If you want to get straight to the bit about t-shirts, just scroll down to the last paragraph!
If you haven’t heard of PMOG, it’s a ‘Passively Multiplayer Online Game’. How it works is you install a Firefox add-on, and essentially you get ‘experience’ to level up like you would in a traditional RPG, except by browsing the internet and completing ‘missions’ instead of killing baddies. You simultaneously earn Datapoints (i.e. internet gold) that you can use to buy tools in the Shoppe. If you want a good overview of what PMOG is about, take this introductory mission. Besides just browsing and taking missions, there are a variety of tools (i.e. items) that you can use: lightposts let you create missions from your favorite webpages, you can leave mines on sites to damage unarmored browsers (and protect yourself from mines with armor), portals are a bit like StumbleUpon (but you can only access them from whatever page they have been placed on), crates let you leave gifts of tools or Datapoints for others to discover, and St. Nicks render the mines of your enemies useless. You become aligned with the seven different associations depending on what tools and missions you take, which ultimately determines what tools you can purchase.
If you want to get in on the beta, leave a comment to that effect (make sure to fill out the ‘email’ field), and I’ll send an invite to the first two commentators! After that, it’ll be up to those two people to use their invites on subsequent commentators, because you only get two invites per week.
Because I probably know more about t-shirts than anything else, I created a Guide to Indie T-Shirts mission on PMOG, and if you like me you’ll take it and give it a good rating! If you like this blog, you’ll almost certainly like the t-shirts displayed therein. While you’re at it, you should visit my profile to add me as an ally! I promise to reciprocate.
Link: [PMOG]
Expensiveness: it’s for free!
So, I’m pretty sure the ultimate in indie hipster bikes is the fixed-gear, single speed, no brakes, self-painted bicycle. And if you happen to be a hipster (or not a hipster!) with a penchant for this kind of bicycle, well… you might like the t-shirts from ONE Gear Clothing! Why’s that? I think it should be pretty obvious…
Ride Me from ONE Gear Clothing
The ONE Gear Clothing shop is chock full of t-shirts featuring single speed bicycles in loads of colorways: two varieties of silhouettes, some gears, the occasional, and even some sort of demented burning demon bicyclist:
Bat out of Hell from ONE Gear Clothing
ONE Gear Clothing have the perfect shirts for all the fixed-gear fanatics you know and love.
Link: [ONE Gear Clothing]
Expensiveness: $10-20
This new t-shirt website has apparently been taken over—”conquered” if you will—by a master race of giant robots. It’s difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the robots will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted internet t-shirt blogger, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground factories.
Finnieston Crane Robot at My Robot Overlord
Look, I know what you’re thinking. A t-shirt with a robot on it? Featured on this blog? And moreover, a giant robot? What madness is this? How could it be?
I understand your concern. I am acutely aware that I am going out on a limb here. Robots on t-shirts—that’s scary and unusual territory for me. This is more than treading on unfamiliar ground. This is wandering, blindfolded, through a demilitarized zone.
But I do what I must; and right now, I simply must tell you about My Robot Overlord. It’s a new t-shirt shop, based in Britain, which currently offers five gloriously different single-color robot-themed t-shirts. For each shirt a short back-story has been written, steeped in alternate histories and referring to robotic rebellions. Even if you are not a fan of robots on your t-shirts, I recommend reading these surreal tales. (For example, one story tells the tale of a giraffe-slaughtering death-engine that was inspired by the hallucinatory visions of a British park ranger at the turn of the century.)
And if still none of this interests you, then at the very least you should go there to ingratiate yourself with My Robot Overlord, before it is too late.
Link: [Finnieston Crane Robot at My Robot Overlord]
Expensiveness: £15.00
Hi, my name is Markus and I run the German t-shirt blog Shirtspotting. Joe kindly offered me to do some guest postings on Fantastic Blognanza which is quite an honour for me. So from time to time I’ll inform you about my findings in T-Shirt Germany. I’ll start off with a new discovery that is really worth sharing. It wasn’t my own discovery in fact, but I’m grateful they introduced themselves to me. CHUD is short for Can’t Hold Us Down. Of course I don’t believe anybody would want to hold them down, because CHUD is run by two great guys. Anybody who puts out shirts that say ‘music pulls me through‘ can’t be bad. As they mention in the little interview I did with them, they started the whole thing in order to create something that is different from global players and mainstream labels and put some soul in their work. So they print, dye, label their shirts themselves or even add sewn applications.I have recieived a sample tee, Scales. I liked the idea of the small red star, which adds some color to the design. I’m a freak for stars anyway. It’s hand-dyed, so the seems shine through in white. And I ordered a jacket with a great Trojan giraffe… both are quite convincing. Below are some “What I got” pics. I’m sure I’ll wear these things quite a lot.
Link: [
CHUD]
Expensiveness: €15.90-24.90P.S. The site is currently in German only, but this shouldn’t keep you from having a look. You just need to know that ‘Jetzt kaufen’ means ‘buy now’, and I’m sure they’ll answer all your questions via email.
New Faces
Old Faces
Faces with Sales
- Concrete Hermit (via HYA): Concrete Hermit have extended their sale until February 4th.
- Angry (read our previous review): €5 t-shirts, €20 sweatshirts, €15 jackets… a really big discount from their usual prices.
- Night-Lab: one last sale, use coupon code TTYLNL at checkout for 35% off until February 8th! Hopefully Night-Lab will be reincarnated soon.
- Limitees: all Wemoto t-shirts €19.90, hoodies €49.90 through February 10th.
- Beautiful Decay: sign up to their email newsletter and then email intern [at] beautifuldecay [dot] com for a 10% off discount code.
- Linty Fresh (read all the info): use coupon code empteepal for 20% off.
Featured Faces
P.S. This is the third installment of This Week in T-Shirts (TWiTS), so you should be relatively used to it by now. And we want to know:
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These aren’t t-shirts, but they are one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. This Valentine’s day, nothing says either ‘I’m so comfortable with this relationship that I can pretend like I don’t actually like you anymore’ or ‘I never want to see you again and this was the most hilarious way I could of telling that to you’ than snarky heart-shaped doilies hand-embroidered by yourself!
Gotta keep the pictures safe for work…
Natalie Dee teams up with Subversive Cross Stitch to bring you these hilarious doilies. And they make the creation process easy, because each kit includes everything you need:
- 5 heart-shaped doilies
- 1 embroidery needle
- 5 colors of embroidery floss
- 5 pattern charts for all 5 designs
- and instructions!
It couldn’t be any simpler. They even have a helpful section on how to cross stitch (with a guest appearance by Lenore from Suicide Girls). The supply of these Valentine’s Day cross stitch kits is limited, and they won’t be available after February 15th.
Link: [Valentine's cross stitch kit at Subversive Cross Stitch]
Expensiveness: $25
1. The Most Fantastic Things (previously known as In Dreams is now available!
The Most Fantastic Things NEW! from Linty Fresh
2. Use coupon code empteepal at checkout for 20% off any purchase at Linty Fresh. Sweet!
Link: [The Most Fantastic Things at Linty Fresh]
Expensiveness: $15-22
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