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I know, free tees rule! And from now on, we'll be giving them away every time we send out a newsletter! Be one of the first to open a TeeFury email, and you might get lucky! Remember, from here on out, Teevil is watching!

That's right, TeeFury is going to be giving away a tee per email to one lucky reader. Be one of the first and you can grab it! That's all the details we've got, so be on the lookout for Teevil in your inbox soon!

Teextile Twitter Contest: Win A Free Shirt!

Well, this is a little more convoluted and difficult than our usual contests (and this is not our contest, mind you, but Teextiles!), but the payoff is pretty solid for what could be minimal effort.. you just have to be right!

The details are easy enough, but to successfully complete them is another task entirely. Check it out! (edited for clarity here. Click to see the original newspost.)

weve been neglecting our poor little twitter account for more than a month, so we thought we would start it up again with a way for you to get a free shirt or 5.

all you have to do is follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/teextile

and guess the next five shirts for next week by posting an update on your twitter account starting with @teextile and followed by the 5 names of the designs you think are going to win (number them if youd like)

sure, 140 characters might not be enough, so feel free to abbreviate. if you guess all 5 designs, you get a free shirt of your choice. and if you guess all 5 designs in the correct order, you get all 5 shirts for free.

here a couple of hints
-we always print at least one design that is only one color
-we always print at least one oversized print 
-we never print the 5 all-time most popular, but at least one of the top 3 will be printed

One update a week shouldn't break your Twitterbank, so tweet away -- and if you're just hopping on the Twitter bus, be sure to add us at twitter.com/Shirts_on_Sale!

Best of luck with this one, you'll need it.. but at least they gave a few hints!

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:

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.

Tshirt Coupon or Coupon Tshirt?

Can you believe the wonderfulness of this tee?

Who can forget the Dick Tracy "Admit One" t-shirts, an excellent and forward-thinking tshirt marketing concept in its own right?

This advertisement, though, t-shirt as coupon and walking commercial that you'll want to wear more than just one midnight movie event?

Awesome!

The one way we could conceive of this Burger King 25 Cent Coupon t-shirt as at least 1.4x better --other than the obvious, raising the discount from a quarter-- would be by adding the text, "Follow me to Burger King!" on the back.
BK tshirt photo courtesy of yellowttguy

BustedTees Now Carrying Vintage Vantage Shirts

Two of our favorite e-tailers of quality casual shirts have joined forces, with BustedTees now offering a select few of Vintage Vantage's extended catalog of vintagesque shirts. Included in the update are AAAA (Anti-Acronym Association of America); Mini-Van, Mega-Fun!; Strictly For My Ninjas; and Oklahoma

Fullbleed.org Series 8 Now Available

Well, I've always been a huge fan of Rob Dobi's design work, usually for such standout punk/alternative musical giants as Fall Out Boy, Coheed and Cambria, Less Than Jake, and Thursday. His personal side project, when he's not doing licensed work, is called Fullbleed, and they've just released their 8th -- yes, 8th -- set of shirts for purchasing. Fullbleed is known for their simple, solid colors and thoughtful, sometimes political ideas, but always expertly rendered. The guy is a master at drawing the human form.

My personal favorite of his is back from one of his earlier series, and possibly his quintessential design, Surf's Up, Dudes.

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.