Comments on: Internet Weirdo

By: Hg

Hg — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:45:33 +0000

If not for my complete lack of action on the self-merchandising front, I’d send you a t-shirt. At the moment it feels like a cute idea whose time has passed, but who knows what might happen in a month or two if I’m looking for a Project With A Capital P.

By: Daniel Black

Daniel Black — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:40:04 +0000

Also in the latter week of June, on a trip to New Mexico with my wife, I was to meet up with an old friend and a friend of his. We ended up missing his friend, as she had some projects to catch up on. I later found out that she had no such work, but rather had been intimidated about meeting me because she thought I was, confided my friend to me, an “internet weirdo.” If not for his confidence, I’d send her a thank-you note.

By: Hg

Hg — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:17:22 +0000

Thanks Natalie. Yeah, now isn’t the time to be looking into all this stuff but I might try to think/do more about it next week. One option would be to use an online service like Cafe Press. Another possibility, if I wanted to keep it fairly low-key and hand-made, would be to use some kind of spray paint… put the pins on the fabric, spray, let it dry, then shake them off. More labour-intensive, but also more bespoke and one-off. Must try to do one, at least, for myself.
You can probably see the hacking better if you click through the photo to one of the bigger versions on Flickr. Essentially I chopped about half a centimetre down into the fabric of the neck, then followed it all the way round in a circle. Makes the t-shirt fit me better and also scruffs it up a bit in line with the painted words.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:07:44 +0000

I love the safety-pin design – you could get that printed onto a t-shirt from a high-res digital image (lots of fast-print places on the high street are doing this from photos etc).
Go for the fevered fantasies!
The bleach one is cool too. Can’t see where you hacked away at the neck?

By: Hg

Hg — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:18:27 +0000

Thanks Paul. If you spell it that way, does that make you a writer of wrongs?