Pecha Kucha. Roughly translated from the Japanese, it means “chit-chat.” It is a cool idea, sort of like speed dating for ideas and thinking. You show 20 slides and talk more than for 20 seconds for each. Pecha Kucha nights happen in about 700 cities around the world. More ideas, what a good idea. The featured…
Hey everyone from the Ramones to the local shoegaze band to Johnny Cash, the “Man in Black”, loves a black t-shirt, but I never heard the claim before that, “they sound better.” Check out the bottom of the photo of that Buddy Emmons shirt for sale page. A Buddy Emmons dedicated site is a probably…
If you want to buy a luxury item, you have to pay heavily for it, right? A Tesla or a high end Mercedes is going to cost you 100K and a basic VW or Ford will cost less than 20K new. 80K for luxury. If you want a little luxury in your garment life, you…
Industry sublimation company Sawgrass Industrial was just bought by the JK Group. That makes them the biggest digital sublimation group in the world. According to the JK prez, that puts JK ,”…into a global leadership position in the digital sublimation sector and at the forefront of the textile pigment inks market development.” It sounds like…
Many of us have for many years utilized lasers to aid in accurate print positioning on press. I’ve seen many home-spun setups (including the cheap Radio Shack laser levels which were once mounted onto our presses) as well as some commercial systems. Most worked just “OK” and with serious limitations. Enter Lase-It, a truly legit laser positioning system. With a solid…
Yahoo, ABC, Jezebel and many other news sources, and oh yeah, also the bad entertainment site ironically called, “Fox News” are all reporting on Target stores selling a shirt emblazoned with the word “Trophy.” They are selling it in their Junior section oriented toward brides. The retailer has received a firestorm of grief about it…
This time of year in the US of A it gets scorching hot. One of the hottest places in the country yesterday was South Carolina, a scorching 100 degrees in Columbia. Though that is mild compared to the world high of 118 F. in Kuwait yesterday. It was a low is the lower 48 US…
Last week I posted a new promo video that was shot at my shop. Minutes after I posted the video it was taken down by Vimeo’s super smart copyright infringement detecting algorithm. Well, it’s back up now. I win. Hope you enjoy this artsy view of textile screen-printing.
Like it or not, you cannot expect to thrive as a business with your Yellow Pages ad (what’s that?) and just a land line. I personally don’t like it when customers contact me on Facebook. I find it hard to integrate the information into my system and share it with my team. You know what? Stop…
If you met Tom or I at any shows, we are wearing our nice Hanes Nano hoodies that have “KNOW-IT-ALL” emblazoned across the chest. i·ro·ny1 ˈīrənē/ noun noun: irony 1. the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effects 2. state of affairs or an…
