BUT SLACKER SOUND SISTIMS LIVES ON IN OUR HEARTS
Back when I was more actively working on t-shirt projects, I would spend my idle moments dreaming up funny t-shirt slogans. Some of my favourites:
fat chicks love cheeseburgers
stereotypes save time
the pool boy
Regrettably making t-shirts and selling them took away my precious Phil's time, so we only printed a handful of slogans. Many of the rest were submitted to T-Shirt Hell's Idea contest. Their premise: if they make shirts with your idea, you get $200 and 10 free shirts.
I never heard back from them or anything. This was heartbreaking - eventually I decided that as a t-shirt slogan artist, I was a failure. I had a few sad and lonely nights. When I was at the lowest point, I would write the slogans on Mills' wifebeaters*, then tore the unfunny shirts up in a fit of rage, and burned them. I cried a lot back then: my dream of being a witty-t-shirt slogan artist was dead.
Healing took some time, but eventually I got out of the funk and the depression. I refocused my efforts on computer programming, dedicating myself to the major constructs of loops, if/elses, subroutine calls and variable assignments. Programming wasn't my passion - but it was something to get my mind off of "I'm with stupid" and my other aspirations.
I spend more and more time writing code and doing my schoolwork. Eventually I developed a bit of a talent for programming, and decided that it was a sufficient consolation job. I even found a job working at the world's best software development shop, O'Dell Engineering Ltd., before selling out for some multi-coloured balls.
Today, I learn that maybe I shouldn't have given up so early. About two years after submission, Made in Camaro is now available for purchase.
Regrettably making t-shirts and selling them took away my precious Phil's time, so we only printed a handful of slogans. Many of the rest were submitted to T-Shirt Hell's Idea contest. Their premise: if they make shirts with your idea, you get $200 and 10 free shirts.
I never heard back from them or anything. This was heartbreaking - eventually I decided that as a t-shirt slogan artist, I was a failure. I had a few sad and lonely nights. When I was at the lowest point, I would write the slogans on Mills' wifebeaters*, then tore the unfunny shirts up in a fit of rage, and burned them. I cried a lot back then: my dream of being a witty-t-shirt slogan artist was dead.
Healing took some time, but eventually I got out of the funk and the depression. I refocused my efforts on computer programming, dedicating myself to the major constructs of loops, if/elses, subroutine calls and variable assignments. Programming wasn't my passion - but it was something to get my mind off of "I'm with stupid" and my other aspirations.
I spend more and more time writing code and doing my schoolwork. Eventually I developed a bit of a talent for programming, and decided that it was a sufficient consolation job. I even found a job working at the world's best software development shop, O'Dell Engineering Ltd., before selling out for some multi-coloured balls.
Today, I learn that maybe I shouldn't have given up so early. About two years after submission, Made in Camaro is now available for purchase.
1 Comments:
I read the rules to the T-shirt contest and I don't think you can legally tell us you made the design. They bought the rights fair and square. But other than the fact you may now be going to jail that is awsome. Oh and thanks for the card. And the free t-shirt
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