Walking home down 9th street, I spotted a ridiculously colored and patterned shirt in a thrift store window. I'm not exactly sure what compelled me to go in, because I'm not exactly a big clothes shopper, but I decided to go in and try it on. It fit perfectly so I ended up buying it.
...my prototype design for a line of t-shirts called Temporary that have designs on them that slowly wear away and change over multiple washes.
My idea was that you'd use two different iron-ons on the shirt. The first iron-on would be permanent, then on top of that first layer, you'd iron-on a second, semi-permanent layer that's designed to slowly wear-away as you wash it....
Until one day, the top layer is completely gone and you're left with what's underneath! I put together animated GIF versions and was all gung-ho about doing a KickStarter project for a while, but then I got busy with all sorts of other stuff! Here's the animated design for Human Skin & Bone.
I asked Vin if he could do one of children playing turning into tiny skeletons! I love the drawing he did so much! I still think it's a really neat idea for a run of t-shirts, but I got busy with other stuff.
...you don't even imagine the stuff she buys for people she doesn't like. Hahaha. (Actually this shirt is, quite possibly, the best shirt EVAR!). The giraffe's all "What happened to Boo Ya? I'm totally gonna bring Boo Ya back."
Here's the king's insignia! (Now that I'm back in NYC, I wear this shirt on Monday's and go to Thai restaurants and it never fails to make the Thai people that are there smile!). Thanks for the awesome president, Mer!
Meredith woke me up at 6pm to give me my birthday present: A yellow "King Shirt!" The Thai absolutely LOVE their monarch. Seriously, it's hard to explain unless you go there and see it in person. Anyway, each day of the week has a color associated with it. Monday's color is yellow and since the king was born on a Monday, yellow is the king's color. And every Monday, pretty much everyone in Thailand wears yellow to honor the king!
Hey, at least the one button she left me was up top. That way I could cover my chest up (er, sorta) and simultaneously look like a fashionable Hispanic west coast gangbanger. Thanks, Lo!
Oh, that's right. And then at the very end of the song when I dropped to my knees for the final high-note, Lorelei reached up and ripped my shirt open (popping off ALL of the buttons except for one).
...Dodgeball.com t-shirt! Dennis to Josh: "Happy Birthday...now help promote my company!" (Actually, I'm only teasing Dennis! The dodgeball shirt was relevant because after we graduated college and we all got booted off Syracuse University's web servers, Dennis bought the dodgeball.com domain as a place for the three of us to move our personal sites to! They were hosted there for a year or two until Dennis wanted to use to domain for a "city guide" project he was working on in 2000. So that's when Dennis moved his personal site to TeenDrama.com and I bought the I Keep a Diary domain!)
First up, a sweet Haight-Ashbury tie-dyed shirt. When I was like "This shirt's way too big!" They replied "Don't worry, you're going to start smoking lots of pot and do nothing out there. You'll get real fat and grow into it."
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