TrickGo Clothing is a small clothing company based out of Philadelphia. It was started by Matt Trigaux in his tiny dorm freshman year of college. …
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RAAAAAUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLL!
I woke up this morning with a terrible headache, no recollection of how I got home, an ankle that at some point was bent in a way it should not have been bent, and outgoing text messages that imply that I did multiple Jager shots. I’m sure many of you had the same experience. Look for a roundup of the city’s crappiest bootleg shirts this week, when I’m slightly more able to walk, but in the meantime, here’s this one that we like:
Who’s the Boss?
With only a couple of weeks remaining until the Boss returns to Philly (a friend of mine has been using her gchat away message to count down the days until her Springsteen tickets for approximately six months), here’s a shirt from etsy dude Communitea, who we first saw at a Philly craft event even though he’s based in Harrisburg. Maybe don’t wear it to work unless you’re self-employed, though.
Speaking of the Boss, remember that DIY Born to Run set of coasters we mentioned a while ago? Yeah, those were also pretty sweet.
TrickGo Boutique opening tonight
If you’re in need of something to do tonight, check out tonight’s opening of TrickGo Clothing’s new brick-and-mortar digs on Antique Row.
TrickGo was started in January 2008. It has deep roots within the Philadelphia creative community and strives to create limited edition, graphic tee’s and accessories. TrickGo is intentionally kept exclusive and is only available online and in a few select boutiques across the country.
What’s the most adorable, though, is that Trigaux is kind of an American Wet Dream of an entrepreneur. He makes a point of mentioning in most ads that he only recently started TrickGo from nothing on his top bunk as a freshman at UArts (there’s more pictures of the early stages on his about page), worked hard drumming up internet business, got his T-shirts into boutiques and now has enough money to open his own store, although some of the designs might get you heckled at a teabag party:
Next step: getting some minimum-wage employees to work 25 hours a week. We kid! Next step is trading complicated financial products based on life insurance, because that worked out really well with mortgages.
Also kidding there. However, we do wish this guy luck. You show everyone the power of capitalism, kid!
Oh, and speaking of politics, I guess everyone clapped their hands enough? Thanks, state legislature, for FINALLY PASSING THE BUDGET. We do, we DO believe in fairies! And now, to rescue Wendy!
All Threadless tees $9 today
In honor of the wacky date today (which seems boring because it’s happened for the past eight years and will happen again for the next three, but won’t happen again after that in your lifetime), Threadless is offering every single one of their T-shirts for $9, which is, on average, about half off. And it’s not just the ones that they want to get rid of. It’s all of them.
Let’s start it off with a local, Emily Glaubinger, who did the pink and yellow shirt from last year’s April Fool’s Fun Ride. I guess it’s just not happening this year, but checking out her blog, she apparently had the commission to do the shirt for what would have been the Maypril Fools Ride, and seeing the shirt design just makes me sadder that the stupid economy foiled it. Here they are:
Ah, well. But anyway, Glaubinger is doing well enough for herself, with one of those select T-shirts on Threadless and all:
Aw, thanks! And it would be $25 normally, but it is $9 today. More shirts we like after the jump…
You thought we wouldn’t notice…
Print Liberation and co. have been making some noise lately about people ripping off their shirts, which frequently are typography-based, just a few words in a particular font arranged nicely on a shirt. Clearly, comparing the two shirts above (left: some German seller on spreadshirt.net, right: Print Liberation), they’ve been ripped off.
But given how difficult it is for designers (ones who actually design garments rather than silkscreening words on a T-shirt) to get any legal satisfaction when ripped off by Forever 21 under current copyright law, I’m curious as to how successfully they’d be able to defend the copyright of a phrase/layout.
Ditto here, except they randomly found this one in real life, at a store in Jersey called Against All Odds. It doesn’t look like Print Liberation’s doing anything about the knockoffs (I mean, besides calling them out on facebook, which kind of doesn’t count), but it’s theoretically an interesting copyright case.
Then again, it’s likely that there wouldn’t be an actual fight if they took any sort of legal action: at least based on Print Liberation’s own behavior when they got in trouble with Sony a few weeks ago over using the Thriller cover shot on a Michael Jackson T-shirt, they’d just get rid of the design if leaned on.
For more fun examples of blatant copyright infringement, check out You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice.
Remembering Michael Jackson: by making sweet, sweet money
OK, so hopefully everybody’s got the “too soon” out of their systems, because boy oh, after having to read a week and a half’s worth of news stories in which some local politician once met Michael Jackson this one time and the Jackson 5 on the muzak in every store and sincere testimonies about how it’s just like a friend dying, I just want to kick everyone’s ass around me and then kick my own ass.
I was born in 1984, the year Jackson won eight Grammys. I know in an intellectual sense that he was enormous, the biggest star ever, all that, but I just can’t muster the same feeling that seems to be affecting people. By the time I knew who Jackson was, he was already in the fourth-rhinoplasty, pet-chimp-having, Neverland-building stage, and soon to enter the accusations-of-pedophilia stage. My memories of him as a kid were mostly kind of sad, along the lines of “Something terrible happened to that guy when he was little.”
I think it’s pretty obvious, at least from the images people have chosen to put on T-shirts and the songs people scream for at dance parties, that everyone wants to remember Jackson as the cute kid from the Jackson 5 or as a young man circa Thriller and Billie Jean.
So people, I guess about 28 and under, who don’t remember Jackson from the Jackson 5 or Thriller because they weren’t alive: If all your nostalgia-type memories of Jackson are of him in his sad, crazy stage, where’s this personal identification coming from? I’m curious! Tell me!
But anyway, let’s get to the awful merch!
So let’s start locally! We’ve got the original Print Liberation shirt, which they were able to put out the day after Jackson’s death:
And then the hideous, hideous replacement shirt, because they evidently got in trouble with Sony for… well, yeah, clearly just taking the cover of Thriller and putting words on it:
Side note: How weird must it be to be the guys at Sony whose job it is to track down unauthorized Jackson memorial T-shirts?
September 11, 2001, I was in high school English class in northern Virginia, in a burb where a looooot of people who work at the Pentagon go to sleep. Therefore, I have seen shirts, posters and all sorts of other merch with an eagle crying, the Statue of Liberty crying, George Washington crying, the figure of Justice crying… I have seen tears poorly photoshopped onto just about every piece of Americana imaginable. And now:
I do not quite understand why this next designer did not realize that this looks as if young MJ has just fellated Papa Smurf, or if he or she did, why this shirt exists. Well, the etsy shop selling this is located in Thailand; maybe they don’t have Smurfs there.
And here we are in Rittenhouse, which is clearly a great place to buy quality art, meeting Perry Milou’s painting “the Elvis Jackson.” Oh god oh god oh god.
Hi, sorry, I just have to show you the accompanying text with this video, which is on the official Perry Milou youtube account:
A CONTEMPORARY YET VISIONARY MASTERWORK BY THE EMERGING POP ARTIST PERRY MILOU DEPICTS A PORTRIAT FUSION OF AMERICAN ICONS ELVIS PRESELY AND MICHAEL JACKSON.
PAINTING IN 1995 AFTER THE MARRIAGE OF JACKSON TO LISA MARIE PRESLEY , MILOU EASILY RECOGNIZED THE INSPIRATION OF PRESLEY LIFE ON HIS OWN.
STATES THE ARTIST; ‘ELVIS GRAB HIS CROTCH FIRST AND GRINDED HIS PELVIS, HIS COSTUMES AND FLARE TRANSCENDING JACKSON IN MANY WAYS, AND JACKSONS TRAGIC DEATH ALMOST SEEMS DESTINED TO LINK HIM TO PRESLEY ALONG WITH MONROE AND DEAN.THE NOW FOUR ICONS COMPLETE AN AMERICAN RUSHMORE TO LIVE ON FOREVER!
OL ON CANVAS 48/ 48 INCHES
Well, I’m actually fairly confident that in the next few years MJ will become a cultural thing like Elvis, with reported sightings in Burger Kings across the land. But I can think of no better way to end this post than “OL ON CANVAS” and this video:
LOVES it
You may remember Patrick Moberg as the guy who saw the girl of his dreams on the subway one night in 2007, chickened out on talking to her and then put a little cartoon of her on NYgirlofmydreams.com and through the power of the Internets actually managed to get in touch with her. It was cute, at least if you weren’t working for gawker and dead inside.
I mean, I also find the whole trope of sad yet hip yet sad young men falling instantly in love with cute magical girls they’ve never had a conversation with and then trying to make it sound deeper than “…I dunno, she was really hot” super annoying, but it was kinda cute nonetheless.
Anyway, they broke up after two months, it’s two years later, and he has a new shirt design that we like a lot.
It’s just close enough to give me the Philly warm fuzzies without being, uh, this:
via BradOFarrell
But Where Is EX-Ayn Rand Quoter?
So the image of these proud ex-masturbators has been floating around the internet tubes for a while, but did anybody check out why the hell these smiling, happy teens were wearing such an odd shirt? No? Well, that’s OK, we looked into it for you. And boy oh boy, are we glad we did.
Five Funny Obama T-Shirts You Should Own
Happy Obama Day! So far, so good.
To celebrate, DMac and I have scoured the Internet and the streets of Philadelphia to bring you the awesomest Obama T-shirts. (We use the word “awesomest” to mean both tacky and legitimately rad, depending on the circumstances.) Though some people—including former mayoral candidate and dude who went to my high school Larry West—aren’t thrilled with all the Obama merchandise, we at PW headquarters are big supporters of T-shirts. Particularly ones that include both topical humor and presidential Jedi.
First up, we have bedazzled Barack in Swarovski crystals courtesy of Etsy artist yayaMarsy. Bonus points for the cat-like yellow eyes.
DMac found this gem at Sneaker Villa (two for $10!).
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you The Baracktopus!
Is Andy Warhol rolling over in his grave or smiling down on us from a better place?
- Steve over at Dovate.com sent in this shirt, which he found near city hall. I hate to state the obvious here, but OMG THE OBAMAS ARE WIELDING LIGHT SABERS IN A GALAXY READY FOR CHANGE!
Happy Wednesday! Stylish Links to Sass Up Your Morning.
Inspired by my friend who perfected the eyes of Edie Sedgwick, the beautiful muse of Andy Warhol, I searched online for tips on how to get the look for myself. While none of the web pages I came across were illustrated, I did luck out in finding this super cool video on YouTube that demonstrates each step in making the look complete to the tune of the Velvet Underground.
While preparing for the approaching cold front, I was excited to learn that Chapstick has just introduced a True Shimmer line, giving you all the moisturizing benefits of Chapstick along with a subtle shimmer. Apparently, Chapstick can be handy for many reasons. According to eHow,
you can make a statement at any party by simply applying it as a
“glitter lotion to all the places you want to draw attention to.” Umm,
alright….
Okay, so it’s cold outside. Give yourself an even better reason to bundle up by checking out the amazing coat sale on Bluefly.com. Today is the last day to receive an additional 25% off!
To all of you smokers who flick their cigarettes on the street, the fashion world thanks you. Well, one designer does.
Because it’s the time of year when getting out of bed is particularly difficult in the morning, I am all for jumping into a t-shirt and a pair of skinny jeans. If you do feel the need to make some sort of statement, however, Threadless will not dissapoint. Offering t-shirts designed by artists across the country, Threadless has something for everyone.