The Third Reich of Social Bookmarking – Stumbleupon.com

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I’ve just had my Stumbleupon.com account frozen and accused of spam, I was informed I shouldn’t stumble my own blog’s stories a while back, and so I didn’t, although I would still proceed to stumble t-shirt blogs, t-shirt designers, and other sites both artistic and otherwise and yet what the hell happened today?

Here’s the standard bumpf email I received:-

Your StumbleUpon account privileges have been restricted and the account is under review. read more

Oct

Blood Is The New Black

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Blood, Google.com, Stumbleupon, T-Shirts, Velvet Underground, art, art shirts, blood is the new black, funny tees, strange tees, weird

I only stumbled this one last night, yes at 3:30am, but luckily I still felt exactly the same about Blood is The New Black after a long sleep and an even longer grey British morning of slogging away at my (f)art. So what’s BITNB all about? God knows, but I love it. It’s like I’ve accidentally bumped into The Velvet Underground of the t-shirt world and I couldn’t be more pleased (with myself :p).

There’s flash. there’s plush, there’s cool, there’s funny, there’s crazy, and then there’s these guys, their style? Well if you can call it that, a ragtag muddle of crazy artists and designers, their style is so way off the scale I’m all out of adjectives (for once). All I can say is they make me feel sick in a good way, not sick with envy, not sick of the sight of anything in particular, but a strange and rather wonderful home sickness for a life I’ve never had.

If only the friends of my youth had been as together (and untogether) as this demoniacal motley crew I’d have probably started a revolution of some sorts by now, oh to be as reckless and carefree as these loonies. read more