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Enjoying the Weekend.

    The weekend has been nice so far.  We got our closing date on the house which will be June 3rd.  So basically we will sign the papers, get the keys, and we will run right over and start doing things.  I can’t wait to clean that back yard out, I’m totally ready.  Friday night we went to our friends house to play some board games.  One game in particular was probably the best/worst game I have ever seen.  The game was called “Heartthrob” and was totally ridiculous.  Three cards are drawn with three dudes, all insanely attractive.  They are presented on the table so that everyone can see how hot they are.

Pictured here are Peter, Dex, and Chip.  We knew it was going to be tough with how hot these dudes were.

Each of us is handed a paper where we write down which dude we think is the hottest.  Then we write down which dudes we think the other players think are the hottest.  The object is to guess who everyone is going to choose and for each one that you guess correctly you get one point.

The picture is a bit blurry but clearly you can see that Dex is by far the most awesome.  I mean come on, he has a duster.

In the second round we are to lay out some of the personality traits which are random cards placed onto the board with really amazing facts about each dude.

Again, after this round of personality traits, Dex was by far the coolest.  Lets think for a second.  A duster, nicknamed “Tiger”, really wants to dogsled across the Arctic, signed up for cooking classes to meet women, and dyes his hair a new color every month?  Is there really any doubt who the best is. Clearly its Dex.

We only played one round of this game for the simple fact that all of us except one chose Dex and at the end of the game all of us had the same amount of points so there was no winner.  A terrible game, but it was good for a laugh.  Why didn’t we at least give it a second chance?  Well if Trevor was one of the dudes in the next round, I’m pretty sure it would have been the same result.

Trevor.
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Slow week…

    Business has been good here at supersweetshirts.com but I have been slowing any new designs, etc until after my trip from California.  The Dirty Harry shirt is defiantly next on my list and have already started working on the image.  In the mean time, here are some trailers for some things that I want to see coming out!

   Its been a while since we have seen Zach Braff in anything.  He looks pretty rough in this but the film looks pretty good.  
This movie looks decent also.  “Hanna” is a 14 year old trained killer raised by her father and is sent on a mission across Europe while being tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent.
    And now for a terrible movie that I will need to see:
This movie looks so bad that I have to see it.  The groundbreaking premise of this film is that this kid is bullied in school.  Stone Cold Steve Austin plays a Janitor that saves the kid from being picked on one day.  He notices that the kid is carrying a boxing magazine and from there they pretty much seem to recreate “The Karate Kid”.  Amazing.
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Guilty Pleasure

   I have a new guilty pleasure as of late.  Months ago I had seen a trailer for MTV’s new TV show “Skins”.  The preview looked so unbelievably terrible that I momentarily became fascinated and decided to look up information about it online.  I found out that it was actually a remake of a version that aired for multiple seasons in the UK.  The reviews that I had read said that the UK version was edgy and would never be able to be aired in the US because of the content.  So I decided to watch the first season on Netflix.  As soon as I had finished the first episode, I knew that there would be no way I would ever watch the watered down US version, there would be no reason to. 
   The show is based around a group of kids, each of course loaded with their own problems and getting into their own ridiculous “real life” situations.  Doesn’t sound like anything special right?  As I got more and more into the first season it hit me as to why the show is so awesome.  Nicole was on the couch next to me as I was watching.  She was on her laptop not actually watching the show but peeking over at the TV occasionally and finally made a comment that pretty much summed up the show.  She said that the show is basically an R-rated Nickelodeon show.  That description is dead on.  If you ever wondered what a Nickelodeon show would be like with drug use, violence, strong sexual content, and low brow humor defiantly give the U.K. version of “Skins” a watch. It is bloody brilliant.

  I finished another model pic for the site that I thought came out well.  This one is for my Hemingway shirt where I have done some Photoshop stuff with a picture I shot of Nicole.

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Going to try something new.

    Nicole has sent a video to watch a few days ago made by the people at threadless.com which is a pretty large and successful T-shirt company.  I don’t have an issue plugging them on my blog because they do really awesome things over there and our shirts are completely different.  The video focused on the creative ways that they portray the models that are wearing the shirts. I am by no means a professional photographer but one of the little things they would sometimes do is stick the model in an alternative universe using Photoshop which I am good at using.  I’m going to do a test run hopefully tomorrow.

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The Killing Machine

     Dolph Lundgren returns with his newest masterpiece “Icarus” or in the states “The Killing Machine”.  Dolph plays “Icarus”, real name Edward Genn, an assassin who is struggling with the balance of being a ruthless killer and a father to a little girl.  Some past mistakes end up haunting him as eventually an onslaught of trained killers tries to murder him and his entire family.  If you like Dolph Lundgren then this is a good one.  The film is full of action and some brutal ass kicking.  Dolph directed this film and does a good job in making this look like a film with a decent budget.  This film isn’t going to win any awards and sometimes lacks common sense but that is what makes it great.  Dolph at one point is trying to save his daughter and brutally kills someone by ramming his face through the barbell of a weight set.  Long term trauma for the little girl?  Not when your Dolph’s daughter!  Super Sweet Shirts recommends this movie if you like things that are awesome.

Dolph’s total kills:  26
Methods used:  Guns, pitchfork, barbell, explosive, and bare hands…

 Rating (out of 4)
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Bolo

    Last night I had a vision.  Anyone who knows action films will know who this man is.  When the idea came to me I rushed online to see if it had been done before.  I could not find a single shirt.  Nobody had paid tribute to one of the greatest martial arts villains of all time, Bolo Yeung.

   I rushed to my computer when I got home and started to design the shirt I wanted.  This wasn’t going to be something I was going to draw free hand, I basically took a closeup of his face and pulled out the color.  I placed the symbol for warrior up in the corner and then simply placed Bolo at the bottom.  I wanted to keep it simple.  I smoothed out the picture by hand with some black ink, scanned it and then prepared it for my transparency.  I can’t wait to print this shirt, I love the design.

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Awesome weather!

   The weather here has been terrible for a while now.  Rainy, gloomy days mixed with cold flurries occasionally.  It has not been pleasant here at all.  Yesterday the weather was amazing. The sun was shining bright and people were out and about enjoying a break from the gloom.  Nicole, Ric, and I decided to go for a stroll through the neighborhood.  We live near the Elmwood Village which is filled with all kinds of little shops and a wide variety of people.  Ric has put on some winter weight so its good to get his chubby fanny into gear.  I decided to sport the Vulcan sweatshirt from our new line of hoodies.  We took a few pictures of the neighborhood along the way.

This is Ric’s Turf

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Bronson Shirt!

   I am getting more and more excited as I have finished the rough draft for my screen.  Its almost done, I just need to do some cleaning up on photoshop.  I decided to go the route of my Vulcan shirt where I have something straight to the point below the famous vigilante: Justice.  I’m very anxious to get the screen done for this and to get this onto a shirt as soon as possible!

 








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Morrissey Onesie

    Now that we have our new blog I am able to show more of the creative process behind some of the shirt/onesie designs we come up with here.  Originally I wanted to so a Morrissey baby onesie because the idea of someone so dramatic and overly emotional on a baby amused me.  I love the Smiths so this was something I wanted to pursue. I started my basic sketch and then gave it some ink and the overall image i was very happy with.

    When I was finished my amazing girlfriend recommended adding the lyric “Please, please, please let me get what I want.” which I viewed as nothing short of brilliant.  I decided to go with an average looking handwritten style cursive and this was the finished product:

 

 

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New T-shirt Designs on Hold.

    With the new house on the horizon and a planned trip out of town, I’ve decided I’m going to halt and new designs for my adult t-shirts until I get moved in to the new workspace.  My girlfriend had gotten me some awesome new equipment this past Christmas, so I want to start utilizing that.  This will also give me time to research and design my next shirt.  For years I have playing with the idea of making a shirt dedicated to the most unattractive action hero ever, Charles Bronson.  With unforgettable lines like, “Do you like Jesus? Well your about to meet him.”, Bronson was always one of my favorites and I have yet to find a shirt that does him justice.  All of the shirts I find are just different variations of the same image and I really want to try something different on this one.

   If you love action films and you want to see a film that has influenced a great deal of them, watch “Death Wish”.  To this day it is truly a masterpiece.  I will be posting updates of the artwork as it comes along. 

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