Well yesterday the family arrived back home from a whirlwind tour of the British Isles. I might have a recap up of what we all saw, but then again I might just let Jessica explain all the details.

More importantly, I must share with you a video starring little pillow monsters. It’s a music video on YouTube for the song “One Man Wrecking Machine” by Guster. The animation is quite good, and quirky enough to stand out.

Well, just as quickly as it was posted and approved, the masses have spoken and they do not want a Blobber t-shirt. The average score over 700+ votes was 1.6 out of 5. That automatically removes it from the voting area, essentially knocking it out of the competition.

Oh well, maybe another design later on would garner more votes.

Well that was fast. The Blobber T-Shirt detailed in my previous post is now available to be voted upon. Vote People, Vote!

C’mon people, vote on this thing. Let your friends know about it too!

For folks that know me, it’s pretty apparent that I’m addicted to the fine quality t-shirts provided by Threadless.com. My closet has a cornucopia of rainbow colored shirts which are decorated with imagery and phrases that I only seem to find interesting. It’s a simple pleasure that makes casual Fridays all the more enjoyable… at least for me.

So I’ve debated submitting my own designs for their competitions before, but I never got around to it. Their current catalog is driven by user-created submissions that are voted on by the users themselves. Popular items get a higher ranking and might possibly be turned into real live shirts.

Enter the logo for the Blobber.

The Blobber used to be the mascot for a short lived web site put together by my coworkers, which resided at oddly enough theblobber.com. The site no longer exists, and the Blobber is no more. The basis for the site were a bunch of silly eating competitions we dreamed up, and we’ve since outgrown that. Pics from its humorous history can be found in my boss’ Flickr albums if you are interested. Our motto was: “Masticating for your pleasure”.

I’m quite proud of the Illustrator work I did on this piece oh so long ago. I still feel it holds up, and so I figured I’d submit it to the latest Threadless competition just for the heck of it. The original had a much larger, softer color palette; but I was required to reduce the unique color amount to 4 because of the rules for the competition. Two different variants of the original can be found here on white and here on black (my fave).

It still has to be approved in order to be voted on, but as soon as it is (prolly when I’m travelling abroad oddly enough), I’ll be whoring for votes left and right from whomever I know.

If I can, I’ll post again when voting becomes available. At such time, I’d really appreciate a vote or two. Feel free to be honest with your opinion, but think of the possibility of wearing such a magnificant shirt for your casual Friday…