Am I the Only Eden Rock in America?

Alright. So I know this is super-lame, but I couldn't believe that I'm likely the only Eden Rock in all of America. According to Is This Your Name:

Top 5 Facts for this Name:

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1. 38% of the letters are vowels. Of one million first and last names we looked at, 38.4% have a higher vowel make-up. This means you are well envoweled.
2. In ASCII binary it is... 01000101 01100100 01100101 01101110 00100000 01010010 01101111 01100011 01101011
3. Backwards, it is Nede Kcor... nice ring to it, huh?
4. In Pig Latin, it is Edenway Ockray.
5. People with this first name are probably: Female. So, you are constantly overcharged for beauty products.

Name Origin and Meaning:

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Forename:
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: Paradise

3 Things You Didn't Know:

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1. Your personal power animal is the Peruvian Pelican
2. Your 'Numerology' number is 3. If it wasn't bulls**t, it would mean that you are enthusiastic, creative, optimistic, and fun-loving. You seek self-expression through words or the arts, and enjoy learning through life experiences.
3. According to the US Census Bureau°, 0.003% of US residents have the first name 'Eden' and 0.0076% have the surname 'Rock'. The US has around 300 million residents, so we guesstimate there are 1 Americans who go by the name 'Eden Rock'.

Get Your Edible NigahigaTeeShirts

We're not normally in the business of showing t-shirt infomercials, but these guys know how to sell a tee:

Do you hear that independent t-shirt companies? You've gotta get yourselves the Nigahiga treatment.

Mo Rocca on the Art of Sexy Shirt Removal

Has the spring weather and thoughts of summer sun got you wanting to whip off your teeshirt and head to the beach or pool? Avoid looking like a schmuck with these three sexy t-shirt taking off techniques from Mo Rocca:

• The Two-Handed Crossover Classic
• The One-Armed Sleeve Release
• The Reach Behind (it's not what you think)
• And the ultimate in sexy (and impossible for most to pull off), The Tear Away

Are T-shirts the New Tattoos?

Tattoos, which have been around since pre-historic man, may have lost some of their "market share" thanks the invention of the much more malleable, extensible and safe t-shirt as self-identifier but that doesn't mean they're getting replaced anytime soon. Roger White argues that commodities are easy to replace but artistry has much more resilience when it comes to weathering change.

And just in case that video was a little too erudite --or slow!-- for you, here's a quick jolt of tee-related humor:

Presenting: British comedian Harry Tate

This awesome avatar-in-the-making is in the public domain! Wooohooo! Public domain!

FTM: NES Belt Buckle Discount

Hi,

Not T-shirt news per se, but just wanted to let you know we relaunched http://www.nesbuckle.com . Got a whole new supply of controllers and have begun selling the world famous NESBuckle again. To celebrate the launch, we are giving away $10 gift certificates. We created a special certificate, upupdowndown for $10 off. This coupon will expire after the first 100 uses, so act fast!

Kind regards
Myke
http://www.nesbuckle.com

That $10 discount on the Nintendo Controller Belt Buckle will bring the price down to $20. It's still a bit spendy, but the buckle is just out of control!

Everyone's a T-shirt Designer in the Future

As you'll see from the video below, although it might be possible, strike that...It is highly probable that we'll all be designing our own t-shirts in the future, but that doesn't mean we have to be any good at it.

The interface here, using the power of Microsoft's Surface, is amazingly easy. I love how the drag and drop automatically crops to the t-shirt. Beyond that, why not let you choose whether or not you'd like the print to wrap around your t-shirt for an extra fee?

Watching this it's not hard to imagine a future where we "grab" elements from our environment, including inspiration from what others are wearing around us, and create a new t-shirt or wardrobe on our future iPhone that immediately gets produced in an automated factory located halfway around the world but could still be in our hands within half a day.

I've seen the future, and it's going to look very interesting.

Sucks To Be a Star Trek Red Shirt

Ever pick up a t-shirt in the morning and realize "today's just not the day for this one"? Imagine if that shirt you pick up is a red shirt and you're about to beam down to an unknown planet with the away team.

Didn't those guys ever figure it out that the Red Shirts never returned?

Watch this collection of Red Shirt deaths to Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" while you contemplate their unfaltering commitment to the intergalactic cause.

Time to Melt Your Face

Looking for a way to see the world in a new light without taking psychoactive drugs? Use your other senses to hack your brain instead. Here's a twenty second trick to make the walls dance.

And if that's not enough to sate your need for something different, check out these five other tricks for hacking your brain from the ever-interesting Boston Globe.Thanks for the image professorpious.

Attack of the Penis T-shirts

This all started with previously-mentioned Third Shifts' post about the first photo-realistic penis t-shirt in this series. We thought it was funny enough to warrant it's own place at SS&OS, but wanted to find the originator. The search brought up a lot more t-shirts with dicks on them than we expected and what would be the fun if we didn't share?

While not everything on the accompanying page is strictly NSFW, we figured we should cover it all up anyway just in case you don't want others to see you looking at penises. Just hover over a pic to see the magic happen.

No, you're not going to see any tshirts that say "Penis" instead of "Pepsi" nor the standard text jokes about penises. All of these tees actually have schlongs, or the likenesses of cocks on them. And of course these pictures link to their respective sources if you'd like more information.

Enough chatter -- bring on the Peni!

(Speaking of which, if you didn't think a person could write a 3000 word essay on the pluralization of penis, you'd be sadly mistaken.)

Couple's T-shirts are The New Jogging Suits

Just found this one on Flickr and decided to share.

What is more schmoopie than smittens? These things.

The Beginning of the End of T-shirt Culture

Photo courtesy of johnmarkos

Has t-shirt culture become so mainstream that we enthusiasts will need to find a new untrammeled outlet for their creativity?

Frightening headlines aside, it's actually nice to see someone with cultural influence like the director of exhibitions at the Art Institute of Boston, Andrew Mroczek, promoting the t-shirt as canvas. We've often advocated for framing t-shirt designs you absolutely love, but wouldn't love to wear.

What we really like about the exhibition, though, is that Mroczek and artists like Ben Colebrook challenge t-shirt aficionados to consider the iconic role of the t-shirt in human -especially military- history.

In speaking of Colebrook's hand-numbered t-shirts which indicate weekly death tolls in Iraq, Mroczek observes:
"He's not only looking at the T-shirt as a canvas, but the tees themselves represent a series of bodies, so there's an additional conceptional component there. I think the impact of the shirts could be overlooked individually. But when you see them grouped together, and see the numbers rise, it's very powerful."

Can't make it to Boston for this one? Check out the Beyond the Fluff & Fold: Contemporary Artists & the T-Shirt Flickr set kindly uploaded by the curator.

Can make it to Boston for this one. Great!

WHERE: The Art Institute of Boston Gallery at University Hall; 1815 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass. 02140.

WHEN: Now – February 28, 2009
Tues. – Fri. 12 – 6 p.m.
Sat: 12 – 5 p.m.

For More Information, call the Gallery at University Hall at 617-585-6656.

Why Didn't We Think of That? Honesteeshirts

In a head-slapping "why didn't we think of that" moment, we came across this starter collection of honesty in t-shirts (yes, we've decided to call them Honesteeshirts -- perhaps Holy Taco will take the name from us). While what they've come up with isn't quite hi-lar-ious -- the potential to rock is definitely there.

Click the picture to see their inaugural collection.

Best Pictures of 2008

You know...we can only speak for the American attention span, but it seems that our memories get shorter and shorter every...wait, what was I saying there?

Anyway. If you're ready to look back on or just want to remember the sometimes scary year that was 2008, we highly recommend you do so the easy way -- visually -- with these helpful and amazing collections.
First off, the ultra-generically-named blog, Photo Blog, has taken MSNBC's top 40 pictures of 2008 and made them much more presentable -- trust us, you do not want to sit through MSNBC's video version. Constraining themselves to only 40 pictures, MSNBC went the smart way and opted for beautiful and poingnent shots over trying to encapsulate the entire year with so few images.

We highly recommend you set aside a fair bit of time for the grand tour, though, The Boston Globe's 2008 in photographs -- all 120 of them. Don't worry, they've thoughtfully broken up the pictures into three collections of 40.Unlike the lower-quality MSNBC collection, TBG provides large lush imagery, opt-in warnings on any visceral imagery and doesn't impose a soundtrack. Also, with the extra eighty photos, they're able to put together a much more comprehensive and cohesive picture book -- mostly from an American angle -- of the momentous year we've just experienced together.

Read SoS to Avoid This Guy's Fate

We saw this picture getting upvoted on Reddit and just knew that this guy isn't getting his fashion tips from a wallet-friendly resource like Shirts on Sale.

So...I kind of understand the whole shoe-thing, but not really. I mean, why are shoes so important to people when they're one of the least obvious and most physically-abused aspects of your wardrobe?

Google Might be Getting a Little Too Cocky...

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!