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Friday, May 29, 2009

I swear I can explain....

Basically, I just drew an enormous phallic image on a hat, and colored it in. TO be honest, it's not even really suggestive of a penis, more less, it is a penis. A penis riding a skateboard to be exact, and here's why. As much as I thought our customer base would love giant private parts adorning their outwear (especially their ill-fitting trucker-hats), there's an actual rationale for my actions. In the acting company I'm involved with at my school we (the juniors) do a tribute show the seniors every year. It's an original play in which we all play one of the seniors as a character. The guy I'm portraying is more or less crazy, and let's just say that a penis riding a skateboard, for him, will be like Christmas morning....maybe he's not that weird, but none the less I'm doing this as a tribute to him and as a parting gift. I hope it doesn't get in trouble with Policeman with sexual insecurities (I can only assume there are many of them).



While this is far from my most accurate or artistically sound design, I think the 90s style layout and coloring makes for a crazy-looking unique hat.

When I get more time on my hands I'll be sure to take some nice, lit shots where the color isn't faded and where more detail (you know you want it) is visible.

"Hm, there's a dick on my screen, I am undoubtedly leaving 111's site" -Usain Bolt

-B.S.

Fitted Hawaii “Ali’i Kamehameha” New Era Cap & Tee


One of my favorite stores (that I've never actually been to) is Fitted in Honolulu. It is a custom hat and T-shirt shop that as of late, has been coming out with more and more stuff from their own brand that reflects their neat Hawaiian culture. Personally I could really care less about all the stories and tales that relate to their products, but the bottom line is: they make some cool shit.

This Saturday (5/30) they are dropping one of their signature Kamehameha New Eras, that in proper Fitted fashion will be extremely limited. They will also be dropping a matching shirt to go with it. Check out their full post here


-L.G.

My Favorite God-Damned Band

Alright, so I will let it be known that hands down my favorite artist alongside maybe a few other bands and artists is Modest Mouse. This is a very much a Hip-Hop and street wear oriented blog, so I know this is like trying to dress Jay-Z up as a vagrant hippie, but I feel it is my duty. Below is the crazy, mind contorting music video to one of their great new singles, "Satellite Skin." Enjoy (if you can).


Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin from Old World Monkey on Vimeo.




"I hate life just like I love 111" -Isaac Brock

-B.S.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Could it be?

Along with the launch of our official domain name for the (hopefully not too distant future) webethe111.com comes the decision for a final, official-like version of a logo for our business endeavors. Most of the efforts posted on here have been me (B.S.) idly scribbling away in the late hours of the night, but me and L.G. sat down today together for a marathon session of tweaking the logo. Below is the final result. We're still sitting on it and are gonna give it some deep (oh it can get deep) thought and hopefully have simple, clean looking logo shirts before school gets out. As always, feedback is our friend, we love to hear what people have to say.





Here's a little trinket of a logo I fiddled with right before I made this post live. I think it'll be a great design to get on the back-neckline area of an official tee, but what do I know?




"By God, is that 111's logo *yack*" -Phil Collins

-B.S.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Small Emblem Fun in the (Sun, Rain, Shine, Clouds etc.)

Here are some smaller symbol-like mini icons and logos I've been messing with. These would be great for inside tags, sleeves or even just simple stickers and wallets and SHIYAAAATTTTT. Simple, but explosive, here they come a rumblin'.

I call this the 'Sprite' inspired:




This one is futuristic, clean yet crude:




"Looks like we got here a bullfight, and the Matador is posting 111s" -LeBron James

-B.S.

Fahrenheit 111

Was fooling around in Photoshop... not much more can be said for this, haha.



"111 are Republicans." -Michael Moore

-B.S.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Leggo my Logo?

So, with any company comes a logo. Nike has the swoosh, Converse has the star, Adidas has the....stripe things? Regardless, we want a strong central image that is distinct and recognizable. This is our first pass at a logo, so consider this Version 1. I think it came out legit, lemme' know what you think folks.


Standard Version:


Seaweed/Beach Colorway:





"111 is, logo is as well" -Yoda

-B.S.

Nike Dunk HIgh SB Gucci


This is a new series that I will get started where I will highlight upcoming kicks, clothing, brands, etc. that I think are not only really dope, but that I think everyone should know about. For the first installment, here is a winter Quickstrike release from Nike SB...

Back in 2006, Nike SB planned to release a pair of Quickstrike (very limited) Dunk High SB in Gucci colorway. It was originally be a part of the team manager series and designed by Girl Skateboards. Unfortunately, the project was scrapped due to some issue with Girl. As a result, there were less than 30 sample pairs made. These pairs as seen in this link, from high end sneaker consignment shop Flight Club, show just how much these bad boys fetch for on the market.

If you're like me, and you thought these shoes were one of Nike SB's best releases, then fear not! In the 4th quarter of 2009, we will have this Gucci Dunk SB High back on the market. The shoe is the same color scheme as the 2006 sample with black denim toe cap and heel cap, deep forest toe box and side panel, and red swoosh.

These will probably be extremely limited, but they are definite must cop (assuming you don't have to camp out for them).


-L.G.

Slap O' the Week

So being the baller that I am I've installed an extremely simple little mp3 player on the blog that starts to play when you open up the blog. My friends ridicule me for having a pretty insane taste in music, so we'll try to keep this to stuff we're pretty sure most everyone will be into

I'm thinking, that being the huge music fans (especially of stuff that the general public isn't hyped up on yet) that we are, that me (B.S.) and L.G. would throw up a new song every five to seven days or so to update you on some slumpers out there that, hopefully, no one else is listening to yet.

To start us off, we have a track from DJ Moondance. He's a mash-up guy, very similar to the well known DJ, "Girl Talk." The song only gets better as it progresses, and the last 20 seconds or so are some of the illest notes i've ever heard put together, so take the time to see that track through to the end. Above, is a link of where you can download all this guy's stuff, completely legal.


Enjoy, ill thugs!

-B.S.

A Little Local Flava'

Below is the big legal building that you have to go to if you ever have to deal with your passport, with court dates or anything legal and bureaucratic in nature. Or if you're like L.G. it's where you post up to do Mock-Trial-like duties.

As a kid the building always reminded me of a side of a dictionary, and while this picture has nothing to do with that, this ugly construct holds a lot of memories and nostalgia in an odd sense.

This print is a simple experiment with painting over real photos, post if you're feeling this and would like to see more of this type of stuff. While this exact version probably wouldn't screen on a shirt great and is more of a poster-type of illustration, I think there are some awesome design possibilities for Tees in the near future (Click on image to see full-resolution image).


...And while I'm at it I'll do y'all the favor of posting an older image from way back right when me and L.G. were first talking about this little design company of ours, but here it is anyways. It's very similar in character design, to my dictionary print above which is why it came to mind. This isn't necessarily our artistic direction, but these little blob-men (I call em Southern Polar Bears, for no real great reason) are easy to whip up and look like straight up G's. Hopefully next time I post (I'm busy, could be Millenia!) we get to take another look at some different styles and paths we're looking at exploring (Click on image to see full-resolution image).




"I went to court today. There were 111 jurors, they all found me guilty....Shit!" -Charles Manson

-B.S.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Fly Me to the Moon

Sick looking movie that's been making the big festival circuit. Pretty chill seeing Sam Rockwell in a leading roll as well, he's a talented guy who has been a character actor for forever now. More interestingly is the fact that the director of "Moon" is David Bowie's oldest son....well fuck, just peep this and see if you're catching some of these creative vibes.





"When I was on the moon, I can be certain that I saw 111" -Niel Armstrong

-B.S.

Salutations

Hey this L.G., co creator of 111. I thought it would be appropriate to introduce myself, seeing as my eloquent partner did so as well. Quite frankly it would be rude if I didn't say halla. We're not trying to make this your average mediocre, t-shirt, start-up brand and therefore we are committed to putting in extra time and effort to put out the best product possible. I promise you that we will not let anyone down and that this is gonna be bigger than Rosie O'Donnell.


"When I think of the warm deliciousness of my Cinabuns© I also think of 111" - Pillsbury Doughboy

-L.G.