Kelli Connell www.kelliconnell.com Kelli Connell's artwork immediately grabbed us. Subtle, honest images of a relationship between two women... but that's not all,... the events portrayed in these photographs look believable, yet have never occurred. Both women are portraits of the same model. We were happy to make a website to display her beautiful images.

I Love You Baby Collective www.iloveyoubaby.org After 10 years, we still meet with our pals every Wednesday to paint on the same canvas, have music shows even though we dont know how to play music, make signs that make people laugh and much much more. We update the website almost every week documenting the good AND bad ideas of what is now known worldwide as I Love You Baby.

Rice School of Architecture arch.rice.edu When RSA - a prestigious school of architecture asked us to create their website, it made our knees wobble. It’s not an easy task pleasing a plethora of opinionated architects young and old alike. But a challenge is a challenge, and so far, all of them are very happy with the final result!

Photographer Paul Swen: www.paulswen.com Paul Swen’s stuff has pizzazz-- it’s got plenty o’ pep, but it’s not petty pap… now pour me another pernod, Poopsie! Paul can do it all -- from advertising to artwork, to travel -- he is serious about capturing the world around him, and his work shows it. We created a straight up portfolio so he can organize and show off his work.

Mtv Spankin New Music Week www.mtv.com Mtv needed splash screens based on the spots created by Shilo Design during Spankin' New music week. So we gave the viewers the ability to do the spankin'. Choose from Pop, Rock or Gadget versions.

Mtv Choose or Lose www.mtv.com MTV called us to make a splash screen urging kids to vote this election. So we combined celebrities and regular folks talking about the importance of voting. For the week leading up to the 2004 election, these screens were the first thing seen when visiting www.mtv.com.

ANTI- Records www.anti.com Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Merle Haggard, Jolie Holland, Joe Strummer, and more... Real artists creating great recordings on their own terms. We hope the website we helped to create will be as timeless as the artists on ANTI- have been, and will be.

Shillam + Smith Architects urbaneye.co.uk When Shillam + Smith phoned from London and asked us - a couple of Texan cowpokes - to come up with something for their website, we hopped on our horse and delivered. Working with our friend who lives in Rostock Germany, this truely was our first full-scale international project. Look out world... The Speared Peanut: Houston! London! Rostock!

Christian Eckart www.christianeckart.com Christian Eckart is as serious about art as an artist can get. At the same time he is as down to earth as they come, and we are proud to have created an online gallery for his beautiful work.

Ballroom Marfa www.ballroommarfa.org We continue to contribute our part to the Texas art scene with our latest work for Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, Texas. Marfa is known as the shooting location of the movie "Giant", and home to Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation. We strongly suggest you visit this beautiful place at some point in your lifetime.

Georganne Deen www.westernwitch.com We fell in love with Georganne’s artwork from the minute we saw her show at Mixture Gallery. Then we fell in love with Georganne. The site we made for her is as simple as it gets, but we plan to get much more complicated in the very near future. If you like things odd, visit again soon.

Lou Reed www.loureed.com “My week beats your year.” - Lou Reed. Yeah, Lou is cool and you know it. We are just a couple of lucky punks who were given the chance to design his website. Even though this site is loaded with content, we still have plenty of work to do. So if you are a Lou Reed fan (which you should be), please visit often.

Jack Thompson Photography www.jthompsonphoto.com Reliable, Dependable, Painless. That’s Jack Thompson. Jack is also a great photographer. His site (and all of it's tattooed glory) houses over 180 photographs, and has room for another 400 more. Take some time out to gander at each and every one of them.

Museum of Fine Arts Houston MFAH Films Slide Show The Museum of Fine Arts Houston partnered with us to increase the awareness of their permanent collection. We designed a unique showreel of masterpieces, using the museums permanent works, to run during the prelude to the big picture. See photographs of the big screen...

Garland Jeffreys www.garlandjeffreys.com As well as having quite a solo career, Garland has played with Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley among others. Garland sent down a huge box containing memorabilia from his entire life. We tried to fit the whole darn thing into his website. When you visit the site, make sure to look for the photographs.

AIGA Houston Invitations AIGA Houston asked us to use our drawing skills to promote a couple of their 2002 events. The first project was for a talk given by Sean Adams. The second project was a series of illustrations promoting a design conference to be held on a cruise ship. View illustrations: Sean Adams / AIGA Cruise invitations

Utah Carol www.utahcarol.com Featured in Communication Arts 8th Interactive Annual, utahcarol.com introduces and promotes the independent musical duo from Chicago. Launched concurrently with the self-release of their second album, the site mirrors the artistic vision behind their musical style.

Mixture Gallery www.mixturegallery.com An emerging gallery on the contemporary art scene, Mixture was looking for a way to keep art enthusiasts up to date on current exhibitions. Mixture’s website enables visitors to uncover artists work and current exhibitions while at the same time attracting new talent to the gallery.

Contax Cameras N1 www.contaxcameras.com/n1 Known for the quality of its optics and electronics engineering, Contax wanted the site for the launch of the N1, a new camera, to be as “technical looking” as possible. Speared Peanut created a microsite to live within the larger Contax corporate site.

Frank Brisco for Congress Campaign Frank Brisco took time off from work to stand up for what he believes in. When he asked for our help we were more than willing to use our skills to create a campaign logo and small website for a much larger cause.

Star Massing Red Head Hunter A red head who is a professional head hunter. Put two and two together and you got a business. We made this simple website for Red Head Hunter to help people find work.

New Studio Slide Show Moving Announcement We moved into a studio above an old deli on a little street that looks like an old town. It seemed so out of place in Houston and we loved it so much, that we wanted to give people an idea of where we were at. So we made this little slide-show-sing-along.

Kyle Henricks & Paul Kremer Kroger- Borg One of our favorite artists in Houston dropped by with a great idea. Let’s make a site about nothing, but that looks like its about something. Kroger-Borg was born... took three hours from start to finish.

National Geographic Team Adventure Starting New Year’s Eve 2000, Team Adventure and six other catamaran crews battled their way from Barcelona, Spain, to Marseilles, France... the long way. It was called The Race: 26,000 miles (41,834 kilometers) around the world. Nonstop.

National Geographic Pulse of the Planet Pulse of the Planet began with the work of Jim Metzner who records audio details as he travels around the world. The site blends interviews with extraordinary natural sound. Each weekday content is broadcast to more than one million listeners and over 300 public and commercial stations worldwide.

John Lurie Strange and Beautiful Music The official website designed for avant-jazz bandleader John Lurie and his record label Strange and Beautiful Music. Learn about the “Fishing With John” film series. Go with Papa Lurie on mania-filled fishing trips with his celebrity pals. See Tom Waits get seasick...

Tom Waits Photographs by Marinko Matura If you’re unable to see Waits live, then this photo site is the next best thing. Access the site, put on your favorite Tom Waits album. Breath heavily and stare at these photos. If you stare hard enough, Marinko’s images move. If not, beat your monitor with a sledgehammer until they do...

Ralph Carney I Like You A Lot CD Sleeve Ralph is a strange bird. But a very talented and unique strange bird. He’s performed in studio and on stage with the likes of Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman, William Burroughs, B-52’s, Galaxie 500, and The Black Keys, to name a few. We did the Art for his second solo album, “I Like You A Lot”. View the cd sleeve...

America Online MediaSpace AOL contacted us about a redesign and expansion of their 2000 Media site, a place for potential advertisers to find out more about advertising guidelines, demographics and much more. View screenshots...

MCA Records: Blink 182 Fart Jokes, fart jokes, fart jokes... we were in charge of making Blink's site look like their album cover “The Mark, Tom And Travis Show”. We also animated still cartoons drawn by Glen Hanson. View... Blink182 Navigation and intros: "Banana", "Race", "Fatso" and "Shower"

Trading Card Source www.tradingcardsource.com Trading Cards... collectors items, right? No.. a whole different world. Cards with holograms, foil stamps, cards that talked... you name it. We made a place where people could get these things in bulk if need be. View screenshots...

Capitol Records: www.chrisgaines.com Garth done gone crazy, Mabel. So, of course we couldn't resist doing a web site for what seemed to be a big step in the art of self promotion. Learn about the most bizarre persona quick-change in pop-country music history.

WABY Radio www.waby.com Superbly maintained by a trio of maniacal nostalgia buffs, from 1998-2001, WABY broadcasted radio that married golden age nostalgia with computer age technology... a first of it's kind. View screenshots...

MCA Records: Leona Naess Gifted singer/songwriter Leona Naess has diverse influences that range from Edie Brickell to Joy Division. Leonas' songs ultim-ately offer a ray of hope through the darkness, as she champions the simple everyday pleasures in life. See: flash intro & main

National Geographic Everest: Measure of a Mountain From March 15 to June 1, 1999, a team of scientists, climbers, and Sherpas set out to find the exact measurements of Mount Everest. Read Dispatches from the event, as the researchers determined that yes, Mt. Everest was still rather large.

The Remedi Project Random Order Here we studied the relationship between random happenings and the natural order of things. What did we ultimately conclude? Mainly that you can't effectively study randomness and order using empirical methods, as there were no truly objective results. Know whadda mean, Vern?

Dreamworks Records Self Matt Mahaffey was a professional musician before he hit puberty. His adolescent years were spent recording demos. Next thing you know, the kiddo hits big the Dreamworks album Breakfast With Girls. Who knows, matt might soon be dating Wynona Ryder. This was a micro-site originally embedded into the Dreamworks website.

Dreamworks Records eels This is the site we created for The Eels' second release, Electro-Shock Blues. Included in this site was an animated biography of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist E (real name Mark Oliver Everett). This was a micro-site originally embedded into the Dreamworks website.

Dreamworks Records Prince of Egypt Quick flash presentation for the three soundtracks from the movie Prince of Egypt. This was a micro-site originally embedded into the Dreamworks website.

Born Magazine Echo This is basically what some mousy, bespectacled guy in a white lab coat would call “user-controlled repetition.” We at the Speared Peanut, however, would call it “driving yourself temporarily insane.”

PBS Online 1998 Annual Report In 1999, PBS asked us to translate their printed annual report into a web site. This online companion made it more flexible for investors and shareholders to extract PBS’s critical content and the clear navigation allows visitors to move between sections easily.

Ralph Elliott AAA Plug-In Wood Ralph is an individual... an enlightened craftsmen that make one-of-a-kind, plug-in-wood lamps. Ralph has turned lamp-building into a legitimate art form. And whereas most art is inherently useless, his is not only aesthetically-pleasing, but also provides a viable solution to those nagging darkness problems!

Kristina Kremer Sculpture Studies With skill, imagination and enough clay to pave a thousand tennis courts, Kristina is learning to recast and perfect the human form as we know it. View her work...

PBS Online Austin City Limits From 1998-2000 this was the official home of Austin City Limits on the web. Austin City Limits yields a bonanza of rootsy all-American music straight from Austin, Texas the “Live Music Capital of the World.” View screenshots...

Paul Kremer Strangers Paul and Toke from k10k traded five minute pixel drawings which they dubbed “Strangers,”. Mike Schmidt and Claus Kristensen joined in the fun and eventually used all of the strangers in a feature issue at called “The Night of Mr. Melvin's Murder” on k10k.

Cool Films www.coolfilms.com Cool Films having anything but a “cool” website would be un-thinkable. The goal was to come up with something “cool”, but not obviously “cool”, ya dig? So, we hope you think what we ended up with is whatever you think “cool” is.

PBS Online Secrets of the Ocean Realm Believe it or not, there’s more perplexing sea life featured here than at your local sushi restaurant. Here’s the online companion we designed for PBS’s ten-part series “Secrets of the Ocean Realm.” The website brings some of the ocean’s most mysterious, danger-ous and fascinating sea creatures right into your home.

Paul Kremer I Hate Mosquitos Ever had that one mosquito somehow weasle it’s way under your covers and bite you over and over again as you are trying to sleep? Well instead of sleeping, Paul decided get up and try to figure out frames. This is the result of one late nights work (circa 1996).

PBS Online The Point Created in 1997 for the Public Broadcasting System, The Point served as the on-line hub for all PBS news and news related programs. View screenshot...

Moe Tucker's Taj Moe Hal The Taj Moe Hal is the official web site for rock n’ roll hall of famer, Maureen “Moe” Tucker, former drummer for hugely-influential Rock n' Roll group The Velvet Underground. Includes a shopping section where you can buy CD's, home-made t-shirts and posters directly from Moe herself.

Kent Williams www.kentwilliams.com We stumbled upon Kent Williams artwork in a magazine and immediately did some research. Unfortunatly at the time (1996) we couldnt find any information online. So we contacted the magazine, and Kent contacted us. We built him a small website in trade for some of his artwork. This was our very first website.