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Heavy Mind
Level 1: 10 points
Alltime Score: 90 points
Last Logged In: August 11th, 2008
TEAM: Bad Machine TEAM: The Guild




25 + 45 points

Wear Your Art As Your Sleeve by Heavy Mind, Super Mean, Super Fly

July 30th, 2008 12:34 AM / Location: 38.503713,-90.33885

INSTRUCTIONS: The University of Aesthematics has no bookstore with which to gouge you, and no signiture apparel with which to cover. But should you choose to make your membership known, we urge you to make/modify a shirt or other torso-covering garment that proclaims your allegiance. Don't forget to post the "plans" for your garment, as well as a depiction of the completed item.

Mal: I am being used. And that's okay. My good friend Heavy Mind searched and scanned the tasks for his grand debut, and insisted that the only one which gave him cause for action was this, a level two. But, Ted and I had an itch to make our own little clothing line for the U of A, so it all works out. Expect two more products and tales, but what follows is the first-hand account of slick Rick's first task.

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Heavy Mind: Mal (super mean) had told me he would sponsor me on the level 2 task if it would get me playing, but on the condition that the shirt we made would be gifted to the other. I took a couple of days to come up with a good "U of A" slogan, and even tried calling the rest of the team, but Ted (super fly) didn't answer, and Mal, on the subject of the task, would only quote unhelpful Rollins stand-up. Hence, his reward: 'Life is paint. I want to be insane'.



Execution day, we entered the thrift store, humbly, on our mission. Well, missions. Besides finding a shirt, we had also resolved not to buy several unnecessary suits, especially purple ones. We were successful on both counts. We hunted and found our weapon of choice - a simple button down shirt from the 3 dollar rack, priced at six dollars because, we were told, of the brand on the label. We grabbed some interior spray paint from a nearby hardware store, went back to the Bad Factory and began to plot our stencils.

After two grueling, cardboard-cutting hours, we set out to paint in the circulating air. The sky clear, and the weather warm, we placed the stencil atop the shirt and sprayed the blackness upon it. For my project, that was that. It was insisted that I wait for the final touch, an intricate stencil of the Aesthmetics' seal, which, knowing Mal, will be finished just before this round [era] ends. [you bastard]

Anyway, I'm pretty proud of my finished design, and seeing the plans for my renumeration, am eagerly anticipating its delivery. I kind of want to put mine out there now, get some feedback. [it's points you want, you scrubber] {okay, you know what, watch your mouth}

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Mal: So we have one completion, and two more to come. I personally tweaked an awesome Flannery O'Connor reference, but to each his own. {you're the scrubber if anyone is, mate. I don't see your shirt done yet} Ted's going to take a day off work and lay his out, maybe he'll help me with my second coat later this week.


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T-shirt, Mark I

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The Product.

The Product.


Materials

Materials


The Stencil

The Stencil


finished stencil

finished stencil


Can I finish?

Can I finish?

Mal wouldn't let me finish until he'd taken like a hundred pictures. [at least they look cool. you scrubber.]


Year of Glad.

Year of Glad.

Even outside this gave me a headache.


YDAGU

YDAGU

Just throw another one out there.


more spray.

more spray.


The finished project.

The finished project.


Hanging up to dry.

Hanging up to dry.

Yes, I still need to put on the University seal, but I am assured it will take just another day.


Dylan, huh?

Dylan, huh?

[This is what Rick's shirt will say, after I get that second coat on. And yes, I am working on the seal.]


The greater seal.

The greater seal.

and the rest of the equipment.


It took me two hours to carve.

It took me two hours to carve.

That's like two and a half episodes of LOST to the rest of you non-ticians. I was using old cardboard, filled to the brim with spider eggs, and my hands were shaking from the three pepsis I downed to counteract the eight milligrams of xanax I had swallowed twenty minutes (one (1) episode of three's company) beforehand. It was a daunting feat, but goddamit one of us had to do it.


For a minute there

For a minute there

It actually looked pretty cool.


little did I know

little did I know

It was about to get awesome.


Lights, Please.

Lights, Please.

And there hung, in the factory, a beautiful green, black and white shirt.


New Back City

New Back City

A shirt's just art, 'till you put it on a back.


Modeling in the Factory.

Modeling in the Factory.

This airy little number says to the world: how can I possibly harm you? You're a blanket.


You don't owe me points, SF0...

You don't owe me points, SF0...

you owe me awe.


Spray.

Spray.


details.

details.

(The last details. For this product, anyway.)



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posted by Zoo Babies Pet Animals on August 2nd, 2008 11:37 AM

its like a jenny holzer shirt, i like this.

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posted by Jellybean of Thark on August 2nd, 2008 4:56 PM

I want a Jenny Holzer shirt.

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posted by Myrna Minx on August 2nd, 2008 2:19 PM

i want one.