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.
byzoek’s work is full of subtlety and nuance, and was not an easy reproduction on a shirt. Since she often works on a paper with a yellow shade, but most yellow shirts are blazing bright, we decided to go with a more natural shade of cotton with the color of the paper stripped out.
This same subtlety of byzoek’s work also doesn’t translate into screen printing very well, so we decided to debut a Direct To Garment print. I was initially a little apprehensive about the probable quality of this process which I’d never seen before. I ordered a test shirt, and I say I’m fairly impressed. The process has its own limitations, but seems to provide an excellent quality of reproduction within those limitations.
Also, please go take a look at byzoek’s catalog of work on her site ‘‘. I think you’ll fall in love. “they are weak. they are strong. they are beautiful.” Indeed.
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.)
(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.
[update 2/13/2009] NOTE: Only a few days left on the SECOND SERVING of this fine bacon design. Get on it.
[update 1/19/2009] NOTE: The final bacon design is alot tighter and a serious level of quality, as embroidered by professionals. PHOTOS TO COME! Follow me on for possible re-release opportunity!
“BACON as you like it”
(embroidered with glow in the dark fat)
design run of
04/12/08 through 4/25/08
“BACON as you like it” is a direct embroidery on the shirt, with glow in the dark fat. It’s not a patch, iron on, or an appliqué, but is embroidered right there, in its bacon glory. Special covering will protect the inside stitches, and also provide protection if your skin is sensitive. The photographs above represent different lighting conditions of the same embroidery, so that you might see the depth of brilliance. Photographs do it no justice, it truely is a thing of beauty. Final design will appear higher on the chest of the shirt than the photograph, see the color mockups.
Shirt color options were to imply level of bacon ‘doneness’.
I don’t go to Target looking for something new, possibly daring, or even interesting. I usually just get cat litter.
But at my last visit I found this interesting pairing. A tshirt that came with a game. That’s different.
And it seems the game has relevance to the shirt, or perhaps the shirt is relevant to the game? That’s different, at least at the point of origin. There’s plenty a shirt that relates to a video game, check ebay if you think the world is lacking. But for them both to begin at the same place, and packaged together with the game attached to shirt, instead of the shirt bundled with a Platinum version of the game…interesting.
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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.
