September 12, 2008
In the final entry of Videogum's Fashion Week wherein we have partnered with Neighborhoodies as part of their ThinkUp program to present you with five of the best Videogum-related t-shirts ever, we offer you a design that is particularly near and dear to my heart.
Buy it here. As with all of the t-shirts this week, all of the proceeds go to the ASPCA. So if you don't buy one, you're basically killing all the animals. I think that's how the ASPCA works. They have access to all the animals and decide whether they live or die based on t-shirt purchases. So don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution. And that's fresh.
Our other shirts:
Al Joker shirt
Bill O'Reilly's Do It Live shirt
That's Your Boyfriend shirt
Queen Baby shirt
Thanks to Neighborhoodies for helping to make our dreams become a 100 percent cotton reality, and also thank you to the ASPCA for keeping your finger off the "kill all the animals" button, and thank you guys IN ADVANCE for buying one of each.
Posted by Gabe at 3:30 PM in
Tags: Charity | Neighborhoodies
latest by David
September 10, 2008
In our continuing campaign to make sure that you dress for success (where success is measured by other 20-somethings who also don't care about actual success) while protecting our planet's most precious resource, puppies, today we present you with the That's Your Boyfriend tee.
Buy it here and then stand next to someone that you think looks silly and ugly! As with all of our collaborative efforts with Neighborhoodies' ThinkUp project, all the proceeds will go to the ASPCA. And that's fresh.
Posted by Gabe at 12:56 PM in
Tags: Charity | Fashion | That's Your Boyfriend | Think Ups
latest by Kevin
September 9, 2008
(As part of the ThinkUp partnership between Diane Von Neighborhoodies and some of the internet's favorite blogs, we've come up with five Videogum-themed designs for attractive t-shirts that you can wear on your wonderland of a body, and all the money goes to charity.)
Today's fully color-customizable design is based on one of the world's most beloved viral videos of Bill O'Reilly losing his shit and acting like satan: Bill O'Reillys Do It Live. It would make a great Thanksgiving dinner outfit if you have FOX News-watching relatives like me. (The shirt is the whole outfit -- no pants allowed.) Just think, explaining your shirt by showing the video on the 'ol dial-up in the family room could be what educators call a "teachable moment"! Or, you could wear it as a pajama shirt for only the special O'Reilly-hater in your bed to see. Either way, all proceeds will go to the ASPCA, who make sure our animal friends are fed, clothed, petted, and fixed. Yay!
We'll have a different Videogummy shirt up here every day (Stereogum has 'em, too!) Here's yesterday's: Al Joker.
Posted by Lindsay at 2:45 PM in
Tags: Bill O'Reilly | Think Ups | TShirts
latest by Jenn
September 8, 2008
So, the only thing that Lindsay and I like more than watching pixelated footage of people fucking up their faces on some trampolines is LOOKING GREAT. And the only thing we like more than looking great is HELPING BABY ANIMALS. Well, through the love and generosity of fashion designer Neighborhoodies.com, now you can combine all three. As part of the ThinkUp partnership between Diane Von Neighborhoodies and some of the internet's favorite blogs, we've come up with five Videogum-themed designs for attractive t-shirts that you can wear on your wonderland of a body, and all the money goes to charity.
Today's design: Al Joker. Nice.
You can choose from hundreds of the world's finest t-shirt colors, and also the graphic's color as well, for a totally customizable item, and that's fresh. All proceeds will go to the ASPCA, which is a charity that does great things for cute little guys. Every day this week we will be introducing you to a different t-shirt design that you can buy IRL and wear OMG to be a PYT or WTVR.
Posted by Gabe at 2:00 PM in
Tags: Al Joker | Charity | Fashion | Neighborhoodies | Think Ups
latest by aaron
July 25, 2008
Last month there were reports that Nike was going to be creating a limited number of HyperDunks, the ridiculous clownsketball shoes worn by Marty McFly in Back to the Future 2: Full Throttle. Now, someone has put the hoverboard up for sale on eBay. It's got a minimum bid of 30,000 dollars, or 4 Euros (currency joke!). The starving people of Darfur are waiting with baited breath to see (eat) who wins the bidding war! From the product description (via Neatorama):
Two styles of Hoverboard were made for and employed in the film - lightweight boards of styrofoam construction and thick and durable wood-based props - this example is the latter, and is recognized as the best example of all wood Hoverboards to have survived the rigors of filming. The illusion of Michael J. Fox as "Marty McFly" hovering through the air was achieved with practical effects, with actors in rigged harnesses being "flown" via cranes, with special effects taking care of the rest.
Buy it here. The BTTFII:FT hoverboard has a special place in my heart not only because it has a special place in everyone's heart who was 11 years old when that movie came out, and not only because Robert Zemeckis LIED to the AMERICAN MEDIA in a press junket interview claiming that hoverboards were real and that they'd been kept off the market by parent groups, thus breeding so much anti-parent sentiment in all the children, but because my best friend at the time, Matt Bowen, found an ad in the back of Popular Science (we weren't nerds, we used the pages of Popular Science to roll a bunch of drug cigarettes, like so many, we were constantly stoning) claiming that for 25 dollars you could get instructions on making a real hoverboard.
Continue reading Marty McFly's Hoverboard Will Go To The Saddest Bidder...
Posted by Gabe at 12:30 PM in
Tags: Back To The Future II | Hoverboards | Michael J. Fox
latest by Alex
June 27, 2008
A lot of times, when I'm out murdering, I'll get home and go to sleep, and the next day I can hardly even remember what the guy's face looked like when he was getting killed. I wish someone would invent a gun with a camera on it so that I could videotape these cherished moments.
In an effort to address public concerns about police accountability, the sheriff's department SWAT team in Orange County, New York, recently started packing the PistolCam, a cigarette-pack-sized combination videocam, flashlight, and laser targeter that attaches to the gun barrel's underside.
(Wired via BoingBoing)
The only thing I want to know is HOW MANY MEGAPIXELS? Right? Camera jokes involving guns that kill people!
Posted by Gabe at 2:12 PM in
Tags: Pistol Cam
May 6, 2008
A lot of buzz on Brawndo right now, the fake energy drink from the underrated dystopian nightmare Idiocracy that is now being sold in actual stores. But this article about the weird success of Brawndo from Sunday's New York Times Magazine hints at something far grander in scale:
This happened not because of a movie-studio marketing brainstorm. (Twentieth Century Fox released the film briefly and without much enthusiasm in 2006 before tossing it to the DVD market, where it has gained a cult following.) It happened because of an "Idiocracy" fan in Oakland named Pete Hottelet. A graphic designer with very particular pop-culture tastes, Hottelet has started a business devoted to bringing to life certain products from movies. His business is called Omni Consumer Products, a name borrowed from the fictional megacorporation in "Robocop." In addition to Brawndo, Omni has acquired from Paramount the license to market Sex Panther, a made-up cologne from the Will Ferrell vehicle "Anchorman" ("150% More Awesome Than Any Other Cologne. Ever.").
Lindsay and I had an idea at one point for a blog feature called "Dream Merch", which would basically be stuff from movies and TV that we thought people should actually put into production. Of course, ours would have just been horrible Photoshops and poorly written descriptions, whereas this guy takes it to the max and calls China and is like "give me a quote" and China's like "3 cents" and he's like "Sold. Let's move some units."
You're doing great, Mr. Hottelet, now please put your money where my mind is:
Continue reading Brawndo Has The Electrolytes Your Nerd Collector Craves...
Posted by Gabe at 12:21 PM in
Tags: Anchorman | Back To The Future II | Brawndo | Hoverboards | Pete Hottelet | Sex Panther
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