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My friend Jen just sent me these shots of her from the streets of Nashville, wearing the t-shirt I made for her when she moved there from Brooklyn this past winter.
The "Nashville is the new Brooklyn" shirt is a one-of-kind variation on the "California is the new Brooklyn" design I created, which is available for sale online by following this link to www.zazzle.com/sarahsloboda.
Jen tells me that the Bluebird Café, which she is standing in front of in these photos, is a famous Nashville place of discovery for musicians and bands. I haven't been to Nashville in awhile, but I remember that it was really fun! Jen went to college there several years ago, and I paid her a visit.
Jen also tells me that her Nashville friends are jealous of her t-shirt. I don't know how true that is, but it's a pretty big compliment, so I'd like to believe it! Jen is also a photographer, and spent some time traveling around Europe, as well as shooting an amazing portrait book called "Faces," for her church. You can check out her work by clicking here: jenmphotography.com. Personally, I think Jen has an amazing knack for product photography, which you can especially see in her website sections called "places," and "things."
Photo credit: Anonymous Nashville Correspondent.
Wanting to further explore the medium of "t-shirt," I created a custom design for my friend as a thank-you gift for letting me have a photo shoot in his apartment.
I call this design, "Rocket Cat." I drew the stencil onto a piece of cardboard and cut it out with a swiss army knife (because I couldn't find my exacto). Then I bought some fabric paint (yellow and orange), and an American Apparel "summer shirt," in a nice, gray-ish turquoise.
For several weeks, I ran around the apartment singing, "ROCKET CAT!" to the tune of Elton John's "Rocket Man," and finally, today, I painted the design onto the shirt. I was so thrilled with it, that I picked up the extra fabric paint I had bought just because I liked the color (magenta), and immediately started on a t-shirt of my own.
"'Cause I'm a rocket cat. Rocket cat!"
My t-shirt designs are now available for purchase through this really fun site called Zazzle. I am excited to create new ones, and to learn more about typography in the process.
It is so amusing to me to notice the solidity a line or phrase takes on when imprinted on a shirt. It becomes ironic, fun, important, larger-than-life, and smile-inducing all at once.
Perhaps now, I will dig up all the little notebooks I carried around to fill with clever lines I heard at the ad agency (where I used to work with the likes of Mitch Silver, author of In Secret Service), and amongst my bohemian friends. Finally, a canvas for all that fodder!
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