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Happy Holidays!

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:56:16 GMT

Hey hey hey!! =)

I'm back (and still alive)! Hahaha.

As usual, stop by our site oceanovox.bravehost.com, check out our cards on Flickr, and say "hello!"

Wow, Howl's been rocking this project hard, and it's time for me to get back into action. (New Year's resolution!) I found some cards that I did a while back, so I will be dropping them off in either Texas or LA. (99, 102, 103, 104, and 105). Pictures will be linked when I get them uploaded onto my computer!

I hope you all are enjoying the holidays, and Happy New Year!

~ Shout

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Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:32:47 GMT

Visit our official site!
Leave a comment, and spread the word!!
I feel guilty typing in an empty entry like this, but I just want to give "a Shout and a Howl" ;) and let all of you know that Howl and I are still here, and that Oceanovox is going strong.
Our lives are extremely hectic at the moment, but we will have new cards up -- As Soon As (humanely) Possible.
Love,
~Shout
UPDATE: Yes!! hahaha ^^
I left cards 32, 35, and 36 in downtown LA this weekend.
As a heads up, we also have a blogring (see the side of the screen).
And to the people I recently left comments to: sorry there's a whole bunch of gibberish above and below my comment... I don't know why it's there, or if it even is there anymore, but yeah. Okay, I'll stop now, as I seem to be spazzing out.. back to studying for finals. ='(
Update 2: ...okay, WHY is there a big, ugly blank space above my entry that I cannot get rid of?!

We'll be back after these messages... ;)

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:52:10 GMT

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Hey there!

I'd just like to say that Howl and I have been extremely bogged down with college apps and lovely school work *sarcasm-sarcasm* as of late. Therefore, we haven't been making as many cards as we have over the summer. Hopefully, card production will pick up again after January. (Howl has made a few these past weeks, so head on over to our website to view them). I'll try to do some over the Holidays.

Yay, Holidays!! I love December.

Have a good one guys,

Shout

Moments like these

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:12:03 GMT

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***

There are two little boys and their parents in the lobby as I enter the diner for breakfast with a few friends. The two brothers are jumping with excitement as they watch their mother attempt to win a stuffed animal from the claw game machine.

Unrelated, yes?

A while later, after breakfast, I am seated in the lobby, waiting for someone. A lady in about her 60's approaches the machine, and begins playing. She gets a stuffed Batman on her first try. "Ha ha!" she exclaims, and I cannot help but give her a grin; her enthusiasm is contagious.

I thought that was that, but she comes back, and sticks another dollar into the machine. She wins a hat. "Wow," I say. "You're good." The lady smiles, and puts on the hat.

As she is about to leave, the lady holds the Batman out to me. "Here," she winks, "you can have it." I had not expected that at all. Erm... I wondered if it would be right to accept something like that. I protested with a laugh, "No, no, you won it. You should keep it." After all, better safe than sorry.

She insists and holds it out again, with an expectant look. Oh dear. Well, I had not asked for it, and she had insisted, even after I'd refused. Better not make a scene - refusing a well-meaning elderly lady. So I took the Batman, and thanked her. "Have a nice day!" I said as she walked out the door.

Oh boy. There I was, sitting with a stuffed Batman in the lobby.

But, as Oceanovox proves, Destiny does funny things. The two little boys that I had spied earlier were running towards the game machine, having finished breakfast. "Daddy!" one of them exclaimed, pressing his face against the glass, "It's gone!" Poor kid, I chuckled, remembering myself as a child. "The batman's gone!" He repeats disappointedly.

Oh. The batman.

So I got up and handed him the stuffed toy. "Here you go," I said. The little boy reached out for it, but hesitantly glanced at his dad. I turned to his parents, explaining that a lady had given the batman to me earlier, but that his son could have it. "Are you sure?" they ask, surprised. I am blushing as the couple thank me profusely. The brothers can hardly contain themselves as they race around the lobby, making their batman fly.

***

During the entire exchange, I was thinking about Project Vox.

That day, I was going to leave a scrap of paper with our website address in the lobby, as a: "Hey! Something Oceanovox-ish happened here!!" But I had already attracted attention, and didn't want people to figure me out.

All in all, I hope that you enjoy discovering and sharing our project as much as Howl and I enjoy giving out the cards and meeting all of you.

***

In other news, I created a new Yahoo! photo album account, since the album on our site has exceeded its limit. The link is as follows, and can also be found on our website:

http://photos.yahoo.com/oceano_vox

Happy viewing,

~ Shout

** Edit:

Randomly left slips of paper w/ the Oceanovox site when I passed by UC Irvine this weekend, and also @ South Coast Plaza...

Summer Rush

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:11:22 GMT

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And please do comment in the guestbook and the forums!

It has been a while since I was last on here, but I kept quite busy! I'll be busy with college applications the next few months, so I'm trying my best to make as many cards during the summer. Anyways, I put in extra effort this time... if you want to see the cards, as a preview of sorts, before you explore our site, click the links below to see the corresponding card, with the location of where I dropped it off! I'm so nice. ^_^

Card 38: Fingerhut Gallery at Laguna Beach
Card 39: Borders at the Lakewood Mall
Card 40: On top of some As I Lay Dying shirts in the Hot Topic at the Lakewood Mall
Card 41: On top of the As I Lay Dying shirts in Spencer's at the Lakewood Mall... I'm not advertising a band here... Heh-heh.
Card 42: Shelf at Borders at the Cerritos Towne Center, with Dreiser books
Card 43: Starbucks at the Cerritos Towne Center with the chocolate covered espresso beans. Mmm...
Card 44: Walmart at the Cerritos Towne Center in the rack with Sin City DVDs.
Card 45: Art aisle at Borders at the Cerritos Towne Center
Card 46: Table in Starbucks at the Cerritos Towne Center
Card 47: Walmart at the Cerritos Towne Center, rack with V for Vendetta DVDs... the movie has a purpose similar to ours, I suppose.

My favorites here are Cards 41, 42, and 45. In case you're in a rush and don't want to look at all of them. =)

I need to get around more... out of my small town, at least.

HOWL

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:46:21 GMT

GO TO OUR OFFICIAL SITE ... and tell us how we're doing in the guestbook/forum

^^ Yay!! I added some beautiful watercolor backgrounds (thanks to Brownielocks.com) to some of our pages - see if you can find them. ;)

Aaaand, I put up some banners too, so post away on your websites, kids! Someone who's tried it - wanna tell me if it works?

(Banners are under "Spread the word" on website)

ciao,

Shout

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:57:44 GMT

GO TO OUR OFFICIAL SITE!

Pictures of our individual cards can be seen on the Photos link on the top of the page.

My card production has slowed down a bit, partly due to the fact that I have nowhere to go lately. Well, I did go to the local library today, but my small town (that has too much money and is trying to build up its reputation) doesn't receive street art too well. So, I only left my little handmade advertisements in random places. ^^

Well, I did go to the Irvine Spectrum (a huge mall in SoCal for you non-residents) and left:
Card 26: Metropark, once again on top of men's shirts. The guy who greets you at the entrance kept watching me... @_@
Card 27: Barnes and Noble, on a table propped up on Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It's in good literary company now.

That's it for now, but I think I'm going to the mall on Friday, so I'll see what I can get done by then.

HOWL

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 05:15:49 GMT

[This is HOWL, but just as a reminder, please remember to address your comments to either me, Howl, or Shout, if you want to talk to a particular person, so that it's easier for us to answer you back. Thanks.]

Back to Shout's entry...

I found my watercolors!! Yesssss!

So I'm going to brush up (oh. haha. Unintended pun there.) on my watercolor skills. Okay, so the watercolors aren't exactly mine... I "borrowed" them from a sibling. ;)

... The money issue to keep this project going creeps up - cardstock, printer ink, packaging tape; let alone art supplies and our personal time. It's currently not a big issue, but it's on our minds.

Don't get us wrong - we LOVE doing this. The adrenaline rush we get when we give away a card, when we see someone pick it up, or when we hear from you guys via internet - is priceless.

We just need all of you out there to continue to help us publicize, so that we get more support.

We definitely appreciate the love we've been shown so far though. =) KEEP IT UP!!

~ Shout

Howl is here...!

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:32:43 GMT

Well, there was my dramatic first appearance.

Now, on to my cards! I hope you all are taking good care of them... I didn't realize how difficult it would be to give them up to the public until I had the first card in my hand as I walked through the mall... [Alas! Sob...] Which brings me to my point... I have been keeping very good track of where I've left my cards!

Cards 10-17 went to Boston with Shout's cards (1-9)...

And I've been very busy while she's been gone with my current selection of Cards 18-25... Seriously, the moment I know I'm going somewhere, I start making as many cards as I can. I'm very devoted to this. [Pat myself on the back]

Card 18: Metropark on a pile of mens' shirts
Card 19: Starbucks table
Card 20: Hot Topic rack [It is now in the company of notebooks covered in Gothic fairies.]
Card 21: Random bench at the mall
Card 22: Computer station at the library
Card 23: Table in a reading corner at the library
Card 24: Shelf at Borders [alongside good literature!]
Card 25: In the CD rack at Borders [with Atreyu and the like... haha.]

Well, I'll leave it there for now, but do go to our site and my deviantArt account [only for my cards]!

HOWL

Thank you, Boston!

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:11:27 GMT

6/17/06 - During my trip, I left 15 of our 17 cards in Boston. Thank you, Boston, my stay was wonderful. I hope you enjoy our gift (in the form of 15 oceanovox cards xp) as well.

Before I left, I had a 'farewell photo shoot' with the 17 cards. Check them out in "photos." Hey, cut me some slack; it was really hard to give them up - especially since they were our first batch.

Notice: since Howl and I are still working on a set approach to the Vox Project, the first batch varied a bit in content. (read more under our website's "faq")

Curious as to where I left them? Hm, off the top of my head, I remember a small library near a school (Peabody?), the Boston Public Library, a Starbucks in downtown boston, on a bulletin board in an office building... the Boston Museum of Art, and on the "T." They were left on desks, slipped between books (but still very visible!), etc. Please take pictures - most importantly of what has been written inside of them so far - and email/post on our website!!

~ Shout