by Andy on February 5, 2008
I don’t really watch many horror movies anymore, not because I’m particularly scared of the content (I’m a man who proudly boasted in his Facebook status of my opinion that Sweeney Todd ‘wasn’t that gory’), just because there aren’t that many premises out there for horror movies that really appeal to me. One of the things that I don’t like about most t-shirt designs that attempt to appeal to horror fans is the way that they seem to be covered with blood splatters and unnecessarily gruesome images, its as if the designers are trying to create an offensive image that, to me, renders it unwearable in most everyday situations. Dance Party Massacre aren’t like that, if you’ll allow me to get poetic for a second, they’re like a breath of fresh air in a haunted house filled with the stench of stale blood (ooooh, dark!).
Let’s get this out of the way at the start, the face-mask glows in the dark. So you know that I’m gonna love this tee, and especially in the context that the thing that’s often so scary about horror movies is that you can’t see the scary thing, so DPM turned that concept on its head by making sure you can always see their object of terror. This design is typical of Dance Party Massacre’s style, they try and put ambiguity and angles for interpretation into each tee and this is no different. In their own words:
There’s evil out there, and in every slasher film it’s represented as the masked psychopath. This is our version of the boogeyman coming for us. And those hands inside of it—are they dancing, or reaching out for help?
In terms of quality, Dance Part Massacre manage to put out a pretty impressive package. In my envelope (I don’t know if they sent me any special freebies) there was the tee, a DPM printed plastic carrier bag, a load of promo postcards, a pin button, and a sticker. There’s big pics of all of them at the bottom of the post. The tee itself feels good, it doesn’t have a stock tag in it but I get the feeling that it might be AA, but I’m not too used to handling Large sized AA tees (no, I haven’t dropped the pounds yet, DPM don’t to up to XL yet) so I could be wrong. The print feels quality too, and I’ll be interested to see how the glow-in-the-dark treatment lasts with multiple washings.
Costiness=$28 Link
by Andy on February 5, 2008
Before anyone says it, yes, this
hoodie does look similar to the
Ice Wizard hoodie from
Seibei, but let’s just leave it at that.I’d been waiting to write about these
hoodies for a while because they were announced about a month before you could actually order one, so I didn’t see the point in writing about them, but a few days ago they went on
sale, so here they are. They are clearly a lot of fun, and a great idea, although I do think that the googly eyes need some improvement, I’m not sure what they could do, but they seem to let down the quality of the product to me and make it overtly monster costume-ish instead of it being a normal hoodie that happens to have teeth and eyes on it. Still, I love the idea, hell, I’m almost tempted to buy one just so to have it in my collection, and I’m not really used to paying for clothes anymore!
Costiness=$59.99 (free USA shipping, $10 elsewhere) Link
by Andy on February 5, 2008
Laptop maintenance the easy way, originally uploaded by bitrot.
Just quick warning that there’s no need to e-mail me if the blog looks crazy for the next hour or so, I’m upgrading the laugably out-dated version of WordPress that I run to their latest stable build. I’m also using this opportunity for the first time to try posting from Flickr to Hide Your Arms, so if this post looks wrong, also no need to e-mail me.
*Update: All done, hopefully nothing is broken, if it is, please let me know*
by Andy on February 5, 2008
It’s not often that I give
Snorg a lot of love around here, but credit where its due, this tee is a really great idea and I’m surprised I haven’t seen it done before.Obviously, I wouldn’t recommend wearing this tee if you were actually going to be taking an American history test, there are subtler forms of cheating available for those of you that are morally challenged, but conceptually I still really like this tee, and the fact that it’s accurate is cool too, although part of me thinks it would be even funnier if there were several intentional errors in the design, just to mess with people’s heads.
Costiness=$16. 95 Link
by Andy on February 5, 2008
Great tee, great tee, I’m really loving the colourway, Lichtenstein-esque style, and use of negative space, which I guess is pretty much every aspect of this tee. I’m sure that a lot of you think that I just post a
Karmaloop product every day because I can slap my rep code onto the link on there (I’ve actually just got lots and lots of designs from there that I’ve bookmarked to post), but I’d like to think that its tees like this one that show the quality of their inventory rather than the fact that I might get 5% out of a
sale.Costiness=$23
Linkby Andy on February 5, 2008
When I first looked at this tee I thought “aha, you’re not getting me this time, Faircliff, this t-shirt is all about going to the beach!” Then I sat back, impressed with my ability to understand the French language, although admittedly the bucket and spade was pretty helpful. Oh, Andy. Andy, Andy, Andy, how wrong you were!’Sous les pavés, la plage’ translated into English means ‘beneath the pavement, the beach.’ This was a popular slogan used by student rioters in
Paris back in 1968. The rioters would smash up paving stones so that they would have something to throw at the police, underneath the paving was a layer of sand, and what do you find at the beach… sand! Yes, even when they’re throwing rocks at each other, the French still managed to get poetic about matters.
This tee isn’t necessarily for sale, but if you’d like one of Simon’s hand-painted tees drop me an e-mail using the contact form and I’ll get a message to him via my friend Richard.
