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Sean and Carissa Archibong / CREATE / May 22

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We’re super excited to have Hearts of Animals performing at the upcoming CreativeMornings Houston, on August 22nd!

About Hearts of Animals: 
Mlee Marie has appeared on recordings by and collaborated with Young Mammals, The Mathletes (Joe Mathlete), and The Linus Pauling Quartet.  She also performs as the White Strips – a White Stripes tribute band – with artist/husband Chris Cascio.  She has had the honor of performing as part of a hand-picked ensemble of musicians to accompany Daniel Johnston for a performance in 2012.  She has also played with artists such as Fiery Furnaces, Casio Tone for the Painfully Alone, and Nat Baldwin (of Dirty Projectors).  Additionally she has performed at Free Press Summerfest in 2009 and as a showcasing artist at SXSW in 2008.
"There’s room for a little bit of everything in HOA, yet the music never feels like a kitchen-sink contrivance. Superb songcraft and a delicate touch allow her to create music that is at once astonishingly heavy and gossamer-light; under her spell, seemingly disparate concepts and styles play nicely with one another. Dense noise provides the perfect foil for power-pop sugar; cheaply effective Casio beats underscore stabbing waves of pseudo-shoegaze psychedelia. This is musical magical realism to turn Gabriel García Márquez green-eyed with envy.” — Nicholas L. Hall, Houston Press
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*photograph by Carra Sykes

We’re pretty stoked about the upcoming CreativeMornings Houston event… We’ll have The Wiggins performing! http://thewiggins.bandcamp.com/

The Wiggins is a one-man band created by artist Jon Read. Though know for his wild experimental punk rock, live performances, Read has also gain the reputation as song writer and producer, licensing his music to the hit CBS show HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. Read is currently working as the  music supervisor for the independent documentary “Vietnam Appreciation Day”. The Wiggins releases have received critical praise, which lead him to be invited to play SXSW in 2007. His music has been published by Dullknife, Needless Records and Team Science.

Jon Read’s visual art has enjoyed equal success. He has created concept art and props for HIMYM as well as cover art for books such as “Year of the Rooster” by poet Noah Eli Gordon. Read’s artwork as been displayed at numerous galleries, both in Houston and around the globe. His most recent show was at Third Space in Copenhagen Denmark in December of 2013.

Both his music and art are heavily influenced by outsider icons such as painter Henry Darger and pop odd balls, The Shaggs.

Jon Read is currently working as a freelance artist and is writing an R rated post-apocalyptic children’s book entitled “Tales from No Mans Land”. 

Every month, we (Shawna & I) do a photo shoot for the CreativeMornings global theme. One of the photos is then placed in the opening slides for our CreativeMornings Houston events, to introduce ourselves to people. This month we drove to The Teepee Motel for our photo shoot :)

Our guest photographer for this month was Carra Sykes. Shawna was kind enough to capture some behind–the–scenes photos of our photo shoot with the lovely Carra Sykes & her companion Lauren Marek

This is Erma and Shawna giving you a heads up! The next edition of CreativeMornings Houston is coming up fast. Chloe Dao, will be our speaker this month and will be speaking on the global theme “heritage.”
 
Be sure to save the date for Friday morning, July 25th. Registration opens on Monday, the 21st, at 11AM. Be sure to snag your seats early. Once capacity is reached, no additional seats will be added. 
 
Here are some of Chloe’s picks http://chloedao.com/product-category/chloes-picks-2/. Enjoy! 

Yay! It’s almost CreativeMornings Houston time…We’ll be hosted at the MFAH, Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005. Here is the dl on the parking. 

Outdoor parking is free on the north side of 1001 Bissonnet, west of Main street. Parking for a fee is also available in the parking garage. Here is the link to provide http://www.mfah.org/visit/parking/Thanks, and we’ll see you on Friday morning!

This Friday is going to be a fun morning for the fifth edition of CreativeMornings Houston! We’re excited to say that we’ll have Children of Pop kick things off (http://childrenofpop.bandcamp.com/) for Kelsey Ruger. Should be a good time, for sure :)

It’s almost CreativeMornings Houston time again! We’re really excited to have the amazing Kelsey Ruger speaking on the subject of “minimal.” We’re looking forward to this talk, since we know know we could benefit from more of less. Bring on the Minimalism! Save the date for JUNE 27th, at this gorgeous space—the MFAH! The address is MFAH, Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005. We’ll see you there! Register at http://creativemornings.com/talks/kelsey-ruger, on Monday, June 23 at 11:00AM sharp.

We’re getting really excited as we gear up for the 5th edition of CreativeMornings Houston! Save the date for Friday morning, June 27th. The MFAH will be the venue host for this month. We’re excited to have Kelsey Ruger as the featured speaker.

About Kelsey:
Through his natural enthusiasm and empathy for others, Kelsey Ruger inspires companies and digital professionals to harness design, technology and creativity to develop innovative products people love. He believes that companies can combine these disciplines to solve big problems while producing results that people find meaningful and useful.
Kelsey is a veteran of digital technology and innovation using web and mobile technologies to build award winning products that have been used by more than 5,000,000 people around the world. He has lent his expertise to projects with Prodigy,  AT&T,  Yahoo,  Microsoft,  Invesco, Myspace, Schlumberger, and Halliburton.  Kelsey is  currently the Director of Technology and Innovation for Astadia. He is a professor in the Bauer School of Business at UH and the current President of the Houston Interactive Marketing Association.
Kelsey was named one of Houston’s 40 under 40 in 2012 by the Houston Business Journal, and is a 3 time SXSW Web Award finalist. He has spoken at SXSW, Search Engine Strategies, Web Visions, Interactive Strategies, and many other conferences around the U.S.
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