Designs & New Colourways

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23PSI Skull - A Posse Ad Esse
Front and Back Print
White and Sky Blue Colourways

Psilocybine
Sky Blue and Mustard Colourways

23PSI Arrows
Slate Blue & White Colourways

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Slate Blue & Mustard Colourways

AK-47 T-Shirt: Cuerno de Chivo Delivered

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After a long, long wait, the cuerno de chivo (ak-47) tees were finally delivered today. The online store isn't ready yet and won't be until I've the rest of the designs printed. So sales in earnest will not begin until then (at least for international orders). But drop me a line at 23psi.com@gmail.com if you're interested in owning one at this point in time, wherever you may be.

Upcoming Designs

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23PSI skull tee - a posse ad esse

23Psilocybine

No!

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cuerno de chivo

* colourways to be confirmed.

Hang Tags

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Going to print today.

Hours of Unknown Pleasures

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Sjors of shirtlog first posted this awesome design by Hecklewood. I love it. It's trippy. Feels as if I could stare at it for hours, just like this design on Joy Division's tee which is the artwork of their album 'Unknown Pleasures'.

The Art of the Band T-Shirt

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Got hold of this two days ago. It's an awesome book laying out the visual history of the band t-shirt. My only complaint? It's too brief. What's great though is that it covers a good deal of the early days showing Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel (1956) and The Beatles' Abbey Road (1969). I also saw a tee which I owned many many years ago but in white, the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels (p.37). Total 240 pages including an index of the featured bands which is handy for quick reference.

It's Been A Struggle

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Just want to let everyone who reads this blog know that I'm still at it, pushing this along as much as I can. We think we're in control most of the time, but the truth is we aren't, and so much of what we do depends on timing and the other people we have to work with.

But it's been a particularly difficult time since my mum was diagnosed with cancer about a week ago, so it has been especially tough keeping things moving along. I'm now occupied most of the day with looking after my 2 boys (my wife's the one with the real job, thanks dear!) and it's near impossible to get productive creatively at 11pm (after visiting mum and when everyone's asleep) but it looks like I've no choice for now.

Cuerno de Chivo

This is the (first) design which I sent to the printer. Everything else has been put on hold until I see the finished product for this. Just can't bring myself to commit on the other designs until I have the tee in my hands and on my back. If cut, stitch and print quality are up to scratch, then everything else gets the green light. So until then, I'll be keeping my head down with this and my hopes up for mum.

AK-47 Colourway: Pt 2

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Here's what it will look like on a tee. That said, I'm not entirely happy with the size and positioning of the design. I feel it needs to sit a little higher, and possibly be marginally larger. This will be finalised after the production sample is done.

AK-47 Colourway

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Of the two AK-47 designs featured in my earlier post only this will go into print in this colourway or something close to it. On this note, if all goes well with the production sample (and assuming there's no further delay), I will be previewing the other designs soon.

WTF?! Where Are The Other Designs?

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For that matter are there any other designs? Is 23PSI for real?
Yes and yes. In fact there are another 4 designs bringing it to a grand total of 5 including the one on which the production sample will be based. If everything is alright with that, then the remaining 4 will go into production. Currently, they're somewhere between completion and FA. So, that means I've a little more time to work on them if necessary.

The Government reads my Blog

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Political blogs make the governments of some countries uneasy. This is something for the Alliance of Bloggers in my neck of the woods. It seems they are getting up the Government's arse, which of course is a good thing!

AK-47: Pop Icon

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AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room. Accept no substitutes.

Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) -Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino)

This is gonna sound contradictory. I hate guns. But at the same time, I'm extremely fascinated by them (this would probably explain why I'm designing a bunch of t-shirts around it). Whatever your stand is in the light of Columbine, Virginia Tech etc, weapons are now icons in popular culture and in this vein, the AK-47 is the grand daddy of them all.

60 this year and still showing no signs of slowing down, the AK-47 is a class unto its own. Anecdotes abound about how the VC used to pull them out from the muddy rice fields where they have been lying for years, giving them a hard kick and loading the magazine to have them fire perfectly. With few moving parts and being oh-so-easy to use, the AK-47 is one of the rare few inventions that gets as close to perfection as one could ever hope to. And because of this, the AK-47 is the indeed the weapon to put into the hands of a teacher, postman, father or even a child to turn them into soldiers of war.

Beyond pop culture (FYI, Ice-T has one), Osama cradles one in his videos and I'm pretty darn sure he will brandishing (and using one) if and when the Yanks find him. The Hezbollah has one on its flag. Charles Taylor in Liberia armed his militia with them. Mexican gangs nicknamed it the Horn of the Ram alluding to its curved magazine. There’s hardly a more potent symbol of an armed revolution. In fact, there is an AK-47 price index which is as accurate a barometer of a country’s unrest as any. In times of peace and indeed in some parts of the world, you could buy one for as low as USD$10. Prices in Iraq have no doubt peaked (USD$2000 in January 07, Baghdad). But maybe not since the US lost 190,000 of them recently.

Update
AK-47 Cuerno de Chivo t-shirt delivered.

AK-47 & No

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Two designs inspired by the world's most widely traded weapon.



Morpheme (Chinese) denoting no, in the negative. Chosen purely for its graphic value and nothing else. Current colour is a stock standard CMYK Red. Leaning towards black for the FA.