Alex Noreus who produced our drum solo for our latest release "Make Or Amen Break It" just released a new album. It's called "Dirty North" which he produced as well. It's fantastic!
You can download it for free here. Click on the banner up top, which says "Dirty North", and you'll download the whole album for free.
For this issue, our big idea was sparked by an online video. From there, it grew into an interactive graphicT-shirt, an original music track, and a music video. To pull it off, we needed to assemble a team of people from a variety of backgrounds. Together, they makeup the T-post All-Stars. Drum roll, please…
Let’s say you were a in a band over 40 years ago. And at the peak of your musical career, in 1969 to be exact, you put out a chart-topping single—one that earned a prestigious Grammy Award. Fame and fortune would be yours, if only for Warhol’s predicted 15 minutes.
Now imagine the B-side of that award-winning single. Chances are, you put just as much time and effort into writing and recording it, but as luck would have it, the song just didn’t catch on with the fans and went completely unnoticed. You’d probably think to yourself, “No big deal.” After all, not every song can be a hit, right? “I should just be thankful I created one. And received a freakin’ Grammy to boot!”
Just as it does for hundreds of thousands of one hit wonders after their rise and subsequent fall, you too would likely fade into musical obscurity and live out the rest of your life as the person next door. End of story.
But what if that wasn’t the end of the story and a few decades later a new musical instrument called a sampler came in popularity and your long-forgotten recordings could be reused and rearranged into new recordings?
And what if a gangster rap group, say N.W.A., used a 6-second clip of that B-side you released in 1969 in one of their songs and it went on to become another chart-topper?
For this issue, our big idea was sparked by an online video. From there, it grew into an interactive graphic T-shirt, an original music track, and a music video. Drum roll, please…
For this months issue "Make Or Amen Break It", our big idea was sparked by this online video. From there, it grew into an interactive graphic T-shirt, an original music track, and a music video.
American Apparel founder, head, and all around controversial individual Dov Charney admitted that the dream is done, saying of his brand's focus (to Bloomberg Businessweek), "Hipsters are from a certain time period. The stereotype of a hipster is not something people aspire to anymore. Do you want to be a hipster? Nobody wants to be a hipster." And that means nobody wants to wear American Apparel.
Even if I don't agree with the last part, you can check out the whole sad story here.
Year after year, dumb crooks wow news readers with their poorly planned heists, ill-conceived capers and failed getaways. So here's some prime mug shots of criminal suspects who are anything but usual.
1. Police in Pueblo County, Colo., didn't have a hard time linking burglary suspect Anthony Brandon Gonzalez to a home invasion in May. The victim of the crime said one of the perps had the words "East Side" tattooed on his upper lip.
2. George Jolicoeur, a 600-pound Floridaman with a long record of scamming restaurants and convenience stores, pleaded no contest April 1 to five charges that he sought refunds by making false claims, including one that a $50 order of beef jerky from a 7-Eleven was moldy. Prosecutors declined to seek jail time, deciding Jolicoeur was simply too fatto incarcerate. If he had been jailed, the state would have been responsible for his medical bills.
3. Here's what happens when you mix "Twilight" and moonshine. According to police, Andrew Whiteman drunkenly attempted to break into a drugstore on April 17, then claimed to bean immortal vampire who was more than 100 years old. The 21-year-old allegedly told police in New Russia Township, Ohio, that he wanted to drink their bloodand eat a female law enforcement official's kidney.
4. Guy Edward Jones wanted a hot meal, but he ended up in the cooler. The Sissonville, W.Va., man is accused of burning down his house after getting angry because his wife didn't have dinner on the table when he returned home on May 23.
5. Assault suspect Jesse Thornhill's distinctive body modifications -- including those horns -- make his mug shot easily recognizable. The 28-year-old Tulsa, Okla., man is accused of trying torun over his landlord in a minivan.
6. "Thou shall not steal" is one of the Ten Commandments, and that probably goes double if you are using acrucifix to smash open a church donation box. Florida police have accused George Albert Horn of doing just that, after a Fort Lauderdale church was burglarizedin late June.
A Cincinnati bank robber allegedly ran away so fast he dropped his wallet, stained from an exploding dye pack inside a stolen bag of money.
Man, this got to top the all times list over things NOT to do. Of course together with "Updating your facebook status while breaking and entering and forget to log out".
Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns ants into zombies and makes them stagger to their death.
The fungus grows inside the ants and releases chemicals that affect their behavior. Some ants leave the colony and wander off to find fresh leaves on their own, while others fall from their tree-top havens on to leaves nearer the ground.
The final stage of the parasitic death sentence is the most macabre. In their last hours, infected ants move towards the underside of the leaf they are on and lock their mandibles in a "death grip" around the central vein, immobilizing themselves and locking the fungus in position.
Here's my friend Eddie Zammit featured in an ABC Collectors Special. Eddie is as far from a collar and tie man as you can possibly get. He owns precisely 1711 T- shirts, all color coded and stored in alphabetical order.
An Ohio woman on the warpath for Chicken McNuggets flew into aviolent rage at a drive-through window when the restaurant told her they were only serving breakfast.
I guess Melodi Dushane just really, really wanted her chicken nuggets.
For those of you who like me just got back to work after a delightful four weeks of summer vacation. Here’s a little something to gently lubricate your brain with after only being used for keeping track on how many beers you have left in the fridge. And when it’s time to go buy some more.
The magazine, Mental Floss, just published"50 Amazing Facts" to celebrate their 50th issue.
"Yay, let's try a new thing called 'tombstoning'! I'm sure it's not called that for any specific reason!"??
This has to be the thought going through someone's brain when he decides to take a 30 meter plunge off a cliff into a channel laden with rocks and featuring a strong undertow current.
Every superhero has a nemesis. Meet Walter, winner of the "I Am Shining Star" real-life superhero contest.
On May 9th, to commemorate our Issue 54"I AM SHINING STAR", T-post invited everyone to unleash their inner superhero by performing a good deed, capturing it on video, and uploading it toYouTube. The video with the most views over the course of one month would be crowned the winner of $1,000. And the video with the most artistic merit would receive a T-post subscription for life.
In the end, only 10 videos were submitted but our good intentions caught the attention of some major news media, including Time Magazine and Springwise. Some of the videos made us laugh. Some made us all warm and fuzzy. Some made us really proud. And some made us scratch our head. All were valiant efforts, but one video in particular made us disappointed. Not so much the content, but the number of views it received virtually overnight. Either one gianormous superhero-wannabe, a.k.a. Walter, had a ton of superfriends or he figured out a way to outsmart us.
We did our research and discovered that the video in question was featured on a website where you can actually buy YouTube views (somanymp3s.com, somanymp3s.com/walter). Who knew? Well, we sure didn't. If we had, we would've strictly prohibited it in our contest rules. Unfortunately, we had no idea that such a dishonest service existed. After all, we're not attorneys. We're just a small company who wants to do some good in the world and hopefully inspire a few others to do the same.
We tried to reason with the big lug and get him to concede but his mask was on too tight and it had obviously clouded his judgement. Our hands were tied and we regretfully forked over the $1,000 prize money to someone who was clearly not SHINING STAR but instead his evil nemesis.
In our minds, the video with the second number of highest views is the real real-life superhero. And for this, Martin Schürger from Hannover, Germany, gets our Editor's Pick Award and a T-post subscription for life. Congratulations! You are truly a SHINING STAR. Thank you.
We honestly believe that good always prevails. And to prove it, we've decided to give all of the remaining contestants a year-long subscription to T-post.
Bombo!, a.k.a. Maurizio Santucci, was bornin Barga, Italy, where he still lives and works.
Using artful cuts of colorful paper, Bombo! successfully brings a new dimension and fresh whimsy to illustrations that we haven’t seen anywhere else. It’s no surprise that his unique style has been in high demand ever since he left a short-lived career in advertising to become a freelance illustrator.
There are the numerous solo and group exhibitions he’s done. The amazing books and posters. The impressive list of clients that include Rolling Stone, ABN Amro, Mini BMW, and Vodafone. And then, of course, there’s little ol’ us, T-post.
When we sent Bombo! the news clipping with Karen’s story, he responded with a super simple idea.
“It’s a hypothetical campaign to support Karen,” says Bombo! “If someone asks who Karen is, we can explain to them who she is and talk about ecology.”
Americans alone throw away 4.5 pounds of trash a day, far more than people in most other countries do. Yet, to most, it’s just another empty statistic. The amount of waste each we all generate doesn’t seem to bother anyone, partly because no one sees the problem.
Everyone puts their waste in a trash receptacle or recycling bin, the garbage truck comes along and whisks it all off to a so-called bottomless landfill or recycling plant, and then the problem is solved, right? Trash only becomes a problem when we have to look at it, smell it, or compete with those nasty little creatures that feast on it.
No one knows this more than Karen Herzog, a self-proclaimed trash recycler who lives in New York, a state that must now export their trash to available landfills in surrounding states.
The whole world's got World Cup fever. Which is pretty convenient, since it's a cup for the entire world. And everything reached its peak yesterday.
Viva La Espana!
But some apparently didn't think the party was reaching its expected peak and found a way to help get the party started.
According to Colombian police they began to suspect something was wrong with a particular replica of the World Cup trophy when they noticed damaged, substandard gold paint on one model. When tested, it was revealed to be made completely out of coke.
That must have been why Jimmy Jump entered the stadium yesterday. He was obviously making a spectacular diversion when he was in fact making a switch.
Let's check in on the Spanish players today and see how they are doing, shall we.
The 58-year-old motorist said she crashed her car into a canal in Mesa County because she was trying to get away from a vampire. Authorities told KKCO-TVthat the driver claimed she spotted the bloodsucker while driving on a dirt road outside Fruita, Colorado on Sunday – so she threw the car into reverse in an attempt to escape.
Law enforcement on the scene said they found no evidence of Vampires.
Who knew that money could become more valuable after it's been digested?
Last week, it was reported that Steve Wilson, of the St. Louis company DoodyCalls Pet Waste Removal, found $58 worthof chewed currency in a pile of doggy doo. And it turns out that these now-famous bills might be worth far more than $58 to the Humane Society of the United States.
Dog owner Karen Linn is auctioning the actual bills, eaten by her dog Fozzie, on eBay.
This is something to inform my senior citizen neighbor about since she just posted a "DON'T TAKE A DUMP HERE!" sign neatly in her yard.
But then again, the sign might not be directed to dogs.
My name is Peter Lundgren and I'm the founder and editor-in-chief on T-post. 'A Day in the Life of a T-shirt Maker' is a daily update on T-post, the life around it and stuff that simply interests and inspires me.
Should you ever have any thoughts regarding what we have or haven't done, don't hesitate to send me an e-mail on peter@t-post.se and let me know. I'd really enjoy reading your thoughts and opinions.
