T-shirts=failure?

[fbhjr]

Yesterday on the 12th anniversary of Phoenix Swords one of our friends posted on our facebook (If you haven’t joined the Phoenix Swords facebook, you should…) page that after a dozen years he still doesn’t have a T-shirt from Phoenix, but still has one from the old group that preceded it.
My wife pointed out that having troupe T-shirts makes the troupe fail.

12 years ago with the old troupe, we ordered T-Shirts for all of the members and they were great. So, we ordered some more to sell. The troupe member who was making them made them the wrong color, and printed 5 times more than we asked for, but still expected us to pay for it.
That isn’t why the troupe collapsed a month later, but it is indicative of the sort of thing that went on there.

One of the first faires we performed at gave us T-Shirts when we did the show. It’s been 11 years since they last did a show.
One of the best paying shows we ever did gave us T-Shirts. Then, they stopped having the faire as well.
There was a sword group in the mid-west that we collaborated together with on a few shows. My wife and I got T-Shirts from that group and after more than a decade together, the group broke up.
My wife has the T-shirt of another group here in New England that was rumored to be getting back together for a show this year. But, turns out to just be a rumor.

My wife used to be an artist for a local comic. (Not the one she and I did together, but a different one.)
The T-Shirt I bought for that no longer fits me, but no issues of that comic have come out in more than 25 years…

I’m trying to think of any T-Shirt I have for a group, company or similar thing that is still going. I’m not able to come up with very many.
I’ve got a NASA one from when we visited the Kennedy launch center. You know, just before they stopped doing manned flights.
OK, maybe not a good example.

To be faire, Phoenix Swords did have some T-Shirts. One of our early members hand painted some for our members. I tried to do iron on ones for everyone back in the early days. That was a total fiasco.
So maybe ones that involve a lot of effort, and may not come out well, don’t ruin the organization involved.
But, I don’t think I’m going to have any printed any time soon…

Comments

[daturabelle.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you had an Australian government t-shirt directed at our current prime minister and his party, that they would disband as well? Because that would be awesome...
Use the t-shirt jinx power for good!

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

That would be an interesting experiment...
If you want to send me a shirt, I promise to test the theory with it.

[daturabelle.livejournal.com]

Seriously am considering it.... Very seriously!

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

My wife has the T-shirt of another group here in New England that was rumored to be getting back together for a show this year.

Curious as to which group?

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

The friends of yours where you said new children interfered with them doing another show.

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

I thought so.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

And, just a day or two before you said that I found my wife's shirt from their group from a few years ago...

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

that is an odd curse. maybe I should send you a Mitch Mcconnell T-shirt? It certainly would be nice to get him out of office finally. I wonder if his campaign headquarters have any free ones. hmmmm.

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

heh that's so weird. You better not get a T-shirt than. :o)

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

Yeaaaaahhh I think you're onto something.

Maybe subconsciously that's why I haven't made any t-shirts for myself with my own artwork yet.
Which had been a project I'd fiddled with for several years. So maybe there's a connected factor in
not actually getting around to a t-shirt.

Now that you got me thinking about it, I drew on a t-shirt with fabric markers a wolf-themed shirt for a
college friend of mine that I though was a good friend and I'd be in touch with for many years.
That was a little over a decade ago. And haven't heard from that person since either.

I did a logo design for a birding club of a guy I knew from an online forum, also about a decade ago.
He said he'd pay me for the design which would go on t-shirts and hats.
Never got a payment. Although, I never found out if he used the design.

5 out of the 6 t-shirts I wear of Museums are still open, so, maybe museums are not necessarily a bad omen.
(in fact I decided to wear one now, although a museum I have only been to maybe 4 times and the last time was 6 years ago or so)

I hope my artwork is not as ominous as t-shirts. So far it seems to be OK. I've had a handful of people buy a number of my
works in subsequent shows/years. It had also been 'suggested' to me that I print t-shirts to sell using my own artwork.
That was part of that aforementioned project I never seriously got around to…Again, maybe subconsciously I'm aware of something…..

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

Doesn't sound like the t-shirts are a good omen at all. Don't do it.

[morgan-lafaye.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is commercially made tees? As you said, the ones that were made by a former member, that were made with care, and out of friendship. No break-up of the troupe. The less than successful iron-on tees did no damage to us. Perhaps the tees need to be hand made by someone who actually cares about the troupe, not cares about a paycheck. The troupe was born out of a desire to preform, and do present historical combat for the masses. Not s a money making venture, so perhaps the tees need to reflect that. Just a thought.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

Can you do t-shirts for the Republicans? Please?