One of the best things for me - beating off stiff competition - about being at a music festival, is seeing all the different t-shirts people wear. Funny or serious, new bands, old or obscure ones, it's like the culture department of people's brains walking towards you.
Trending at Glastonbury this year were Breaking Bad t-shirts, especially this one:
And it got me thinking about drawing and how, mixed with a t-shirt, there's really no better way to say what you want to say.
Someone doing this brilliantly at the moment is my friend Simeon with his Black Score t-shirt label. I'm lucky to own this beauty:
And this one, which came along with me to Glastonbury and everywhere else I've been this summer:
I love it so much.
My brother and I used to have a VHS tape of 'Robin Williams Live at the Met' and we would watch it until we were crying and sore from laughing and the tape broke.
We didn't understand everything, but we didn't need to. He was just so funny. Like the essence of funny. We'd try and do Mork's hand sign with our small hands. My brother could always do it better than me. He could also swim like the Man from Atlantis.
We didn't understand everything, but we didn't need to. He was just so funny. Like the essence of funny. We'd try and do Mork's hand sign with our small hands. My brother could always do it better than me. He could also swim like the Man from Atlantis.
Thinking about all this, I made some drawings. It felt so good to sit quietly and draw. I thought a lot about this article.
From the drawings, I did this on a spare babygro I had lying around with a Sharpie (a textile one for marking laundry):
The best way to do this is to make a screen and screen print it - you can get any effect you want that way - but for quick and dirty printing, it doesn't look too bad does it?
I don't know any 0-3 month babies at the moment so if anyone wants it drop me a line and it's yours. Leave a comment or email me.
