We’re still going through our backlog of T-shirt ideas to figure out which ones are worth pursuing. Once that’s sorted out, we’ll have to find the right designers for the job, and in some cases get the rights to use the images. If everything goes well, we should be about 1 or 2 weeks away from getting some preliminary designs.
So, would putting Che Guevara’s face work on a tee?
Over 15,000 revellers came out last night to the Bal en Blanc, Montreal’s epic all-night dance party. The two gigantic rooms, one for trance and the other for house, in the Palais des Congrès (trade centre) were thronged with sexy, beefy and curvy bodies clad in white, thumping to up-tempo beats.
I did the Spanish thing going in at around 2.30am. Not the best decision as I forgot they stopped serving booze at 3am when bars and clubs in Montreal usually shut down. But that didn’t seem to deter the majority of the party people who danced hard all night. Some even had wicked moves, until I realised they were in fact mimicking Dance Dance Revolution moves. I guess you gotta learn how to dance one way or the other.
Notes: Bal en Blanc was by far the biggest party I’ve been to but to put things into perspective, it’s pretty tiny (then again everything else is) compared to the 45,000 pleasure seekers at Sensation White in Amsterdam… My favourite performance was by Israeli DJ Offer Nissim, not because he dropped his killer remix of Vanessa Paradis’s Joe Le Taxi, but because of his amusing symphony-conductor-like antics in the DJ booth.
The video of the original track features an excerpt from a cult short film called C’était un rendez-vous, the story of a guy who takes punctuality seriously dashing through Paris to meet a girl (would’ve been funny if she arrived late). Amid the flaky weather in Montreal, it makes me want to go back there.
Note: a song with a similar mood is the smashing remix of The Killers’ Mr. Brightside by Stuart Price (aka Jacques Lu Cont).
A friend recently told me about weblin, a novel way to interact with surfers browsing the same site. Won’t be long before someone throws a web party through weblin for the tee community.
I received our second batch of T-shirts earlier today. It took awhile as we wanted to make sure the print size and location were spot on. Seems trivial but it’s actually time consuming.
We printed several paper copies (gets complicated if the image is bigger than A4), stuck them on a blank tee, put it on to see how it looks like on us, and then decided the right specs for each size.
The tees will be available on the shop sometime tomorrow.
With the proliferation of T-shirt labels, it’s not easy to come up with bankable ideas that are 100% original. For each one we like, we constantly double check on the net to see if it’s already been done. A recent example is the ASBO T-shirt we mentioned last week.
Another one is the Low Self-Esteem design. Although we ended up nixing this version, one of our readers gave us a good idea to work with. But eventually, we dropped it altogether when a friend discovered a similar design that was released at about the same time.
Without knowing about it, we would’ve never found it on Google. Even with a pic of the T-shirt, it’d still be difficult. LA and T-shirt are just too common to use as keywords.
If you have the time, I’d encourage you to try find the company who makes the LA tee. We’ll give a free T-shirt to the first one who posts the name in the comment section. It starts with an A.
I guess the safest way to go is to print branded Swiftlabel T-shirts with our logo conspicuously on the front of the tee. It’d be 100% original, but also 100% boring.
Teeming with hipsters, fans of electronica and the occasional models, Club Opera still churns out top Sunday billings from its previous incarnation as Central Station.
Last night was no different. The superclub, which reminds me of Nachtresidenz in Düsseldorf, welcomed a very special guest, Stockholm native Axwell.
