05.24.07

Wholesale T shirts now available: Make your store an art gallery with our fine art T shirts

Posted in Art, Life & T shirts, Contemporary Art, fashion, online business at 10:26 am by tshirtman

Sorry for the delay, but in answer to all the emails we have had asking: the wholesale T shirts department is now up and running! Visit it here: Wholesale T shirts If you have a shop and are interested in stocking our T shirts then you are welcome to visit.

About our philosophy:

We are fine artists and are committed to taking fine art out of the gallery. To this end we make T shirts that take art and ideas onto the street. Your shop can be part of this project – Make your shop an art gallery by stocking our T shirts. We believe that when art is taken out of galleries it has an even greater chance to make a difference in the world.

If you want your store to be part of our project to take art everywhere then please visit the wholesale T shirts department!

Thank you and goodnight!

Jean Pierre Meville – Le Doulos – French Film noir

Posted in Art, Life & T shirts, Films, Reviews at 9:54 am by our arts correspondent

Melville became the archetypal director of French ‘policiers’, but this was his first. Jet black shadows, cigarettes and trench coats – he took the props of forties US film noir and added a complexity that was pure Gallic.

Le Doulos [1963]

With the great Belmondo (Breathless) in the lead this film is full of ambiguity that is never entirely explained. Indeed the only part of the film that doesn’t work well is the long exposition that Belmondo has to give at the end to make some sort of sense of the foregoing action. Long flashbacks seem to change the meaning of what we have experienced – although we do not know who we can trust and Belmondo’s explanation could be a self-serving fabrication.

Melville has created a film that replicates elements of the great noirs that had come before, but Le Doulos is not a classic on a par with those Bogart was making years before. Still it is a film that repays careful watching.

05.17.07

Dangerous juxtaposition of cereals and cat food in local store.

Posted in Art, Life & T shirts at 10:18 am by tshirtman

Shopping has become a minefield since the local store rearranged their stock. Now breakfast cereals are next to cat food. It’s madness. The packaging is too similar, you can’t tell where cereals end and cat food begins. I live in a panic that I will pour milk over my breakfast one day and discover I’m eating Whiskas.
shop cat food cereal

Hope they move it all back again soon. Otherwise I’ll have to start having cooked breakfasts.