Hey guys - I finally edited together video from my weekend at UNIQUE Los Angeles.

Just as a heads up, there is cussing and drinking in this video, so please don’t watch it at work, or around my younger brothers or other children.

Hope you like it. It’s not that informative, but hopefully it’s as entertaining for you as it is for me.

So, the other day I found out about a video contest my old school in Japan (KCJS) was having. Unfortunately, I found out one day before the deadline, so I whipped this bad boy up pretty quickly.

Hope you like it. It’s dumb and I have a weird voice, but it’s from the heart. I miss Kyoto like none other.

If it’s the best video of all the alumni submissions, then I get a free round trip ticket to Japan for the reunion at the end of March. There don’t seem to be a whole lot of entries, but I’m not planning on winning. The important thing is that all entries will be played at the reunion for all the attendees, so regardless of whether my school likes this video or not, I’ll get to say hey to everyone attending.

Watch all the way to the end for a special bonus (my cats)!

I made this earlier today - I consider it a work in progress, but am taking a breather here because I need to get to work on actual designs for t-shirts. Hope you like it! It’s a super corny Final Fantasy X Jersey Shore joke. I ended up copying the Imps from the original game to represent “The Beat.” I will probably come back and add something else later. I also thought about fighting Zoo Creatures or Grenades, so maybe I will draw those later, but they always talked about “beating the beat” so here you go.

So today I was feeling a little stressed, so I held an Acronym contest on my Twitter. Who could come up with the best phrase with SEIBEI as an acronym? Here was my bad example to get the party started: Surely Every Idiot’s Burrito Exists Individually. And now, a list of EVERY ENTRY into the contest! Some of these made a dude’s jaw drop, most of them made me laugh out loud. We all had a great time, and picking a winner (or winners) is gonna be tough.

Suddenly Everything Imploded Beckoning Everyone’s Interest!
So Excellent It Baffles Even I
Swamis Eating Indian Brinjal Eloquently Indoors
Scatman Ethan Intentionally Bought Extra Ice
So Everything I Basically Ever Itched for
Shout Everything I Believe Even If…
Seriously Energizing Incredible Bitchin’ Everyday Items
Super Extraordinary Items Beating Emulators Internationally
Sacred Elephants Intuitively Baisemain Exceptional Iguanas
So Everyday I Buy Everything Instock
sexy egyptians intently blew everyone indoors
Super Extreme Items By Eloquent illustrator [lots of flattery!]
Shocking Evil Is Beneath Everyone’s Intentions
Suddenly Everyone Involved Began Eating Icicles
So Everything I Bought Exists Intangibly.
sexual entities ice babies every interval
“Situation” Exposes Infamous Bare Epidermis Incessantly
Sexual Ewoks In Brothels Evermore Indoors.
Super Elephants Intentionally Bitchslap European Iguanas.
Society Explains Incredible Brain Eating Incidents
Sometimes Everything Is Boring, Even Incest.
Sixteen Eager Indonesian Boys Eat Instant-ramen
Sad Eurythmics Indulge Basic Equestrian Instincts
Supernatural Extraterrestrials In Body-Encasing Items.
Stupid exercise in boorish English interests [that one was SUPER meta - all in good fun, though]
spooning eggplants, incompatible but eternally interested
secretly engaged! Indifferent bride eats insistently
seriously endowed… I better enjoy it! [this one made my jaw DROP!]
Shirts Especially Intended By Eric Idle.
Some experimenting Igor beckoned electricity inside
Snakes Eating Inside: Be Extremely Intentive.
Strange Existence Is Benignly Exasperated Indefinitely
sexy exotic impressionable bedizen enter inmaginable
Seibei Evolves Into Big Expert Ivysaur
So Eunuchs Interest Ben’s Extroverted In-laws
so, everyone I blow enjoys it.
So Exceptional I’d Best Expect Imitators [Alex knows his SEIBEI history and knows how to flatter me!]
straight edges imagine becoming excessively intoxicated
Slash, erradicate, incinerate- Burn evil inmates [Starscream keepin' it so METAL]
Schizophrenic Elvis Incredibly Beats Ethiopia Indiscriminately
sexy exotic individuals bear extraordinary invests
Sexy Elves Impart Before Everyone’s Irises
Stupid “Experts” Investigate Bears Eating Icicles
Social Event Implodes Because Extermination Imminent.
So Excellent I Be Exhibited In
Super Exceptional Individual Begins Enterprising Industry [THANKS MOM! No joke, my mom wrote this one.]
Since Everyone Instantly Bolted, Everything’s Insignificant
sassy eunuchs invite ball-sack endowment incisions
Sad Emu Ices Bird Entrails Individual
Silly Emu Is Boggled Even Internally
Stained exterior imprint by ex intern
Suppose Everyone Invented Better Evaporating Ice?
Several Emo Idiots Bring Evil Irritations
Surreptitiously Enhances Incredibly Boring Everyday Items
senator edwards’ irritable bowels encite impotence
Sans Ebola Inoculation, Bacteria Exceptionally Incubates
Sassafras! Egad! Ick! Balderdash! Eureka! Iiiiiinteresting!
So Everyone Invested Braincells, Except I [STORY OF MY LIFE BOO]
Sir Explores-inside-bears-every-Independence (Day) [Alvin said this was my "knight name"]
Some egotistical indulging babies eat Inuits

AMAZING WORK GUYS. I need to pick a few winners…man it is gonna be tough!

Want to get in on goofy contests like this where you win free shirts just by making me laugh, or guessing my favorite Smiths song, or something else equally easy? FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER!

To mark the ten year anniversary of my perfect 1600 SAT score, all tees are now $16 or less. I’ve got a lot of old inventory to clear out before Spring - let’s go people! Even the Intramural Zombie Hunting League shirts are $16 - that’s insane!

And yes, I did actually get a 1600 on the SATs - back when it was only Math and Verbal, that was the perfect score. I got a 790 on my SAT II for Writing, which is probably the same as today’s Writing section, so maybe I would’ve only gotten a 2390 by today’s standards. Either way, my perfect SAT score revealed to every college I applied to that I was smart, but a tremendous slacker (I never studied in high school and skated by with a 3.2/B- average), so I actually didn’t get into half of the schools I applied to. Also, once the word got out at my high school it was kind of annoying, because suddenly people were asking me for SAT advice and introduced me as “that guy who got the 1600.” Hey, maybe I am a dick for complaining about getting a perfect score on a test with literally no prep (I briefly read a test prep book the night before), but it is what it is.

I’m willing to bet most of my teachers and classmates were expecting me to do something with my life other than make people laugh with goofy pictures and try to make people happy, but I enjoy it.

Hey guys! Sorry I have been lax in updating this (again). I’ve been doing a good deal of freelance work for friends and have been keeping pretty busy working on new SEIBEI designs and making plans for 2010 as well.

I went through a bunch of old notebooks this morning and found a number of slogans that I have never, and will never do anything with, so I decided to submit them to the running Threadless Type Tees slogan competition to see if they wanted to do anything with them. Some of these slogans have potential, I think, but I could never figure out how to present them, or they just don’t fit with what I want for SEIBEI. Some of them are just awful, but I figured it would be better to submit everything just in case.

Anyway, if you’re a member of Threadless, you can see my current slogan submissions here. Feel free to vote on them - just please don’t lose any respect for me when you see how dumb some of them are.

In other news, I’m gearing up for the biggest year yet. I’m happy to announce that I’ll be one of the main stage vendors at The Bamboozle in New Jersey in early May, as well as (hopefully) every Renegade Craft Fair this year, UNIQUE Los Angeles (which is also coming to Atlanta and NYC this year!), hopefully an anime/gaming convention or two…I’ll let you know!

(Also, there is a big sale coming soon in an effort to clear out some inventory…stay tuned.)

What are you waiting for? GO GET ‘EM!!!

I will be shipping orders through the 21st, so if you order by this weekend, I should have no problem getting it to you by Christmas (the shipping deadline is Monday).

Don’t forget, you can use coupon code HAPPY for 25% off your ENTIRE ORDER up to the 22nd!

So, big thanks to everyone that came out to the BUST Craftacular NYC, the Boston Bazaar Bizarre, and UNIQUE Los Angeles. The three SEIBEI teams fought hard, and we all had a great weekend. I’m in the process of editing together about an hour of footage from the weekend of UNIQUE Los Angeles to make a succinct video blog of the whole ordeal, so hopefully I will get my act together and knock that out soon.

I have to put some new stuff up on the website, though, so I’ve been busy! This week I’m putting up four new prints, four new tees, and a new sweatshirt. Yeesh! Nice timing, Murray. This is gonna be good for all of the people out there who, like me, do a lot of their Christmas shopping at the last minute.

Also, I can show you something that I was working on IN SECRET a couple of weeks ago - I did a tour poster for the YO GABBA GABBA LIVE tour! I’m not sure exactly what they’re going to do with them, but my buddies the Two Rabbits printed a whole mess of ‘em. I might be getting a few myself, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to sell them - they might just be making some great gifts for family members this year.

Of course, these will all be trimmed down, and won’t have registration marks in the corners. Depending on how many I have left, I may put one aside for a contest winner. Now I just gotta come up with a contest.

This was the first big freelance project I ever really did, so I was way nervous about not being up to snuff, to be perfectly honest. The Two Rabbits (who kicked me the gig) are awesome designers and illustrators in their own right, and work with some amazing artists, so a dude was STRESSING that he would not have the chops for such an awesome gig. Fortunately, I think I nailed it, AND the promotion company reportedly tripled their order when they saw my design. Boo-yah.

On a somewhat personal note, I’m on my third day of a fast. I’m actually feeling really good - I’m doing the Master Cleanse/Lemonade Diet one. Of course, I picked the best time of the year to do it (I wanted to do it sometime when I wasn’t traveling). Yesterday I had to turn down bacon-covered fudge, and last night I went to a holiday party at my friends’ house, where I had to turn down tasty homemade soups, craft beers, hot apple cider, candies, cookies…being a fat kid with chef friends is a blessing and a curse, sometimes.

Unfortunately, due to some miscommunication with my printers, and some delays on my end, only one of the new designs will be available this weekend.

Everything will be appearing online next week. My sincerest apologies to people who were looking forward to seeing the new line this weekend; I really was too and feel like an ass for messing it up.

So a lot of you emailed me about this - I even went to see my boys at the print shop today and THEY had heard about it from people watching - the Sandwich Dinosaur was on DEXTER last night.

Big ups to Amanda from DEADWORRY for letting me know first (she’s getting a free shirt out of it, and I may see if she wants to trade for one of her shirts, though I have a ton of shirts already), and my homies from CHOONIMALS for hitting a dude up with this picture.

It’s the old Mint and Yellow Sandwich Dinosaur! I really need to catch up on this show now, huh? I watched a bit of the first season with Kate and loved it, but there are only so many hours in the day, so I haven’t kept up.

This was just as big a surprise to me as it was to everyone else - usually you have to sign off on all kinds of clearance for a tv show or movie to broadcast images of something you made, but hey, for lack of a better way to describe it, I don’t give a shit if a tv show wants to show several million people a t-shirt I made.

Obviously it would have been pretty sweet if Dexter had been wearing it, but sympathetic serial killers aren’t really my target market.

In other news, I’ve been hell of busy working on some new products to be released the weekend of December 5th (a few new shirts, a crewneck sweatshirt that only I might like, and a print), and a SUPER SECRET DREAM POSTER GIG that I’m trying to land. Wish me luck!