did it again, friends...

Invaders New Era Fitted!

got in touch with the good folks of New Era again, and came up with this beaut!

enjoy:

goes great with a side of Ryberto's:

long weekend...

couple pics from the weekend's work to hold you over for a rather large project post i just finished up... enjoy:

and... my favorite cheesesteak from Rudy's in Swissvale... just because

Merry Invaders Christmas...

wishing all of you and your families a very merry christmas, and happy holidays!

or heck... whatever you celebrate, hope you have a great safe time!

Cluebras DIY patches

in a collaboration effort with my friend efra of chamuco's studio... introducing... the Cluebras:

efra is such a great artist, i was excited to have the opportunity to work with him. we wanted a good solid entry for the "clink room" shadow league contest.

"C" + "Cobras" + "a little south of the boarder flavor" =

  

and now... again... to the machine!

Invaders Dark, Shoulder Patches: on to the machine!

lot's of machine work lined up for me!

hope everyone has a great weekend!



Invaders Dark: Shoulder Patches

shoulder patches cut, glued, and ready for the sewing machine!

20 in all:

DIY Express...

full steam ahead!

unfortunately, i can't show you the final idea for these jerseys at the moment. under top secret wraps! not even the usual "go-to" people know what's now going on with these. but as updates happen... they will be posted:

...20 jerseys to go!

holy smokes!

wow, have i been busy with Invaders jerseys... hats... tshirts... patches... ugh!

this site will flood with work when i get all my eggs in one basket!

until then, enjoy this pic, and i'll explain more about it later:

hope you all have a great weekend!



desk buddy post #3

and as i look at bugs here, i can only wonder what he'd look like striped off in invaders colors...

hmmm... scratching my head...

sign me up to take on yet another DIY

happy customers!

3 of my designs!

the 2 black shirts are for Black Dawg BBQ. i was given the opportunity to create those logos for Vince, and my long time friend Bob, who started a competitive BBQ team (check out their facebook page by clicking: here). just how awesome is that? and speaking of "awesome", that's what the orange shirt "A" stands for. my friends over at Team Awesome wanted a new logo, and i sent that over to them. the trippy insides of the "A" was their first jersey design last year. i just basically slapped an "A" over top, and came up with that.

shirts, jerseys, hats, whatever, are WAY more comfy when you know the artist that created them ;-)

and... not for nothing... but the boys over at Black Dawg BBQ closed out their season with their best finish to date, wearing the shirt on the left... and yours truely is leading Team Awesome in goals to date, wearing the shirt in the middle... as if ya didn't know...

project840 book club: hockey tales edition

new to the book club, from one of my favorite artists Mr. Rob Ullman (of Atom-Bomb Bikini)!

along with his buddy Jeff Brown, they penned 10 interesting stories of hockey's past. 

in their words:

"Celebrate the Golden Age of the coolest sport on earth. Features stories about Gordie Howe, Michel Briere, Lester Patrick and the Rocket Richard Riot. By Rob Ullman and Jeffrey Brown.

32 color and black and white pages, $6"

i mean, just look at that artwork:

(blurry pic, my fault. please trust that it's of the highest quality)

you can pick up a copy right here:

Old Timey Hockey Tales

great work Rob & Jeff! once i opened it up, i didn't put it down. now i'm flipping through again to see some of the artistic details i missed.

non jersey DIY part 2

so i have a reflective construction/whatever (safety) vest that i wear biking in the dark mornings this time of year... so why not:

non-jersey DIY...

but what will it be? you'll see in the next post! i'm using the inside of the Invaders re-do numbers because they're all around smaller:

see:

went to work fast on these. still need to glue them to the item, and snap some pics. it's all leading up to a larger scale DIY i will be working on just as soon as i receive the material

unrelated to the 2 or 3 DIYs mentioned above, i snapped these pics one night this past weekend in Ocean City MD. love the old school feel. and look how the black on the neon is wearing out:

LOVE the old school/vintage "olympic pool, AC/heat, color TV, radio" sign! if it works, keep it! the harrison is a really great little hotel to stay in. right on the boardwalk!

#40 of the day goes to...

above is Matt Robinson sportin' his new Terps uniform in their 32-24 win over the "Canes in College Park, MD

my thoughts?

when i first saw this jersey... i HATED IT! wrote it off immediately, as i do most college jersey garbage these days!

but... i have to admit, to be fair, it grew on me... BIG TIME!

i actually LIKE the jersey. i like what it's trying for. i did a total 180 on the damn thing. sure, there is a bunch of design elements that can be changed, and or flip-flopped. like the helmet/shoulder colors.

here is the right side:

 here is the left (LOVE that side of the helmet):

and here is the Maryland flag:

quick fixes, it could ditch the compression sleeves, flip flop the helmet colors, ditch the pants stripes for something a tad bit more simple, and maybe throw on a nameplate for the kids. but other than that... i'd wear it

graaavvveee diggerrr!!!

so i'm working on a collaboration DIY at the moment that i'm i'm too sure i can post just yet. will have to get a ruling, but there are pics waiting in the hopper! will find out over the next 2 days if i should or shouldn't post it just yet.

in the meantime, enjoy some pics from a vist to the garage of my favorite monster truck... and a step back into my youth... GRAVE DIGGER!!!

no fancy, "artsy" pics here... just some badass american muscle via north carolina