512 to the Shirt!!!

So, I finally did it!!! Years ago I came up with this 512 logo, along with a few other variants. I've seen it put onto beanies and hoodies, as well as having put it on many of my cups at work, but up until now I've never had any of my own gear. That was one of the things I had asked for for Christmas was some fabric paint and a dark green shirt. My wife got some paint (not fabric paint, though) and a nice green polo shirt. I'd picked up some foam from my work (the same kind I made the Minecraft Diamond Sword out of, I should give some detail on how I made that, it seems to be a popular search) and I cut it into a stamp of the logo. Of course, I also exchanged the paint, as well as located a T-shirt. I actually had enough foam left to make a small one, that I was going to use on one side of the polo shirt, and possibly on the upper back of the T-shirt.

That was what I tried to do first, but unfortunately the shirt was rather coarse and absorbent, so it came out very thin. In attempting to add onto it and thicken up the design, I smeared through one of the numbers and proceeded to rinse it off as well as I could. It may still come together. A few days later I put together the T-shirt version seen here. It also soaked up quite a bit of the ink, but I've left it pretty much like that. Perhaps a more porous foam would do a better job??? To keep the paint from soaking through to the back, I had used a piece of cardboard box inside it. I hadn't counted on the flap seam coming across the print, just a bit above the equator, and leaving a distinct stripe. The actual inspiration for this whole idea (I'd had the idea to attempt to do actual silk screen for years) came from one of my co-workers. One of her shirts has a series of multi colored dinosaurs down the front. Having seen it several times, I finally asked her when we were working together if there was any significance to her shirt. She replied that she had the fabric paint and the shirt, and that the dinosaurs just happened to be the stamps she had. Inspiration struck.

The cool part was wearing it to work. I got a lot of responses to it, and everyone knew what it was!!! The semi-weathered appearance of the paint soak was universally regarded as a good look.

When I got my camera out to pose for the picture, I also dug out my Mind Expandy Smurf shirt to get a shot of it for this post. Right on top of it was the tree shirt that I'd gotten as one of the last three random shirts from Woot (along with the robot-skyscraper from Big and the 8-bit Princess Bride shirt for my younger) and thought that it would be good to get a shot of here, too. I don't know what it is about that shirt, but everybody LOVES it!!!

I took a few of the stars and orbs from around the Smurf and added them around my own head for effect.

I notice in the three shots of me, my head goes progressively higher and to the right...

Of course, for the last shot, here's what a cat looks like in a dress shirt and bow tie. I was amazed that he stood still for this!!!