In the spirt of my latest design, I want to hear your worst and/or funniest surgery stories. Either from witnessing one, having to go through one, or perhaps having to perform one. Don't be afraid to talk about dental surgery, as that's arguably just as bad. Ugh.

Speaking of which, I had shark teeth when I was a kid. My bottom jaw had a row of three teeth right in the center, just behind my first row of teeth. I was a Street Shark. At least, that's what I told myself every day when I pulled my bruised and smelling body out of a garbage can. Whee!

They were all removed however, leaving a giant hole in my mouth that I can now collect nuts and berries in for the winter. Actually, it's healed over, but I kind of wish it hadn't.

So, feel free to share your stories, and if you've got the time, give my latest a vote!

It takes brass balls to sell real estate.

Thanks Alex.

Hi everyone!

According to threadless, it's been about 289 days since I've been continuously active here. Nearly a year.

And what a year it's been! I finished up my last year of school, made a $2,500 22 minute short film that's being shown at various festivals (and will be shown at more soon!) and had both my arms replaced by robotic lobster claws.

You can check out the trailer for the film here ...

Blush Response Trailer from Ian Burns on Vimeo.

I'll be sure to explain more about the stories behind making that if anyone cares! More importantly however, I've got a new design up for voting! Be sure to check that out and tell me what you think.



Before I got swamped with work, I was working on a few collabs. To those who I was collaborating with: Thank you for being patient. And if you decided to curse my name, well, thank you too I guess ... ? Either way, let's get back to work.

Anyway, it's good to be back. So which members have had sex with each other since I've been gone?

Because this shirt stopped my heart.

A moment of silence for the greatest animals ever.

Wandarfol shurt

Honorable mention? Horrorable Mention? Horror Mention? You get it by now, right?

Use this blog to celebrate your favorite subs for the Loves Horror II contest. Did it score low? Did it score high? Like the drawing, like the artist? Refrain from pimping your own designs, and just celebrate one of the best group of Loves contest results this year!

Let's talk about some spooky shirts!

Here's some that I think are pretty interesting:









Share! Share! And be spooky about it, ya heard?

So I went to a screening last night of Park Chan Wook's (acclaimed Korean director of the Sympathy films and Oldboy) 'Thirst', and it was pretty batshit insane. It's everything you'd expect from Park Chan Wook, and it's awfully refreshing to have a horrifying, weird, and above all original take on the vampire genre.

Be sure to check it out.

Teh horrar?

Vote!



big version here!

Let me know what you think!









Also, my collab with JellyPhresh, 'Battle for the Pacific' is just finished voting:



Thanks to everyone who voted and commented!

Congrats Quister, it looks totally badass! Looks even better when it's on a shirt! Didn't think that was possible. Awesome illustration style, really refreshing to see something different amongst the printed works. There's been a noticeable strong variety of different styles among prints lately. All kinds of threadless flavors. Yum.

Web gots crabs.

Hermit Crabs that is.

Ohhh.



A nice little first-time collaboration between myself and JellyPresh. We've both got crabs because of it. Crabs. Lot's of crabs. We could always use some votin' love!

Guess the score! And if it prints, JellyPresh and I will send you a shirt in your size, a hand-written letter (bound to contain revealing surprises), a page out of my sketch book, and who knows what else?



Score Tally:
(In order of highest to lowest)

Brightwood - 3.29
rossmat8 - 3.21
Efunk2332 - 3.2
urbffjill - 3.14
applesforjonah - 3.04
jshepp - 3.01
jess4002 - 2.95
bhoomika - 2.90
Ste7en - 2.87
Algi - 2.82
just shut up - 2.75
Kim - 2.7

This is a WIP collab between myself and JellyPhresh, the initial concept being his and the illustration and further development being mine. The working title is "Battle for the Pacific". It started off as just an early sketch of a tank aiming at a giant oyster, and then I kind of just took it from there. Now it's an entirely different beast. Figured I'd get a few opinions!



While this WIP design features a seemingly large hermit crab, this video actually delivers:

Because I just got my first batch of mystery STPs. Oi!

I feel like celebrating, and to do so, I'm going to sing along to this old gem:



Because it's still fucking awesome.

Also, I've been illustrating a new design, which is a concept collab between myself and JellyPhresh. Check out the crit for that here.