DIY joke: for Ed & Batman edition...

give away your season tickets for bobblehead night to two of your good buddies... rag on them all night about how bad you want the bobblehead, and that one of us jerks better give ours up... and this is what happens:

 

absolutely GORGEOUS night for a baseball game. chill in the air... just beautiful: 

 

 

our Buccos won, raise the jolly roger! any fan would be pissed that they missed that one.

 

bobblehead aftermath...

 

snatched up a couple of stones and a railroad spike from behind my office:

 

 

packing tape treatment:

 



sharpie action: 

 

cherry on top: 

 

suck on that, Ed: 

 

houndogg designs: informal introduction and quickie DIY

informal introduction, i have a freelance design company that goes by the name:

houndogg designs

(i also have a main page currently being updated over at houndogg.com. will be up and running in November)

my wordmark:

my primary logo:

i even fly my own flag:

future DIY flag, by the way...

so i decided to create a quick DIY shoulder patch. normal steps: scaled to size, cut templates, traced, cut. ready for glue and sewing:

project840 will not be going away. this blog will still be my DIY dump off

lots of great/fun stuff to come from houndogg designs!

thank you all for the support thus far,

-RyCo

Sometimes I Get Awesome Gifts... (From Scheibler)

thank you Will Scheibler! check out what he DIYed, and he even sent me one!

message from Will:

"Thought of making a fake farm team jersey of your Pittsburgh Invaders one for Thunder Bay (where I live). Used your INVADERS logo script and was thinking of either using the 3rd alien you didn't use or the mystery space ship. Maybe since it would be a farm team use the alien you have on the front of yours for the shoulders. I have a black jersey with yellow stripes (like the Bruins from the 80s) that has screen printing on the front I could cover over with a logo.

Incorporated the main geographical thing Thunder Bay is "famous" for - the Sleeping Giant (it's even on the city's flag) , and then added some waves on top. Originally thought of using all the colours in the flag but decided that would be way too much. Anyway, after goofing around for a while here's what I came up with so far"

here is the Sleeping Giant:

 

here is the beautiful Thunder Bay flag:

i mean really, is that flag gorgeous, or what?!?!

here is the logo Will drew up:

 

here is the jersey Will DIYed:

 

icing on the cake... here is a logo he sent to me! really, the camera/pic just doesn't do this logo justice! it's absolutely top notch work:

thanks again to the hardest working man in the DIY world, Mr. Will Scheibler!

Invaders 4!

i play a lot of pick-up hockey, and the only real "rule" is to bring a light & dark jersey. teams are made on the spot. i'm not too fond of wearing my "gamer" (the brown & gold, or the navy) Invaders jerseys as i don't want them to wear out. but i LOVE the Invaders theme/name.

i already have a white pick-up jersey:

in fact, here i am wearing an earlier version of the white just before a shinny:

so now i needed a dark! i wanted something totally different from what we've seen from the Invaders to this point. i wanted a SUPER classic & simple design. almost to look like it would have been a throwback from... say... the 40's-50's. errr something like that. but still tied to the Invaders style

so i simplified our shoulder patch. turned it into a 2-color scheme of a logo:

re-sized, traced, and so-on:

 

 

 

slapped it on the front of the jersey:

 

i tried to do something with our other shoulder patch, but it just wasn't working. enjoy anyway:

 

finished front:

 

first time i ever tried sleeve numbers. also, used our current logo shoulder patch almost as if to say "no matter how different, this is still a 'Vaders jersey"

 

simple back. current numbers font, no outline. clean!

 

here i am wearing it the next day, for the first time... passed out on a bus trip to Buffalo to see the Penguins take on the Sabres. too... much... beer...

 

welcome to "the family"

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!

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!

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

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!