To be frank, I was surprised at some of the guesses that you guys left for the “guess how many times I fill up the van whilst driving back from France” competition. I think the highest one was 17. I don’t want to poke fun, but since it was a 1200ish mile journey, that would have meant I’d be stopping at a petrol station pretty much every 70 miles, which is more than once an hour… which is just silly.
The actual number was even lower than I had expected, there were a few entries for 6 stops, and I thought they were probably going to be right (in which case I had the tiebreaker ready: “how many cans of Red Bull-style energy drink did I cosume to stop myself falling asleep at the wheel and becoming another statistic of France’s poor road safety record?”). But, in reality, the amount of fill-ups was even lower than that. It was…
4!
I think I might have even been able to make it on three, but you never want to push things too far. There was only one person to correctly guess/calculate that was Alex, so he will be the recipient of a $25 gift certificate from our friends over at Split Reason.
There seems to be a split between me liking and not liking the designs of Skilla Fashion. I like the use of foil, and the tee with ‘Birth of a Hero’ text written in Birth Of A Hero type is pretty clever (has anyone done a line with the names of fonts written in the named font?), but then some of the designs just aren’t working for me, not that there’s anything particularly wrong with them, I’m just not blown away.
I guess robots are like buses, by which I don’t mean that they’re both made of metal, I’m referring to the old adage that you wait ages for one and then two turn up. I think I prefer the one I posted earlier today from laFraise, but A Better Tomorrow‘s effort is still pretty cool, and genuinely funny.
To be completely honest, as far as interviews go this one doesn’t really impress me, but I am a fan of Diplo’s work (and its good to hear that he has a cheesesteak recommendation in Philly that isn’t Pat’s or Geno’s) and I think its really cool that Threadless make video’s where they don’t mention their own clothing at all.
The guys behind Popdeck, the skateboard design competition, opened up Deckpeck a while ago. Deckpeck allowed people to sell their own board designs, and quite a few recognisable artists signed up and uploaded some great looking decks to their shops. A few days ago they expanded their product range, but its doesn’t include the usual gubbins that you’d expect from a print-on-demand company, there’s snowboards, longboards, skate wheels, t-shirts (of course), journals and Vans slip-on shoes. I think its really cool that Popdeck are making it easy for people to make custom versions of unusual items when I’d assume that in the past people’s only options would have probably been either very expensive or very DIY.
I haven’t posted a robot t-shirt in ages, so I’m glad that this absolutely brilliant one from laFraise turned up in my RSS feeds (on the French LaFraise blog, since new tees don’t seem to turn up very often on the English-language EU blog).*
Because I’m sure that you’re not sick of celebrity t-shirt posts, here’s Miley Cyrus wearing a t-shirt based on a show that came on TV mere months after she was born, and a series of books that were written well before Billy-Ray spawned his billionaire baby. The tee can be found on Truffle Shuffle, the [...]
Are you aware of this? There are t-shirt websites where people submit their ‘designs’ and then there is a ‘competition’ in which people vote, and the winners have their design produced, gaining fame and fortune in the process? Crazy, I can’t believe no one thought of it before. Ink Hound set themselves apart in a [...]
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