As the below banner betrays - Waterloo has a soft spot for music and pop-oriented t-shirts. You will definitely recognize a bunch of their iconic imagery that has been washed of color and tshirtified for your fashion-convenience.
The music references aren't so surprising, though, considering this collective is comprised not only of a bunch of Argentine friends, but a bunch of Argentine friends who play music together -- yes, they're also a band.
Perhaps the "we're helping fund a band-aspect" helps explain the high price of these t-shirts, even with the "recession" discount. Fortunately for us, they offer a free shirt if you buy three -- so you can round up a few friends and all hang out in style.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Waterloo: 10-60% Off Recession Sale
$12 Uneetee: Paper Duck
Alright, so we get the reference to The Ugly Duckling in the title and image, but you're not going to sway us to spend our weekly t-shirt ration that easily, sittisak sakornsin. First off, what you've got there is a paper crane, not a paper swan or paper duck. If you wanted to see what an origami duck, it isn't that hard to find a demonstration video. Heck, you could have even made an origami swan if you were so inclined.
Sure, you know that we're often suckers for side-placement -- and the concept of these birds floating on the vast blue expanse of the shirt is certainly witty -- but we're not taking the bait this time.
Should we be prepared for fowl weather, or what? Not only do we have the above-mentioned swans and paper crane on sale all week, Uneetee opted to tie-in the $10 Insaneetee deal by offering us another t-shirt for the birds. It's nice that we also have the option of picking up Martin Hall's planar bird formation teeshirt on sale today as well.
Interestingly, this isn't the first day Uneetee has devoted a day to our fine feathered friends.
$12 The Ryde: 2 Fin
We doubt there is a narrative-based movie that gets more playtime than North Shore at the uber-powerful thinktank formally known as The Ryde.
Get this ode to the fictional surf guru, Rick Cane, for only $12 today with the coupon twofinday.
ShirtaDay: Loves to Cuddle
Why not make the text of this "loves to cuddle" tshirt even smaller so people have to get really close to your chest to read it? It has the added effect of making you seem more shy and cuddly as well...
$10 Shirt.Woot: Hungry Unlike The Wolf
You've got to visit Woot just to sing along to their rendition of Every Rose Has It's Thorn, which, we hear, was written "in response to a failed love affair with a Los Angeles stripper."
We have no idea what was going through your mind, Joshua Stomberg, but this late night pizza vision has probably caused a sizable uptick in late-night delivery orders.
$9 TeeFury: Nuts Crackers
A third Tee Fury design for Wotto -- and we're starting to get the feeling that he might have missed his calling. This is a man whose crazy cartoony antics belong in a children's book or possibly some twisted adult graphic novels and not necessarily on a t-shirt.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
$10 Uneetee: Hologram Zoo
Sometimes we wonder where the heck the names of artists come from when they're featured on the front page, as they often have absolutely nothing to do with the artist's real name. Today, for example, Dina Prasetyawan is billed as "kooky love" on the front page of Uneetee.
$10 Shirt.Woot: Octospell
An incredibly subtle design from capttylor34 takes third place in the Words From Art Derby -- we recommend you order this tee if you like the octopus, but don't expect anyone to make out the fact that its tentacles spell out its name.
$9 TeeFury: Disco
dale edwin murray offers us a humorous take on Woodie Guthrie's much more serious-minded "This machine kills fascists" anthem -- especially if you aren't a fan of the disco era or the current resurgence of disco-like tunes. Unfortunately, DEM has to include the image of a guitar along with his text while WG just wrote his right across the instrument itself.
If you wore a shirt without the picture, what would you, as a machine, kill?
Saturday, October 11, 2008
$10 Uneetee: Amazing Childhood
I bet you're going to see this image again when we have to promote Amazing Childhood as the $10 Insaneetee sometime in the future.
Gotta love the bling!
$10 Woot Shirts: Can You Spell BRAAAINS!
Remember, the point of this Derby was to turn your artwork into words somehow -- and dsladek has crafted an exceptionally timely, niche-friendly and subtle entry very worthy of its second-place finish.
You know, I'm probably going to regret not picking this on up as I have for pretty much every shirt dsladek has created for Shirt.Woot -- but I'm just not much of an undead chest-banner sort of person.
$9 TeeFury: Frankenstein
It's almost as if Tee Fury was somehow responding to yesterday's criticism with today's much more modern interpretation of a historic horror creature. Of course, there's no way that could be the case as duba has probably had his artwork finished for quite some time.
Which works out well considering the fact that this interlaced Frankenstein "cuts the mustard" just about as well as the Headless Horseman tee -- making it a less than formidable retort.
