The E*C*H*O*E*S
PINK FLOYD
T-SHIRT THREAD
Ok, I took it and sorted all our T-shirt talks into some document which contains the whole load of our ideas.... Unfortunately I seem to miss a few first posts, but as I recall there was nothing in them that wouldn't be otherwise repeated... If I missed something, just add your 2 pennies here...
So the questions under consideration are
Apart from that, the following T-shirt related stuff is available now:
And so far there were only "yes" answers. I think it is decided
James Haword sez: " Oh, and I'm willing to pay 15 quid + p&p for the finished product"
Gerhard (again) wants to pay $25
I would not mind if we go $5 down, and make it $20 or less
It is generally agreed among all who posted about it, that T-shirt should include some echoes-related email address, a PF-related picture and a quote. There is still a discussion whether "Pink Floyd" should be written on it.
Gerhard - black
Me - black is ok as a default, but the color should be chosen when we decide on the design.
Jon Rosenberg - btw, green is the colour of the T-shirt.
A recently new question, raised after the "memorandum" was posted to echoes.
hiett@alpha.caer.uky.edu wrote:
One item that should be added to a real ballot is:
100% cotton or %50/%50
many folks like me can't wear synthetic fabric which means %50/%50 just plain doesn't get purchased. the alternate is that cotton shrinks bad and a small person like me still needs an XXL after a few washings.
I responded:
Well, looks like you've answered your own question.... 100% cotton in more suitable... and it doesn't actually shrinks THAT bad... XL is some kind of "one size fits all" standard....
A few quotes that became folklore on Echoes. Also, for the third one, I just couldn't find the author (mail me please, whoever you are)...
As for the front, "Pink Floyd, first in Cyberspace" gets my vote.
Front side of shirt:
I am you and what I see is...
"and what exactly is a dream
and what exactly is a joke"
On the front: "Which one's Pink?"
On the back: "And who will deny it's what the fighting's all about?"
ECHOES
You've got to be crazy,
Gotta have a real need
and on the back
"...but there is echoes@fawnya.tcs.com"
"There must have been a phone line in the wall where we came in"
A few ideas we have so far:
First it's got to have a bear on it (the one from High Hopes) to feature our fearless leader, bear. It could have one of the 'frightened ones' from the wall clutching a teddy bear and huddled in a cave, with several species of small furry animals around him. He's looking out the opening of the cave, and out there is the sun, being eclipsed, with a weird craft flying towards it (Point Me at the Sky, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun).
The quote could be anything. How's 'bout:
"Echoes: All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
or
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I" (doesn't mean much in terms of echoes, but it is a good tune) or anything...I don't know. I just like the design. Kinda like this:
I would say more a symbol. E.g. The DSoTM-pyramid, the Shaking hands from
WYWH, A Pig, or the logo used on the Division Bell etc.
(I have a baseball-cap which has several of these logos on it)
What would be really cool is if there is a blinking LED on it as well :-).
Front: small '94 PF logo on left breast
Back: Across top "echoes@tcs.com"
Middle: A picture of a large floating pig tethered to the
ground via wires going into a couple (2-3) computers
(ie. networked).
Bottom:
And for good accompanying artwork, I think the image of a satellite
trasceiver dish "firing" a lightning bolt at a communications
satellite would look pretty cool.
Me:
...and we could have the bolt, or actually, not the bolt,
but the lightning-style thing, connecting dish with the satellite,
and this lightning being shaped as "Pink Floyd"...
two men are shaking hands in front of two gigantic heads
turned to each other. the background has pyramids,
above them a pig is flying... the texture of the surface the men are
standing is ASOS cover, and (the addition) there are growing walls
(like in the What Shall We do piece of the movie), on
both sides of the pic......
(-: (-:
Click to see the ascii pic of design
In place of the "#1" on the front and the "#2" on the back (opposite
sides of a hole in the wall) could be just about anything. My suggestion
is for #1 to be the silhouette drawing on the back cover of Piper, and
the #2 to be just the eyes of TDB heads as they appear on the cover of TDB.
Two ideas are present:
- echoes@fawnya.tcs.com
and
- echoserv@fawnya.tcs.com
The second, proposed by Ray O'Hara got support in recent
posts because of the junk mail concern...
I can add top this the following:
To: echoes-request@fawnya.tcs.com
Subject: Subscribe
add-realtime echoes
buiK
(^- or whatever bear has as the quit word...)
If we are afraid of junk-mail - why don't we put the
correct thing on the T-shirt ?
]] ftp://Pinky2.itv.se/pub/mugs/batterse.gif
] Not anymore I'm afraid. Try tekla.itv.se instead... pinky2 has ceased to
exist for a while...
I just got back from Pinky2 and had no trouble downloading the gif.
It is a really nice photo. I'm not sure that it will make a good image
on a t-shirt, though. Maybe if there were also photos of each of the 4
(or should we say 5?) floyds, maybe one at each corner, unless the 5 are
used, but I don't think it would be appropriate to use a photo of Syd
along with the Battersea photo.
Replying to Kimberly:
] It is a really nice photo. I'm not sure that it will make a good image
on a t-shirt, though.
Agreed here... It would take some additional work to make it into a Tee...
] Maybe if there were also photos of each of the 4
(or should we say 5?) floyds, maybe one at each corner, unless the 5 are
] used, but I don't think it would be appropriate to use a photo of Syd
along with the Battersea photo.
Well the good idea could be (it's a communist tradition, but it DOES
fit the Battersea, since Animals is just about it) to
blow up the station a bit and put pics of floyds on the wall(s) -
as if their portraits are hanging there....
Should be pretty hard to do tho' ..
Jockie, do you have other pics of Battersea (on which walls
are parallel to the camera ) ?
Personally I don't want the words Pink Floyd on it. Anyone who
is a Floyd fan will understand the design and quote and ask where
you got the t-shirt. Those who aren't Floyd fans won't understand
the shirt and ask what the f**k does that mean.
WHO WILL TAKE IT OVER ?
Comments ? Flames ? Suggestions ? Additions ? Opinions ?
Send me message to dekhtyar@cs.umd.edu
Cheers!
...........Alex, "an email animal"....................
From: Andre Terhorst
Design :
From: Gerhard den Hollander
BTW, I hope to get a B&W scan of the artwork we saw in the Green
dragon somewhere over the next week, if we could put something like that as
a Tshirt design that would be nice.
From: Jon Finch
How 'bout:
From: Ray Botelho (this time i got you, Ray) and
me, "an email animal"
Ray:
A few more from me:
From: Alexander Dekhtyar
Well and I also had a crazy mess:
And, while I was putting this all up -
Brian Jamison
10. Which ECHOES request to put and how to arrange it...
Battersea Power Station thread
From: Kimberly Davidson
On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Joakim Nordlander wrote:
From: Alexander Dekhtyar
11. Special Comments and other T-shirt related STUFF ....
From James Hayword:
No-No's
From: Jon Finch jfinch@eastman.com
Maybe it's just my local, but you don't walk around east texas with a
t-shirt that say's fuck on it. People (neighbors) would shun me ;).
Now you don't want me to have a piece of clothing that I can only wear
in the back yard do you?
From: The Powers That Be (wfp8934@is2.NYU.EDU)
Oh, and I checked how much photos cost to put on shirts (in case we do the Bat.
Power Stst.), and the price was $20, without lettering or anything, so we
had better find someone who can do it themselves or very cheaply. I also
was told photos don't come out well on black T's, so I don't know...
12. NOW THE LAST AND MOST IMPORTANT THING:
And so far we don't have volunteers......
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