Hello and welcome to our brand new blog.
By Ari | Jan 8, 08 11:19 AM
Well here we are. Finally! This website has been a long time in the making. The design couldn't keep up with how fast our work has been growing and changing, and had to be totally redone several times as we reconceptualized what on earth it is we're doing here. Shira will write about her end of things, so I'll just cover my own path to this new website.
I've been blogging in some form or other since 1998 or so; my most recent blog, several years in the running, was called pinkrabbitsays. Meanwhile, I was showing my work at arimoore.com - and was increasingly realizing that my politics, activism and blogging were overlapping more and more with my graphic design and illustration work, as well as with my self-education, art and writing. I've been thinking a lot about connections lately, and seeing the value in looking at things holistically. So I think this new site comes out of that - all of our work and play under one roof.
In college folks constantly mixed up our names. Our friend Diane jokingly called us "Shirari", at one point actually sending us a package addressed to "Shirari Molding-Gore" (our last names are Golding and Moore). So here we are starting a new site and a new business together. We're calling it Shirari Industries, because we're Shira and Ari, and we're industrious. I hope you dig it. Thanks for visiting.
P.S. Please contact us if you run into anything that's not working yet - this site is fresh out of the oven!
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Comments
Why MT 3.2? why not 4.0/4.1 ?
Posted by: david | January 10, 2008 02:01 PM
I'm lazy and assumed Pair (our host, who handled our MT installation) had upgraded it - and then didn't realize they hadn't until we were racing to launch. It'll have to wait for shirari 2.0...
Posted by: Ari Moore | January 10, 2008 06:21 PM
hi ladies
this is your long lost friend dropping you a line from 'wa-ha-ka'. the site looks great. you have promoted yourselves truthfully and professionally. i am really proud of you for your efforts and dedication. hope you had a happy and healthy new year. let's talk soon. love you both, emily
Posted by: professor emily g | January 11, 2008 03:55 PM