I'll make me known

A dude that goes to princeton just bought a shirt ha

2008-12-15T06:24:26Z

Somehow I doubt it

2008-10-03T16:35:38Z

The other day I drove next to a yellow school bus that simply said 'SMART SCHOOL' on the side. Let's hope so...

never_that @ 2008-08-08T00:54:00

2008-08-08T05:01:15Z

so me and yesh BIRTHED a shirt:

it's available now if you're interested. i'd wager there will be more of this.

also, i have a new blog you may be interested in reading...it'll most be about (no shit) tees and how they are brought into the world.

yup.

I got it

2008-07-28T01:00:24Z

the dude from fall out boy sings like cher.

new tee for sale in like 3 days. holler.

lol

2008-06-21T03:22:49Z

drakar nolol

2008-06-06T19:03:52Z

dudes remember this shit...this was like the ed hardy of my high school days. nautica polos, tommy hill jean shorts all day. wtf.

new ratatat: on the mac (that is now fixed) it turns the accent gave on track 'brûlée' into a icon of a horse. wtf x 2

where your stunna shades at dog?

street fightah street fightah street fightah

2008-06-02T20:52:07Z

hey lj

2008-05-22T05:41:00Z

so after about 3 months of use my imac hard drive failed. I have applecare so replacement isn't an issue but losing thousands of dollars in work IS. fuck me the wow starts now. some would say i deserve it for buying one that was (most likely) stolen. anyone know if they'll be able to retrieve files off of it (bit of a mac noob)?

capcom announces another new fighting game..that's cool at least. speed racer vs. ryu!

fondue

2008-04-23T05:14:14Z

i've never had fondue.
i really want some fondue.

yeah.

tearz 4 fearz

2008-02-16T18:17:14Z

so something i've been bouncing back and forth on for a little while now finally came to a head after asking around and getting good feedback (including an email from mr.bobby hundreds which pretty much nailed the coffin shut)...i'm going to have to close up shop on a-ok mart and re-brand so i can avoid any potential legal problems w/ kmart had it ever gotten big. why risk building something to have it taken away over night because of something as simple as the name/logo? i'm already working on what its replacement will be and i think the overall plan i'm laying down here will be even better than what i was trying to do w/ a-ok mart. hilarious part is i just sent a bunch of tees to spain as a co-pro deally w/ this site: http://www.buffetlibre.net/ oh, well..

so anyway for now all tees on the site are 15.00 bones so if you been eyein' them but haven't picked one up now's a good time!
A-OK MART

girls are a much harder sell then dudes...#1 thing i think i've learned so far.
NGOM come soon!

high end graphics designer

2008-02-07T22:23:13Z

lol @ dummies on craigslist:
"We are looking for an experienced T shirt graphic designer who specializes in various distressed and faded effects. Individual should know to do contemporary, artistic, edgy, rock, new age and retro graphics styles.
Must be detailed oriented, creative, independent and be able to take directions as well.
This is a high volume, long term job. We have over 400 designs and pay per $25 per design.
Send your samples of high end trendy do contemporary, artistic, edgy, rock, new age and retro graphics styles.
SEND SAMPLES ONLY!!!!

Thank you"

25 dollars per design?
GTFOH

also, portishead + aesop niiiicee:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FRE9GS2E

i like the cut of her jib

2008-02-01T05:07:09Z

not enough hands

2008-01-10T08:28:01Z

about 2 weeks late but whatever.

2007 was pretty good. got some new clients, got to do some new things, started some myself. more apparel companies are approaching me which is sweet since it's pretty much exactly what i want to be doing (right now). I have one offer on the table right now to be art director for a new brand. iffy on it since the brand look is pretty OC/beach/cali and i think i'd hate it within a few months. whatev.

most of my year was trying to get a diff. tee line off the ground (which i won't link cuz they've already jacked up the website) and did so fairly successfully considering the 'hurdles' within the company...the same hurdles that caused me to leave the company before the year was out. basically the owner never really worked a day in her life and had zero business savvy and after awhile of poor decision making I called her on it (more specifically I basically called her an idiot) which, understandably, led to my swift termination. all for the better, they need me more than I them. when your designer has a hand in most of the business decisions somethin' ain't right.

the rest of the year was spent on freelance for a few start-ups as well assss..

long in the making it finally came to fruition w/ a fairly good launch. there's much to do here. couple of boutique bites already. I think at worst it'll slowly turn into passive income where i throw out a few new tees per year to pay for my daily expenses. want to get into making specific garments other than tees, specially for girls. something may be in the works for the first artist to release his stuff under the umbrella as well! plus, it got yesh's lazy ass to draw again so that alone was worth it.

work: http://alrightok.com/ and http://aok.carbonmade.com/ (needs more updating) if you want to explore any of that further.

VIDEO GAMES
best game no one played:

seriously, one of the few games on the wii that wasn't retarded and people completely ignored it. eh.

best game i didn't think i'd like:

i've pretty much always had zero interest in guitar hero, but throw in some new instruments, full band play, character customization, and some great art direction and i'm somehow hooked. DLing new songs on xbox is jacked up. do the female characters look a bit paul pope-ish to anyone else (give 'em the longer hairstyle)?

fav game:

take into account i haven't played mario galaxy yet. i think more than just liking this game i like that it represents a play style that i think will get only continue to get bigger. forcing people to spend long hours playing your game at a time is going to fade out slowly (save for rpgs). perfect pick up, play, and feel satisfied action here. theres a lot to improve on (part 2 better be full open world like burnout paradise), but the ground work set is amazing. tony hawk lost.

best game you're too cool to play:

really. weird looking 2d midgets wrestling each other. the best part is i don't even play this game i just make weird dudes and simulate matches...and love it!

disappointments:
pretty much all the big titles for the ps3/360 were boring. The 1 player in COD4 was ok in a steven seagal sort of way. I had huge hopes for odin sphere but that ended up being pretty boring too. still best 2d graphics since SF3. blue dragon def. isn't as good as i was hoping and lost odyssey isn't looking much better. neither suck, but neither are/will be great. portal was fun, but i dont know if i love it the same way the internet does. can't remember anything else..ha.

MUSIC
good year; lots of stuff i can't remember. I finally got a new ipod so instead of a mix i just collected a shit load of songs i dig. i still have albums i haven't listened to on my desktop so i'm sure i missed a lot of stuff, but whatever 50 took long enough. i started out putting them in a order but kinda gave up halfway thru. DL if you don't think you're too smart to listen to rap and/or don't think you're too cool to listen to FOB. andre3000 should never stop rapping again.

DL HERE: http://actusual.com/$/AOK_2007.zip (we'll see how my server handles this..)
tracklist:
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rockers To Swallow (3:11)
2. Dillinger Escape Plan - Milk Lizard (3:52)
3. Wild Orchid Children - Ahead Of Us The Secret (3:35)
4. Building Better Bombs - Look Out
5. Say Anything - No Soul (3:36)
6. Little Brother - Good Clothes (4:38)
7. Atmosphere - Don't Forget (3:47)
8. Brother Ali - Lookin' At Me Sidways (4:05)
9. Ghostface Killah - Walk Around (3:32)
10. Prodigy - Mac 10 Handle (4:15)
11. Kanye West & the Clipse - Flashing Lights (Benzi Refix) (3:01)
12. The Go! Team - Grip Like A Vice (4:01)
13. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (2:58)
14. The Cribs - Men's Needs (3:22)
15. The National - Mistaken For Strangers (3:33)
16. Moving Mountains - 2. Cover The Roots, Lower The Stems (5:02)
17. Moros Eros - Safety Net (3:44)
18. el p - the league of extraordinary nobodies (2:34)
19. RATATAT - Freestyle (Despot) (1:38)
20. Aesop Rock - The Harbor Is Yours (prod. by Blockhead) (3:58)
21. Wu Tang Clan - Campfire (3:59)
22. Joell Ortiz - 05 - 125 Part 2 (Fresh Air) (5:08)
23. Freeway - Roc-A-Fella Billionaires (featuring Jay-Z) (3:41)
24. LUPE FIASCO - GOLD WATCH (4:12)
25. Jay-Z - No Hook (3:13)
26. Jay-Z X The Remix Kid - FALLIN' (3:03)
27. UGK Ft Outkast - Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You) (4:17)
28. DJ Drama - The Art Of Storytellin' Part 4 (Feat. Outkast And Marsha Ambrosius) (4:57)
29. Kanye West - Good Life Feat. T-Pain (3:27)
30. Four Year Strong - Bada Bing! Wit A Pipe! (3:21)
31. Fall Out Boy - Don't You Know Who I Think I Am? (2:51)
32. Lifetime - All Night Long (2:11)
33. Against Me! - Thrash Unreal (4:13)
34. Sage Francis - Hoofprints In The Sand (5:01)
35. A Wilhelm Scream - Die While We're Young (2:32)
36. Every Time I Die - A Gentleman's Sport (2:34)
37. Achilles - The Cold Floor (4:29)
38. Crime In Stereo - Small Skeletal
39. Arctic Monkeys - Do Me A Favour (3:27)
40. Okkervil River - A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene (3:59)
41. SIGNAL TO NOISE - TO THE BITTER END (I'LL BE WITH YOU) (4:45)
42. Cobra Skulls - Cobracoustic
43. Fake Problems - Born & Raised (2:10)
44. DefinaceOhio-TheList (3:23)
45. Tegan and Sara - Hop a Plane (1:51)
46. The Weakerthans - tournament of hearts (3:34)
47. Sundowner - Endless Miles (4:21)
48. Cassino - New Jerusalem (3:32)
49. Liars - Protection (4:30)
50. Ruiner - Kiss That Motherfucker Good Night (5:47)

PURO
the section no one cares about. that's why we aren't really friends. best wrestler: KENTA

obviously. this dude is such a G he changed his entrance theme to 'what you know'

I know, I know wrestlings fake..

SHIRT

Aaron Horkey is a mad man.

DOCTOR

ETC.
+ I always get annoyed half way thru these so lets wrap it up B.
+ not a big movie person so whatever. death sentence was great though. still need to see 'no country for old men'.
+ vista is a piece of crap. getting an imac soon. shows over bozo.
+ best art book - PULP HOPE, first art book where reading it was better than looking at it?
+ want to get back into drawing hardcore
+ I kinda don't mind living in FL currently as a long as i'm traveling a bit more. went to seattle for the 2nd time last year and goin' to vegas in april. trying to go to japan this year, yessss.
+ this ed hardy/affliction stuff has got to stop.
+ turning 27 july this year makes me wonder even more how long i can keep living this odd freelance life..401K? health insurance? my kids are gonna hate me
+ is it getting cool amongst young people to be a jesus freak?
+ I'm probably going to update the same things i would here on my riottt blog and just X-post or something. LJ is easy so i keep coming back but i can't really 'expand' here
+ Jennifer Love Hewitt could still get it.

lol

2008-01-02T23:33:48Z

comments from some forum:

"I'm OK with a $20 price tag. I'm OK with a white shirt. I'm OK with a small inventory. I'm OK with limited edition pretension. I'm OK with a design scheme of sharp, pointy instruments, presumably to illustrate how tough the wearer is. I'm even OK with some designs being bigger than justifiable.

However, paying $20 for a white shirt with swords on it, which is for sale beside a shirt which is nearly identical except for the swords being a bunch of knives, and having those designs, both of which take up too much surface area to appeal to me, be the only two designs offered on a site which plans to be incredibly limited? No thanks.

I think what really gets me is the lack of thematic variation. Especially as the first thing I think of when I hear "A-OK" is not stabby objects."

oh man

2007-12-28T19:28:58Z

didn't even watch it myself yet..

low quality youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0NWFs2sDKk

serious

2007-12-13T18:52:06Z

aha

2007-12-07T18:33:36Z

last resort!

2007-12-03T19:30:46Z

me in like 3 months

2007-11-20T05:17:01Z

windows vista =

sorta want this:

for someone who likes to talking about bucking the stat quo and doing it for self so much i sure talk about buying things a lot hahooork (ranma ½ son).

green kickball lolz

2007-11-16T03:04:45Z

words from pretty toney (please listen or fast fwd to the last tip):

I said a banana nutrament!

more shirts i'd like to own

2007-11-14T01:22:40Z

if i was a girl i'd want this...for now i just want the girl aaaaayoo

stop charging 30+ for tees dammit. BAD TIME OF YEAR.

shirtssss

2007-11-08T04:58:07Z

pretty nice i'm finally reaching clients that'll let me put shit like this on a tee. gotta mess with the colors some more.

speaking of tees anyone into them or actually designs them should check out:

http://emptees.com/people/611-alrightok

sweet site!

we're too old for that now

2007-11-04T16:14:30Z

It's been years since I sold my soul.
What a life: no advice and no guidance.
Worked through the weekend at my bullshit job
with the pumps and the mops and the tire irons.

Now us slaves break bread and go to work.
And these pigs will tread on our backs.
Every bastard to pass through the grinder
can just laugh at the mania of his own nerves.

I had to go to class but just drove on
through the rain and fog up Route Six past the mall.
Drank through paychecks, they don't last so long.
But Monday we're on. Please, Monday, come.

Now us slaves break bread and go to work.
And these pigs will tread on our backs.
Every bastard to pass through the grinder
can just laugh at the mania of his own nerves.
And embossed in the gold top half of his nickel-plated watch:
"Let's die while we're young."
"Let's die while we're young."
"Let's die while we're young."
While we're still young.

I don't need no hook for this shiiiit

2007-11-02T05:28:32Z

now a days I had it up to here, from my chest to my head

2007-10-23T03:19:56Z

+ + +

o crap blossom, otherwise known as mayim bialik, is in the newest curb your enthusiasm