if you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man...

Look at these beautiful kicks from Nike, shouldn't they do more like this instead of chavvy, infinite colourways for their Air MAX? I like it when they take a gamble & put all their money on designs like this, now just got to find a way to up the ante, win big & get a pair winging their way to me tootsies. Make more Mr. Nike!

one, two, three, FOUR subs!

A four pronged attack on threadless this week, feel the force of my subbage Uncle Sam!
We got summat for everyone, wrong way up bat illo punnage, patterny graphic tiled weather wonder, badges stinkin under achievin badges & regular animals hunted head horrorshow. Success? Who feckin' knows!

my new bestest friends...

... is noisebot.com for having the solid design & business sense (& general all round good eggishness) to print my "Run Forrest, Run!" design. Originally subbed to threadless some time ago, but now given a new lease of life in tee, hoodie & bag form at noisebot. It is a 'pastiche' of the Forrest Gump movie poster, but now apeshit killing machine extraordinaire Jason Vorhees is sharing his box o' chocolates, tricky to run with a machete in your face, eh Forrest?!





Thankfully the power of this blog enabled them to contact me, so buy "Run Forrest, Run!" now!

new shirts ahoy!

Wotcha! A couple of shirts on order this week, first off we have 'Sexy Pack' by thunderpeel on threadless, I like it cos it's a jet pack dammit & it's got that real 50's Dan Dare vibe, like the badge detail on the front too.



This great piece of corporate subversion from Glarkware is a parody of the Subway logo. It's got a number of good things going for it; it's a pokey jibe at a huge multinational company & it's a zombie tee. Romero salutes you Glarkware.

glarkware

dress like you mean it

My site of the mo is Urban Industry, based down in Hailsham, in, wait for it, East Sussex. They've got a serious range of gear for your average urban commando (guess that name was taken), we got Addict, Carhartt, Fly 53RI35, LRG, MHI, SeventySeven, Stussy, to name but a few, and every inch of your body can be covered in one trip.



I've claimed one of these jackets as my own by Fly, I'm a fan of all things camo, but this is a little different to the norm. I got it for a steal at £45 from £65, so I be a blending in to the surroundings round your hood pretty soon.

urban industry

type(d)writer

I have a sub up on t'threadless & it 'seems' to be doing quite bouyantly. It is also part of The Joy Of Text 2: Textual Healing side compo, run by some rather stout chaps through the blog forum. The aim being to produce designs that utilise text, preferably hand created, as the main feature of the design. It's kind of a riposte to the anti-text brigade who find no mirth or merriment in the beauty of type... philistines!



I put plento of effort in this design, building up the image of a typewriter with a handdrawn typewriter font, layering the type to give depth. I kept it a black on white design just to emphasise the simplicity of what a typewriter is, & run parallel to the traditional black ink on white paper. I'm quite pleased with it so I'll just have to keep me fingers crossed.

If anyone does happen across these meanderings, the link below takes you to me sub on which you can vote accordingly, god bless.



update: 2.8! That's a pretty good show going by recent subs. Puts me second currently in the JOT2 rankings, so we'll just keep our bits crossed for that threadless email.

pretentious moi, mais oui?

In a shameless attempt to increase further my already well cultivated tee collection, I've reinvented myself as a bard type in entering the excellent tee blog Torso's Tank Theory giveaway compo. Avast as my words on theories dribble onto your receptive organs.

Theory of Theories by Webbins

The eerie thing about theories,
Is that no-one ever wearies,
From the constant speculation,
And the fervant celebration,

Of ideas borne in dreams,
Of slumber that turns to screams,
And all because our notions,
Are fuelled by basic emotions,

My theory on theories is that,
More than often they fall flat,
But we will always try in vain,
While our ideas outweigh our brain.

Fin

Fuck me if that's not a winner.

the end of 30 days

So the 30 days of threadless sale has ended, there have been some good shirts printed and some not so good, very not so good. I managed to acquire 2 shirts, behold...



I'm chuffed to bitsies to get the reprint of Funkalicious, although as I speak it's still waiting to be despatched (why do threadless take so long to despatch, employ some flunkies godammit!). Having missed out on the 1st edition print, this little hot cake sold out overnight while I snoozed & I losed. Facial Hair Club is good while not exactly groundbreaking but it's one of those conversation pieces, not that I'm bad at starting conversations, well you know what I mean.

i died for ewe

New threadless sub went up over the weekend, also for the 'Fast Food Nation loves threadless' sub comp. Big news for threadless is they allow subs with 5 colours now, & they are also releasing their own custom made tees. I've made use of the 5th colour to allow for a bit of shading, the design itself is inspired from the KLF, & the time in the 90's when they took a dead sheep to an awards ceremony with a note attached saying 'I died for you.' I've had some good comments so far so we'll just have to see.

update: like the lamb, this also died, 1.82/5... pass the mint sauce.

headbanger, fizzled & died

Ahhh, the joys & pleasure of subbing to threadless. I submitted 'Headbanger' on Thursday & the weekend came & went, into work on Monday & read the email informing me of it's acceptance to threadless, log in to threadless to view the wonderful comments... hang on, something is amiss, 1.43 out of 5, alas it failed to rouse the loins of the voting public & suffered a miserable fate. 72 designs & counting, no cigar, but God loves a tryer.