons of smiling faces to be found. I'm a little sad that Munky King, the retail shop, is closing down, but I'm super happy about them moving to a bigger and better space. I know that they will continue to make super awesome art and toys!!! Tootles and keep monkeying around!!!<br />
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<br />jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-88755935821069808692012-06-07T23:18:00.002-07:002012-06-07T23:18:25.981-07:00An Evening of Artistry<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Last Thursday I had the honor of participating in "An Evening Of Artistry", a charity event benefitting the </span><a href="http://www.everlastingsmilesfoundation.org/" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Everlasting Smiles Foundation</a><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> Everlasting Smiles Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for young people in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas who suffer from a life threatening illness by motivating them to smile and enjoy life as long as they live. This is my third year that I have contributed an art piece to their silent auction and it is always a highlight of my year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br />This year I wanted to do something extra special. So I sketched up this drawing on a piece of wood.</span></span></div>
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Then a few days later and a couple drops of paint, my piece "All Aboard The Monkey Cupcake Train" was completed! Voila!</div>
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I couldn't have been more happy to see Taylor, who bid on my piece, win the silent auction. From one monkey to another, she really knew how to put a smile on my face.</div>
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What a wonderful evening of art and hope! Tootles for now!</div>jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-3310279918677734912012-05-23T23:30:00.000-07:002012-05-23T23:30:07.667-07:00Unique LA Spring Show 2012 A few week ago, we exhibited at Unique LA Spring Show 2012. It was our first time exhibiting there. We had a very nice set up and had a great time!!!<br />
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We even had some special guests stop by the booth like Caine from Caine's Arcade! He was super nice and we even traded t-shirts!<br />
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UFC's Mayhem Miller also stopped by and we chatted about the awesome power of monkeys!<br />
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At the same time Unique LA was going on, Boombotix was a having a Craynial Custom Art Show at Big Umbrella Studios in SF. Boombotix is a portable speaker. Here's what it looked like before I customized it.</div>
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And here it is fully customized. I brought out the sculpey and spray paint. I call him "The Golden Monkey Idol!"</div>
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Well that's all for now. Be back soon for some more Hyperactive Monkey goodness!!! Tootles!!!jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-14344949562159776242012-05-02T00:37:00.001-07:002012-05-02T00:37:31.991-07:00ABC's of Monkey Kung Fu!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Howdy Hyperactive Monkeyers!!! You wanna hear a story? Well of course you do! Here's a story about the creation of the book, The ABC's of Monkey Kung Fu! About 3 years ago I had to make an emergency work trip to Hong Kong (I only had half a day's notice that I needed hop on a plane overnight) to visit a factory. I didn't now how long I would be stranded in Hong Kong for. So on my downtime I decided to draw some pages of an alphabet book incorporating our favorite characters from the Hyperactive Monkey universe. I never really thought too much about it and would just keep drawing pages even after my return from Hong Kong. Slowly and surely the pages began to add up. And after 3 years of drawing in my spare time, I noticed I had enough to make a whole book. Here's a snapshot of all the rough pages I drew and even a smaller printed prototype book.</div>
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You can order a copy for yourself <a href="http://hyperactivemonkey.bigcartel.com/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> if you'd like. Well there ya go!!! That's the story of how The ABC's of Monkey Kung Fu! came to be.</div>
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<br />Well it's been busy in the monkey labs as we are going to be in this Spring's <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://stateofunique.com/unique-la/"><span style="color: red;">Unique LA</span></a>.</span> </span>We are hoping to switch things up at this show and have a lot of hand painted art available for sale. You might even see this there.<br />
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The above piece is entitled "The Day In The Life Of A Hyperactive Monkey!" and it pretty much sums up how I spent today. Tootles!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Well, a whole week has passed since last week's WonderCon!!! This monkey is fully rested and ready to give you a full recap. There were some big changes to this year's WonderCon. First off this year's WonderCon moved from the Bay to LA because Moscone Center was being renovated. Another big change was this year were had own on booth, but don't worry we were still next to </span><a href="http://squidkidsink.com/" style="text-align: left;">Squid Kids Ink</a><span style="text-align: left;"> so there was plenty of squid monkey love around. Let's take a look at the booth we had this year. </span></div>
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My lovely monkey partner in crime, Daisy, braved the weather and flew down from SF to LA to help me out. Also Michelle from the Hyperactive Monkey San Diego branch office decided to help out too. We debuted our Deluxe Ninja Monkey which sold out by Saturday afternoon. Thanks for the support everybody.<br />
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For us, the best part of doing conventions isn't making the sale, but getting to meet all of our wonderful friends, new and old!!!</div>
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Wowee!!! So many friendly faces. Y'all really know how to make this monkey feel loved.</div>
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So I've kinda fallen behind on my weekly sketch project. But here's just a sampling of all the sketches I did for those who asked for them at Wondercon.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">I had tons of fun drawing these. I hope y'all liked them too. Well that's all for now. Stay hyperactive and eat your cereal!!! Tootles!!!</span><br />
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After the pencil sketches I went straight to the computer and doodled away and few days later BAM!!! I came up with this action packed piece!!!</div>
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I have framed super limited edition 1 of 1 13" by 19" print for sale at the show and I'll also have 10 limited edition 8.5" by 11" prints for sale at the show too. The show will be at the Majestic Halls (W. 7th Street Downtown Los Angeles) from 8pm to 12am tomorrow night, March 1, 2012. You can rsvp <a href="http://www.streetfighter.com/event/">here</a>. Hope to see all you fighting fans there. HADOUKEN!!!!</div>
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Part of working for a big toy company for my day job, I get to take part in lots of cool company art shows like the one we had a few weeks ago. It was the first ever Zooble Art Show. Employees were each given a blank 6" Zooble like the one below.</div>
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I decided that this lil guy definitely needed to show some of his macho side so I busted out the paint pens and made him El Zooba-Lucha!</div>
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Pretty fun macho stuff huh? Well that was the first art show of the year and I have two more next week. I'll definitely show you my pieces for them as the shows approach closer. With that let's KICK IT off with this week's weekly sketch!!!</div>
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KICK IT INTO HIGH GEAR!!! See you soon!!! Tootles!!!</div>
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Wowee!! I'm only 4 weeks into the New Year and I'm already filled to the brim with upcoming creative projects. Currently I'm in 2 awesome art shows that are just looming on the horizon. We've also got some great new collabs and new products that we are proofing right now. I can't wait to share all these great new things with y'all. Here's a super sneaky peak of just a few new projects from the lab right now.</div>
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The great thing about doing all these projects is that they are all parts of a great big dream come true. It's so rad to go chasing after your dreams. You know what else is rad? CHASING BUTTERFLIES!!! Which leads me to the sketch of the week. Taaaadaaaa!!!</div>
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Howdy Hyperactive Monkeyers!!! Would you like some bananas? How 'bout some banana bonanza for a birthday. A few months ago a close friend mine named Sabi had a birthday party. I wanted to make him a special gift because he is one cool monkey. So I whipped up this special birthday print for him. Let's take a look. </div>
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Sabi's one cool dude. I think he'll be the future Steven Spielberg. Let's also take a look at this week's sketch of the week.</div>
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This week's sketch pretty much sums up my 2012 so far. Tons of crazy ideas and projects are swirling in my monkey head. In just this past week, we've taken some ginormous monkey foot steps for some projects that we've been working on for quite awhile. This 2012 is gonna be amaze-balls!!! Talk to ya' soon!!! Tootles!!!</div>
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Howdy folks! Well it's been one crazy hectic past year for Hyperactive Monkey. 2011 was a tremendous fun time for us. We started and completed a bunch of projects, exhibited at quite a few conventions, and made tons of new friends all the while. While we are still in our infant baby monkey stage, we are still striving to create great artwork and creative products. We hope to continue to do so not only in 2012 but until we, monkeys, go completely bananas. Haha!!! Get it? Anyhoo here's a little collage of 11 of our favorite projects and moments from this past 2011.</div>
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Pretty cowbunga stuff, huh? Like I've said before, we are very thankful for all the support that we have received not just in 2011 but from all the years before and we wish to continue our artistic drive this year too. We've already started on some super secret projects that will debut in 2012 that we are truly hyperactively excited about. With that said let's introduce our next online creative endeavor. I didn't necessarily complete the 2011 Post-It Project, but I'll try to do at least one Hyperactive Monkey drawing a week and post it to the blog. So here's the first one for 2012. It's a Hyperactive Monkey Art Trooper. Let's take a peeky-poo, shall we?<br />
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Well there ya have it! Stay hyperactive and be a monkey!!! Ciao, and see you soon!!!</div>jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-85379425958021349152011-12-19T22:33:00.000-08:002011-12-19T22:33:32.682-08:00HYPERACTIVE HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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As the holidays are just around the corner, we just wanted to say how thankful we are for the past year for all the support we have gotten from family, friends, and fans. I would have never believed that I could make so many people smile this year. Whether you bought anything from us at a convention or online, or whether you just stopped by take a look or wrote us an email saying how much you liked our work, I just wanted say thank you and wish you HYPERACTIVE HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!</div>
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Well, I didn't make it a full 52 weeks for my 2011 Post It Project, but I tried my best. So here are the last of them for 2011. It sure was fun drawing all these monkeys this past year!!!</div>
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Tootles for now!!! See you next year!!!</div>
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Wowee!!! It's been a busy past few weeks. First off a few weeks ago we exhibited at the 2011 Designer Con in the Pasadena Convention Center. It was our third year exhibiting there. And boy-oh-boy did we have fun!!! Here's a photo of our awesome booth display.</div>
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As you can see, we had a special guest at our booth. That's right we had a 3 foot wooden Monkey Kung Fu Master. He was carved by hand by the super talented <a href="http://finecarving.com/">Lorenzo Foncerrada</a>. Here's closer view of the magnificent wood carving.</div>
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Awesome huh? We also had on hand our 2011 Designer Con Exclusive which was the Rosewood Monkey Kung Fu Shaolin Savings Bank.</div>
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We still have a few of the banks available and can be found on our store <a href="http://hyperactivemonkey.bigcartel.com/">here</a>. It was a great show. We got to meet many friends old and new. But the greatest part of conventions is when fans and friends ask for drawings and sketches which I love to do. Lets see me in action.</div>
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So there ya have it. Great times were had this year at Designer Con. We'll definitely be back next year with more Hyperactive Monkeyness!!! Here's some Post Its from the last two weeks.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9XxQC78jdIE3u1J90KQ6C403DMoUCTbjVtx-EXh6fy_NxHcpMKOd-8r_QhSlYGmxmKkkNbVTTiUytv8TLayXfAHQxHWeRJZlXxQkFNAmaZca9TkG3S6Od63xRv-yJv9t4KIpKkUJqiU/s1600/Week27.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9XxQC78jdIE3u1J90KQ6C403DMoUCTbjVtx-EXh6fy_NxHcpMKOd-8r_QhSlYGmxmKkkNbVTTiUytv8TLayXfAHQxHWeRJZlXxQkFNAmaZca9TkG3S6Od63xRv-yJv9t4KIpKkUJqiU/s400/Week27.jpg" width="270" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIaFkq1hnTMVYnZo2mlLGneTSiwWhmmosUaL5vFt5W-hpWY2lWDVQtLM_PZ4CQtkSdfVFzh82myjA0maGdqd-iHGpw12A2_rcYTyLvpt8vm_x5W0PVhpAjP518LHc9I_MbY8e8v0ixyc/s1600/Week28.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIaFkq1hnTMVYnZo2mlLGneTSiwWhmmosUaL5vFt5W-hpWY2lWDVQtLM_PZ4CQtkSdfVFzh82myjA0maGdqd-iHGpw12A2_rcYTyLvpt8vm_x5W0PVhpAjP518LHc9I_MbY8e8v0ixyc/s400/Week28.jpg" width="270" /></a><br />
Well that's all folks!!! See you soon and have a most happy and hyperactive week!!!jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-47373652733479259472011-10-24T21:21:00.000-07:002011-10-24T21:21:49.490-07:00Designer-Con Countdown!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Long time, no monkey!!! Haha!!! Get it? Anyhoo, we've been busy working on some super secret surprises for this year's <a href="http://www.designercon.com/">D-Con</a> on November 5th so that's why we haven't been posting too often. Here's a sneak peak from <a href="http://www.manastudios.biz/">Mana Studios</a> what we'll have in store.</div>
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There's quite a few more surprises on the way, but you'll just have to wait. Well we've got to get back to the labs to keep monkeying away, but here's this weeks Post It Project.</div>
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Stay hyperactive and keep monkeying around!!! Tootles for now!!!</div>jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-51992621344433962402011-10-04T01:01:00.000-07:002011-10-04T01:01:28.635-07:00Hyperactive Monkey goes A.P.E.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Howdy Hyperactive Monkeyers!!! This past weekend we had the awesome opportunity to exhibit at the <a href="http://www.comic-con.org/ape/">2011 A.P.E. (Alternative Press Expo)</a>. It's a small little convention that is filled with tons great artists. Let's take a look at the hooligans.</div>
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The weather was quite nice and sunny so the monkey were out in full effect.</div>
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Here's me holding down the fort on Day 1 of the convention. As you can see the booth was filled to your hearts desire with Hyperactive Monkey goodness!!!</div>
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The great thing about conventions are all the nice folks you get to meet like these guys. One guy wore his shirt he bought from us last year. He said he gets lots of compliments on it. YAY!!! And these gals wanted me to draw them bunnies. I said sure but I'll add a monkey which they liked even more!!! DOUBLE YAY!!!</div>
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Of course none of Hyperactive Monkey would be possible without my bff and chief creative director (she calls herself chief nag), DAISY!!! Here she is holding the fort on Day 2. It was super fun!!!</div>
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Well, there ya have it. It was a short 2 day convention that was super fun. I always appreciate all those who come by with kinds words. Thanks y'all and we hope to see you next year!!!<br /><br />Here's this week's Post-It Project.</div>
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jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-33606941302872296842011-09-25T21:40:00.000-07:002011-09-25T22:01:08.775-07:00Monkey Post-It Project Progress!!<div style="text-align: left;">Salutations!!! It's been a pretty busy week here in the Hyperactive Monkey lab. Lots-O top secret projects in the works that I can't show you quite yet. However I just wanted to share this lil' awesome photo with ya. </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj30C5v2alWOh83c6q3WrZAfqrxQt48XzK-ko6KPoxP3B0a_SO5tp2kYidVKj-RbV1nQIURVR7fQzXJd71Ok5cbUdq0z9_dPW08sld3m5zNRBF1LhBIRai2RHCqf2O_cjsRMOTL8RSR3Xc/s1600/post_its.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj30C5v2alWOh83c6q3WrZAfqrxQt48XzK-ko6KPoxP3B0a_SO5tp2kYidVKj-RbV1nQIURVR7fQzXJd71Ok5cbUdq0z9_dPW08sld3m5zNRBF1LhBIRai2RHCqf2O_cjsRMOTL8RSR3Xc/s400/post_its.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656527341800112962" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px; " /></a></div><div>This lil' stack is 3 years worth of doodles on post-its. Originally what was done just to make some "fun" time at not so "fun" meetings has become a weekly ritual and IT'S STILL FUN!!! It's pretty crazy to look back at all these little doodles and see what was going through my head at the moment. I plan on doing these doodles till' this lil' hyperactive monkey is old and grey. Anyhoo on that note, here's this weeks Post-It Project posting...that's a lot of p's!!!</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHjlX-yb7pKXrB5zfv1OOfLJ1xmO2vhKPfOjxnXqyWfNemOwbiRW-eR6f9hcMiHpTStQIRre5NUtytgYtHaOPFe1IdQHmMFC4cuuTnIqRjfjJFk1lgf8N6oOo2sms4Hc-8td9E6qHE8SI/s1600/Week24.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHjlX-yb7pKXrB5zfv1OOfLJ1xmO2vhKPfOjxnXqyWfNemOwbiRW-eR6f9hcMiHpTStQIRre5NUtytgYtHaOPFe1IdQHmMFC4cuuTnIqRjfjJFk1lgf8N6oOo2sms4Hc-8td9E6qHE8SI/s400/Week24.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656527334145520290" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 400px; " /></a></div><div>So there ya have it. Have a most happy hyperactive week!!! Tootles!!!</div>jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666031331512379466.post-22856197561201455642011-09-18T21:41:00.000-07:002011-09-18T22:29:33.139-07:00MONKEY MUNKY KING!!<div style="text-align: left;">Howdy Hyperactive Monkeyers!!! How are y'all doing? I'm doing GREAT!!! Why? Because a few weeks ago I had the great honor of participating in <a href="http://www.munkyking.com/gallery_events.php?id=143">Super Cooper's Stop It! Show at Munky King!</a> Super Cooper was kind enough to ask me to be in his show during San Diego Comic-Con, and of course I said, "YES!!!" He's only 12 years old and not only is he a great artist but he's already curated <a href="http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_18866928">2 shows at Munky King</a>. He's amazing!!! Munky King also happens to be one of my favorite stores and galleries on Melrose. What an awesome experience!!! Anyhoo, here are some snap shots from the show.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JYs4qyo30Elr8mS6Uy-thuEyTAVA_jw9ND3cn_vuIiQDj3tLSs-UuLBQzYi7YeJAWZY24so6MXTaBjsbbPO4A2w_VcNoQAG_2Nkr8qvUjSWPW1KHMBxQkQDFElLVjiiitJxoEf1qsvc/s400/supercooperstopitshow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653933683849368066" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 386px;" border="0" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Here's a close up shot of my piece. It's entitled "Be You! Be Different!" </span></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIpg-aFj_K7OJNI1utJawSRbUjyuc-MblrptVWUDCotKpqv2iw5Rj1FdqJi0FJHxV2uH3vZrRHe7V59NK8nHYMn52GnOqVpfcOuIn9whx-5awcnEhOsWMYgPmKPPHBj1Rpqf1-gyXpF-U/s1600/beyoubedifferent.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIpg-aFj_K7OJNI1utJawSRbUjyuc-MblrptVWUDCotKpqv2iw5Rj1FdqJi0FJHxV2uH3vZrRHe7V59NK8nHYMn52GnOqVpfcOuIn9whx-5awcnEhOsWMYgPmKPPHBj1Rpqf1-gyXpF-U/s400/beyoubedifferent.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653933683883066546" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 400px;" border="0" /></a>The theme of the whole show was bullying and cyber-bullying. Part of the proceeds of the show will go to GLIDE (Gays and Lesbians Initiating a Dialog for Equality) and CHIME Institute (an organization dedicated to inclusive education where kids of all abilities learn together). Again it was such a great honor to be in this show.<br /><br />Here's the last two weeks of the Post-It Project!!! Enjoy!!!</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-N6p90mCa-h9np1fKgBd6KrRA5QXIUC4N8_qYK8E5Gm2FKvDGN1P2GGKbV4OU97GDVavnx-8o1x7vINEDJnv0ox8EFlJHcsYbBYkZZUvfYvetRsx-8TGZCyVr1bHWz5Htp8l0P4ACAm8/s1600/Week22.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-N6p90mCa-h9np1fKgBd6KrRA5QXIUC4N8_qYK8E5Gm2FKvDGN1P2GGKbV4OU97GDVavnx-8o1x7vINEDJnv0ox8EFlJHcsYbBYkZZUvfYvetRsx-8TGZCyVr1bHWz5Htp8l0P4ACAm8/s400/Week22.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653936730154510354" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 400px;" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTgEHZv1ZFLPSioii-9jgzQZ_a9oTK-e4JBcdvDiGlhyphenhyphenJF6TRVcQt9nj2BCqdISQjUr1vQudSJnDp8xxxvAQSr3dFDXc2ezfNmhyIJXT30v-zv8410FwBjUjkfLW0KGJKPwxHAyv1cVl0/s1600/Week23.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTgEHZv1ZFLPSioii-9jgzQZ_a9oTK-e4JBcdvDiGlhyphenhyphenJF6TRVcQt9nj2BCqdISQjUr1vQudSJnDp8xxxvAQSr3dFDXc2ezfNmhyIJXT30v-zv8410FwBjUjkfLW0KGJKPwxHAyv1cVl0/s400/Week23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653936726837841410" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 400px;" border="0" /></a></div><div>Well that's all for this week!!! Remember to be a MONKEY and most of all HYPERACTIVE!!! Tootles!!!</div>jeromehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13654078817485258827noreply@blogger.com1