TELL THREADLESS YOUR STORY

Threadless, Fray.com, Blurb.com and Stephen Tobolowsky Challenge Designers to Incorporate True Stories Into Works of Art

Community-centric tee shirt company Threadless.com is asking designers to turn the true stories of their lives into works of art in its latest “Loves” campaign. To help lead the way, Threadless has partnered up with original, personal storytelling site Fray.com, self-publishing site Blurb.com, and the film Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party, written by and starring famous character actor Tobolowsky (Groundhog Day, Deadwood, Heroes) as he tells fascinating stories from his life on-screen and off.

Threadless, Fray, Blurb.com and Stephen Tobolowsky are giving submitters the chance to prove that extraordinary things happen to ordinary people, and run wild with this challenge; tell their stories through design. The chosen design could become the cover of Fray’s third volume of tales titled “Sex and Death,” so the design must incorporate these two topics into its art.

“Threadless Loves” challenges give designers an opportunity to flex their skills and design to a particular challenge. Challenges are sponsored and supported by companies relevant to the idea. Previous “Loves” partners include Hot Chip, Moby, MTV’s Human Giant, and the Lomographic Society International.

The designer of the chosen true story will also receive goodies from each partner including a personal subscription to Fray quarterly and two additional subscriptions for friends, $150 to go towards a personal Blurb book, an outgoing voicemail message recorded by Stephen Tobolowsky himself, and an autographed copy of Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party DVD and poster. In addition, the designer chosen gets $2k in cash, and of course, his or her design on an awesome Threadless tee.

Deadline for entries is July 23, 2008. For more info on the design challenge and all its partners, hit the links below:

http://threadless.com

http://www.threadless.com/loves/truestories

About Threadless

Threadless is an online design community with an ongoing, open call for tee shirt design submissions.  Anyone can sign up, download a tee template and submit ideas, which are then evaluated by the Threadless community for seven days.   Tee shirt designs are selected by Threadless from the pool of the most popular designs as scored by the community.  If a design is selected for print by Threadless, the designer currently receives a payment $2000 in cash and a $500 Threadless gift certificate.

kate , originally uploaded by nihan peker .

Straight up Jankey
dress–buffalo exchange
belt–goodwill
bow–antique boutique
shoes–steve madden
www.straightupjankey.blogspot.com

boboniaa
* chiffon lime with cobalt bow from Jatujak Weekend Market
* vintage remake belt ‘The Old Story’
* oversize shorts from Jatujak weekend market
* cobalt high pumps from Siam Square

Since the website is basically about photography, and street fashion being the subject, I thought I might bring to your attention this contest! Its for lomo loving photographers, like myself, or anyone who understands the “10 Golden Rules of Lomography”.

Analog Photography Organization Encourages Designers to Create Happy Accidents:
Community-centric tee shirt company, Threadless.com, has partnered up with The Lomographic Society International, a globally active organization dedicated to experimental and creative analog photography, for its latest “Loves” campaign.

Lomography and Threadless are challenging designers to create a tee inspired by one of the “10 Golden Rules of Lomography” including:

Lomography Rule #1: Take Your Camera Everywhere you Go
Lomography Rule #2: Use it Anytime, Day and Night
Lomography Rule #4: Try the Shot from the Hip
Lomography Rule #6: Don’t think
Lomography Rule #7: Be Fast
Lomography Rule #10: Don’t Worry About Any Rules

“Threadless Loves” challenges give designers an opportunity to flex their skills and design to a particular challenge. Challenges are sponsored and supported by companies relevant to the idea. Lomography, boasting half a million members across the world, encompasses an interactive, vivid, blurred and crazy way of life.

Up for grabs are the ultimate tools needed for photographers to commmunicate, absorb, and capture the world including the iconic Lomo LC-A+ camera with LC-A+ wide-angle lens, the DianaF+ with fisheye lens, the world’s first compact fisheye camera (Fisheye 2), 10 rolls of LomoX-Pro film, and a lot more. In addition, the designer chosen gets $2k in cash.

Deadline for entries is July 5, 2008. For more info and the 10 Golden Rules of Lomography hit the links below:

http://threadless.com
http://threadless.com/loves/lomography

Rock Group “HATE!”, originally uploaded by AlexLION.

Russia + Bands = hot effing clothes!

I spent a while shopping on Hawthorne today at a couple resale clothing shops, finding several great things of course, when I came across these girls and their damn great combos. I ,as usual, didn’t ask where everything came from but it can be assumed that most if not all is resale and “vintage” (unless I see them again and ask). Of all the people on Hawthorne it was hard to find anyone worth taking a photo of, some peoples outfits seem so preconcived based on what they think everyone else is wearing and what will get them the most attention from people who also dress the same. It’s rare to see anyone with a really random creative outfit… id say “these days” but I cant say that because its more like “ever”. Portland’s got a serious hipnes infection and needs to be reminded that fashion can be fun and not just something people fight to keep up to date on (although half the styles I see around haven’t changed since I moved away 2 years ago, ahem tight pants clever shirts, bicicle messenger hats and adidas/converse/pony/etc). Comon Portland, fuck it up a little bit, you’re getting behind the rest of the world in the simple fashion movement of “doing whatever you fucking want and doing it well”. Being independent in you’re clothing somehow got turned into dressing like everyone else again, something that happens to every eras great styles, they take off, then they’re main stream, and who the hell wants to be that?

“By Kos-Mos.

Frilly shirt found at a random festival, Body line jacket, Riachuelo shorts and hairbow, hand made necklace, Montreal rocing horse shoes, Body line and Lupo socks and tights, Body line bag, pin given to me by Meh, random belt with a heart buckle that was given to me by Lily, VW replica/le cafe/hand made rings. Featuring Gloomy”

Plaid

I never really thought I would say it but, plaid is finally cool, at least for a little while. I never got into the grunge era, looking like a slob was never appealing although holey jeans never got old, as long as they were tight enough. I finally caved after seeing plaid make its come back over the last few months and bought a pair of plaid leggings from a girl in germany ( www.thecoveted.net ). They’re high waisted so they’ll work as pants or under skirts and no matter how i wear them, their tackyness will shine in any situation really. I’m pretty damn happy with them, now I need to find a jacket maybe, although that might be going to far into the plaid realms, one item per person, and especially per outfit, should suffice.