PRANK

I like it! But I feel bad that I was sure it was a Lou Reed shirt when the page started loading.

I really want this shirt, great design. Are you still printing on tultex shirts, though? Mediums are too small, and larges are too big/wide =/

Y so SRS??

Okay, so on one side we have Frankenstein’s monster, a meditation on ‘what it means to be a man’ with the inevitable conclusion of empathy above intellectuality, that the dehumanization of his monster as an obsession, a neurotic fatally-inclined obligation ultimately made him, the learned man of sciences, the villain and the shambling corpse the real sympathetic character. Take the modern, artistic ideation of it, the caricature portrayed in cheesy 50/60s movies, their misrepresentation of the *basic point* of the novel, mash it up with the Joker, who exists as both a martyr for the cause of acting and subsequent cultural condolences, who functions on the new, edgy, hip-to-be-hip awkwardly grotesque, a character far removed from Mark Hamill’s voice and closer to the hipster’s Hannibal Lecter than anything, mash up these two seemingly arbitrary symbols on a t-shirt and what do you have? I don’t know. A Nifty Idea, I guess, but not one I’d probably be wearing if only because I’d have a hard time understanding why I thought the shirt was worth wearing.

Cool story, bro

Is the main function juxtaposition? If so, what do we get from that juxtaposition? Anything deeper than a ‘huh, never would’ve thought of that’? I don’t really think so and I guess that’s what’s stopping me from buying a lot of these kinds of t-shirts. There’s a lot of ‘cool idea bro!’ but not a lot of ‘but what does it really mean’, and if Andy Warhol has anything to say about that then he’d say it and sell it and live forever in his private studio, grimacing atop his mountain of money. And I guess I’d be fine with that.

But uh, yeah, this shirt’s not for me but it’s there for somebody.

<3<3

Cool story bro

HAHAHA me too! Still awesome though, just in time for the party at the end of the month too :]

Very good read, thanks for posting.

What you described in your post is exactly what I’ve been feeling browsing “1dayshirt” sites. They’re mostly putting out these clever concepts we can connect with though nostalgia.

I guess they’re shirts for people who want other people to know immediate bits of information about them, “Oh this guy likes Super Mario Bros. AND Star Wars!”. College culture I guess, breaks the ice. I’m most likely going to buy this shirt only because the literature behind Frank was good and because I’ve been a fan Batman since my older brother showed me a comic when I was three years old. Peace!

You’ve got it all wrong, buddy. The part about Joker is completely irrelevant because there’s no sign of Joker in the design.

It’s simply Frankenstein’s monster wearing a *clown* make-up. Check the following pic:
http://www.sfsignal.com/mt-static/images/jokerLineup.jpg – Does any of those Jokers really wear make-up similar to the one on the shirt design? No. Red eyes, red nose, bowtie, none of the Jokers has anything like that. Hence your assumption about Frankenstein-Joker mashup is false.

The title of the design is ‘PRANK’, but I personally don’t see it as an actual prank made on Frankenstein’s creature. He wouldn’t be wearing a purple suit and a bowtie if it all were just a prank.

My opinion is that the design is Halloweenish, showing us Frankenstein’s monster dressing up as a sad clown for a Halloween party. Therefore I think there’s nothing wrong with it and if you like it, just buy it; either as a Halloween shirt or as a fun shirt.

It’s a shirt. You wear it as such. It will get dirty. So you clean it. You wear other shirts whilst this shirt becomes clean. I think its safe to leave it at that.

Just because you use the word “juxtaposition” does not mean your long and boring ass post makes you sound smart. Go read a thesaurus Ross Perot

I love the colors you’re using and the sketchy quality of it! This is a really amazing shirt.

He IS wearing a bowtie and a purple suit.

Loving the discussion here.

I think Bean wins my award for best comment of the year

A rare appearance by the illustratious Jörg creator, Monty Montag!!!

While it is your opinion that it is boring and lame,
I don’t believe this is illegal at all.
Read up on fair use and parody.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

Yeah, that’s why it can’t be a prank. You can put make-up on someone while he sleeps, you can paint his hair, but you can’t dress him without him noticing it. That’s what I meant.

Lou Reed…..wow, you’re right! My first impression was “Mr. Monk Gets Wasted At The Halloween Party”.

Guess he didn’t wanna’ be looked at as just another Frankenstein in the bunch and went original…

Looking at the make-up isn’t what made me think it was the joker, it was what Paul said.

@Laki: Why does it have to be a throw-back design? Is innovation and pioneering not the ultimate goal in art? To create something new that evokes emotion in the viewer of the art? This could be, as you said, clown Frankenstein but I prefer to view it as Joker-Frankenstein because that way it has more meaning to me.

So yet another Ript featured shirt in my cart….. I think you guys should have a frequent buyer program like buy 10 get one free? Just a thought. Keep up the good work guys….

Dina, dope design keep it going!!!

-Ken

i second that notion