Late fall is beginning to arrive around here. After several days of blustery wind and rain, bright blue skies and seasonably cool temperatures finally have arrived. I’ll be driving again today, and it’s looking like conditions will be excellent. In my opinion, we’re due for a milder winter; the past three have been harsh by our admittedly low standard. I guess that’s about all the news around here. Be sure to come back soon!
Tees
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171 responses to “Tees”
This is a tees tease.
TIP BlogSpot:
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About 1/2 ” on lawn now, still light snow + signif. W wind. Hi today pred. 27F, but will probably melt off within a few days.
Peace, emb
Looks to me like the “tee” will have the sports car as a theme…I am glad because I have a Bullitt Mustang…the “tee” will go great with my road trips!
Let me know how and when to order Jimmy.
🙂
Thanks for the explanation, Anonie. Now I get it…there is an attempt underway to elect an SOB President. By the way, that’s been tried before.
Yes, it appears quite obvious there is a wheeled vehicle of some sort on the the shirt…provided you enlarge the image, rotate it 180 degrees, and flip it horizontally. 🙂 Of course, most of us could have probably guessed that without the photographic hint. And that’s fine…if I wear it to the range, it will be a Tacticool tee shirt.
Wait, these are artisan tee shirts! Where’s the huge multi armed monster that prints 200 per second for Wally World in third world nations, leading me to believe my son in law was with CIA and the tee shirts were a cover?
That’s the same silk screening method used in 1961 when I created four color plate colored cartoons for football program covers. Make that 1960, I was a junior.
Ya think maybe look on the top of this page?
Yep, I’m pretty sure you’re right Ken. I zoomed the screen and you can see Arlo’s cowlick between the spread fingers of the artist, and Arlo’s legs sticking out away from the car at the bottom of the picture, just like the one at the top of this page.
Just to put it in perspective, almost from the day the “sports car” illustration first appeared at the top o’ the blog, there were calls* for tee shirts, coffee cups and mouse pads with it on them. Well, one out of three, almost eight years later, ain’t bad, I suppose. And hey, creating pent-up demand for a product is a valid marketing technique. 🙂
*OK, more like “demands”.
Debbe, I was shopping for a balanced breakfast-an even number of donuts.
I wonder if, at future book signings, Jimmy will be besieged by braless female groupies (not to mention any names) clad in A&J tee shirts, wanting them autographed in a strategic location (or locations), while they are wearing them. And I wonder if that occurred to Jimmy.
My vision is not a strong point, but the image shown being worked with seems to have the title right side up while the vehicle image is inverted [as we look at it]. Perhaps this is just using materials effectively, with the title to be applied in a second operation rather than at the same time as the vehicle image.
The prototype always takes the longest.
c-exp, It would appear that the title will be below the car when the shirt is worn. Look at the graphic at the top of the page and imagine the car sitting on top of the logo. And there you have it.
Jimmy, That was Teeriffic news.
Right, Mark, but the writing would be inverted, being base-to-base with the picture.
Then you can look down at the shirt that you’re wearing and read what it says.
Don’t know how modern silk screen works but when I did it in 60s each color took a separate separation design and each applied in an individual ink application.
Hey, it isn’t bras I leave off! Think that is someone else? But maybe in interest of art?
As Mark Knophler and George Jones sing, it was the car. Wait, George said it was the GIRL in the car.
Bob:
Good one!
I wish I’d thought of that.
Quick check in. Just found out I will be buying more clothes. 🙂
The wait for new tires for Herbie was two hours. I opted to drop him off and get some housework finished. Now, Herbie is listed as one of the many, many vehicles (20+) on my cousin’s account, as is my aunt’s. There have been multiple attempts to get the correct car listed with the correct owner. It never works. The bright-eyed kid behind the counter swore he would fix it and make it right. We ultimately just changed my phone number. (Remember that.) Four hours later, I realize I hadn’t received a call to get my car. I call them, and yes, Herbie is ready. Picking up the warranty/bill of sale, I discovered why I never got the call. My cousin is listed as the primary owner, my aunt the secondary. The address is my old apartment, and the primary phone ….. was my old apartment landline. Sigh. Then again, my aunt’s car is listed by my cousin’s name, her address, but under my mobile number. Fun stuff.
Sorry you are having more troubles Mindy. I’ve got car problems now too. I just got my belts changed, oil changed and tires balanced and rotated last Saturday to the tune of just over $300. Tonight I took it out for the second time since it was serviced and the electrical system started acting up. I’ve seen this act before. Got it in a parking lot and parked, deader than Hector. Alternator replacement, here we come.
GR6, with Jimmy being a big time cartoonist. Having his own merchandise line. If he starts doing road trips, he could take a page from the rock star handbook and autograph what lies under the tee.
I was in Pensacola yesterday when a waterspout was reported off shore at Destin. Judging by the way it was raining at the time, that’s very plausible. I think the weather even effected my turn-by-turn GPS navigation system…I was trying to find a particular restaurant location, and it sent me to a “Sounds-like-Woes” parking lot…twice. Earlier in the day, it had attempted to send me to, literally, the wrong state.
On my RTB, the rain had indeed moved out, only to be replaced by thick fog and darkness. Reminded me of back in the day, when I’d get called out in the middle of the night to make a hotshot trip to Deepest South Florida; arrive and land in early the morning fog; and dodge thunderstorms during my afternoon return flight. Ah, the good old days, when life was simple and its problems were clear-cut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxs3jGy9k9w