Yes we cannabis but not on your t-shirt

More t-shirt trouble. A guy gets banned from the mall for wearing a cannabis/Obama/Shepard Fairey parody tee and a fairly good one too. How ridiculous!

It seems the guy was told to either take off his tee or wear it inside out and he refused and made a scene and that’s what the ban is about but from what I can see they had no right to ask him to change it so said scene was probably deserved. My brother was asked to change his Che Guevara tee when he was in Las Vegas and he complied but it was because he was a guest in that country.

 

Cool Bruce Lee T-Shirt

I think the only time I mentioned Ink Fruit on this blog is when I wrote the Giant List of Ongoing T-Shirt Contest Sites. They do have some pretty good designs and today’s new release is pretty cool for pop culture aficionados. It’s a kind of Shepard Fairey does Bruce Lee and puts a vintage spin on it.

I wonder if they have licensed his image. Anyway it’s just $9 plus shipping from India.

Adopt a Pet T-Shirt by Shepard Fairey

When I first saw this I thought to myself: another Shepard Fairey knock-off. But it turns out that this design was actually knocked out by Shepard Fairey himself. Imagine that! Anyway, the tee is cute enough if you can get over the whole Shepard Fairey thing and it’s for a good cause. All profits go to Adopt-a-Pet.com.

It’s available in various styles. Check them out in the Obey Store.

T-Shirts for Haiti

I haven’t had time to post recently but I have been keeping up on things. One of the big things in the t-shirt industry in the last month or so has been the support for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Here are a collection of t-shirts or sites that are doing their bit.

1. Flying Mouse is contributing all profits from this tee too Unicef.

2. Local Celebrity collaborate with Yele Haiti and 100% of tee profits go there.

3. Threadless are contributing all proceeds (not just profit) from the sale of this tee to The American Red Cross and Haiti Relief and Development Fund. At the time of writing this post they have already sold 7000 of these $10 tees and they plan to sell up to 15,000 more. Awesome!

4. Bungie (makers of video game Halo?) are contributing profits from this t-shirt as well as all online store profits through February directly to the relief efforts in Haiti.

5. Cafepress had a t-shirt designed by Shepard Fairey (which is no longer on sale) as well as designs donated from the community which are still available. Cafepress have already donated $30,000 to the US fund for UNICEF.

6. Storenvy have a selection of beautiful shirts and $8 from each sale will go to the American Red Cross. Lots of designers offered up their designs and they all deserve a shout out but only six were chosen.

7. Blink 182 apparently raised $30,000 for Haiti with this t-shirt but it doesn’t seem to be on sale anymore.

8. Lady Gaga also added her celebrity power to a charity t-shirt with all proceeds going to the Red Cross.

9. ZBQ will donate $6 from every t-shirt sold in their until the end of February which is pretty awesome as they have a great collection of original tees.

TeeFury Preview

I haven’t seen this happen before but I received a preview of the next three shirts at TeeFury from Teevil, the evil TeeFury bird. (A little bird told me.) It’s a bit weird but I guess it is an attempt to get more sales at the site. The first tee which has already gone on sale is by Wotto.

The second tee is a parody of the infamous Shepard Fairey Obama poster. It’s a mashup of current theme of the month Zombies. Although Zombies are like, sooo last month IMHO…like ya know.