Earlier this year I mentioned Hypercolor t-shirts in a blog post. I noticed that we got some traffic from people looking for info on Hypercolor shirts. I know, if you found this post because you are searching for info on the Hyper color shirt - I feel your pain - there just isn’t enough information out there on the web about the hypercolor shirt.

For those of you who are new to the term hypercolor - these were shirts that were popular in the 1980s - the shirt changes color with heat.

I think you will enjoy this YouTube video of a commercial for Hypercolor t-shirts.

Some additional blog reading for fans ofheat sensitive color changing things:

• Getting Hyper With Hypercolor [To Do]
• ICFF 2008: The Heat Sensitive “Swamp Collection”
• Web SheBang 7.8.08
• Face It Sunglasses

Image via Wikipedia

In November I wrote about the Hide Your Arms mega list of 65 t-shirt blogs. Andy the amazing author behind Hide Your Arms has updated the list to an amazing number of 149 T-shirt Blogs. I am trying to update my google reader to see which ones I am missing.

This list is amazing, thank you Andy for providing a short bio and an update frequency for each of the blogs.

What are you favorite t-shirt blogs?

I was browsing around T-shirtMagazine.com (see past blog posts about T-shirt Magazine here) and I stumbled across this history of the t-shirt.

Here are 3 things I learned about the t-shirt from this article:

• there are many theories about what it is called a “t-shirt”
• t-shirts did not become a wardrobe staple until after WWI
• the first campaign t-shirt was created after WWII

Here are some other places that sell shirts with a history:

• Re-Shirt (via Swissmiss)
• Tee-Cycle
• TinyPony

I thought it was time for another post about t-shirts on the big screen. This time I am expanding to television. I have been noticing some great t-shirts on the TBS show MyBoys. The character Brendan (and some of the other characters) is wearing a great t-shirt in almost every scene.

It turns out that many of these t-shirts are from the shop WornFree.com - they resurrect and sell vintage t-shirts.

What other tv shows and movies have great t-shirts?

A little break from t-shirt talk to show off a website that came to me from a forwarded email - just click the link and be patient so you can see the whole thing. Normally I hate forwarded emails and I am certainly not a fan of animated websites but this one is sooo clever that I think it is worth sharing. Now if only they had a t-shirt in there some where…

Also note the name of the radio - you can see it in the screen shot below, even though the website is not in English, they still name the radio ghettoblaster.

HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam .. Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands .. HEMA also has stores in Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany In June of this year, HEMA was sold to British investment company Lion Capital.

Take a look at HEMA’s product page. You can’t order anything and it’s in Dutch but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens.

Don’t click on any of the products, just wait and see what happens.

And be sure you have your sound turned up.

This company has a sense of humour and a great computer programmer!

http://producten.hema.nl/

Today is all about Pittsburgh and hockey. Normally, I am following CNN for the presidential campaign news, which has been getting kind of boring in recent weeks - lots of talk and nothing really changes. But today is all about hockey. I am not usually a big sports fan but if you are going to sit down and watch some hockey, last night game was the game to watch. Detroit was ahead 3-2, they had the Stanley cup in the hallway and Pittsburgh scored in the last minute to tie the game and send it in to overtime. Pittsburgh and Detroit played 2 full 20 minute periods over overtime with out one goal. Pittsburgh finally scored in the 3rd overtime and the Stanley Cup series continues.

So I created a few new shirts for the hockey fans and added them to my shop. I would love some other ideas for text to celebrate the hockey season. This blogger has a nice post about being a hockey fan, which brings up an interesting question do you need a t-shirt to be a fan?

I went to a local bar to watch the game last night - one of the cool things about Pittsburgh sports fans if that on game day - everyone dresses up in team colors.  I noticed quite a few people in Penguin’s t-shirts last night.  During football season - almost every one in town is in some sort of black and gold on game day.

It is wedding season.  I have just returned from my second weekend of weddings.  My dancing feet are tired today but I thought I would share this video of dancing fun - the bride and groom surprise their guests with a choreographed dance to  Baby Got Back.  Spreadshirt is the perfect place to create a custom gift for wedding showers, bridesmaids and anniversaries.  Check out some wedding gift ideas here.

I was just emailed this little video commercial from MoveOn’s Obama Commercial Contest.  It is pretty funny - but all I could think about while watching was this needs to be a t-shirt.  Just a simple text t-shirt.  So I am putting this challenge out to you - show me what you can do with the 4 letters - H O P E and a t-shirt.  I will feature the best ones here on the blog.

It Could Happen to You 

Important Disclosure - Spreadshirt does not endorse any candidates - we are just here to help you support your favorite candidate via the all important media of the t-shirt.

Tobi and I have been communicating via t-shirt today.  Some people say a picture is worth a thousand words, we like to say a t-shirt is worth a thousand words.

Here is my response to Tobi’s latest post:

T-shirts for your keys!  I saw these in Borders the other day and I had to snap a picture.  These are perfect for t-shirt lovers.   These Key Shirts are made by Fred Flare - who makes lots of cute, awesome things and you can buy them from Amazon here.  These key shirts come in a number of different styles - Retro Icons, Pocket T’s, and Sports Jerseys. Continue reading ‘Key Shirts and an Edge on Brownies’