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Playing Asteroids on Tshirtbordello

Have you ever played an arcade game? Asteroids are probably one of your favorite games. Asteroids is a video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Inc. It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Asteroids uses vector graphics and a two-dimensional view that wraps around in both screen axes (a toroidal topology). The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers’ counter-fire.

To evoke the memory of this game, then TSHIRTBORDELLO issued a new design inspired from the game. Look at this Asteroids T-shirts ($ 14.99) it has a unique but simple design, according to the game which is simple and fun. The uniqueness of this shirt is a design located on two sides, the front and back side. This tee is made of comfy 100% cotton and printed on the front and back. These shirts are available in sizes of men and women.

Tshirtbordello is and online t-shirt retailer and nerdy clothing supply company. Their products are funny t-shirts and other novelty products such as Bacon wallets, Duct Tape wallets and zombie related items.

Enjoy the retro arcade quarter eating awesomeness of this Asteroids tee. Pew pew pew!

Be a most deadly through the Most Deadly t-shirts by BustedTees

If you are true gamers, especially Nintendo, surely you’ve played Golden Eye 64. Golden Eye is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64 video game console, based on the 1995 James Bond film Golden Eye.

In this game there is also multiplayer game. The multiplayer mode features five general scenarios, within which options such as weapon schemes may be altered. Weapon selections in the multiplayer mode are grouped by type, such as pistols, automatics, and explosives. Other selectable weapon schemes focus on weapons not frequently found in the single player mode, such as laser guns, throwing knives or the one-hit kill Golden Gun. At each end of a multiplayer game, there’ll be a rank as “most cowardly”, “most harmless”, etc. And who get’s Most Deadly is the ultimate champion.

For you who like games, you should have shirts that support your ability to play. And BustedTees facilitate gaming enthusiasts through their shirt. BustedTees is entirely run by the guys from CollegeHumor.com. They decided to start making T-shirts because they want people to have fun, laugh, look good, feel comfortable, get good jobs, get sweaty dancing, and go home with someone who also did those things.

Here it is the Most Deadly Tee ($ 20), this deadly tee is to be used by the most deadly gamer: you! This tee is printed on American Apparel shirt, and made from 100% fine Jersey cotton. It’s thin and smooth feeling.

If you feel as the most deadly, you should wear this tee.

When a Giant Squid Meet Robot… On Your Shirt!

Have you ever imagine what would happen if a giant squid predictably met a robot? Oh, no, there would be a big war. Giant squid can grow to a tremendous size: recent estimates put the maximum size at 13 metres (43 ft) for females and 10 metres (33 ft) for males from caudal fin to the tip of the two long tentacles (second only to the colossal squid at an estimated 14 metres (46 ft), one of the largest living organisms). The mantle is about 2 metres (6.6 ft) long (more for females, less for males), and the length of the squid excluding its tentacles is about 5 metres (16 ft).

Giant squid, with its tremendous size can e “devoured” a robot whose height doesn’t amount to much. With eight arms and two longer tentacles, he could wrap the prey and strangling its prey with ease. While the robots are made of iron, and he can do anything well in accordance with the will of his employer. Great posture will easily destroy his opponent. Robot, with all its engine power, will not have a sense of fatigue, even to a match for 24 / 7.

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And if the giant squid met with robots, there would occur a great battle. Giant Squid will easily pick up and destroy the robot, so it is with robots, will easily chop the squid giant with iron hand.
You can see all of the battles on The Squid and The Robot tee shirt ($25), a glicée poster from Chop Shop and it is printed on archival Moab Rag Bright white.

This T-shirt Can “Sing”, If You Need a Soundtrack for Your Life

T-shirt and music player, those two are complements each other, but absolutely not for substituting. Yet, crazy idea may come from everywhere, especially from creative minds of The Big Bang Theory creator. Meet the Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt. Initially appeared in The Bing Bang Theory Season 3 Ep. 16, entitled The Excelsior, Folks at ThinkGeek really want this mix-crazy-and-cool thing to be wore by any geek in the world.

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The “magic” lies at speaker and wired remote implanted into this shirt. With this thing, people who wear this tees are able to play their own music playlist, even without bringing a dedicated music player. What’s the use of portable music player if you have already had it inside your shirt? Completing its coolness, it has own SD memory to store various mp3 songs of your choices.

What about the energy to run the player? Don’t worry, you don’t carry a boom with you. It is powered by 4 AAAA batteries that are easily found in market near your place. With all this stuffs loaded into this shirt, don’t you think US$29,99 ($39.99) price tag is too cheap?

J!NX launched IDentity, this Spring 2010 collection

Another new collection from J!NX. For Spring 2010 they unveil several tees collection for men under IDentity sub-brand. What you need to know about IDentity, this fashion collection is deeply influenced by fantasy story, games, and literally anything related with skulls and zombie (hey, J!NX’s logo is skull after all).

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Take a look deeper to each design. It may remind you to a movie, games, or any other geek thing you experience in life. Let me give you example, Sorcery and Technology design. Mage, Sorcerer, Wizard, you name it. Apparently, sorcerer nowadays not only using magic, but also technology. I don’t see any technology in the tees, but the title itself resembles the idea on how combining fact and fiction, old school and new school, traditional and modern.

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This RPG Battleground tees is actually part of Fall 09 collection, but it is okay if we take a look again. Depicted Conan The Barbarian-like character that uses his heavy sword, accompanied by cute but strong lady, to fight against monstrous creatures.

Most new Spring 2010 collection from J!NX are available in Basic and Premium tees. Make sure you pick the right one based on your own preference — and your pocket too. If you live near Las Vegas, don’t forget to pay visit to J!NX stand on Magic Clothing Convention. You can see tons of their collections, live. You surely don’t want to miss it, do you?

How’s Life before Facebook? This T-shirt can Tell You

It’s all about social networking sites nowadays, and you can’t really remember, life without one. Homebrewedtees.com is trying to remind you about Life Before Facebook ($23).

Remember when you used to get updates about peoples’ lives from actual conversations with those people? When you used to get things done instead of taking quizzes to find out which spirit animal you are? There were rainbows in the tee to remind people that Facebook has taken over our lives. Wear it and let your friends know you remember when you used to fly through the sky worry-free without poking anything or updating your status wherever you were.

Other popular social network site is Twitter. Now people start twitting like crazy, they should be remind to Tweet Me like a Lady! ($20). This yellow cute little chick is here to enforce your new Twitter policy:

Allow at least 10 minutes between tweets
Do not post tweets that say things like “You Know You In Love When U On The Toilet & Still Boo Lovin On The Phone!”
Never have a tweet appear on tweetingtoohard.com.

Also check out more of Homebrewedtees tees about social media, like this section: No one cares about your blog ($23) and Meinspace ($17 – $20). Enjoy!

Even on Your Shirt, Robot Could be Romantic too

Have you ever watched I, Robot? In this movie, robots are described as very loyal and never disobeyed their owners. In bottom line, they have no sense at all, rather than what their owners have ordered them too. When one robot is considered rebelled and buggy, as the creator is implanted senses to his creation, it feels so odd in human environment.

Imagine in future, there’s actually kind of robot that can think and act based on their own way of thought, Bicentennial Man may really come true. A robot will be more like human, in any kind of way. Moreover, they may want to be a human. A vivid dream that can be logical, although could be a creepy image if we think about it again and again.

When such thing does exist, the kind of image pictured in this t-shirt may resemble one thing. Robot can fall in love, express their feelings, and even be romantic too. Just like human, robot may want to share the love with their significant other. Sweet and scary, in the same time.

This tee, entitled Robot Romance, is 100% cotton, Double-needle bottom hem and sleeves, and Preshrunk to minimize shrinkage. Available with navy background, it can be yours for US$24.99. There’s also free shipping option if you shop for more than US$149 in Ex-Boyfriend. You can buy for kids/toddler sizes too.

Someday, We Can Search for a Dead Body on Google Maps

I bet most of you (if not all) use Google Maps to search for location. One new feature that helps us a lot is the marking legend to mark anything that interest us. Building, park, convention hall, you name it. It helps us searching for nearest pizza store easily and conveniently. What if, in the future it can mark a people too?

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Okay, we are talking about future, where everything is possible. In future, everyone is identified with radio transmitter (or maybe something like RFID) that is implanted in their body, makes it possible to trace everyone and everywhere. If someone is found dead, a red bubble will be shown up in Google Maps marking the place where the body found. Quite scary isn’t it if the situation may really happen in the future?

Hopefully, it won’t happen in near future, but you can imagine it right now with this shirt. Entitled Map Marker Death, the printed graphic on this tee shown red bubble on crime scene where surrounded by some police officers. It’s USD $20 and available in both male and female size from Busted Tees.

Tired of solving Rubik’s Cube? Melt it!

I have never heard Rubik’s cube for years, until Will Smith brought it back in his Pursuit of Happyness movie. The truth is, Rubik’s cube part is purely fiction and not told in the original novel. What’s so special about this cube?

ruban kubrick melting game tee t-shirt championship funny geek funny Rubik’s cube was invented by Hungarian scientist, Erno Rubik, circa 1974 and starting to be sold since 1980. The Rubik’s cube is popular again among geeks and nerds because it offers scientific challenge. There must be a specific algorithm to solve all Rubik’s cube problem. For your information, there are quintillion possible moves to solve 3x3x3 cubic dimension. It’s million of trillions moves!

Nowadays, the Rubik’s cube champion can finish the problem in less than 8 seconds! What a marvelous way of thinking! Even one hand solver can overcome it in about 20 seconds. Getting frustrated already because you are not able to solve it yet?

No worry, just “melt” it down using this Melting t-shirt ($19.99 – $21.99 — designed by the famous Glennz) and your revenge shall be fulfilled! It’s 100% cotton and printed on American apparel with black background.

Don’t Forget to Press F5 and Wear a Refreshing T-shirt

Computer is our part of daily life and Internet must be something important like blood running in our vein. Whether you are at home, at office, at school, even on bus or train, I bet you can’t miss a thing from accessing the Internet. Well, you are doing it right now by viewing this post.

Historically, Internet was created officially in the early 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee. Since then, tons of pages have been created. Most of them are good, but some are complicated, using many javascript codes and other embedded scripts, sometimes make the browsers go suffer. The damage can be resulting hang condition or even worse, malicious code hacking into our computer.

When your browser stuck or the loading is nowhere to go, there is one button that will save the day. Use F5 to refresh everything. Combine it with Ctrl when you want a full hard reset that clear previous cache at the page. Whatever your browser is, F5 button can be so refreshing — and so this tee shirt ($15 $10). That inspires Ryan Pumroy to create this slogan. It’s simple but will always stay in our head since we use it every single day. You can go grab it right away for cheap price now since Threadless still holds US$10 promotion until the end of the year.

Avatar Ampsuit T-shirt for the Non-blue Creature Fans

Have you watched Avatar? If haven’t, I suggest you watch it in 3D or even better in IMAX 3D. This James Cameron’s movie has made big hype to moviegoers. This is first movie of Cameron after hiatus for more than 10 years! His previous project was Titanic who made the largest box office of all time. This time, Cameron brings the delight of blue planet Pandora with the blue 9-feet-tall Na’vi creatures.

Optimally created for 3D experience, Avatar offered something that mesmerizing most audiences. Vivid colors and beautiful scenery, Avatar hypnotizes you like you are really looking at the new planet itself. It is so detail that some friends told they can’t differ which one is real and which one is just animation. In this movie, human are bad people, while Na’vi are the good one, the heroine himself is torn between two sides.

Of course not all of you are fans of this blue creatures. For those who more into mechanical and robotics thingy, here is something for you. A technical drawing of Avatar Ampsuit tee shirt ($17.95). Ampsuit is used by human to fight against beasts like so-called pumas and also the tall Na’vi. The suits are more like fat version of Evangelion, but I am sure that this thing is cool enough for military-geek out there. The tees also draws AVTR program text in the back side. No worry, the design is officially licensed and can be yours for only US$17.95*

*Enjoy free Shipping on Orders over $50 US only while the offer last!

Ten New Designs by SpamShirt, It’s Time to Express Yourself! (NSFW)

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Have you keep any secret lately? Some shameful secrets that you can’t talk about with your bestfriend and feel awful day after day for keeping it to yourself? Now here comes the saviour! Spamshirt came with 10 new designs to encourage you to express yourself and get things off your chest! Like this new Get it Off Your Chest t-shirt ($22). It basically has a contact form printed on, so maybe you can write it up yourself to express what’s on your mind for people to read. Hey, you don’t have to say anything, so that’d be easier for you to share a secret, right?

spamshirts tee t-shirt apparel clothing men women funny hilarious joke slogan Another t-shirt design Best Things in Life ($22) will make you wondering what is truly the best thing happens in your life? Is it the same as the Spamshirt sample picture? (Don’t pretend you don’t see it). Is it your job? Your girlfriend? Your basketball team? Or being able to wear the 100% organic with 90% reduced carbon footprint t-shirts from Spamshirt? It’s your decision to make!

Meanwhile, Spamshirt is offering an awesome 20% discount on the sale price for the month of November, redeemable by entering ‘get_me‘ in the promo code box when placing an order. Well, then… let’s get things off our chest now!

This T-shirt Contains Recipes to be a Multiplayer-Game God

Most of men love game, who doesn’t? From the old Nintendo era until nowadays with XBOX360, Nintendo Wii, and PlayStation 3. Wait, I forget to add PC games! Current trend revealed that multiplayer (online) games have dominated boy’s life. World of Warcraft anyone? The game is so massive that even if you are big shot in your neighborhood, most likely you won’t stand a chance against champions out there? Do you want to know their recipes?

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The last recipe is about focus. Never let yourself get distracted by any disturbing sound, especially when comes from prepubescents. Having your own game room is a good move, even better if enhanced with superb quality of earphone. Silence — not patient — is virtue!

Do you think all those recipes will help you win every game? You must be kidding if you said it is enough. You need extra hard work to play 12 hours day for mastering your technique. But you at least you shouldn’t worry because this tee shirt will help you to remember all you need to be a multiplayer God. Good luck!

Space Invaders Alien Gets Autopsied. A Tee Shirt for all UFO fans

I know that some of you are into alien very much. Since your childhood era, Hollywood has satisfied your hunger with tons of movies. Do Alien, Predator, or Men in Black ring the bell? The latest in mind is most likely District 9. District 9 tells about other side of alien, where they can be inferior too as refugees from their dying planets. If you feel humiliated that alien refugees kick your human’s ass, it’s time to slap them back using this new design by Chris Rowson.

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Alien Autopsy is the tees you’ll need. Pictured as helpless Space-Invaders‘ alien lying on surgeon table, getting screwed by two scientists — as usual in full masking suits — this design definitely will bring glory into your uber-human chauvinism. They are not superior after all, must have some weakness in particular issue. It can be defeated, just like the way Mulder and Scully chasing them in the classic series of X-Files.

This t-shirt can be yours with only US$ 18 on black American apparel tee. If you are searching for bigger size, it is also offered in Men’s 2XL too. And hey, you might like these funny t shirts as well.

Halloween Special: a Free Mystery Shirt at Disturbia

When Halloween is just around the corner, what’s better than getting a free mystery T-shirt from Disturbia Clothing? First, because Disturbia tees is known best known for bringing philosophy of “Disturb the Suburbs” that depicts dark-ish humors, Halloween-tasted designs combined with punk-ed ethos and pop culture mascots that had been twisted-and-turned them into alternative scary pop-goers.

You can even see every day’s signs, logos and modern semiotics are warped, de-constructed and reassembled — shifted context that later reveal an alternative truth behind what it appears (whether you agree or not!). I’m talking about Mary tee that features de-constructed image of Virgin Mary or Saint Mary; Guitar Zero tee which represents the scary-ness of Guitar Hero addiction; Master/Slave tee which pokes fun on a credit card logo; or Walt Disturbia… you know what this tee about.

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I don’t forget the second reason — it’s because for every order you place at Disturbia (this week only) they’ll include a FREE mystery t-shirt for you! That’s right, a FREE T-shirt with every none-sale order placed!! This offer will run until midnight Sunday 11th October GMT. Let me repeat… 1 FREE tee per order!

8-bit Space Invaders Get Real on Invasion T-Shirt

What if it becomes real, aliens invade our planet in form as 8-bit nightmare. Are you going to hide or take your laser canon and start firing those aliens? Be prepare guys, your aim is to defeat rows of flying aliens and, oh, you can only move horizontally back and forth. Be careful though, the more aliens you kill the rest of aliens will move faster and they become more difficult to defeat. But don’t worry, all of those happen only when you wear this tee.

Inspired by Space Invaders, one of the most retro game arcade, J!NX released good-looking Invasion T-shirts ($20-$21) which is currently available in Men and Women style. This tee may not make you a better shooter, but I’m sure you will get killer style!

p.s I hope no aliens got hurt in the making of this tee.

Bonus: watch Royksopp video clip to get the sense of it!

Wish-tee #1: I Wish Procrastination Was a Marketable Skill

Procrastination… Here we go again. We have come to endless ways to kick the bad habit. And thanks to Facebook (oh yeah this website is currently on my #1 list), Twitter, MySpace, Internet Messenger, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. it’s even harder get ourselves back on scheduled tasks.

Recent study shows that almost everyone occasionally procrastinates, but a worrisome 15 to 20 percent of adults routinely set aside activities that would be better accomplished right away — yes, believe it or not.

Now, that makes me think that most of us could major in the subject, if only it was worth credit or maybe — just like what this slogan Twitter-Threadless tee ($18) says — there’s another part in this galaxy where procrastination is a marketable skill in a workplace.

But you all know the reality. Most of us are only good at finding another reason to procrastinate. Maybe clicking through this blog is your procrastination strategy for this morning. What are other procrastinate strategies you can think of?

*also available in guys’ size

T-Shirt Blogs Round Up: Lifecycles, Arkaik, Nintendo Tees and More

Blake is a contributing blogger from You Design It, a company that can help you design t-shirts for printing. This post has been edited by Rangga

This week we found some real gems for our regular top blog posts list. Check out these winners:

The “Lifecyle” of a T-Shirt by It Goes To 11
The video in this blog is kind of like an uncomfortable wake up call to t-shirt lovers, but as part of the t-shirt community it seems like a necessary clip to watch. Check out the “lifecycle” of the t-shirt!

Do Believe The Hypothesis from Buy-Tees.net
Do you have a Hypothesis? If not then maybe it’s time to check out this very cool clothing company which also goes by the name “Theory of Self.” A company with a name like that screams individualism.
Arkaik Clothing Invades, Rolls, and Rawrs by Color Overload
No, the earth isn’t under attack. That’s just Arkaik clothing coming to take over your closet! This is a really cool company featuring colorful designs and large, oversized prints. Nice find, Color Overload!

Selling With Social Media via How To Start A Clothing Company
Selling T-shirts on social media sites like Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. is something almost everyone creating a clothing company has thought about; but how do you actually do it? Check out this cool vid for some tips and inspiration!

Screen Printing Discharge Ink by Teebiz
This is a terrific, easy to understand video about discharge printing. If you’ve ever been curious about the process but not really understood how it worked or how it’s done, this is a great video to watch.
Rock Make Art & Music Festival, Mission District, San Francisco Aug 23rd from Tcritic
As everyone knows music and t-shirts go hand in hand. So an event like a music and art festival is bound to offer some great opportunities for those who love to buy, sell, create, or window shop t-shirts. If you’re in the area be sure to check out Tcritic for more info about the event.
Thunderfrogs In London by Thunderfrogs
Read this post if you think your designs aren’t being copied. Andy at Thunderfrogs took some pictures of counterfeit Threadless tees at a small market in London. It’s happening and he reiterates why it isn’t cool to buy these stolen works.

Major Competition to Cafepress and Zazzle Coming Soon from Custom T-Shirt Talk
Shirtauctions is looking for a clone of Cafepress and Zazzle. Why is that a big deal? Because they are willing to spend $750 to do it. Ha! Read this sarcastic post for a good laugh.
Top 50 Nintendo NES T-shirts! from Tee Junction
In the mood to see some great t-shirts AND indulge a healthy dose of nostalgia? If so then this is definitely the blog post for you! Every one of these t-shirts is guaranteed to bring back some memories for any hardcore, early gamer!

Got a T-Shirt Site? Share it with the world in this post. from The T-Shirt Blog
This is a pretty simple, but cool concept. Alex from The T-Shirt Blog wants you to post a link to a t-shirt you’ve designed as well as a link to a site that inspired you. What a cool way for everyone to expand their horizons and see some new stuff while also publicizing their own material!

Guitar Zero T-shirt, only for Guitar Hero Rocksuperstar Wanna-be

Everyone knows you’re not an average guitar hero player, not even an expert. Who are you? You’re the Guitar Zero. I play like anyone else because you’re a rock-superstar. You are Guitar Zero. Sounds odd, eh… but who cares? You got your advance technique ready under your belt: hammer-ons and pull-offs, squeezing and whammying... not forget to mention your Start Power ability. No offense to Guitar Hero lamest players out there but this tee — designed by UK-clothing label, Disturbia — only for the greatest Guitar Zero (£19.99).

Together with other tees on Disturbia online shop, the 100% fine cotton tee is currently sold at discounted price (before 18th August, 2009). Just add the code TWENTYFIVE into your basket to take 25% off your entire order. Act quick to brag a bargain!

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