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My Gender Through Comics Assignment
This was an assignment for the Super MOOC course Gender Through Comics, led by Christina Blanch. It was a great class and loaded with a bunch of clever, creative and insightful individuals. Also, some really great interviews with leading talent took place.
Regret 4781
I really wish I named my business Ellipses so I could have made my web address DotDotDot.com.
Total Ellipse of the Heart would’ve been ok too.
More Breaking Bad Shirts!!!
Mental William Shirt
I.F.T. Tee
Perhaps if Ted Beneke of Beneke Fabricators hadn’t leased that car or if Huell (of sleeps standing up) wasn’t reasonably perusing that “Pretty Nooks” issue of Traditional Home or if Saul had a better A Team then none of this would’ve happened.
But no matter how you slice the orange, [Spoiler Alert for 2010] Skylar F•cked Ted. Available at the LOL or Heisenberg Tee Shops.
New Drakkar Shirt!
Named after flat-bottomed Viking ships, this fragrance has been appealing to the dark and sinister side of masculine sexual fantasies since 1982.
The New Shirt Adventures of Beans Baxter
Yes, indeed. I went and did it. I went and made a Beans Baxter shirt just like my mother told me I could one day when I grew up.
The Underground Government Liberation Intergroup and Mr. Sue were not so nice to The Network. Luckily, The Network was able to enlist Benjamin “Beans” Baxter Jr, Scooter, Number Two and (on occasion) Wendy O to help save the world from their ugly plans.
Don’t believe me? Watch The New Adventures of Beans Baxter coming to The FOX Network on July 18, 1987.
This shirt and lots of other shirts you never cared existed are available at Tees by LOL Productions or on the Facebook!
Upcoming Shirts – 2013 Teaser
You can file this under “Who gives a crap” in your circular filing cabinet (which I happen to know is actually your trash can), but we’ve got some amazing designs in the hopper for you!
And by you, I mean me.
It’s been a very busy fourth quarter for me and I haven’t had much time to make any non-Breaking Bad or Breaking Bad shirts but I’ve started a bunch. They all look like a mental patient scribbled them on a wall, using a crayon, using their mouth but rest assured that they will look worse by the time they go to print.
2013 is going to be the most handsome year yet!!!
Haters Gonna Swipe!
Since most of my shirts are products / places / things from shows and films, I’m never under the impression that I’ll be the only one doing a particular tee. Since I’m a video editor and not a designer or artist, I never expect I’ll be doing the most well “drawn.”
However, I never expected shirt companies to take something I’ve done and sell it as their own.
Most companies only took the bug portion of the drawing but some just sell the EXACT design.
Since I did this shirt [Vamonos Pest Control] after the first time the fictitious company was shown on Breaking Bad, I didn’t have a great source image to trace (which I do when attempting to replicate an existing element to incorporate into a design). Since I’m not a professional artist, there are some unique details in the shirt (mistakes) that no one would have intentionally done. The oddest part of this is that other people have done the bug design better than me, but their’s haven’t been appropriated.
BTW, I haven’t included any comparison images because I don’t want to increase the frequency they show up in searches, but look a the one above and imagine the exact same thing (for the the bug, at least).
Given the nature of the types of shirts I make, I’m not unaware of the irony of crying about copyright infringement when 90% of my stuff is at least inspired by another’s intellectual property but at least I have the respect to take the time to modify and alter and re-draw the element and make something different with it.
Here’s the list of companies to date that took my rendering and have been selling shirts and other items with my drawing of the drawing from the truck on the TV Show on them: Crowne Apparel, Cinefilia Camesetas, (both of whom literally used the entire design), Mean Fellas, Degenerate Clothing, Front Room Cinema, 3D Supply, Texlab, ShirtCity and Futbolk.uk.
At this point, I’ve only contacted a company about the Crowne Apparel design as they took the entire design and sell it on the same print to order shop as mine. The other one’s don’t really bother me too much, I just think they’re sort of stupid for not stealing one of the better renderings of the bug.
I’m just happy some people buy the shirts I make (for myself. first and foremost) and enjoy them.
In other news; all Breaking Bad related shirt I’ve made and will make will now also appear in their own shop at http://heisenberg.spreadshirt.com/
Another Bacon Breaking Bad Shirt!
Only one more after this, I promise. Possibly two.
Because the Birthdays just get better and better!
Image collage from Ghostiet at Screened.com
Dress Happy? Reasonably
Two designs in two colors so you can pick the color combo to best suit your carefully crafted life color palate like a mini Vince Gilligan.
It’s all about the Huell and the guy’s got fingers like hotdogs.
Design is by master illustrator, or millustrator, Jerome Gonia. You may know him from the fine crafted face on the Better Call Saul Tee or perhaps the glorious Box Cutter drawing. Based on a logo by a two wheeled vehicle company that shall bemain nameless.
Must love Huell! Be sure to check out Lavell Crawford’s awesome standup as well.
All the shirts are available at Tees by LOL Productions with a mess more Breaking Bad themed shirts in our Breaking Bad Homage section.
Yet Another Another Breaking Bad Shirt: Vamonos Pest Control
As a followup to last week’s Madrigal Electromotive GmbH which I didn’t feel necessitated an entire post, I present Vamonos Pest Control (which also doesn’t necessitate an entire post).
S5E3: Vamonos Pest Control
Yet Another Breaking Bad Shirt: BReakfast BAcon
S5E1: Breakfast Bacon
Heisenberg 2.0
The original Breaking Bad title slate looked all like…
So I was all…
But then just after Season 1 (or something, feel free to correct me), they was all…
So now, years later, I’m like…
Stanton-Walsh Rule
Roger Ebert created this rule stating; “No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.”
In his 1989 review of Dream a Little Dream he noted it as being a clear violation of the Stanton-Walsh Rule. I believe he said the same of Wild Wild West, at which point I’m fairly certain it has ceased to be a rule.
Q: We Are The Physics? A: No.
Boy I sure love the band We Are The Physics. Their debut “We Are The Physics Are OK at Music” gets alot of play around here, much to the delight of my wife and childrens.
One time, one summer, they were getting rid of shirts for post price only and I sent them Two Dollars and they sent one and it never got here. Then they were all like, “sorry.” Then after the eighteenth email, they stopped taking my calls.
Cut to today (that’s right, I’m Joe Hollywood so I can talk like that), they get these great new shirts in stock that they will only be selling at shows. Shows that will not be in the greater NY area because apparantly they can travel to Russia like they’re rich and fancy but cannot grace teh America with their brand of Atomic Age New Wave leaving Man or Astroman? to maintain their monopoly now that they killed Servotron with their bear hands.
Now I love shirts only available at performances on account of them being rare and more important, but I was unable to be a big enough person not to blog the shit out of this shirt shit. But fact is, if you want something done poorly, you have to do it yourself.
And so I did. I did something else…myself.
ALSO AVAILABLE IN BLACK!
Mmm, mmm Goød
Trying to Invent Memes is Desperate and Sad
Here’s mine…
Swanson Uniform Shirt
This will be no fun at all. From last night’s Parks & Recreation
ARE YOU TOUGH AS NAILS?
Would you rather sleep on a bed of pine needles than a mattress? Do you find video games pointless, and shopping malls stupid? Do you march to the beat of your own drummer? Did you make the drum yourself?
If so, you might just have what it takes to be a Swanson; Pawnee’s most hardcore outdoor club starts today. Boys and girls welcome.
Available here at the LOL shop.
Additionally, I currently offer some other TV/Film parody shirts in the Entertainment Parody Category. My Jaleeb Caru is Dead Category features a bunch of shirts that range from the silly to the absurd.
New Breaking Bad Shirt: Bee Barrel
Another new one that I put off because I thought someone did it already.
S4E10: Salud (Barrel of Bees Shirt)
When being tested by the Cartel, Jessie’s steps up the tough guy and continues to prove that he’s truly comfortable with who he is, “the bad guy.” When challenged to make a portion of the “cook” that’s usually already there Jesse confides in Gustavo saying, “Look, I get my phenylacetic acid from the barrel with the bee on it. That’s how I do it.” He then makes the Cartel chemists do it for him after calling them “asshole.”
Available here at the LOL shop.
Additionally, I currently offer some other TV/Film parody shirts in the Entertainment Parody Category. My Jaleeb Caru is Dead Category features a bunch of shirts that range from the silly to the absurd.
Are Skyway’s Truly T/A?
