I'm getting all social. To celebrate Voyages over Edinburgh printing on monday, I'm giving away 2 $25 gift cards to people! So if you are a tumblrer or a facebooker you can get involved!

It's dead simple, just
REBLOG EMERALD CITY ON TUMBLR
or
SHARE EMERALD CITY ON FACEBOOK



IN THE RUNNING...

JUST FINISHED....
Thanks for all your support and encouragements with these, much appreciated.

I'm in a super good mood, particularly because my Kite Parkour design got reprinted, so I want to buy some lovely people some shirts! And not just one of my shirts, but any shirt you want, because lets face it they are all better than mine anyway.

So just pick anything from the sale, and tell me what you would choose on my brand new facebook page, and tomorrow night I'll choose 3 people at random and buy them what they chose!

Yeah I know, I'm making you go to my facebook page, but it's really fun over there, honest!

UPDATE!
Got some photos from Delhi, check it out...






You may notice in that last one that one of the kids is sporting BMX Nirvana. Turns out I accidentally sent my order of shirts to Delhi too, and I just thought international economy post was just being extra slow! It's hard not to laugh when I think about how confused he must have been at having the only different shirt- I can't decide whether he would be proudly unique and the jealousy of all, or horrifically left out.

No big deal I thought, I'll just head over to threadless and order some more of my shirts, but disaster- all the guys sizes are sold out!

My extraspecially nice friends at threadless offered to check around their warehouse when I told them about it all, and thankfully managed to find me some of my design left. Got them this morning, thanks!

Sorry for the mega long blog, and if you read it all, give yourself a thumbs up.
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This is by far my favourite print of mine so far, and it's made extra special by the difference it will make. Thanks so much to everyone who voted for this, and who has bought it too. Here is where the prize is going...

$1500- Anusaran- a small charity in Delhi who do amazing work with young woman and children in a slum area. I spent a year with them and the place inspired this design.

$100- Save the children- a British charity which does great work worldwide, but the money is for their Haiti Appeal specifically.

$100- Girl Effect- A charity that transforms societies in a sustainable way though supporting young women.

$100- Cystic Fibrosis Trust- A friend of mine has CF, so this is for a charity that supports people and funds research into treatments.

$100- Shelter- Another British charity, which helps homeless folk. There are a few folk beg around where I live, and it would be great to see them get on their feet again.

$100-Charity Water- I wanted to give to a water thing because I like water. I only heard about these guys the other day, but they seem perfect.

A bit about the design...
In delhi I stayed for a while in the slum area. In the evening the rooftops were full of kids fighting kites, and in the streets below kids were keeping a keen eye on the scene- ready to chase after any kite that was cut loose.
I took the photo in the background on a quick visit to Shimla in the foothills of the himalayas. The place was seething with monkeys so I invested in a "monkey stick" to keep them at bay. It was a beautiful place though.

(p.s. no photoshopping involved!)

Thanks threadless for printing this, I hope soon I will have some pictures of Anusaran receiving some shirts!

Everyone loves to be fresh.
Come and vote, and you too can be super fresh content.

(I totally missed Jan 1st, but 365 days is 365 days whenever you start, right?)

For the next 365 days I'm going to film 10 seconds of my day. I'm thinking I'll post them all on a tumblr blog because they are beautiful and simple, but maybe flickr. It won't win any international acclaim or expand my creativity drastically (like MSCE did/would), but I want to look at things differently and be able to look back at this year and see all the tiny day to day things I know I'll forget. I'm just going to use the Flip camera I got for the innovation contest, or my mobile, so I'm not talking loads of effort or time.

Does anyone want to join me?
The rules are-
10 seconds/day
No editing
No sound

At the end of it you can make a movie of clips of the whole year- it would be just over an hour long.

UPDATE!

So I said in my design if it ever gets printed here I'll give away 3/4 of the prize. Now I've decided the other 1/4 is up to YOU!

Name and explain who you think should get some, and I'll pick 5, so if it gets printed as 2k10 each gets $500, and if it gets a normal print each gets $100. I'll only send the money to registered charities, you chancers.

All clear? I hope I explained that alright.

--------Suggestions so far---------
Haiti
Make a wish
Cystic Fibrosis
Water Aid
Tear Fund
Girl Effect
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Alright everyone, here is my new design...



Basically as well as a new graphic trend, I see threadless and it's users stepping out into the wider world and using their creativity to make a difference- Heck it's already happening with the amazing response to the Haiti tee!
And so - I'm promising at least 3/4 of the money to anusaran, a charity in west Delhi that make a massive difference on a shoe string budget.

The last thing I want to do is seem all high and mighty, or like I'm trying to grab a pity vote, even if this scores like crap I'm giving a bunch of money to them cause they need it way more than I need a new ipad or something.

No guilt tripping here- i just think we can use our creativity in amazing and far reaching ways!



Pictures of the stuff in delhi will follow in the blog....

This blog is a nice big thanks for the cashmonies threadless sent me for my designs. With some of it I went to egypt, was sick in a minibus and broke my new camcorder while trying to breakdance.


EGYPT yaaa

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Print no 2 feels awesomesausages. This has taken so long, but the wait was totally worth it! A big thanks to everyone who helped this design along- I hope you will have many joyous days of wearing it.

Not much to say about the design really- it's a big old guy, with like a big beard, that kinda turns into the sea.

Peace out bros.

Only one day to go- help me break 100 comments! That would be like a pile of awesome marinaded in juicy sweetness.

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The time has come. I'm feeling hunky dory generous so I'm doing a double contest for my two recent resubs.

Easy peasy, guess the scores and make sure you comment in the designs!

Each design is worth $100 GC if it gets printed, so if you are a good guesser (and I'm lucky) you could be bagging yourself $200 GC!!!

Blake B was spot on for Lucky Shot- lets hope that means $100GC is coming your way!



GOOD LUCK!

Rocket Science-

TOURMALINE TODD-3.42
ArikaGranger-----------3.35
Ryder Revolution------3.33
Tum Buckles -----------3.32
Krakaboom-------------3.26
igo2cairo ---------------3.25
krokun------------------3.23
TangYauHoong -------3.22
rossmat8 ---------------3.21
Talking To The Ground-3.20
Blake B------------------3.19
ir0cko -------------------3.18
mgill52------------------3.17
mike bautista-----------3.16
Ivantobealone----------3.15
tiffa34-------------------3.14
Charlie_M --------------3.13
jet approves-------------3.12
Tikimaster---------------3.11
Alexmdc-----------------3.10
francischtime-----------3.09
bhoomika ---------------3.08
TimScribble ------------3.07
Wonderlove-------------3.06
emilymmkay------------3.05
lily1029 -----------------3.04
mr spiers----------------3.03
danaych-----------------3.02
dunz0--------------------3.01
nathanwpyle at gmail.com--3.00
Stoma--------------------2.99
TheInfamousBaka------2.98
Mosquito88-------------2.97
evan3 --------------------2.90
goliath72 ----------------2.82
jess4002-----------------2.79
TTUraider ---------------2.75
that is inappropriate ---2.68
SuperRyan---------------2.62
inskydiamonds ---------2.56
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FINISHED- BLAKE B WINS!


Lucky Shot-

TOURMALINE TODD-3.42
ArikaGranger-----------3.33
emilymmkay------------3.26
Wonderlove-------------3.24
rossmat8 ---------------3.21
Tum Buckles -----------3.15
Blake B------------------3.14
TangYauHoong --------3.13
danaych -----------------3.12
that is inappropriate ---3.11
Alexmdc-----------------3.1
TheInfamousBaka------3.09
nathanwpyle at gmail.com--3.08
TimScribble -------------3.07
bhoomika ---------------3.06
Charlie_M --------------3.05
Tikimaster--------------3.04
Krakaboom-------------3.03
Ivantobealone----------3.02
TTUraider --------------3.00
dunz0--------------------2.99
krokun-------------------2.97
inskydiamonds ---------2.96
Stoma --------------------2.95
evan3 --------------------2.91
Talking To The Ground-2.90
francischtime------------2.86
tiffa34---------------------2.84
ir0cko --------------------2.78
SuperRyan---------------2.71
jess4002 -----------------2.65
Ryder Revolution-------2.59