The T-Shirt Blog

PETA vs. PEATA: Round 2

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central
Tags: peta, peata

Threadless released a bunch of new t-shirts today, and I just had to get this one in.  Turns out meat IS murder.

P.S.: PETA is at least making an attempt to meet all you carnivorous meatheads halfway.

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T-Shirts That Kill

Posted on April 19th, 2008 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central, Current and Topical
Tags: PETA, vegeterian, vegan

Just wanted to post some carnivorous t’s in response to my post about PETA.

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One Horse Shy does Cafepress

Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central, Custom T-Shirts, Geeky tees, Shop Reviews

I’ve been working hard on a couple of my own t-shirt designs lately, and a part of my ispiration is a site called One Horse Shy.  You might not notice just by looking at it, but OHS fully relies on Cafepress‘ on-demand printing and ordering platform.  What’s amazing is how seamlessly the Cafepress ordering system is integrated into the website, and how professional the t-shirts and the site’s design look.  One of my absolute favorites is “bad grammar makes me [sic],” and there plenty more shirts organized into topical categories, such as  Political, Religious, Topical.

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Guiness World Records — Most T-Shirts Worn At The Same Time

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central
Tags: t-shirt, world, record

So I happened to watch a Guinness World Records TV special 2 weeks, which happened to feature a t-shirt related record nestled amongst all the other, mostly useless feats.  The record in question is most t-shirts worn at the same time, and needless to say that it’s more than the total number of t-shirts I have ever owned:

That’s 100 pounds of t-shirtness worn all at once, although I really have to question “Dance Of The Valkyries” as music choices.  Definitely has me seeing “Apocalypse Now” flashbacks. 

Further digging around reveals  many other failed and apparently successfull attempts to break the record.  It also turns out that the record Guinness showcased on NBC had already been broken before the airing of the show.  Take a look at the following clip, as a man named Charlie Williams from the UK sets the new record at 224.  This video wins on many different levels — each t-shirt is painted on by schoolchildren, and the guy makes funny faces while wearing all sorts of different sunglasses in each shot… just watch:

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Priceless T-Shirt Images From Google

Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central, Dirty Dirty Tees
Tags: bsod, t-shirt, tshirt

While a lot of my posts review indie t-shirt labels and shirts you can buy online, sometimes the best and most outrageous tees are those you can’t buy at all:

[via Google Images and Coolest Gadgets]

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What kind of t-shirt person are you?

Posted on February 10th, 2008 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central
Tags: bustedtees, tshirthell, threadless

I’ve come to notice that some of the most popular t-shirt sites seem to be complete opposites.  Take T-Shirt Hell and Threadless, for example.  Both do extremely well, yet I can’t imagine their tees coexisting peacefully in the same closet. 

Have a different t-shirt shop in mind that truly is your favorite?  Let everyone know in a comment and maybe I’ll add it to the poll.  (Commenting couldn’t be easier and doesn’t require registration.)

T-shirt designers are welcome to plug their site, but please make a case for why your t-shirts really are worth our attention.

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Awesome Animated T-Shirts in Justice Music Video

Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central
Tags: D.A.N.C.E., Justice, youtube, wordpress, t-shirts

It’s 3:00AM here, and I’ve just figured out how to embed Youtube videos in my blog.  Believe it or not it’s not that simple, as grabbing the code Youtube gives doesn’t work with my blog software, and the official fix didn’t work for me either.  So, I’m kicking things off with the most amazing t-shirt related video that Youtube has to offer!

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Moblogging with The T-Shirt Blog

Posted on November 23rd, 2007 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central
Tags: math, delicious, shortie, tee, shirt

I came across the idea of moblogging about t-shirts while reading a recent post by Karl at Tcritic. This of course prompted me to check my Blackberry Pearl, with the mostly empty 2 GB MicroSD card inside, and 1.3 megapixels of cameraphone goodness.  The findings revealed the following photo of a delicious t-shirt from Questionable Content, as worn by a friend of a friend.

There was also another random tee shot. Your guess is as good as mine as to what they were putting the “fun” into.

Now, I don’t think I’ll be doing a whole lot of this kind of “reporting” in the future. Trying to convince someone to let you take a picture of their shirt is bad enough, but where is the karma pointing a camera at their chest because of the t-shirt they are wearing, as opposed to the t-shirt they are not wearing?  Anyhow, my closet has plenty of undocumented tees to share.

The tee is a gift loan from a friend, who got it from Steve & Barry’s, a department store chain NY and perhaps other places.  Unfortunately a web search for this shirt turned up nothing at all, neither on their website, nor on ebay, not anywhere else.  So if you happen to really want a creamy pink guy’s t-shirt that says “Shortie” on it, you are SOL unless you are willing to DIY via Zazzle

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Gawker Shop Slogan Submissions

Posted on October 27th, 2007 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central
Tags: t-shirt, tshirt, slogans

What happens in Idaho stays on Craigslist.

No, I don’t have a minute for Greenpeace.

(Full Disclosure: I Know Everyone.)

Ask me about my ability to evade questions.

These are a few of the user submitted slogans I liked and upvoted at Gawker Shop user submission page.  Hopefully some of these will make it onto actual shirts.

As I previously documented, Gawker Media runs a t-shirt shop along with their core interests in the blog medium. Sounds like a good combination - clever slogan tees have a wide appeal, and are exposed to lots of eyeballs from the blogs. Come to think of it, one of the biggest t-shirt vendors of them all began as an offshoot of College Humor.

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Threadless Sale Coverage

Posted on August 28th, 2007 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central
Tags: threadless.com, sale, t-shirt, tshirt

Every change of season brings with itself a frenzied 8 day period known as a Threadless sale. Plenty of new shirts get released, classic tees are reprinted, and guys’ sizes M and L become increasingly rare commodities. All standard tees are of course only $10.

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Tad Nugent

Posted on August 24th, 2007 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central
Tags: ted, tad, nugent, 70's, show

Do you remember that episode of “That 70’s Show” where Fez misspells “Tad Nugent” on the bootleg t-shirts he is trying to sell at a Ted Nugent concert:

Hyde: Fez, its TED Nugent.
Fez: Uh huh, Tad Nugent. (Said with a slurr of a mixture of Ted and Tad.)
Hyde: No man, I’m saying Ted.
Fez: I’m saying Tad, too.

You get the idea. I guess these shirts were left over.

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A Bit of Shameless Self-Promotion.

Posted on August 6th, 2007 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central
Tags: chode, choad, rhode, island, t-shirt

I got the idea for this t-shirt a couple of years ago when I saw a random person wearing a Rhode Island University sweatshirt. I consider this design to be one of my best creations, even though my sales records indicate that there are only about eight Chode Island t-shirts in existence today (that includes one in Massachusetts, one in Connecticut, and one supposedly somewhere in Brasil).

I sell all of my designs through Cafepress, which offers a great all around selling experience, from design to marketing to support. Cafepress is the industry leader, even though there are now other on-demand printing services that I’d like to try at some point. Some question the quality of on-demand printers like Cafepress, but I can definitely vouch for the quality of the organic cotton tee. The fabric is super soft and comfortable with a slim vintage-like feel and pleasant cream/ivory color, and it is better fitting and just as nice as any other t-shirt I own.

Endorsements include: “It’s tight,” from a coworker, and “Chode Island! OMG, Chode Island!” from a random girl at the train station. So feel free to leave some feedback, whether you like/dislike the shirt, don’t get it, or have anything to say about on demand t-shirt printing or t-shirt selling in general.

P.S. Since we are on a personal note I can also tell you about what I’ve been keeping busy with during the summer. I took a web design class at MassArt, and spent a good part of July working on a class project which entailed making a website for a fictional restaurant, which I’ve uploaded for you to see. Maybe I’ll get to use it as part of my portfolio, along with this blog and other sites I’ve worked on. I also received an advertising certification from Google, so who knows what I’ll be working on next!

P.P.S. Don’t forget to subscribe to my rss feed so you can be updated whenever I make a new post. It is especially easy in Firefox since all you have to do is go to my feed and click subscribe.

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Forget Father’s Day, I want one of these Life 2.0 tees all for myself!

Posted on June 16th, 2007 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central, Shop Reviews
Tags: father's, day, t-shirt, shirt, oldguysrule.com

Usually when you see a t-shirt company with more that a hundred different designs, you figure that the quantity is there to make up for a lack of quality. Not so at Old Guys Rule - the t-shirts, polos, sweatshirts and caps are clearly put together by a team of aging designers and illustrators with a creativity honed by the California sun, and years upon years of design experience. So grab a gift certificate for your dad, and that awesome Spare Tire Ale t-shirt for yourself.

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Bustedtees Summer Sale

Posted on June 16th, 2007 by Alex.
Categories: T-Shirt Central

It turns out Threadless aren’t the only ones having a summer sale. At $13.99, Bustedtees are slighly discounted through 06/17, so this is the perfect chance to pick up some of the shirts I highly recommended in my Bustedtees review.

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