Slogans Y’all

We’ve been racking our brains for a Rabbit Hole slogan for months now and decided to turn it over to all of our creative friends and family. Here’s a random smattering of the oh-so-special ones we’ve received.

Every time you eat a cookie a rabbit gets its ears.

Oatmeal, better in a cookie than in a bowl.

These are the only cookies Chuck Norris eats.

Elves don’t have sh*t on rabbits.

Rabbits are fast. Eat our cookies slow.

Buy the cookies or the rabbit gets it!

Organic… Don’t you mean Oh Great!

Cookies taste better than rabbits.

… Umm… ????  Maybe we should keep searching…

Internet world, meet Bart.

OK, it’s due time we introduce you to the newest member of The Rabbit Hole team. Internet world, meet Bart.

Sure, he’s got some years on him, but don’t call him old, he’s vintage. (Yup, that’s a hand crank on the side!)

I’m a huge fan of our newly acquired Hobart 80 quart L-800 mixer because a. it’s probably older than me and still runs like a champ and b. I can now make 80 pounds of cookie dough in one batch.

So now you know the whole team. Actually we’ve yet to introduce you to Jenny, our hilarious, optimistic and endlessly creative intern, but she doesn’t like people taking pics of her, so we’ll have to be sneaky about it.

Glad we’re all acquaintances now,

Hannah

Pics from the costume contest

A few weeks ago, our friends at Simon Gallery in Morristown hosted a Halloween costume contest for all the kiddies in town and we were there to hand out wholesome, organic cookies rather than typical sugar-loaded candy.

Check out some of the adorable costumes we saw and a couple ridiculous pictures of Mahina and I in our Halloween gear:

http://www.nj.com/morristown/index.ssf/2009/11/morristown_halloween_roundup_p.html

Sometimes I wish Halloween came more than once a year… maybe tomorrow I’ll wear a green man suit to the office! (Any Always Sunny in Philadelphia fans out there?)

Have a good one y’all.

Garbage patch kids

Have you heard about the Pacific Ocean garbage patches?

I hadn’t until a few days ago and was shocked because I consider myself pretty “up” on environmental atrocities/news. No one likes preachy environmentalism, so in an effort to not sound like a total tree hugging psycho, I will restrain myself from writing all the horrors of plastic and let you look into it on your own if you feel so inclined. In a nutshell, there is a sludgey mess of decomposing plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean (accounts dispute over the size, which has been said to be anywhere between the size of Texas to twice the size of the continental U.S.) and it’s growing as plastics continue to be used and discarded.

If you haven’t seen pictures, read articles, or watched videos about this issue, do so. And get mad. Or sad, or whatever you get. Just promise us one thing: please don’t litter. I think you can handle it.

Here’s a link to an amazingly informative/scary/entertaining/sometimes hilarious series of videos about a crew who went out to research and report on “Garbage Island”: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/toxic/toxic-garbage-island-2-of-3

We throw stuff out that can’t biodegrade + it ends up in the ocean + fish eat it + we eat fish = we eat our own trash.

Ugh,

Hannah

Yup, more art

Yong-Ho Ji. Check it.

See more at http://english.ganaart.com/artists/ji-yong-ho/.

Enjoy this very November day, everyone.

x, Hannah

Art, art, more art

Hello again.

I’ve got art on my brain. Sometimes it’s the art of baking… dropping cookies neatly onto a gleaming silver cookie tray, making sure each little dough dollop has precisely the right amount of chips or chunks of fruit or ginger. Right now, though, I’ve got more traditional art popping up in my brain, like a slide projector possessed. A few days a week I work at a public university’s art galleries, so if it’s not cookies, or my own work, art is where my head’s at.

This weekend, while visiting a friend in Boston, I stumbled off the blustery Fall sidewalk and into the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge to spend the next couple hours sifting through used art books in the basement. My favorite find was a huge book, the kind that you place on the coffee table and it overshadows the table, itself becoming your new tabletop. This ten pound monster was a collection of paintings and mixed media work by the New York based artist Alexis Rockman. I cracked open the book into my lap on the dingy carpet floor and was immediately entranced, flipping page by page, astounded by each new eye present. He paints animals and plants with astounding detail in spectacular arrangements–part fantastical field guide, part two-dimensional melodramatic diorama. I can’t explain in words… you’ll just have to check out a couple for yourself… see more of his work at http://alexisrockman.net/work/projects/. The first one below is a comment on genetically modified farming and breeding. GMOs=terrifying and Rockman’s painting=hilarious.

Now that I’ve started, might as well devote this post to environmentally-focused art. Enjoy!

Phil Ross utilizes live plants, fungi and other organic materials to create his work. See more at http://www.philross.org/.

Andy Goldsworthy creates outdoor sculptures by rearranging materials on-site and then documenting the project. http://www.rwc.uc.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/TEST/index.html

One more: Fritz Haeg is making “animal estates” and “edible estates” ie. birdhouses and gardens, but they are much more than that. See below and see more at http://www.fritzhaeg.com/.

It blows my mind that the art world is accepting mushrooms, birds’ nests and leaves as art, but I love it.

Have fun out there, cookie-eaters and blog-readers.

Hannah