Shock Shake Blog – Tshirt and Clothing talk

Last week we announced that we were preparing to launch 2011: A Merch Odyssey, and we are very busy getting everything ready to go for next Wednesday!

Here is a little sneak peek to let you know what you are in for next week!

via Tegan and Sara.

Even though I own many myself, in my opinion, Band Tees are largely dross and you couldnt wear them to anywhere other than a gig.

BUT i really like this Tegan and Sara Tshirt that is being launched next week.

It could just be because I have a massive passion fest for both of them and that.

love. Mick.

after days of extensive highly-scientific double blind testing we were able to discover the difference… Background Music! Your real life experiences just don’t have the needed dramatic soundtrack to back them up. Whether you’re brushing your teeth, walking your dog or chatting up that cute girl in chemistry class you need the appropriate music and sound effects to enhance the experience. Fortunately we’ve developed the solution for this irritating life boredom problem with the Personal Soundtrack Shirt.

via ThinkGeek :: Personal Soundtrack Shirt.

So, you think you are the coolest person in the room and everyone at the office thinks you should do stand up? You’re exactly the sort of tit that would buy this.

Possibly the most annoying tshirt ever made, and that’s including so many “Rehab is for quitters” and “If found, please return to pub” abominations that fill our pubs on balmy bank holiday Monday afternoons. If the lolfest doesn’t die down to a whimper after 10 seconds then the company you keep is worse than you. Admittedly the fart noise (which there must be, I haven’t checked) would provide a slightly elongated period of mercy before everyone in the room dashes your brains out with the first blunt object they could get their hate filled mits on.

In short; if you own this, nobody likes you.

Much love

One of the many things we didn’t think about before we started this was the Genesis of a minor argument between the Shock Shake Mafia.

“How do you fold a t-shirt properly?” Gareth said to me a few weeks ago.

“Erm, fuck knows, like they do in a shop?” I unhelpfully reply.

“And how do you do that then?”

“I don’t know it will all get screwed up in the post bag anyway.” I repost.

WELL if only we had seen this video (safe, Segrave) all arguments would have been nipped well before the bud appeared.

T-shirts were originally worn as undershirts. Now T-shirts are worn frequently as the only piece of clothing on the top half of the body, other than possibly a bra or an undershirt vest. T-shirts have also become a medium for self-expression and advertising, with any imaginable combination of words, art, and even photographs on display

via T-shirt – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Wow, exciting news from the world of t-shirts. I do hope this all isn’t a shock (shake) to anyone.

That is what I thought when I was going to put this up for lol out louds but there is actually some very cool stuff in these articles that made me, a t-shirt geek, think loads about. How important t-shirts have been in politics and pop culture is fairly amazing. It also set me off watching loads of stuff on youtube which was very cool. Please enjoy.

Dear Shock Shake fans

It has been another exciting couple of weeks at Shock Shake with our first photos of real people wearing real tees hitting your brains via your eye holes! The only problem is that those real people are Gareth and myself (Shock Shake visionaries), Macintosh (Shock Shake’s President of Visual Effects) and Dan (Macintosh’s chum from his homelands). Not the most pleasing gents on the eye.

Another thing we must point out is that the images were taken from between 0300hours and 0500hours on a Sunday after a particularly thirsty jaunt around various hostelries in the Bedford area. We have managed to get away with it by taking well in excess of 4 million images and the 10 you see (shock shake photoshoot) are the ones where we aren’t picking our noses, laughing like dementeds or just looking like we spent the last five hours throwing ales down our wretched gullets (and clothes).

We hope you like them and thank you for the comments; they are well appreciated real badly. Thank you loads for your support it makes us blush.

Much love.