Talk Sick

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AWOL

Hey, sorry for the long timey no bloggy. I'm a total lazy ass, and I keep forgetting to take my digicam out to the garage. But I've been plenty busy printing lots of delicious t-shirts. I will have more photos very soon, but here are a few things I've worked on in the last month or so.


Bare Bones Bikes are a Dartmouth-based motorcycle shop. I thought this was a sweet graphic.



Over the Top is a band from Newfoundland that I have not heard. But they ordered a ton of gear so they must be doing quite well. Dammit, I have still never been to Newfoundland. Well, that's going to change this year, by gum. Wish I had some better photos of these ones- they turned out great.


I'm particularly proud of this print- really happy with the way it turned out. The Vipers are a junior hockey club from Cole Harbour- yes, the same place where Sidney Crosby hails from. I would put this print in my top 3 favorite custom prints of all time- no mean feat.


Talk Sick is a band from Montreal that was originally from Halifax. I don't listen to a lot of contemporary punk (squarely rooted in the old school I'm afraid) but I checked these guys out on their MySpace page and thought they were pretty cool.

So yeah- I can't promise that I'll be Mr. Super Blogger in 2010, but I will try harder. I'm printing some really cool stuff lately so I'll try to get some snaps on the ASAP. Have a good one kids!

This here garage

I just realized that this blog is called "My name is Jason and I print t-shirts in my garage" and, so far anyway, there's been a lot about me, a lot about the t-shirts I print, but not much about the garage. I've been insulating it sporadically for about 6 weeks now (basically when I can afford to buy more insulation), and more or less printing around the renos. So here are a few pictures of the chaos- hopefully these will contast dramatically with how amazingly well organized the spot looks 6 months from now.

Montana Band

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Here is one of the JD inspired shirts I did for Montana Band last week. Here's what they had to say about them:

" Just a quick email to commend you on your excellent work. The shirts look great, the workmanship is great. People are always so quick to complain when they are not satisfied but they seldom take time to commend when they are satisfied. You have our business and we will be sending everyone we can your way."

Well that just warmed my cockles, dinnit?

Heading downtown to hit up some kitchens with some resumes. I hate this uncertainty. My rent is still not quite paid yet and I'm really hoping to hustle something up by tomorrow, because otherwise I might have to hit up Moms for a loan, and I freakin' HATE doing that. I did the food bank thing last week and that's about as low as I want to go for the next little while. Props to the food bank, they do good work, but it's a pretty depressing place, and the hopelessness is slightly contagious. Send some positive vibes my way and wish me luck in my hunting today. I could use a dose of it.

Strangely Adventurous

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This is by far my favorite all-time custom print. I did these sweaters for Cal & co. @ Strange Adventures Comic Shop, only the most amazing comic store east of Montreal, last summer, and was pretty happy with the results. I think Cal probably still has some of these left, swing by 5262 Sackville Street the next time you're in downtown Halifax and check it out!

So I've been looking for a job. Yeah, you know. It sucks. "The only thing worse than having a job...". But damn it, I need to make some money, and like it or not, the shirt biz slows down a lot in this town from pretty much now until April or May. Last year I was on pogey ("employment insurance", whatever that means), so that was enough to get through. But this year I've got nothing- yet. And it's gotten kind of bad lately. Mr. Noodle ain't lookin' quite so disagreeable these days, nah mean? But I think I'll be alright. That is, if I can gets a jorb. Any offers? I was a bicycle courier for many moons, though at 39 I don't know if that's a career choice any longer. Worked a lot of kitchens, warehouses, one car wash, drove cab for a while, delivered bread at 4am, delivered a baby (ha jk but I had you there for a second but i did deliver a breast implant once in vancouver), um, then there was that screen printing thing.....

Cuban Assassins!

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Did another batch of shirts for the Cuban Assassins last week. These guys have been around forever and are still kickin' ass and taking names.

James P. Brown the Maker Man

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This was one of the very first multi-color screen prints I ever attempted, probably around 2002. James P. Brown makes these elaborate belt buckles and stuff out in Sackville, Nova Scotia. Or at least he did then. It just occured to me for the first time that this dude's name is actually James Brown. His name is freakin' James Brown. How cool is that?