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This Friday Jeff Griggs, Nick Canada and I are launching a webstore to raise money for the Obama campaign in GA. You can check out the front page HERE and add us on MySpace HERE.
Please help us spread the word, this election is a big deal (no, seriously… haven’t you heard?!) and we really want to help grab our fair state from the clutches of the GOP.
Here is some more info from the site explaining things and what have you…
“After looking in every tube on the internets, we found that there are very few options to A) get rad-looking and inexpensive Obama t-shirts and B) connect a solid monetary high-five to Barack Obama.
We think our shirts are awesome, and we hope you do too. But, the best thing about these shirts is that we’re donating 25% to help Obama win the election in November. Not 25% of the profit, mind you, but 25% of whatever you decide to spend. In essence, if you buy a $10 shirt, you’ve helped us donate $2.50. If you buy a $12 shirt, you’ve helped us donate $3.00. If you buy $1256.38 worth of shirts, you’ve helped us donate $314.10… You get the idea.
About the Donations: A large part of the impetus behind the creation of Obamarad.com was the realization that our home state, Georgia, is actually in contention for the first time since 1992. taking Georgia from the GOP this year would be a massive body blow to the far right and we want to do everything we can to ensure that the Peach State goes Blue. Subsequently, we’re donating whatever we can to the Georgia Campaign for Change!
About the Shirts: All shirts are high-quality, super-soft American Apparel Tees. Unlike other printers, we’re not caking the ink on these shirts so you feel like you’re walking around with a vinyl car seat attached to your chest. You’re going to be comfortable, and you’re going to look like a million fucking dollars. We’re starting off small, but plan on adding designs as we can afford it. Obviously, American Apparel t-shirts are pricey, so we’re barely covering our costs. But, the objective isn’t for us to line our pockets with unicorns… it’s to help Obama help us all.
About Shipping: All shirts will be shipped first class via the USPS. Due to fluctuations in stock, please allow 7-10 days for delivery. For multiple order shipping quotes, please email us at obamarad (at ) gmail.com
About Us: Obamarad.com is the brainchild of three Athens, Georgia-based musicians who all, at one time or another, kicked a bunch of ass at the University of Georgia. Our county (Clarke) has long been a tiny blue oasis in a desert of red. We’ve certainly experienced our fair share of war-mongering, unfair taxation, oil-whoring, environmental destruction, ridiculous lending practices and general tyranny. America should not be a 98,589,451,022,605.6 square foot Wal-Mart. We’re ready for change.”
Tags: a-series-of-tubes, america rules, be-cool-bitches, culture-wars, democratic national convention, election, glamour, graphic-design, kindercore, links, mccain, myspace, new-patriotism, news, obama, patriotism, politics, pop culture, stop the madness, the internets, things that rule
Posted by ryan on 06 Aug 2008 at 01:05 pm
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So as Justin pointed out in his most recent post, there has not been a lot of non-Justin blogging activity going on here in Kindercoreland. I could rail on all of the people who asked me to sign them up as writers then seemingly forgot how to type… but I haven’t been posting either so that would be a dick move.
So… what have I been doing that has been keeping me too damn busy to blog? Not sure where to begin but a few of Justin’s posted reasons do ring true. For one thing there has been a ton of behind the scenes Buddy System work going on these days in preparation for a string of out of town shows in late August (see dates at the bottom of this post). There is also the work we have been doing on a second limited edition Buddy System DVD - The Buddy System 2: Back in The Habit - and recording and designing art for the upcoming Buddy System/Ruby Isle split 7″ (which should be done in time for Popfest).
Aside from Kindercore and The Buddy System I designed the album art for Athens band and F.O.K. (Friends of Kindercore. ‘natch) A.Armada. The record Anam Cara is coming out this September from our friends at Hello Sir! Records - check it out, the album slays!
In addition to all of that crap I have also been working with Jeff “I forget how to blog” Griggs and Nick “I screenprint all of the t-shirts in Athens” Canada on a plan to raise money for the Obama campaign by designing and selling a foxy line of Obama T-Shirts. The shirts were designed by me, will be printed by Nick and shipped out by me and Jeff. They are going to be printed on American Apparel shirts with the one color designs selling for $10 and the 2 color designs for $12. BUT here’s the best part… we are donating 25% of every sale ($2.50 and $3 respectively) to efforts to get Obama elected. We basically got tired of expensive shitty Obama shirt designs that donate pitifully small amounts to the campaign - this Gama-Go entry is excluded from that criticism. Obviously.
Here is a little tease of the first wave of designs. The site should be up and running in a few days and we would love it if you could help spread the word when the time comes.
   
Oh and here are those Buddy System dates:
8.14.08 Atlanta, GA - The Earl w/ Ruby Isle & Cryptacize
8.15.08 Athens, GA - The 40 Watt Club - Athens Popfest W/Ruby Isle and many more
8.19.08 Greenville, NC - The Spazzatorium with Reverse X-Rays
8.20.08 Roanoke, VA - The Water Heater w/ Sad Cobras
8.21.08 Richmond, VA - Rumors w/ Sad Cobras + Hot Lava + Visitations
8.22.08 NYC, NY - Crashin’ In Dance party at Rehab w/ Ruby Isle, Shock Cinema and DJs
8.23.08 Brooklyn, NY - Rooftop show w/ Videohippos + Ruby Isle + more TBA
8.24.08 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall with Ruby Isle + Last Year’s Model
8.25.08 Hopefully Baltimore
8.26.08 Somewhere in the Carolinas?
8.28.08 Athens, GA - The Georgia Theatre w/ a bunch of bands TBA
9.05.08 Athens, GA - The 40 Watt Club w/ a.armada (album release show!) and Iron Hero
9.12.08 Athens, GA - The Melting Point w/Pylon
Also I’ve been spending time with the wife and animals, reading too many comic books, playing way too much Civilization: Revolution for Xbox 360 and trying in vain to clean out the shed so I can start using it for screen printing and scooter parking. Yeah, busy but no good excuse for not blogging. I’m getting back in the game though, watch out!
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Posted by ryan on 31 Jul 2008 at 01:13 pm
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Posted by ryan on 05 Mar 2008 at 04:09 pm
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HB: Okay, dudes. We shouldn’t apologize on here, but we do have two movies at home we haven’t watched yet because somebody has had to spend all his time embroidering and can’t watch movies with subtitles. Sheesh. So, if you’re ever longing for lengthy analysis of classic films you feel very guilty for not having seen (or proud for having seen–I just think that’s less likely, you lowbrow rabble), one great place you can go is The Criterion Contraption, a blog by Matthew Dessem that he’s been running for several years while he attempts to watch every movie in the Criterion Collection (DVDs, not laserdiscs). Matthew focuses nicely on a lot of visual elements, complete with lots of stills from the movies, as well as history and where they fall in terms of importance and influence. Also whether or not he likes them. The thing is, he’s only up to #72 (at last posting). And the Collection is at or around #410 (probably skipping a few, as they’re nerds and like to save special numbers for special movies, and also probably because it’s complicated to get the rights to put these things out, and so even if they’ve planned that something will be, say, #218, it might take a while to get it or whatnot). So chances are that he’s either going to clone himself a la Multiplicity or die before he finishes it–which would be sad. Still, like all great plans involving lists, it is ambitious, and we respect that.
It also points up the role of the Criterion Collection as a modern canon, one that’s both bigger and quirkier than most other lists. Some of the quirkiness is dependent upon rights, again, and also probably the people who work there. If you have a big Beastie Boys fan in your office, you’re going to get things like this released, quirking up the canon you’re creating. Their selection of foreign film is particularly good and deep, and their focus on directors is welcome, even when one of those directors is Michael Bay,* because others of them are Dreyer** and Tati and Powell. I’m not saying that I watch everything on every Criterion DVD I buy, but I do buy the DVDs because that stuff is there. They’re kind of like the Norton Critical Editions of the DVD world. If you have to write a paper, or you’re curious, or you finish reading/watching the work of art and have nothing else to do, there’s more for you to explore.
They also prove that graphic design sells. It does to me. Some of their movies, like The Element of Crime, which I’ve seen and really disliked, can have such appealing covers that you want to buy the disc, even if you know you don’t like the movie, let alone if you just think you wouldn’t like it or don’t know anything about it. It’s incredible that this can pry $40-some out of one’s wallet, or come close to doing so, but a great DVD cover can sell even better than a great book cover can. Criterion’s covers for their American and French films from the 1930s and 1940s are some of their best, like Children of Paradise, Boudou Saved from Drowning, and Heaven Can Wait.*** Almost every cover seems to come out of an understanding of the film it embraces (and I later discovered after writing this post, how true that is from Criterion’s own excellent blog, which has a great post from a graphic designer on how he got to the end on two covers), which kind of encapsulates the appeal of the whole collection: it’s a desire for things that are beautiful both inside and out, and, especially, for a set of them. It’s made for the compulsive aesthete. So how many of them do you have?
* I secretly still like Michael Bay a little bit, but NOT this movie.
** We haven’t seen any Dreyer yet, but where else are you gonna get it, right?
*** Jared points out that this last one was painted by Caitlin Kuhwald, an excellent artist by whom we have a couple of paintings. Also that you can buy the cover art painting from her website.
Tags: blogs, directors, graphic-design, movies
Posted by teambrown on 26 Jul 2007 at 03:26 pm
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What won’t a short attention span and some loose guidelines isolate?
I gave up before you asked.
Here’s what I found instead!
So I searched images.google.com for “fire animated gif” cuz I wanted some cheesy fire for something stupid that I didn’t even end up making cuz I got distracted with this.
My first stop landed me the above gem and a combination of words previously thought only to occur under laboratory conditions: awesome fire animated powerpoint slide(!!!!!11!)
So if any of you poor bastards reading this ever have to assemble a PowerPoint™ presentation, use this guy’s slides, err, backgrounds cuz they’re just the thing to shock-and-awe yr coworkers or something to revitalize yr mfn, miserable-ass, PowerPoint™-presentation-makin existence (geez, I can’t believe I hang out with you).
In teh next diagram we see that the southern hemisphere and/but most especially Florida and other such weird-ass jerk-water places generally south of here are reponsible for global warming because they’re on fire. Again.
Other accounts suggest that Kurt Russell started teh blaze attempting to kill a-the Thing™ and thus he owns the fire. Representatives for both Michael McDonald and Billy Joel independently asserted that whoever keeps a fire, regardless of which party may or may not have started it, owns it. Kenny Loggins was unavailable for comment. Furthur debate is encouraged.
After that I just sat there for a while, staring at the screen, writing the above paragraphs.
When I came to…
This site is weird as hell.
It made my eyelids loud.
And there really couldn’t be anything more after that.
The internets are over.
Tags: conspiracy-theories, cyberpunk, fire, graphic-design, internets, shamanism, the-truth
Posted by Bob on 23 Jul 2007 at 07:23 am
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