an interesting meme has developed on Twitter in the last 24 hours called the “When Obama Wins” meme, basically people are posting more and more outragious statements of what’s going to happen when Obama wins. All this, according to Kottke seems to have sprung from a tweet by Andrew Crow
When Obama wins… unicorns will crap ice cream and pastries.
Chillin’ productions 10 year anniversary is happening this Saturday (May 10th) at 8pm at Mezzanine (444 Jessie Street, SF). It is going to be an amazing showcase of designers (including a couple of t-shirt designers), artists, filmakers and DJ’s so if you’re in the area I highly recommend checking it out, it should be quite a party.
60 Fashion Designers
100 Painters/Photographers/Sculptors
40 Filmmakers
Visuals by INSTA-ACTION (www.insta-action.com)
LIVE screen-printing by SAN FRANPSYCHO, bring a shirt or booty-shorts
Live Painting
Fantastic Bonanza has 3 new designs up for pre-sale for $20 (that’s a $4 discount on their regular prices). You can save another 15% using the coupon “tcritic” as well.
I adore “The Peoples Condiment“, and I also love the new T-shirt model, hawt! A relative of Joe’s maybe?
The fancy mustachio is especially interesting as it uses some printing innovations like gold foil for the chaps monicle and some fuzzy suede ink for the fur.
In an exclusive offer for The Bargainst readers, Busted Tees takes $5 off any purchase with coupon code BARGAINISTBT1. Many shirts are now on sale for $12, and will ring up at just $7 after coupon. Expires 05/21/2008.
It says exclusive for Barganist readers but i’m sure you can use it as long as you promise to read it some time
On April 29, 2008 our boy Rex Vanderwoodsen set the Planet Douche World Record for the most popped collars worn at the same time by an individual. He did wear 23 Attus polos, popped all 23 collars, and he did take home the GOLDEN PIG AWARD.
Can you do better? I’ve got $100 threadless bucks that says you can, email photos to me at karl dot long at gmail with the subject line “douche competition”.
UPDATE:
As it turns out a friend of mine is organizing a group to do Bay To Breakers (an annual drunken fun run in SF) called “The Running Of The Douchebags” and for some reason has invited me.
and our first contestant is Dan with 20 popped collars:
Another amazing entry from Emma from the Daily Distraction blog, I love the before and after shots, and BTW these guys got 25 polo shirts on and wrecked a few.
BTW I just got an email from Whit at Attus Apparel and they are going to send the winner a couple of their polo awesome polo shirts as well to make up for the ones people have stretched out
Dirty Coast these are some t-shirts from New Orleans with some heart, they’ve got some great designs and none of them are what I would consider the kind of lowest common denominator tourist crap that you would often associate with a party/tourist town. Great stuff guys.
I particularly like The Dirge, the tagline of course “we put the fun in funeral”
Have you heard of DirtyCoast.com? I searched for it on your site and it wasn’t there. Well, they’re a great tshirt company based in New Orleans, and they do a bang-up job of highlighting secret and not so secret things that make New Orleans unlike any other city.
I think its a great way to show pride in your city, make great tshirts and do something good for the world.
I agree Lori.
If you want to win a $25 Threadless gift certificate be the first to answer this question in the comments. What town was this picture taken in and how long after Hurricane Katrina do you think it was?
Well I went to a Kentucky Derby Party on saturday and one of the guests had this awesome bulldog in a polo shirt. Actually turns out the shirt was from Old Navy, who would have guessed.
Interesting video/interview with the Threadless founders. Tara (blogger at HorsePigCow) put the video together and has written a book recently called the Whuffie Factor about businesses that are succeeding by leveraging web2.0/social media and of course the community. Threadless is probably one of the best examples of a community driven company.
The book that will catch the crest of Web 2.0 and show how any business can harness its power by increasing their Whuffie, the store of social capital that is the currency of the digital world.
I totally heart Teecycle.org for it’s simplicity, heart and reasonable prices. Essentially it is a blog that posts different “gently used” t-shirts for sale, each post on the blog has a picture of the t-shirt, and a link to paypal to buy that shirt. The pricing is generally $7 for the shirt $3 for shipping and they give $1 to the River Revitalization Foundation, talk about doing a fuck of a lot with a little, bravo guys.
Here’s what Tim, one of the founders sez
My philosophy is why waste resources and money on an expensive new shirt when you can have a one-of-a-kind cool recycled shirt?
Oh, and this is one of the amazing things about Twitter, the guy from Teecycle just followed me at 9.57, I went to see if I wanted to follow them back, checked out their blog and am writing about them 10 minutes later. Follow the Teecycle guy here and follow me here
Demonstrate your interest in arts and culture to the ladies (or men) by wearing the I’m Banksy shirt, much better than the NPR tote bag that you show off with at the Trader Joes.
On another topic May 7th is Tcritic’s 2nd birthday and I’d love to figure out something fun to do, any ideas feel free to add a comment here or drop me an email. The last couple of years have been so much fun and i’ve learned so much it’s been really incredible. I’ve tried my best over the last year to involve you guys as much as possible and I really appreciate it so much any time you make a comment or send me an email. I have to apologize that I can not reply to most of the emails I get but I do read them all.
Every day (almost) i'm trying to post a trivia/secret word question in a post on tcritic, all you have to do is be the first to guess it and put it in the comments and I will send you a $25 Threadless Gift Certificate.
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Tcritic is a blog about "good" t-shirts, funny, thought provoking, lampooning and satirical. It's really been insipired by a quote from the daily show, when a correspondent was in London after the bombings last year, he said "I like my grief in T-Shirt form Jon".
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