Does anyone else remember the days when to promote a movie people would make a poster, a trailer, send the stars out on a press junket, and that would be pretty much it. Well, those innocent times are long behind us, nowadays, if you haven’t got a team of people in a van campaigning for a fictional character for a fictional election without mentioning the movie that they’re promoting and staying in character for the duration, then your movie clearly doesn’t deserve to be judged on its own merits.

A blogger who presumably watches a lot of stuff, unchained himself from his computer and pounded the mean streets of Manhattan in search of the ‘Dentmobile’, a van that has been going around NYC ‘campaigning’ for Harvey Dent, a character from the upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight. I think this kind of marketing is cool, but I think that the t-shirt (pictured, above), is cooler. The print quality doesn’t look up to much, but I like the way that it conforms to all the stereotypes that you expect to see in a political tee. If you’re a fan of movie memorabilia and would like to pick up a tee and some other swag, check out this page to see if the Dentmobile is coming through your notable American city (I recognise all the places, so they must be fairly large).

[Photo credit: I Watch Stuff]

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Big headphones around the neck that has been done countless times by countless designers, and whilst I love it as a design concept, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one example that does it exactly how I’d like to see it. There always seems to be too much compromise. Take the hoodie above for example, headphones don’t get worn that low on a person, if they were, they’d fall to the ground, why not actually print something that is faithful to what the image would actually look like? Perhaps when you do that it doesn’t looks far too messy and people can’t tell that its headphones, but I’d like to see someone try and put some reality into the illusion.Costiness=$50 Link

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I won’t start political soap-boxing, but I really like the message behind this tee. Why is it that we have to hope that people vote for a President that provides ‘change’ (has anyone asked what kind of changes these are yet? I would appreciate a checklist), why can’t people just change things themselves, why we need to wait 8 months for someone else to be in charge before good things can start happening. Can you imagine how much good stuff could be done in 8 months by people, and that’s before ‘change’ even starts happening?

Anyway, this is a cool t-shirt, I would totally be friends with anyone who I met wearing it at some kind of protest or rally (unless they were a damned hippy)

Costiness=$18.50 Link

(Man, I can’t believe how much the guy that thinks HYA is too Ameri-centric is gonna hate this post)

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Its taken me until now to realise just how great Skins is, I really think that its the best British TV show on at the moment, and I watch a lot of TV, so I must know what I’m talking about. So I was pretty excited when I noticed that Chateau Roux was all over Skins like a rash, and a very sexy rash at that.

I noticed Chris (played by Joe Dempsie, pictured) wearing an ‘I [heart] hate’ tee in the 4th episode and realised that it was from CR, then in episode 5 when Jal (Larissa Wilson) wore a badass looking Chateau necklace (pictured above, with a little box incase you didn’t know what a necklace is) I figured I was compelled to write a post about it. To their credit, the creators of Skins maintain a blog that has a style section on it where people discuss what was worn by who in different episodes, apparently prompted by the volume of request they receive on the subject. They don’t link to where the stuff is purchasable, but it certainly does make things easier in case you are desperate to look like Maxxie or Sid.

*Excuse the pictures, my TV has developed a yellow spot problem with a broken colour tube, and trying to correct the colours in Photoshop made them look a bit funny.*

Both items are available through the Chateau Roux website, and possibly in their retail store at 17 Newburgh Street, London (near Carnaby Street).

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Well, I guess now we definitely know who the Democratic nominee is going to be, people who were on the fence before will have surely been swung to the Obama camp now that they know Kim Kardashian, a woman who is famous for very little reason (no ‘two big reasons’ jokes in the comments please), has officially come out in support of Barack Obama.

I’ve googled around and can’t find the specific tee, which is a pity because I like the style and as you are well aware I practically live for gold print on tees, but if you’re after something a bit more artistically minded No Star Clothing offer a tee with the same message but with an image of Obama on it.

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Tags » barack obama • black • celebrity • gold • Kim Kardashian • obama • political • t-shirt