T-Flea: Would You Wear This?
by Pasadena Adjacent
I’ve done Icons and OGs and now a T-flea. Next assignment: restaurant identity. The project is due tonight. I have nothing. On the plus side, I did put a nifty post together on the subject of restaurants. It awaits it’s debut in my cyber space draft cabinet.
For the love of God, it’s an egg people …. an egg!
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I’ve always harbored a dream of having a bar-restaurant named THE PUKING DOG. Endless possibilities for logo, as for the Flea-Tee…I think it would freak my dog out.
I dunno. I’d avoid anyone wearing it. So would I want to wear it?
Would YOU wear it?
Not in a million years, but it does remind of a certain ex-husband.
A cock roach T – yes
A flea T – no (especially a defecating flea)
Good luck on the restaurant identity assignment.
Nice rendering but…disgusting. And not in the good way.
Is that really flea poop?
On certain days, this T-shirt would do the trick. the puking dog sounds like an English pub. How about the pickled pig snout?
I would wear it to Burning Man. My guess is that I would be complimented on it.
I wouldn’t, but I’m sure some people would. You could try selling it on Zazzle.
Thanks for the terd verses egg clarification. Now I can sleep at night. Looks like a woodcut. I’d wear it.
I’d wear it just to be contrary. But, I’m kinda weird that way.
What a beautiful rendering of an icky subject!
PA, it wasn’t me! I didn’t say it!
I’d especially wear it if it was screened all over the shirt in different sizes. Or maybe the one big image wrapped around one side.
You might enjoy this excerpt from The Chronicle of Higher Education, linked through Arts & Letters Daily:
“… Plague, the notorious Black Death, is caused by bacteria carried by fleas, which, in turn, live mostly on rats. Rat fleas sup cheerfully on rat blood, but will happily nibble people, too, and when they are infected with the plague bacillus, they spread the illness from rat to human. The important point for our purposes is that once they are infected with plague, disease-ridden fleas are especially enthusiastic diners because the plague bacillus multiplies within flea stomachs, diabolically rendering the tiny insects incapable of satisfying their growing hunger. Not only are these fleas especially voracious in their frustration; because bacteria are cramming its own belly, an infected flea vomits blood back into the wound it has just made, introducing plague bacilli into yet another victim. A desperately hungry, frustrated, plague-promoting flea, if asked, might well claim that “the devil made me do it,” but in fact, it was the handiwork of Pasteurella pestis. (“So, naturalists observe, a flea/ Has smaller fleas that on him prey,/ And these have smaller still to bite ‘em,/ And so proceed ad infinitum,” observed Jonathan Swift.) …”
Elaine must be a friend of Queen Victoria. I’d wear the T-shirt if the flea were smaller. This, now that I know big fleas equal black death.
A flea, why? This flea was part of a silkscreen series of I started based on the idea of “the unloved, undesired, and prolific” It was to be four (two colored) images. I completed half the series resulting in is a flea (with egg) and a pigeon (with egg). I got sidetracked and the other two (with sapling and fetus) didn’t happen. May still happen. I’ve kept my screen set-up.
When I tally up the vote
1111 Nays
11111 yays
1111 didn’t says
Petrea and Sheila: I’m counting you both as “didn’t says” which has resulted in the yays winning the poll….Things can only get worse from here.
other results:
two names for future restaurants
two design suggestions
a marketing suggestion
my friend Andrea calling and leaving me a message asking if I was really going to do this
Stef: absolutely, proudly, loudly (but perhaps using a smaller flea)
A Erdman: what if it was the last t-shirt left in the universe and you were cold, on a desert island, with your ex?
D and AH: my pub would be called “The Potato Eaters”
Susan: turd/egg some controversies don’t seem to want to die
Dan Jaun: Dan Jaun? welcome
Vanda: Zazzle? I think a google search is coming on
Elaine: If somehow I could work that happy little ditty into the print
John E. and Laurie: thank-you. She is a handsome flea
JC: You must always remember in the presence of the Queen to insert your buffalo and bison into the right continents. Failure to do so will result in your beheading.
No I’d not wear the shirt. Do you remember the T-shirts that Marla and I designed or rather I designed with Marla? Anyway I have a restaurant motto. Home and Taste of Home magazine. Take Older homes abandodned in areas where they are and remodle and fix one up to be like the Jefferson Davis Inn, only nicer or like the Caspar Inn in Mendo county. The livingroom/family room “look” as in the coffee shop on Friends. With a bar counter, place for a band, speaker or string quartet. This here and that there of the area artist. Rooms upstairs for workers. I wanted to do that with Jack Park Dailey’s house and I’ve found another one I like here near Carrier Mills. I thought about doing one with a business spot downtown in Crescent City. It was to be called the Family Room with 24 day care in the spot next door. Hot chili and better beers. Roz’s roost cartoon…. that’s me. Hope this helps inspire you but your project is probably due already. love ya, Rozi
Maybe with a designer label – then, maybe not.