SO,

this is the blog where I talk about how JoeVW is from the future. I have had this theory that joe is a time traveling spaceman bringing us just a taste of the awesome future we have in store.

See for a real time-traveling wizard, you would have to be conscious of the continuum. Wary of effecting the future. UNLESS you realized in the future that you had an impact on the present and it's past. See I think future Joe saw in his historical document his own hand in the aesthetic evolution of awesome in our era. THUS allowing him to fullfill his destiny - travel to our time - and spark the imaginations of a thousand ships.

Oh i can hear you now, NO JOE NO! that's Impossible, your FOOLISH. And I say to you, IS IT FOOLISH TO KNOW THE TRUTH?! Of course not, it is foolish to DENY it.

With my analysis I have actually predicted some near future events... DBH will mimic Joe's genius (AGAIN) with a shirt called Faultline Nebula. And it will of course be a pale comparison of the original. Next years TEE in REview Mag will feature JOEVW in his spacepants and wind boots flying across the chicago skyline.

Heed my words, on the horizon.. the spaceman has cometh and he is a vanwetering.

I am thinking a daylight savings sale for a day thing?

geez lookit svelt jef being all skinny

So, here we have a story.

not a great story, but this is in fact a monday and standards are low apparently because you are in fact reading this lame story. But the point is not this lame story but to explain the series of events that lead to me having the lamest facebook ever.


First - way back when the staff guys at threadless decided to make facebook plans. Sure we hung out in the forums but apparently there were hordes of kids in the facebook relm that needed to be exposed to the awesomeness of threadless.
- so threadless sent out suggestions for designers and bloggers to facebook it up with the carrot that friday spoilers would be posted there


they always have the best ideas right? so I made an account

see - I am not a myspace facebook social networker. I have no networking social needs and I can barely navigate the threadless site let alone some crazy thing like facebook


this is what facebook looks like to me

but hey - you know, Renaissance man that I am I gave it a try and joined up.
At first I was just accepting friends (of course all pals from here) And I am all "yeah, facebooking me. woo hoo I am so NOW"

well then I got a challenge that popped up on my wallboard thingy (I have yet to understand how to post to that but i can read!) and it was from Frickinawesome challenging me to a test of my princess bride knowledge.


If there is one thing I know it is my Pricess Bride trivia,

so I was all "IT IS ON, I am totally gonna kick ass" And proceeded to do what turned out to be like 8 stupid questions, BARELY even touching on all the great info from the movie. It would be an understatement to say that I was dissapointed with the quiz. It was total garbage.

But before I could get my score, i had to enter my email address. Little did I know what this would do to my inbox. For the following month I spent several very important minutes every day deleting spam, tons of spam. FUCKING FACEBOOK SPAM


apparently, spammers are now tapping into the princess bride market

So, I had it and hunted down every spam site that was hassling me and emailed them for removal. And I also did the deed. I deleted the culprit behind it all



And all was good, for a while - peace had returned -

But then I got an email, it said something along the lines of. I saw your facebook page, And I was all NUH UH - NO WAY I DELETED IT. Sure it is obvious to you the reader that this was in fact just another lame spam email. But I fell for it like a total dope and went over to facebook to confirm my account was beleted.

And sure enough, it was - but by logging in to check, those awesome guys at facebook undeleted my account :/

This is about when I threw my arms up in defeat.



I backed slowly out of the facebook, and shook my head.
I decided my facebook was to live on alone and lonely. Without any co-operation from me. Live and let live right?

Well, THen I got emails about more friend requests. I don't want my various pals and aquaintences thinking I am giving them a juicy DIS-burger. SO i would log in accept the request and then quickly log out.


just like this but with DENIED stamped on it

So now I go over there to accept friend requests and then quickly log out before getting into some scandal involving blade runner trivia.

SO yeah, thats pretty much it

so for my latest submission, I decided to take photos during the illustration for one of those neato process blogs.

as far as process goes, I started by penciling roughly on a 14X17 bristol, i forgot to take pictures till i started inking. but you get the idea.



I inked with pretty small pens cause I wanted it to look like an aerial shot .. not sure how successful I was doing that



more inking



more inking



more inking - its a rhino



and thats almost done there



and here it is all scanned and stuff (you can click for a larger detail view)


final submission colors and placement



some shot on the shirt with color options









so yep, a buncha pictures...
Huge thanks to matt (ninth wheel ) for the sweet templates and shimala, annie and priscilla for the great model shots

UPDATE:

threadless bloggers lemonalle and Neuroplastcicty came to the rescue!

his name is Mark Kistler and he has a website here





there was a tv show and I am pretty sure it was PBS

well it was a drawing show for kids - and the guy dressed in like a red military shirt kinda think and had a mustache

anyhow - he would always draw these elaborate space scenes and underground city scenes with little aliens and spaceships and stalagmites and monsters and it was my favorite show

I remember it so clearly - except for the name

can anyone help?

this puppy is up for voting



and at emptees


EMPTEES VOTE HURR








cavendish experiment

Way back when, there was this evil dude named Minos who was also the king of Crete. This evil dude was evil cause he made all sorts of demands on other greek lands - sacrificial demands. Well the Bad king got his hands on a Man-Beast (half man half BULL) and wanted to use him to terrorize and such but he needed a cage that could hold him.

So he kidnapped a guy named Daedalus who was a scientific wizard, a builder - like Doc Brown he was makin flux capacitors. The evil king Minos also stole away Daedalus's son Icarus, just to be a jerk.

Daedalus built King Minos the Labyrinth, A network of passages and dead ends. Filled with lots of stony corners for the Minotaur to smash peoples heads against.

Well Daedalus got into some trouble with the King cause he helped the Kings good daughter Ariadne with some wicked string that she used to help a dude named Theseus kill the Minotaur (don't worry that story is filled with woe too)

Daedalus and his son were in trouble and King Minos was probably gonna come down on them with a hellstorm of old Grecian fury. So Daedalus was smart and fashioned an escape plan. He made two sets of mechanical wings. One for himself and the other for his son. Unfortunately he had limited materials and had to use wax to put it all together. Not a big deal, he and his son just needed to fly across some dangerous water on a sunny day. Icarus must have been a bit dense or maybe he just zoned his dad out all the time cause despite being warned he totally flew up high too close to the sun and his wings fell to pieces.

Daedalus watched him fall and disappear under the water never to be seen from again.

Daedalus managed to get away to mainland Greece. King Minos pursued him but then got trapped in one of Daedalus's best plans... DEADLY HOT BATHWATER - in the end Minos Had to work his tail off in Hades Judging the damned and Daedalus got to kinda live out the rest of his life making stuff.

Thanks threadless voters, staff and everybody who buys this shirt. And always remember to pay attention to the instructions.

I actually made a process blog back when I drew this shirt up - you can find it here

Thanks threadless voters, and threadless staff for selecting this shirt for printing.

Quick story about this shirt: I drew this up while watching playoff football. I was in the mood to go epic. So I started drawing this battle between an unknown tentacled beast and a valiant spaceman with a staff blaster (note: staff blasters are not used enough in apparel design.) Anyhow, I drew this up pretty quick and the whole time I was watching football with Beethoven's 9th rolling over and over in my head.

Honestly, I think this would be an excellent way to go.

Thanks threadless for printing it PERFECTLY - it looks just amazing. And for those who were rooting for the full color.. maybe on the reprint :)