Handsome Men’s Club T-Shirt

I don’t watch Jimmy Kimmel. There’s no particular reason that I don’t watch him. I just don’t. I have seen a few clips on youtube though and some of the sketches were funny. The whole Matt Damon, Sarah Silverman thing was quite good. Well, it did deteriorate but it started out well. I just saw this video and I’m not sure if it was funny or if it was interesting just because there were a lot of stars in it but anyway, I’m pretty sure that there will be a ton of HMC t-shirts coming out soon because of it and not surprisingly the first one I found was from Zazzle. Actually I was just about to upload my own version when I found it and as it was better than mine I decided to post about it.

Lost Polar Beer T-Shirt is back!

Ian Leino sent me an email a while back to let me know that this Lost inspired t-shirt, which in its previous incarnation was sold at Teefury, was making its second appearance in his own Big Cartel hosted store.

I ripped this quote from host blog because it has some juicy details about the creation of this design:

Created entirely by hand with scratchboard, my newest design squarely inhabits the junction of LOST mythology and classic beer label design, executed in a vintage, hand-tooled style rarely seen in t-shirt graphics. Or at least I’VE never used it before

This t-shirt was popular enough at Teefury that even one of the writers of the show was wearing it. Not bad considering it was on sale for just one day.

I am a fan of Lost and am looking forward to seeing how it plays out. I hope they have some good explanations and conclusions.

Lost Writer in TeeFury Lost Parody T-Shirt

One of the writers and executive producers of hit TV show Lost has been caught wearing a Lost parody t-shirt created for t-shirt-a-day site TeeFury. It will probably land them a bit of traffic but they won’t be able to sell any more of those t-shirts because they are on sale for one day only. Perhaps the tee in question will go on sale somewhere else. Ian Leino, The designer must be chuffed.

New Busted Tees are just genius

That is a pretty clever title you must admit. Today Busted Tees released a few new tees that are pretty cool. One is a Kiss version of Einstein and it is one of those designs that make you wonder why it took someone so long to think about of. The image of Einstein sticking his tongue out does remind me of Gene Simmons.

Very clever. The second t-shirt is nothing special design-wise but as I just recently watched Freaks and Geeks for the first time recently I also created a design to be sold in my Zazzle store. But I haven’t had time to upload it yet. This design is better than mine actually and combines the school’s name with the club which mine didn’t. Another thing that I noticed is that Busted Tees have found another bra-less model with protruding nipples. Good find.

So you’re admitting I’m a celeb

I came across this cool but slightly overpriced t-shirt this morning. If you are a fan of entourage’ Johnny Drama you might like this one.

Sesame Street Fighter T-Shirt at Jinx

I saw this t-shirt at Jinx and it is quite fun combining things from my childhood and late teens to create an awesome if perhaps a little too colorful parody t-shirt. Sesame Street Fighter. Who’s gonna HADOKEN Big Bird. He’s probably tough but the bigger they are the harder they fall.

Star Trek Uniform T-Shirts

With the release of the new Star Trek movie I think we are going to see a resurgence of Star Trek merchandise. I have already seen a t-shirt somewhere that will certainly have sales driven by the release. I think the owners of the Star Trek brand will put a stop to most of it though like they did with the parody, Bar Trekkin’, recently. ThinkGeek, on the other hand, have an officially licensed top or several of them in various colors. So now you Trekkies, Trekkers and wannabe Enterprise crew can suit up in your favorite colors – blue, red, yellow or green for Captain.

“Four officially licensed shirts, in command-gold, ops-red, sciences-blue, and captain-green. Each shirt has a different “flex and flock” insignia, depending on the department, all of which are on the upper-left chest, except for the captain’s green shirt which places the insignia low on the hip. 100% preshrunk cotton.”

There are also a couple of other Star Trek inspired shirts that may or may not be licensed goods too but you would probably have had to have see a few episodes of Star Trek to get them. Yes, guilty as charged but  I stopped watching them about 20 years ago. God I’m old. Anyway you can check out the Resistance is Futile and Expendable t-shirts below.

House T-Shirt at TeeFury

A great t-shirt at Teefury for fans of hit TV show House. Not that it’s a great t-shirt, it’s probably on the unfavorable side of average. It’s basically a cleverly photoshopped image of Hugh Laurie’s photo that makes it look like he is turning into a demon with some text that fans of House (like me) are sure to appreciate.

I wonder if this is how TeeFury intends to continue from now on though. I thought yesterday’s t-shirt was about as blatant a copyright infringment as you could get until this one. I wonder if it will catch up them like happened to Ben from Fright Rags as he mentioned on How to Start a Clothing Company. Maybe I am wrong though and TeeFury have a licensing deal with the owners of these characters. I doubt it though.

In my opinion though I think that the bigger crime was TeeFury printing the Lebowski design on that bottle green t-shirt. I would totally go for the yellow.

Threadless tees offer a new perspective

Again I apologize for the lack of posts recently. I hope to return to the normal pace but I realize that it is unlikely that it will happen anytime soon. I have a lot on my plate at the moment with three jobs and a baby on the way. I have other things going on that take my time too but I won’t bore you with the details. I will tell you about two new shirts while I sit here smugly thinking to myself what a clever title this post has.

The first is Solitary Dream Pt2 by Budi Satria Kwan aka Radiomode and on top of the clever illustration I just like the colors.

The second t-shirt is similar in theme in that it is turning our preconceived conceptions upside down. In this one the puppets are really the puppet masters. I think we can expect this from Bert though although I think he should have had a more evil smile on his face. It’s by Aled Lewis and seems to be a Sesame Street parody.

Iffyton High Street

I came across this very cool project a few days ago. It is a virtual street called Iffyton High Street. I guess it is for people who like to browse in many stores but don’t really like to leave the house. This is a British site and perhaps it is the British weather had inspired such an idea. Most of this street is made up of t-shirt stores but there are a few other features too. Well, I decided to take a little stroll and I’ll tell you about what I saw.

1. A Kick up the Grass – First up is a soccer (or football) inspired t-shirt store with a pretty small selection. They are done in the style of cartoons and include caricatures of famous scenes from football like Eric Cantona’s flying kick and Vinnie Jones’ ball crushing technique. Great themes but the shirts don’t really work for me. The shirts are all £9.99.

2. Rebel or be Damned – This is a punk themed store which features a Sid Vicious t-shirt, Winston Churchill with a mohican and a misplaced Marilyn Monroe tee. There are 7 tees in all and the first few don’t know whether they want to be a punk or a graphic t-shirt and end up as a not very interesting hodge podge.

3. Gettin Shirty – This store seems to be stocked with old rock band t-shirts like Guns ‘n Roses Appetite for Destruction and even Bon Jovi.  Not really my bag but you can’t say that an Iron Maiden Number of the Beast black t-shirt isn’t a great piece of retro rock art. All rock, all black and all £13.99.

4. Made in England – British themed t-shirts for $9.99. Sure beats I heart London. Some world famous faces like Churchill (again) and Johnny Rotten make an appearance as well as some more obscure characters from old British TV shows.

5. It’s grim up north – Strange name for a t-shirt store but possibly appropriate for most of the t-shirts in the store are pretty grim including Liam Gallagher (of Oasis) giving the two fingered salute. It has pretty much the same meaning as flipping the bird in the US.

6. Cream Tease – A few overpriced ($24.99) but reasonably well designed t-shirts that you might expect to see on a biker or perhaps a biker chick. Not my bag.

7. Royal T – If you like your t-shirt designs to be cartoons of Lego versions of pop culture icons such as Knight Rider,  the Beatles and Monkey you have found the right store. There are also some photo composites with celebrities like Audrey Hepburn on the decks and Bruce Lee with a skateboard. T-Shirts are $9.99. Check out the old school iPod.

8. End of the Line – A few tees at $5.99 and a lucky dip bundle of 5 t-shirts for only $10. Good price but of course you don’t know what you are going to get.

That’s about it for t-shirt stores but you can’t talk about Iffyton Street without mentioning TOT Shirts. TOT stands for Totally Original T-Shirts. They practically run this town. Nothing happens in Iffyton without them knowing about it. They are a screen printers but they provide a host of other services such as embroidery, bagging, tagging and packing.

If you want to set up store on Iffyton High Street you might have to talk to them. On top of producing the t-shirts for you they also provide a whole range of fulfillment services. Find out more at the Iffyton Web Store.

There is more to Iffyton High Street than shopping though. They have a concert venue called Iffy Voices.

You can also watch an old dude ranting away on Iffy TV which is shot at Nan’s house. You can see an example below this image or just click on the image to go to Nan’s House.

They have other cool stuff including a newsletter and advertising space. Be sure to check out Iffyton High Street.

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