I received all the embroidered bacon shirt supplies yesterday, including three spools of the glow-in-the-dark thread. I don’t think it will take that much, but this would be a bad time to run out. People are waiting for their bacon, man! Get a move on!
I’m dropping the supplies at the ‘full fledged production scale embroidery experts’ today, and hope to see final results in about seven business days. There will be a few extras (I couldn’t help it, when am I going to get the chance for this again?) and if you wanted to have a chance to pick one of the extra shirts up, I suggest signing up for emails. When I have a moment to construct the static surplus store, I will let faithful subscribers be the first to have at.
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I have several artist friends, and I’ve been art supply shopping with them before. We all get pretty excited when walking the isles of an art supply store. I think it sets our mind ablaze with the sheer amount of potential before us.
All the things I ever toyed with in my mind presented in front of me made my blood boil with possibilities. It’s fun both to browse or to culminate the experience by completing a monetary transaction that just feels like gravy.
For me, though, this extends beyond the art store. I know others who like me browse alleys and items dumped for possible materials. When driving around with my wife, whenever I see a pile of ‘garbage’ at a curb, I always say, “ooo, treasure.” I don’t see her reaction, but I’m pretty sure she cringes.
But there’s another place for me, too. When I go to the local American Apparel retail store, just a few blocks from my home, I look about in the same way as I do in the art store. I’m seeing raw canvas everywhere, checking colors, sizes, feeling textures and testing stretch, looking around and seeing if there is anything I missed. I don’t think it’s possible for my to just ’shop’ for clothes anymore. I don’t think this is necessarily bad, but I sometimes wonder what I’ve gotten myself into.
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The ‘everything is going to be fine’ shirts are out and on their way to those who purchased. I am really pleased with how they look, I hope those few souls who braved the purchase love them just as much, if not more.
I’m in talks now with official embroiderers about the infamous bacon. Since I received a reasonable amount of orders I think I might be able to have the run produced by those with really expensive equipment, and therefor up the quality of the final shirt by many folds. The quotes I’m receiving are pretty steep, basically reducing any margin to zero. And they can’t do glow-in-the-dark threads or have never used them? Really? How am I on the cutting edge of threads?
Dave’s aut vincere are running late, seeming to be arriving in my hands next week. I will have a surplus of those due to the minimum order requirements, so I will have to resolve whether or not I want to have a static storefront somewhere here on the site. Hm.
Due to an error on my part, I may be putting in another order of Hilesh’s true star shirt. I’m perplexed if this violated my own rules. It was my error. It’s still a tiny run. Right? The extras to make the minimum of that order would go in the static storefront as well. Hm. Hm.
A storefront is something I considered when this began, as there is never a guarantee that the amount of shirts ordered will be enough for the minimum and there could be ‘extras’…but it would be per item basis. Such as there is one medium of this and two larges and one small of that, and that’s it.
Also, there is a new batik cooking to debut next Friday. It’s a design that I’ve had in my head for the past three years. The possibility of fruition is sending me to new heights. I’ll try not to fall; as usual, it’s a hang-on situation.
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We see below something that appeared on Qwantz/Dinosaur Comics this morning:
Merry Christmas to me.
It was expensive to line up six strips of bacon like that, and they won’t even be up for that long, Ryan isn’t posting a new strip today…but it was so worth it. Sometimes I have to just see it.
(add: it’s also the last bacon day. it’s kindof a celebration.)
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April 22, 2008 – 10:49 am
(We see here pictured some of the ‘everything is going to be fine’ orders in progress. The picture is current but they’ve already left this stage and and approaching being finished tonight. They will ship before the week ends come what may.)
Two months and a matter of days. That’s it. Happy two-month anniversary, Tiny Run …feels like it’s been months and months, not month and month.
I think one of the factors that colors my perception of it is that I’m trying to plan designs weeks and months in advance, and produce the previous closed designs at the same time.
It’s like time travel without the paradox. At least not yet. I’ll get working on that, too.
Many new ideas for the months to come, new approaches to the same cottony surface. In two months flat my ideas of what is acceptable and what isn’t have shifted dramatically. I really want things to be different, unknown, unforeseen. And I mean so different I want it to scare you. I want it to be crazy.
I’d say it’s coming along, and me with it…
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I’m not sure when the idea to embroider a single strip of unexplained bacon on a shirt struck me. I can’t recall the exact moment when I decided to use glow in the dark thread for the fat portions.
I do remember deciding that things had evolved from when I started Tiny Run just a short time ago, and that I was apparently a gambling man. Every design that goes up is a bit of a gamble on my part. I’ve already paid the artist a non-return advance on royalties for the sale of their design, and no matter how many orders I’ve sold, I have to place an order for the design’s production. The more colors of ink in the design, the larger the minimum order. Placing bets like this every two weeks here at the beginning is more farm than I have to bet.
So even though I had a batik design of mine debut not so long ago, I’ve put another of my own designs up for a run. I had to hedge bets a little, as the design that follows this is a whallop. I love it dearly, can’t wait to wear mine, but it’s the biggest color combination that has been attempted here as of yet.
I thought I might give alternating artists’ designs time to breathe by placing a design of my own in between, whose earnings would go completely back into the machine that spawned them. I alternated to embroidery, and then at some unknown point, the bacon idea hit. It was too beautiful to pass up. I spent several nights working on the art, the digitizing, the thread color, performing test runs of the embroidery to get it to look this good.
If you step away from it a bit, the texture is perfect. It looks like a strip of bacon on your shirt.
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