I know that me posting a t-shirt that has a Napoleon Dynamite quote on it might damage my indie tee cred somewhat, but come on, she’s got a blender on her head… and it’s actually running!

I think this might be the epitome of random Friday t-shirt posting.

Photo credit: Amadika (who sets her photos as ‘all rights reserved’, but hopefully won’t mind me using this one on account of its awesomeness)

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The buy now link on rumplo goes to a blog with no purchase link, on Don’t Question Kings store they don’t have it available for sale, but they do have a picture of it on their front page… basically, I don’t know where you can get it, but I’m sure you could if you tried hard enough.

Don’t Question Kings Rumplo Link

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This t-shirt seems to be causing a fuss because its apparently insulting to Carrie Underwood, because she is vegetarian and used to date Tony Romo, who Jessica Simpson now dates. I almost hate myself for writing that last sentence since its so ridiculously Us Magazine, but it does allow me to ask the question; how come no one has pointed out that this t-shirt is probably the kind of thing that you get given when Joe Francis turns you into a Girls Gone Wild ’star’?

Also, I’ve noticed that behind her, Tony Romo is wearing a t-shirt that has ‘hickory’ written on it (see thumbnail if you don’t believe me). Now, I might be just looking at the bright side of this, but is it possible that Tony and Jessica are just really, really big fans of barbeque food?

[Photo credit: Just Jared]

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I have to make a little admission about this tee before I get to the meat of the review. Usually, when someone e-mails me and asks if I’d like a sample, I tell them my size (although I do tell people to send whatever size they want), my address, and I don’t pick a design to be sent to me. I didn’t do that with Akumu Ink, I asked them to send me this design (I didn’t insist upon it, it was just a request) because I really liked its look, and I thought that a detailed print like this would test AIs mettle.

In what seems to be a recurring theme, I wore this t-shirt on a night out with my friends so that I could get the opinions of people that don’t spend all their time writing about t-shirts, thinking about t-shirts and talking about t-shirts. They all liked it, hell, even my mother liked it, which surprised me since a t-shirt with a horror theme could be a bit heavy for some people, I think that the print is a genuinely arresting image, and printing it in blood red could make a few people a bit uncomfortable. But if you’re into this style of design, which I am, it is very easy to like, especially with the use of negative space being used so effectively.

Like I said in the first paragraph, part of the reason why I asked Akumu Ink to send this t-shirt was because I thought that the print would be a decent test of their printing skills, or at least the skills of their printers if they get some other company to do it. They passed the test with flying colours, although I guess that in the case of this tee its just flying colour, but they still did a damn good job anyway. The print is pretty thick, ensuring that the colour is solid and vibrant, so I guess there could be some cracking issues down the line, but it would be a long way down the line, so you probably don’t have much to worry about. The t-shirt itself is of AA stock, so its fair to say that you know what to expect there. One cool little extra for this tee is the toe tag that has been attached to the hang tag. It is customised for each order, stating your name, place of death (your address), what caused your death (the name of the t-shirt) and a case number (your order number presumably,mine said ‘666′). One word of warning, there’s a pretty large logo print on the lower back, which I’m sure some of you will hate.

Costiness=$21 Link

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Glennz continues his fine run of form with another top notch design. I wonder why he didn’t add faces into the mascots? I know you can’t usually see the face anyway with mascots, but it seems to leave a darkened circle on each character.Costiness=$19.95 Link (also available as a poster for $12.95)

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David has put up a few new items and colourways into the Seibei store… rejoice!

The first thing to get refreshed is the Ice Wizard hoodie (which I first reviewed back in March last year) which is now available in a ‘Red Baron‘ colourway of red/white, and a there is also the ‘Blockhead edition‘ for those of you that have a yearning to look like a bumblebee. The new hoodies have drawstrings that match the vinyl trim colours too, which is cool because I know that there had been a problem with sourcing decent coloured drawstrings in the past.

“I like to say stuff and eat things” has been completely reworked and looks awesome, I really love the gradient print and putting it on a striped tee is a bold move, but I think it works pretty well.
I can’t remember if ‘Superpredators’ is new or not, it might be the case that it has just been a work-in-progress for such a long time that I just presumed it had made its way into the store at some point. Either way, its a massive dinosaur on a t-shirt, and that can’t be a bad thing. [available in Mint or Pink]
Last but not least, there’s Fierce, which involves a three-headed dog wearing a gold chain, about to eat some diamonds… naturally.

Seibei

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Y’know that Clive Owen film, Children of Men? There’s a line in it where someone says something along the lines of “when you have a ringing in your ears its that particular frequency dying and you’ll never hear it again,” is that true? If so, I am a bit nervous, because my ears rang for literally two days after a particular heavy night in a particularly loud club in Manchester.

Still, I’m not going to let going deaf get in the way of my love for loud, repetitive beats in crowded, overpriced clubs which have an airport style metal detector at the entrance and bouncers wearing stab-proof vests. And presumably Pistache Clothing share that love for loud noises with all the gear they’ve got stacked up on this tee. It reminds me of one of my first ever reviews, in terms of both style and substance, and I still like that tee, so this one’s alright in my book.

Costiness=£19.99 Link

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Robot overload! Robot overload!

This is a great idea from the gang over at Chop Shop, a tee with silhouettes of 51 robots from “film, television, books and even one from a classic rock album cover”, which is sure to get a few conversations going where you try and work out how many of them you recognise (me? disappointingly few).

Costiness=$25 Link

Also, Chop Shop are still running a few coupons on a few of their other tees:

Use “bushed” to get BUSH BRAINS for only $5 plus shipping.

Use “seenfor6” to get AS SEEN ON WWW for only $6 plus shipping.

Use “TENDA” to get NATIONAL DESIGN ASSOCIATION for only $10 plus shipping.

Enjoy!

Chop Shop

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I may not know who GemStones is (apparently a big buddy of Lupe Fiasco), but when I’m told that he’s the next big thing in rap, I know I want to get onto that band wagon as early as I can, and ride it as far as I can. Also, he’s wearing one of my favourite tees of the moment (it goes with practically anything), Gorilla Fronts, by Chaunce Clothing, who are in the ‘Friends of HYA Club’, which isn’t actually a real thing.GemStones

Chaunce Clothing

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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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