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I think you mean Silian

Shameless plug for a friend who created this shirt: http://www.threadless.com/submission/436738/You_re_just_not_my_type/from,cococosy

I highly recommend this t-shirt for you. I have one myself.

The best way to make a product people want it is to have them make a prototype themselves and submit it. However most things cannot be prototyped but a regular Joe. But tshirts can.

Perhaps Threadless has stolen designs in the past. Can you cite a non-anecdotal instance of this theft by them? Searches for "Threadless stole my design" return zero results. THe phrase ""Threadless stole my design" has nothing about this (but is does return results about people who steal from Threadless). And searches for "Threadless stole my idea" only returned one deliciously ironic result. If it's happening often (or at all) nobody is hurt enough to talk about it online.

And are aware of how easily dismissible your claim of having your punchline 'stolen' is? Even if you had a million-dollar-an-hour law firm behind you, the claim would be laughed out of court. A short turn of phrase or other idiom, cannot be copywrited (source). It can be trademarked, but that only applies if the phrase is used to sell a product or promote an organization. Your punchline 'I hate your children', and the gag of hating 'trendy' children's names, was not at all new...even in 2004. What's more, the Gawker shirt didn't even take the exact phrase...and they added artwork. How long after you posted you strip did it appear on Gawker. From what I can tell it was years later (source). Do you really think someone stumbled across your strip and submitted it to Gawker? That reasoning seems really thin. Unless, of course, you have some kind of source...

Here is the artwork to go along with your story. I believe this is the original artist. Could be wrong.

Of course not, everyone knows you need the concentrated meme power of a Three Keyboard Cat Moon shirt if you want to pull in the hotties.

This was part of the requirement creep. Maybe they needed the rainbows and thought that Unicorn farts were the best source. (Unicorns are known to fart rainbows, I know because I saw it on a T-shirt) http://www.threadless.com/submission/32954/Unicorns_fart_rainbows?=

Either grow a massive hedge in an orb shape and stick this dish in the top section just like the DeathStar from StarWars...

To further illustrate the concept, check out this T-shirt.

I got this.

Poor Pluto. Dissed again.

I really like that one: http://www.threadless.com/product/623/Haikus_are_easy_but

Nice one: http://www.threadless.com/product/623/Haikus_are_easy_but

>> Haiku is easy
>> But sometimes they don't make sense
>> Refrigerator

Seen that one before
I bought the shirt on Threadless
Click the URL

http://www.threadless.com/product/623/Haikus_are_easy_but

Haikus are easy.
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator

Godman is recontextualizing the images, and that, in and of itself, can make new and unique works,

Does Goldman do bumper stickers? Because if not, I might have to do a little "recontextualising" of my own.

If copying someone else's t-shirt and selling it as your own is acceptable, what's to stop me copying Goldman's designs and selling them as my own?

Michael

http://www.threadless.com/product/261/What_Would_M acgyver_Do Appreciate it! I just got this shirt, but it seems no one in the UK knows who MacGyver is! :-( Damn my US influenced NZ upbringing.

I thought the cock came first.

Yanno, that word picture you painted really brings to mind a T-Shirt I saw at OSCON this year (Anil Dash from Six Apart wore it during his keynote) ... http://www.threadless.com/product/235/Goatse The link is work-safe though still disturbing.

http://threadless.com?from=Bamboolauncher

This seems right in line:
http://threadless.com/product/157/Afternoon_Deligh t

Artists make all of their money off of touring and merchandise sales. Some get screwed though and have shitty contracts where the label gets a percent of merchandise sales. Being an artist is not easy

so why don't they skip the record contracts, rent some equipment and record their music at home, distribute it for free over the internet as advertising for their live shows? Does there need to be some central web repository for free music? What's to stop an artist from making music with garageband and putting it on iTunes, and getting pitchfork to review it? maybe even mainstream media? They might even be able to generate enough publicity to fill arenas.

I think Apple should make the iTunes client work with any mp3 player, and maybe offer mp3 versions over iTunes. It would totally take over as everyone's media client, and the iPod still totally owns the competition. Everyone knows that, and it doesn't need exclusive iTunes compatibility to make it everyone's most desired portable music device. They are holding eachother back.

What would be totally awesome, but would never happen, would be if Apple did that and began producing concerts and marketing artists. That would seriously be encroaching on their trademark agreement w/Apple Corps, and would be totally redefining Apple's role as a business, but still... it would be cool, and they would totally destroy. With podcasts and streaming radio. Maybe they should equip the iPod with WiFi.

Ooh- and they could connect it to threadless (or start their own version) to do the artists' t-shirts.

There are also other competitors who integrate the community aspect of this service as well such as Threadless.Com.

Of course, the thing to do is take advantage of all of this :-)

I'm actually blown away by some of the other Google results:

http://www.threadless.com/submission/33582.html

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101040920 ,00.html

"Go stick your head in a goat!"

Why, yes, I am a web designer!!!

Check Here for a nifty shirt expressing very similar feelings:

"they lied to us
this was supposed to be the future
where is my jetpack,
where is my robotic companion,
where is my dinner in pill form,
where is my hydrogen fueled automobile,
where is my nuclear powered levitating house,
where is my cure for this disease"

Now in t-shirt form!

they lied to us

this was supposed to be the future

where is my jetpack,

where is my robotic companion,

where is my dinner in pill form,

where is my hydrogen fueled automobile,

where is my nuclear powered levitating house,

where is my cure for this disease

But Threadless does have some kick-ass, well designed tees.

Also don't forget the Joy of Tech store which even has a few Slashdot Gladiators shirts left in the bargain bin.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity.

One of the best site designs I've seen uses this to great dramatic effect. Fixed width, plain, calm soothing colors and a semi-low contrast. Besides, everybody knows white on black pages are so 1998.