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meanie super 480x312 Meanie joins Team HYA [Submitted]

Andy,

Thanks for adding me as a contributor to your site.
I look forward to saying things about things I may have not had a chance to say about those things other wise. AND, I promise to use spell check every chance I get.
Also, go to Face Book for my latest adventures.

Again, Thanks!
Meanie

Andy: Nice idea for a new contributor to introduce themselves this way, though I would have thought they’d do it by testing out the regular post system rather than the submission form!

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hya bloggers

Back in the early days of HYA the thought of letting other people write on HYA scared me, I didn’t want to lose control of what was being put on the site, and heaven forbid something was posted that wasn’t on the schedule! These days I’ve become more relaxed about the situation and realised that for the site to grow and appeal to more people it’s important to have more than just my viewpoint on the site, and to provide all your readers with a wider range of t-shirts and clothing.

I’ve been slowly adding to the writing team over the past few months and I really like it, it feels good to have lots of people dropping in with something they’ve found or to cover the latest news, it feels like HYA isn’t just about me anymore and I like that, I want it to be a bigger part of the t-shirt community and become something that can be a real force to help and support t-shirt brands grow.

To show that Hide Your Arms is no longer a one-man operation (sure, I do most of the heavy lifting, but the load is getting lighter) I have put together a contributors page to recognise the people that make up the HYA writing team. Each writer has a little bio and a couple of links showing you where you can find them around the web, their posts on HYA, and also a picture so that we can put a face to the name that you seen in the byline on each post (like this one, but you guys probably know who I am already).

If you would like to join the team and write on HYA then I am always looking to take people on who have a passion for clothing of any kind (it doesn’t have to just be tees, this site started out being about hoodies, remember?). Please get in touch via the contact form or send me an e-mail (info@hideyourarms.com) letting me know who you are, what brands and kinds of clothes you like, and anywhere I can find your writing online if possible. Experience blogging is definitely not a requirement, though it would be useful.

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HYA black friday 2011

In the past on HYA I have written individual posts for individual deals on Black Friday, and frankly that was a lot of work and made the blog very messy, even if it was probably better for traffic. This years I’m going to be creating a single post that I will continually edit and grow throughout the week. As I update the list I will post tweets to notify you all, and also put reminders into the daily news roundup.

Store owners, if you want to ensure that your deal is included please be sure to tweet me, leave a message on the HYA Facebook page, send an e-mail using the comment form, or use the news submission form, and it will be included, no matter how much your brand sucks, we’re going for quantity over quality this year!

I will also be duplicating the list over at ShirtDeck for companies that have released coupon codes for Black Friday, ensuring that it is as easy as possible to find t-shirt deals.

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Daily Tees & News for November 8th

by Andy on November 8, 2011

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Nice to see more Futurama shirts becoming available, even if it’s just for a day at TeeFury.

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Great collage shirt from Qwertee today, one for children of the 80s I think.

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Another cool design from Tilteed, but of course it is also an old design, I’d love to know what’s happening there and why we haven’t seen new shirts for so long, hopefully this isn’t the beginning of the end for Tilteed.

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Whilst I don’t entirely understand the meaning of the bird painting itself, I do like the artwork today at Shirt.Woot.

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Quite a few of the RIPT commenters are chiming in to say that they won’t buy this shirt because it will be out of date in a year, fair point.

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It’s pretty rare that you get a shirt that draws from Picasso and Star Wars, bravo The Yetee, bravo.

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Nope. I’m going to need someone to explain the reference to me on this 24tee shirt.

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Gotta say I’m not in love with the Mario artwork at TeeRaiders today, sorry.

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Nice to see this design at Loviu again.

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Shirt Punch are exploring that oft-neglected crossover of Doctor Who and Wizard of Oz today.

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The straightforwardly named Tshirt Contest have opened their first contest with a call for entries of beer designs.

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‘War Torn’ is the Shirt Of The Day at DBH.

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Delorean Dashboard is the deal of the day at BustedTees. $11 instead of $20.

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I don’t want to complain too much about something that’s a 2 year old issue, but I saw it again and it annoyed me again. Total Film published a list of 100 Star Wars t-shirts in 2009 that I feel is clearly heavily inspired by my list of 202 Star Wars t-shirts. That post took me the better part of 25 hours work, work that they haven’t acknowledged in their list (they have picked all the same shirts as I did, and in many cases they’re listed in the same order. I’m of no doubt that Total Film have earned money from that post (they have ads, and they’re on the first page of Google for the search ‘Star Wars t-shirts’), but all I want from them is acknowledgement that I did the research for their article, and an apology for using my work without permission. If any of you would like to leave a comment on their article or tweet them @totalfilm regarding the issue I’d appreciate it.

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Mashable have a short list of “4 Essential Facebook Page Apps to Improve Communication With Fans” that I think will be of use to brand owners.

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New shirt today from A Better Tomorrow.

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Javaboi Industries have a Steve Jobs tribute shirt. Frankly, I don’t care for the shirt, it’s just not for me, but I can understand why people would look up to Steve Jobs, and it’s cool that Javaboi are donating to charity with the sales from the shirt, especially as they are a brand that has unfortunately had far too many experiences with cancer.

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RedBubble artist Tom Trager has released the above ‘Dalek Pest Exterminations’ Doctor Who shirt for £15.99, which I’ve now added to the Doctor Who list.

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You can get an extra 15% off at PLNDR with the coupon HUSH15 provided you spend $50+.

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Use the coupon code TRIPLE11 to get 20% off your order at Karmaloop from now until midnight (EST) on November 11th.

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I’ve opened up a couple of new advertising spaces for your perusal (footer & sidebar skyscraper left). Don’t worry, this isn’t yet more ads on HYA, I’ve converted the two ads that had Google AdSense on them to regular ads (that are backfilled with AdSense at the moment, confused?). They’re on a CPM basis, meaning you only pay for what you want and I’ve made it possible to buy just a couple of thousand pageviews at a time, meaning you can dip your toe in the water advertising on HYA for just a couple of dollars. This also means that we could have hundreds of people advertising on HYA, which I think would be pretty cool.

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Unestablish has opened for business, they seem to have some pretty cool higher-end looking clothing.

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Counter Balance Clothing (who I hadn’t heard of before) released a big new Fall collection a few days ago, with that many new shirts you guys must be able to find something you like in there.

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Time for me to feel bad again, Monstros Apparel have been running a Kickstarter Project for the past month, and now that I finally get around to properly checking out their e-mail the Kickstarter has got 3 days to go and still needs about $2,000 to be funded. I know that HYA probably doesn’t have the readership to give this guy $2,000 but I think there are probably a few of you out there that would have pledged for one of his shirts.

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New bloggers and new news

by Andy on August 8, 2011

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I’ve been quite busy since returning from my holiday in Cornwall. Aside from gaining a few new bloggers for HYA (that you will hear about in a minute), there have been a few changes to the way that Hide Your Arms looks and works.

    I installed the Disqus commenting system. This should make it easier for you to leave comments on HYA, using various profiles you already have around the web (such as with your Twitter account) or with your normal ‘name + e-mail’ input that has been used on HYA since day one. I like the style of Disqus and the way that replies to comments can be threaded. Let me know your thoughts about Disqus in the comments.
    Rewards for commenters! I really want there to be more interaction on Hide Your Arms, I get quite a lot of traffic but there doesn’t seem to be too much chatter considering how many of you there are. So, in the hopes of people sticking around and leaving more comments (and buying more stuff in the HYA store, to be honest), every time a new person leaves a comment on HYA they will be sent an e-mail giving them a coupon for 15% off in the Hide Your Arms shop. The e-mail will only be sent once, I don’t want to annoy anyone with spammy e-mails. I may think up other rewards in the future, but let’s just start with this and see how it goes.
    You’ve probably seen them already, but I have introduced some cool looking widgets in the right sidebar that help you see at a glance what has been getting people talking and what they’ve been looking at over the past week. The widgets display the most commented on posts of the last seven days (this widget only shows up if you’re looking at the front page of HYA) and the most viewed posts on HYA (this is always in the right sidebar and replaces the old popular posts widget). I think they look damn cool and hope you do too.

As mentioned earlier, I have gained a few new bloggers on HYA recently, as part of the continuing aim of helping the site grow by gaining new points of view from around the world to expose all of us to different brands and generally keep on top of new releases.

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Umang will be joining HYA in a general role, blogging about any shirts or brands that he thinks are cool. Umang has his own shirt company, which I think will help give him a good perspective on the industry and provide a fair and balanced view in his posts. Here’s a few words from the man himself:

I like to take long strolls to the liquor store and pick up a nice bottle of Irish whiskey. While indulging in a lowball glass filled to the brim, I have a tendency to think about t-shirts. As I spill some on my 4.5 oz ringspun cotton t-shirt. The stain incurred, inspires me by its expressive, Kandinsky quality and I jump on to Illustrator. I work out some designs for my tee company, Chor Bazaar. Eventually I realize the costs associated with production and the fact that t-shirt sales are down thanks to things like the recession and the debt ceiling and pour myself another glass. My other interests are too long to bore you folks but I do love graphic t-shirts and their ability to spark conversations and or controversy with strangers. Excited to be part of the HYA crew!

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Denise will also be joining HYA in a general role. Being from Singapore (and working for 9 Fountains) she will be researching emerging brands from Asia, which I think is a pretty exciting development for the site as I only know a handful of Asian brands and can’t wait to see that expand. Here’s a quick list of brands Denise is into at the moment (so that we all know she’s cool).

    9 Fountains (naturally)
    Truly Madly Deeply

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Remy is joining HYA as yep, you guessed it, a general blogger. The man is clearly a total shirt-nerd so I’m looking forward to seeing what he’s going to be showing us. Here’s a few words from Remy:

My name is Remy Warren. I am an expat currently in South Korea. I started collecting t-shirts about four years ago as a game with my friend. Two hundred shirts and several thousand dollars later, t-shirts have become a passion. Art and design are two things that have recently become super influential in my life. Traveling around the world, having a vodka and tonic in every country, and collecting t-shirts are my top priorities for the next several years.

I have got a few more people lined up for blogging positions (all with the specific roles covering individual brands), but I’ll leave it at that for now as I haven’t sorted the bios yet. Please say hello to all the new bloggers and make them feel welcome!

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Andy & liz at Land's End

I know I was away last weekend too, but I’m off again and this time it is for two weeks of fun Cornwall. We are camping in our massive tent (well, massive for 2 people, it would be a bit cramped for a dozen), so obviously I won’t be lugging around a laptop (times like these I wish I had an iPad and a big solar panel) and therefore you should not expect replies to your e-mails unless they are extremely urgent as I don’t intend to be spending much time working on the blog.

I have set up a load of posts to go live throughout the next couple of weeks so that you don’t miss out on your daily HYA updates, and of course the new bloggers will be posting regularly too, so there will be plenty of new clothes for you to be lusting after as well as quite a lot of old stuff that I’m posting from my bookmarks. My tweeting will probably be at a minimu, but if you’d like to hear random updates about how nice/rainy it is on a beach feel free to follow me.

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Off to Belfast, back Monday

July 7, 2011
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Quick note to let you know that I’m going to Northern Ireland for the weekend so please have even less expectation than usual for me to reply to e-mails. I’m going to have posts written up for the weekend as usual, and the new bloggers will be giving their posts as well so you should [...]

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MySoti raising their prices, doing it in the nicest way possible

April 22, 2011
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MySoti certainly are the ‘little engine that could’ of the POD world, it feels as if they face a new challenge or problem every day, but they face up to it, convey the problems to their fans and users honestly and work hard at fixing things, and it’s that honesty that makes me really want [...]

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ShirtDeck is reborn!

April 6, 2011
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You will probably remember last year when I told you about a new site that I was working on called ShirtDeck that would be a marketplace for secondhand and rare t-shirts. Well, that didn’t pan out, to be honest it was too big of a job for just me to accomplish to a point where [...]

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A Special 5th Anniversary HYA Pin Badge

March 31, 2011
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I needed to restock on HYA badges recently after someone in Germany picked up three sets, which is fairly unusual, and whilst I was stocking up again anyway (all orders in the HYA store receive a free button, remember) I thought I’d whip up something quick to recognise that this is HYA 5th year of [...]

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HYA hoodies have arrived.

February 4, 2011
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This blog post is both awesome and terrible. Awesome because in that picture there is a Hide Your Arms hoodie (yeah!), and terrible because I’m letting you know that I’ve got to take a few days off from blogging and HYA stuff because I’m on driving missions for my parent’s business. I’ve already driven 1500 [...]

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Hide Your Arms Logo Stickers!

February 1, 2011
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Ignore the dirt on my desk, look at the sticker, now nice is that!? I’d been wanting to get stickers made up as soon as I saw the logo more than a year ago, and I finally bit the bullet and sorted the artwork (with a little help as my Twitter followers will know), and [...]

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Hide Your Arms is releasing a hoodie, pick the design!

January 20, 2011
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As some of you on Facebook and Twitter will well be aware, I’m going to be releasing a Hide Your Arms hoodie soon, but as you will be the people buying it, I thought I’d let you help me decide which design to release. I know which design I’m leaning towards, but if there is [...]

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Happy 5th birthday, Hide Your Arms!

January 20, 2011
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I realise that Hide Your Arms turning five years old doesn’t really mean an awful lot to anyone other than me, but I think it’s cool that I’ve run a website pretty much continually (I think the longest break was a month back in 2009 when I was touring LA-Vegas-Death Valley-Yosemite-San Francisco-LA), make new friends, [...]

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How to connect with HYA

January 17, 2011
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I haven’t done a post like this in a little while, and as we’re at the beginning of a big week on HYA (5 year anniversary!) I thought I’d remind you of the many ways that you can get your fix of HYA goodness. Something I’ve been wondering about recently is why the site doesn’t [...]

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HYA is the best t-shirt blog of 2010, yay!

December 30, 2010
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You may remember me mentioning the voting for the Everyguyed Network’s ‘Cravat’ awards for several blogging categories, of which HYA was nominated for best t-shirt blog of 2010. Well, I won, with 42% of the vote in the category. It’s awfully nice to win something, though I must admit that the award does ring a [...]

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Quiet week on HYA

November 30, 2010
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The building above is being worked on/built by the company I work for, and it needs to be finished by the end of the week, so HYA is going to have to take a back seat for a little while, but I wanted to let you guys know I didn’t just abandon ship. In the [...]

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HYA is nominated as the best t-shirt blog of 2010, why not vote for me?

November 22, 2010
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I know it may not seem like it from the way I talk on here, but I’m actually fairly modest and rarely court attention, so when I found out that HYA had been nominated I was in three minds. 1, that’s cool. 2, aren’t competitions like this just a way for sites hosting the awards [...]

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… and we’re back

October 11, 2010
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I didn’t particularly want to take a week off from blogging (but it was no holiday, when one job has less for me to do the other one takes over), but HYA is back and should be on schedule for at least the rest of this week after BT replaced the telephone pole that someone [...]

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Someone drove into a telephone pole, broke the internet

October 6, 2010
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Sorry about the lack of posts this week guys. I was down in London for a couple of days on a non-tee related job, and when I returned home yesterday I found out that someone had broken the phone cable leading into our valley. It looks like someone drove into a pole near my house, [...]

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