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    <body>sneak peak...
werewolves are in this year

&lt;img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/ckythew/Picture1-1.png" /&gt;
</body>
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    <title>SEPTEMBER - Sketches and Illys</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-21T04:22:54-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>who watches this very awesome show?
did you see the new episode tonight? 
it was probably their best episode yet...and it was a Part 1 of 2!

oh by the way, the episode posted on adultswim.com has an extra 2 minutes added to it!

http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a2505951bb6e4ab011bc6c31f0100d5
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    <title>Venture Brothers...</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-17T05:51:37-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>White boy NES rap!
Hilarious
i love it!


http://www.hypercrush.com/
</body>
    <commented-at type="datetime">2009-05-11T18:31:11-04:00</commented-at>
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    <title>Hyper Crush</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-21T07:53:35-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>Was cleaning out my basement..found these guys...

&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ithew/2801382871/" title="Pogs by ithew, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/2801382871_b6e3409216_b.jpg"  alt="Pogs" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

what ever happened to these things...why aren't they getting made anymore?

anyways..I have some inspirational design fodder hidden in here...these things kick ass...


</body>
    <commented-at type="datetime">2008-10-13T11:34:30-04:00</commented-at>
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    <title>Pogs!!!!</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-21T03:19:10-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>the little Wayne CD has been played quite a bit for me...

But for Some Reason I can't stop listening to this Santogold Album...it's too weird...and that's why I love it...

and M.I.A. - Kala for the same reason and beacause I'm seeing Pinapple Express this coming wednesday....

anyways...what you guys got?</body>
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    <title>What Are You Currently Listening To?</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-21T06:32:41-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>ok so this past week I've been pretty bummed out, after constantly getting called upon for ripping people off.

I don't know if I have said or done anything to piss any people off, and if I did I am sorry about it.  With the designs in question I want everyone to know that I didn't go into the creation of the design with the intention to rip people off.  I don't think I have ripped anyone off.

With the kool-aid design, I was working on it and i thought it would be a clever twist on the original kool-aid design.  I even showed Kyle the design while I was working on it, he told me it looked like his and i agreed with him but i thought i was doing something different with the design.  He even stated that he would of liked to buy the design for EZ if he hadn't done that shirt for NFG.

With the dinosaur design, i was flipping through my calvin and hobbes books because i loved the way bill watterson drew his dinosaurs and referenced a dino from that book, and then people said it looked like deals.  It did look like his but I didn't think it looked exactly like his, but I talked with him about it and in respect for him i took the design down and changed it to what i thought was getting away from his design, but i guess that wasn't good enough.

And now with the Tiger design people think i ripped laurie off?  Munster came to me asking for a teal tiger, so I flipped through my animal reference books and drew a blue tiger.  I talked with Laurie and she didn't feel like I was ripping her off (because I wasn't)

the way I see it, the kool-aid thing has been done a million times in the same manner and i thought I was doing something different.  With the tigers, there are a million tigers out there...and as Laurie said "a tiger is a tiger".

I can understand the dinosaur one though, which is why i tried my best to change the design and still keep the feel of what i was trying to accomplish.

i'm sure there are more things I need to address about this, but to the emptees communitiy I'm sorry if I have pissed anyone off.  I have not tried to rip anyone off at all.</body>
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    <title>Honest Opinions...</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-21T06:38:48-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>dammit!!!

&lt;img src="http://iwrestledabearonce.com/myspace/teddybearad.jpg" /&gt;
</body>
    <commented-at type="datetime">2008-09-16T18:00:48-04:00</commented-at>
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    <title>Godmachine's IWABO Shirt Only At Select Hot Topics...</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-20T05:56:35-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>&lt;img src="http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1167/ninjacobra3fi8.jpg" /&gt;

go buy it now

&lt;a href="http://www.myairblaster.com/servlet/ProductView?command=cp&amp;supplierID=481&amp;commodityID=36330&amp;searchIndex=0"&gt;AIRBLASTER&lt;/a&gt;
</body>
    <commented-at type="datetime">2008-09-13T22:04:49-04:00</commented-at>
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    <title>The Best Long Underwear You Will Ever Get!</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-20T23:11:32-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>http://www.sleepawaycampmovies.com/

November 4th...DVD 

I hope it actually get's released 
I've been waiting like 5 years for this 

check out the trailer 

it looks terrible, I can't wait!

(and if you haven't seen Sleepaway Camp 1-3, go watch them !!)
</body>
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    <title>Return to Sleepaway Camp</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-21T00:18:15-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>I always feel like I'm going to miss out on something
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    <title>I hate going to sleep...</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-21T02:58:49-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>well maybe not never...

but I went to the mall today and browsed through the shirts at different places, and it was all kind of boring to me.  There wasn't anything like the stuff I see for sale from the people here and other places online...

and on top of that, I see kids wearing the same shirts all the time...not cool

there are so many cooler shirts found online, I'm just realizing that...</body>
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    <title>I will never buy a shirt from the mall again...</title>
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    <body>I'm looking to lower the file size of some jpg's but I want to know the best way.

Saving for web in photoshop works, but then the color quality of the image gets dulled, anyone have a better way of doing this?</body>
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    <title>.jpg File Size...</title>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-21T08:44:00-05:00</updated-at>
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    <body>so I have been wondering about this for a LONG time...

I see shirts that use images, that were found on the internet, screen caputred from a movie, ect.

What is the copyright on all of this stuff, how can you take an image...for example this

http://www.solarnavigator.net/mythology/mythology_images/Frankenstein_monster_Boris_Karloff.jpg

and just use it, i don't understand how this works.

(if this has already been discussed I'm sorry and please point me in the right direction)</body>
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    <title>Using Images....</title>
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    <body>Just a few months ago, I was graduated from college, didn't know what the hell I wanted to do.  Tried to get in with some design agencies, but I didn't want to do that.  I don't want to wake up and do the 9 to 5 thing, that sounds absolutely horrible...

so a few months ago I started e-mailing t-shirt and apparel companies and would get the standard response of "We Like Your Art but right now we aren't looking for any new illustrators/designers"

So I signed up here, posted my crap, kept drawing and drawing to the point of no sleep.  Now all of a sudden those same companies that turned me down only a few months ago are approaching me.

The turnaround was pretty fast, I don't know if it was just Emptees that helped me out (maybe behance, coroflot, carbonmade, flickr and my website had something to do with it too).  But it made me realize how important an online presence is.

I never even heard of this place until Wotto told me in one of my blog posts over at threadless that I should come here

(btw this post is in now way talking myself up, I just wanted to share)</body>
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    <title>It's Funny How Things Work Out...</title>
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    <body>so i've been working about 10 hours straight (maybe a brief break for breakfast and lunch)

and now i'm done...and my hands don't want to work anymore

i hate this</body>
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    <title>Carpal Tunnel</title>
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    <body>hey guys, I know this has been talked about a bunch of times but I can't find anything anywhere.  Everything is for photoshop, but I need to do it from illustrator.  The easiest thing for me would to just make each layer one color, but I have so many things layered on top of each other that it would be pretty much impossible to do it that way.

is there a way to save it from illustrator so it automaticcaly sperates each color and puts it on one single layer?

thanks</body>
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    <body>Now that we got a what are you currently listening to thread...what about the things you are REALLY listening to and just don't want to admit

Ace Of Base will always be at the top of that list
Followed by Paramore and the beautiful Hayley Williams
Justin Timberlake of course...

...not sure how far I want to go with this one....</body>
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    <title>Guilty Pleasures? (Music)</title>
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    <body>so I have a crap ton of black tees in my closet, I don't buy white usually because the ink fades even after one wash....what can I do to avoid this?

I've tried washing inside out but it doesn't work as well as I'd like it to

and on another note...how do I keep hoody zippers from bunching up after washing?</body>
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    <title>Keeping Ink on White Shirts Vibrant...</title>
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    <body>so I am going to be redesigning my myspace...I need a bit of help...

one thing that I am having the most trouble with is how to get a large banner at the top of the page... 

like this

http://www.myspace.com/scapulaart
http://www.myspace.com/crishowedesigns

anyone know?</body>
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    <body>I think i've searched about this without finding any helpful results...

I just got an offer to do a poster design for a tour....I've never done this sort of thing before...

I have no idea what to charge or what the standard rate for it is...

suggestions?</body>
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