finally over my designer's block!

i had an idea last night and finally sat down and saw it through.

i have to get up at 6 am with my wife so we can take her to work and i can drop my daughter off at the sitter's before i go to work, but i stuck to designing and didn't get to bed will 1am (which isn't historically an oddity for me really.)

i currently have the design in the critique section of threadless but i'm certain i'll enter this into the contest soon.

here's a look at the design, titled, "multinationalism.":


click here and let me know what you think.
update:

it's awaiting approval now, i pushed it through to enter the contest after a couple tweaks.


update 2:

as you may have found if you clicked anything in the above update, the submission was declined. the design carries too much legal risk for threadless to even consider printing, so it wasn't allowed in the competition. i'm very bummed. i really wanted to see this go through the motions. i want this thing as a big poster in silver ink with a spot varnish!

i also want enough money to do all that without worrying about rationing the ramen.

sigh.

kid robot / adult swim make dann angry.

well, kid robot has made a deal with adult swim to make some mini vinyl figures.

you can check them all out here.

why does this merger of pure awesomeness make me angry?

let's start with the fact that i am very excited at the chance to own a little figure of toki wartooth and william murderface (pictured below) from one of my favorite adult swim shows, metalocalypse.


but these toys are blind packed.

what's blind packed you say?

it means that all the toys possible are shoved into windowless boxes, and when you buy them, you get a random figure.

i wouldn't mind most of the figures offered, there are only a few i would consider throwaways. but when i specifically want 2 figures, i have to buy a entire case to make certain i get both. or i'll have to resort to ebay after they're released for an auction selling the particular figures for far too much.

so i may drop a few bones in hopes to get one or both of the figures i desire. i wish these had shown up before my birthday, i would just ask every family member for one and increase my chances 10-fold.

rock obama.

i was commissioned to do a punk rock obama shirt a while ago (as foretold here) and i finally got my shirts in the mail and also checked on line and it's up for sale.

sammiches.

recently, torakamikaze of threadless posted a blog in which we were all set off to make sandwich mobiles. the point was to earn points, 1 for every time someone complained about seeing yet another sandwich mobile, 1 for every curse word used to lament the sammich and 2 for every blog about the cars that has a link to your design.

i came in late to the bandwagon (as usual) so mine is still pending.



there's something about being in on an internet joke that just makes me tickle in naughty ways.

my shirt is on defunker now?

defunker (a more artsy subsidiary of busted tees) now carries my african animal alliance design i sold to sharp shirter a while back.

i've known for a while that defunker carries other companies shirts after seeing a couple threadless shirts on their site. i guess i was suprised that it was sold to defunker. i understand that i sold the design away (for relatively cheap) and i hold no ill-will toward the guy i sold it to (this is the same guy who drafted me to make the rock obama design in the blog below this one).

i guess i'm a bit bashful that defunker liked my design enough to buy it, but i can't escape the feeling that the comment about the product on the product page might be insulting...

"This is the world's unfunniest Calvin and Hobbes. by Sharp Shirter"

(image courtesy of sharp shirter's site)

maybe i'm entirely misreading it, as they liked it enough to buy it, right? is it a joke about the paradox between the two? i dunno, either i'm not smart enough (strong possibility) or it's a poorly written joke.

all that aside, it's a bit cool and frightening to stumble upon your own design by accident on the great wide net.