The Store: The Greatest Hits

Posted on January 6th, 2010 by greg

In a few of our earlier posts we’ve talked about integrating elements of the old shirt store into this new version of the site. Well, we’ve taken a bit if a step in that direction with our new store page which you can find here. You can also get there by clicking on “The Store” in the menu at the top of the page.

I don’t want to keep saying the same thing over and over again but here it is: It’s not the most ideal solution and we will be tinkering with it in the future but for now, we just wanted to get things moving in that direction.

It’s not everything we have available, only 3 per category, but it is, as the post is titled, the greatest hits both in terms of sales and personal taste. As always, you can find the whole store by clicking here.

If you do check it out, thanks from the past, which is when I wrote this.

Tags: arrested development, futurama, t-shirts | Category cafepress, featured, t-shirts

The Year in Shirts in Review

Posted on December 28th, 2009 by greg

As the years end creeps ever so close we all like to take a look back on how the year went. There have been some changes around here mostly in the last month. After not updating the site for almost 2 years, we moved back in, rearranged the furniture and put on a new coat of paint. The one constant throughout those 2 years is that we kept selling shirts and while it may seem a little odd to then strip out that part of the site, as I’ve said in a previous post it won’t always stay this way. We are working on the logistics of folding some of that into this new site.

As a nod to a previous life, I present the top 10 sellers of the last year, complete with links if you are so inclined to help a particular shirt make it into next years top 10.

10. Vintage Cox

9. Springfield Isotopes

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Tags: arrested development, big lebowski, cafepress, futurama, printfection, t-shirts | Category featured, t-shirts

Top Movies of the Aughts That I Own

Posted on December 23rd, 2009 by greg

So here we are, at the end the decade referred to some as “The Aughts” and others as “The Decade That Ruins End of Decade Lists Because it is Referred to as the Aughts”. Anyway, over the last week or so I’ve been reflecting on my storied carrer as a professional consumer and started thinking about maybe doing my own end of decade list.

After reading countless top movies of the decade lists I decided to put my own spin on it. My list would be comprised entirely of movies I own, be it DVD, Blu-Ray or Laserdisc (Just kidding on that last one. While I still have many laserdiscs and continue to buy them, I have none that were released after 2000). So I looked through the collection taking note of any films released in 2000 or later and narrowed the list down to 20 because it’s a nice round number and I don’t think anyone else is doing that kind of thing.

We’re going to speed through 11-20 which are just going to be presented as a list because I don’t want this to take forever. I don’t get paid for this. So read on, friends, for the first (last?) ten…

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Tags: films, king of kong, primer, shaun of the dead, top 20, zodiac | Category dvd, featured

24 Pages Soundtrack Added

Posted on December 20th, 2009 by greg

Image by shankar, shiv used under the creative commons attribution license

So with the new film came the need for music for said film.  Because the film was being released under the creative commons license we headed over to the free music archive and after a few (4 or 5) hours we had the music we needed for the film.

All of the songs are now posted on the 24 pages page for your listening enjoyment. Just scroll past the film and listen away. While there, check out some of the bands websites and show them some support for putting in all the work they did.

A big thanks go out from us to all the bands whose music we did use. Without them, this film would’ve been a lot harder to complete.

Tags: 24 pages, creative commons, films, free music archive, soundtrack | Category films, site news

Film Section Update

Posted on December 18th, 2009 by greg

The film section has been updated with our newest film: 24 pages. We will be adding more to this page in the coming weeks including links to all the music used in the film, artwork and photos. You can also head over to circlecomics.com to check out the comic created in the film.

| Category films, site news

Films Section Added

Posted on December 15th, 2009 by greg

So I’ve gone ahead and added our first bit of mouth-watering content. It is our film section with 2 films so far and more to come. Right up there at the top of the site is the way in. So far I’ve added Running Man Dan and Location (with our behind the scenes documentary bonus). I’m sure there will eventually be more commentary on the pages about the films but right now we’re just excited to get them all in the same place.

Expect more changes in the near future…

Tags: films, location, running man dan, we didn't win | Category films, site news

Drifting…

Posted on December 14th, 2009 by greg

So this is strangeink.net. The t-shirts are all still up, they are just not here. They are at www.cafepress.com/strange_ink. That site is still a work in progress, just like this site. There are going to be changes, nothing is permanent. I assure you, we have our best people working on it.

It had been 2 years since we updated the site so changes needed to be made. Things needed to be done. Cobwebs needed to be swept away. It’s not so much new as it is an evolution.

We’ll figure it out… or we won’t.

Tags: cafepress, site news | Category site news