Et Tu, Threadless?
As anyone who’s met me in person can attest, I’m kind of a t-shirt junkie.
What can I say, I like carrying portable art.
Anyway, the site that got me started on this trend, and one that’s been a favorite of mine for ages, is Threadless.
Every Monday or so, myself and Ross tend to talk up the new designs, and for the most part lately, I’ve been very disappointed. Hell, I hadn’t even been interested in a shirt for months.
This week though, I’ve found not one, but three separate designs that I really like.
So I click the links to check them out….and their prices have jumped up from $15 for everything to $17+. What the hell, guys, what happened? Isn’t an increase in sales/exposure supposed to trickle down to lower prices for the consumer?
Color me miffed.
I Heart Paul Robertson
About a year ago, I saw Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006. A 12 minute homage to the 2d side scrollers we played as kids, the animation was the work of a lone man in Australia, Paul Robertson.
Just a few days ago, he returned with his follow up…
To end your weekend (or start your week) on the right foot…
Here is Kings Of Power 4 Billion %!!!
For a higher quality download, check out Paul’s LJ here, or wait, as he’s working on a DVD of all of his work.
T DON’T TAKE NO JIBBA JABBA!
Sometimes there’s a news story that, no matter what, no matter the angle, even I can’t make funnier than the headline itself.
So, I’ll just leave it to you, as a link.
I Sit Corrected.
Damn Target, why you gotta make me angry.
Seems just 24 hours ago, I was telling all the boys how I loved you, how you brightened my day with your sweet t-shirts and free video games.
Then I hear from my boy that you’ve been lyin’. You’ve been runnin’ tricks on me.
You get me all hot ‘n bothered with promises of sweet garments and free gaming, then you pull the rug out on me?
What’s the deal, baby girl? What did I ever do to you?
Guess I’ll have to see what that Hot Topic chick or that girl Urban Outfitters is up to.
And…
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Short story long, those sweet EGPApparel game/shirt combos? ALREADY BEING PULLED OFF THE MARKET! Et tu, Tar-jay. Et tu. Guess we’ll see if another retailer picks this program up, it really is a great idea. Shame.
X-Files 2 Poster Is…Cryptic!
Fresh from Ain’t It Cool News, here’s our first look at the poster for the 2nd X-Files movie, due out in theaters on July 25th.
Click For Large…
We got a giant X…we got obscured Scully and Mulder…we still don’t have a title…overall, I like it, though.
I do wonder, has it been so long that the general public may think this is for the next X-Men movie? Food for thought.
Further Proving My Belief That Target Is Awesome…
Name 3 things somewhat highbrow nerdy people such as myself like…
- Indie games.
- Designer t-shirts.
- Cheap deals.
So of course, when fantastically awesome mass-market retailer Target (who I’ve long considered the Google to say, Wal*Mart’s Yahoo!), decides to sell somewhat stylish t-shirts along with free games on a CD-ROM from the Experimental Gaming Project, my ears perk up.
Each shirt design comes from the creators, with CD-Roms containing a full game (no shareware here), for just $12! Apparently, the shirts aren’t available at all Targets yet, but you better believe I’m keeping an eye out.
The official site for this “EGPApparel” project is here, but it’s not quite finished yet. Here’s to corporate America supporting the creation and gestation of new media. Hopefully this project is successful, and more people can support their unique creations this way.
Thanks to Joystiq for the story.
What The Hell?
Ok, it was surreal enough for Ace of Cakes to be filmed around here, but this is just too much…
Atomic Books is getting their own reality show.
On G4.
Here’s what they had to say about it.
We’ve been talking about this idea for a while with friends, We’re totally excited that it’s going to happen, so now’s the time to officially announce it: Welcome to Atomicville.
In light of the success of shows like Ace of Cakes and L.A. Ink, we thought Atomic would make a good reality TV show, something that would focus on the stuff we carry (comics/zines/art toys/cds/dvds/etc.), with interviews with different artists and writers we bring to town, and on top of that, something that would follow the Atomic gang out into the nationally-breaking Baltimore music and arts scene.
So awhile back, through a mutal friend, we hooked up with an agent who put us in contact with a production company and the result will be 6 one hour long episodes of a show called Atomicville to air on G4 TV.
If the network likes the show (meaning people watch), they’ll order more episodes. We had initially wanted to call the show AtomicTV, but sadly certain people didn’t want us to use that name as it might be confused with a certain former cable access TV show.
Local culture…hitting TV…brain can’t comprehend…world…too small.
(Thanks to The Mobtown Shank for the heads up…)
Surprise! I’m A Skrull!
After literally four years of build up, Secret Invasion is getting ready to hit comic shops on April 2nd.
For those unaware, Secret Invasion is the latest gigantic Marvel crossover-of-doom (following House of M and Civil War), and apparently ties all loose ends that started in Avengers: Disassembled and the two prior-mentioned mega events. While I think we comic nerds can agree that Civil War didn’t end up as epic as we all wanted, I have an odd hunch this may be the comics mega-event we nerds have been breathlessly anticipating every Wednesday.
Why do I have such faith in this, considering every epic-comic story either ends up faltering or being retconned out of existance within months? The man behind the tale, Brian Michael Bendis. Since hitting the scene with Powers in the early 2000’s, he’s been one of the best scribes in the comics world, wowing me (and comic fans) with his fantastically plotted run on Ultimate Spider-Man and a metric-shitton of Avengers tales. Arguably THE man responsible for Marvel’s current renaissance, he’s been quietly plotting this tale, hiding clues in comics for the past four years, and apparently this eight issue mini series is the end-all-be-all.
The hype train began proper today at Entertainment Weekly’s site, with not just an interview with Bendis, but a 10 page preview of the first issue. Looking pretty good so far.
Is my word not enough to be excited? Maybe this quote from my personal hero, Professional nerd/comedian/rat voicer, Mr. Patton Oswalt will get you fired up.
Brian’s already let me read the first three issues of SECRET INVASION, which is Marvel Comics’ big summer dust-up. After COUNTDOWN and CIVIL WAR, I was going to take a break from these big summer crossover thingies. But this SECRET INVASION … holy shit.
This is not a big, disposable, multi-issue donnybrook. This is a blitzkrieg from page one. Bendis basically worked out a remorseless, nothing-but-business tearing down of the Marvel Universe. And it’s clear the story has been set up … for … years. And the deaths are treated so off-handedly, with no appeal or remorse — and this is three issues in.
So far, each issue has also ended with a shit-your-pants, ’Wait, what in the FUCK?!” moment … after, of course, about three or four what-the-fuck moments tossed off during the course of each story.
Secret Invasion #1 (of 
hits comic shops/nerd dens on April 2nd.
HOLYSHIT GO JOE INDEED
From Ain’t It Cool News…
Click For Ridiculously Large Ninja Action!
Words can’t really define the bad ass here. Here comes another awesome Summer in ‘09!
EDIT, 3/21/08 – 6:18am:
Now with a 2nd image from USA Today! (That’s Ray ‘Darth Maul’ Park under there, btw)
Guess What Ladies?
It’s been said many times that men just don’t understand women.
Now, we have SCIENCE! to back that up.
According to a study performed by the Indiana University’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, us gentlemen just have ZERO idea what exactly you ladies are up to…
More often than not, guys interpret even friendly cues, such as a subtle smile from a gal, as a sexual come-on, and a new study discovers why: Guys are clueless.
More precisely, they are somewhat oblivious to the emotional subtleties of non-verbal cues, according to a new study of college students.
“Young men just find it difficult to tell the difference between women who are being friendly and women who are interested in something more,” said lead researcher Coreen Farris of Indiana University’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
This “lost in translation” phenomenon plays out in the real world, with about 70 percent of college women reporting an experience in which a guy mistook her friendliness for a sexual come-on, Farris said.
Some might think the results come down to “boys being boys,” and so even the slightest female interest sparks sexual fantasy. But the study, to be detailed in the April issue of the journal Psychological Science, also found that it goes both ways for guys — they mistake females’ sexual signals as friendly ones. The researchers suggest guys have trouble noticing and interpreting the subtleties of non-verbal cues, in either direction.
This ladies, is why you need to just tell us things. The full article is available here.
