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An Excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s ‘A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again’:

[T]here’s an elusive sameness about the shirts’ messages. A lot serve to I.D. the wearer as part of a certain group and then congratulate that group for its sexual dynamism …

There’s something complex and compelling about the fact that these messages are not just uttered but worn, like they’re a badge or a credential. The message compliments the wearer somehow, and the wearer in turn endorses the message by spreading it across his chest, which fact is then in further turn supposed to endorse the wearer as a person of plucky or risqué wit. It’s also meant to cast the wearer as an Individual, the sort of person who not only makes but wears a Personal Statement. What’s depressing is that the T-shirts’ statements are not only preprinted and mass-produced, but so dumbly unfunny that they serve to place the wearer squarely in that large and unfortunate group of people who think such messages not only Individual but funny. It all gets tremendously complex and depressing.  

So I want to print these (Not happy with the shirt collar, but they’d be available in black only, long or short sleeve; banded-collar) :

Tags: art, concepts, Design, imagination, inspiration, t-shirt, whimsy

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