Archive for January 10th, 2008

Pandas on Holiday Design

pandaholiday

Ello there one and all.

It’s is been one heck of a long day, I’m hot and bothered and really need to just get a moment to chill out. I’m in the mood for a totally fun, totally Unserious design for the Tshirt of the Day. Which is why, I decided to use the very funny design from Rocky entitled: Pandas on holiday.

Why Pandas on holiday?! Well it’s pretty obvious, but I just think the visual of a panda travelling from China to the States for a little getaway is bloody hilarious, would also make a great kids anime….hmmm ideas ideas :D

Everybody loves pandas, no doubts there, they look cute and you just want to tackle one with a big hug…unfortunately doing something like that in reality can be a lil (or extremely) dangerous. As the saying goes: it’s likely to rip your arm off and hit you with the soggy end (my father’s words of wisdom). Pandas like many other “seemingly” friendly-should-be-on-a-little-girls-lunchbox creatures, in reality, are a lot less exciting and fun that we think.
For example seeing seals and smelling them are two entirely different things….and what about chimps, they look ultra cuddly, but have u seen them on National Geothey are savage and strong…I wonder how many chimps it would take to destroy Chuck Norris *mental note to self*

Pandas on holiday is however a very cute and relaxed design which makes most people smile, a panda having a wee on a Hummer….super cool, for me it’s also a bit of a “stuff you” to humans who are messing up our planet.

Awesome little print, what do you guys think…winner? loser?

Eran “Chicken Joe” Surfs Up Report : Longing for the waves

Chicken Joe

Ohayo gozaimasu Amigos. (That means “Good Morning” in Japanese Amigo {which means “Compadre” in Mexican [which means “bro-like-comrade” in Spanish]}).

It’s been a couple of days since I have hit the beach and had a good surfing session (hoping for one later today if I can get some time). I have totally been bitten by the bug – for sure. I can’t wait for those waves, and it seems the weather is clearing up! Let’s hope for my sake that the waves are back and the nasty bluebottles that STINGs us SO (precious)- are off to greener pastures and

I was at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Umhlanga and it was pissing down with rain. Nevertheless this fearless reporter risked technological-camera-death and got some video footage of the surf that day. I ain’t going surfing there – it is rocky country on that beach of death and for sure I will lose one of my 12 hundred Chicken lives on that unfriendly strata

– pretty to look at – fantastic to sit on and play the flute – not so hot when your broken surfboard lies in pieces around your miserable surfing body wrapped around a few rocks which may, or may not, be in a 5 foot radius from each other – eep.

It’s quite weird… a guy I was surfing with recently kept bitching and moaning about the waves the other day - but any wave is a good wave to me - maybe it’s just the amateur in me talking - but I am just happy when I am out there - no matter what the waves are like.

One of the major things about surfing is juuuuuussssttt let gooooooo man. (not goo. Go.) Just let go and go with the flow. I probably sound like a total hippy (nothing wrong there, man) but it’s true – in a life where so many phenomena delude people to cling to a state of permanence in a universe of constant change, surfing is an excellent lesson that all things are impermanent and if you can dig it then you will definitely be well on your way on the path of delightenment. CLING TO NAUGHT! (but don’t be too naughty).

Anyway – here’s hoping that I am going to get some sweet surfing action SuperSoon.

Surfs Up!