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Which Limited Run Shirt Will You Buy?
Submitted by Marla Singer on 08/12/2009 16:29 -0400
So, it is that time again. Our popular "Zero HedgeIntelligence" t-shirt ("On a long enough timeline the IQ of every CNBC anchor drops to zero.") is about at the end of its run. We will be removing this cherished bit of old-media history from our stores permanently on Friday. If you still want your own copy, now is the time to wander on over to the Zero Hedge Catalogue'o'Swag and grab one of the last ones. We are also phasing out the original, multi-color Zero Hedge Cap and the old logo Country Code Stickers. Thanks for all the memories, guys!
So that takes care of "out with the old," here's the "in with the new":
We scoured the world over to find a partner that would give us the quality product and flexibility of design that we needed to properly entheta our readers with the only scarlet Greek letter that will get you unceremoniously kicked out of any restaurant in which James Simons happens to be sitting at the moment of your arrival. We think you will appreciate the results, but we had some trouble with the final design.
We spent a lot of time conducting focus groups (read: accosting random friends in dark bars while drunk, and asking their opinions on the latest swag design pictured on our expansive and high-contrast iPhone screens) but couldn't get a consensus on which design would carry the day in a fair fight. So we decided to let the markets decide.
We've narrowed the next limited run of Zero Hedge specialty shirts down to two contenders:
Black Swan
-and-
American Dream
At the moment it seems pretty clear that we will be printing on American Apparel stock. For those in the know, probably the Sheer Jersey Short Sleeve Summer T-Shirt or the Original Fine Jersey Short Sleeve T-Shirt. For the uninitiated, this means 100% sheer or fine Jersey cotton, a durable rib neckband, reinforced shoulder, double-needle bottom hem stitching... basically the best damn T-Shirt an underage American Apparel model can get nearly naked in- or that you can wear into the lobby at 85 Broad. (Triple-Word-Score for combining the underage model, the shirt and the lobby at 85 Broad).
Once we get our hot little hands on the best damn T-Shirts money can buy, the designs will be film-transferred to our presses and branded on that virgin cotton with hand-picked inks via by-hand screen-printing and heat cured finishing- a process selected for its tendency to produce brighter, higher-quality images with a strong resistance to fading. There is simply no comparing these results with the direct-print or thermal heat transfer process used by the likes of CafePress. (We still love you CafePress, and no one makes hats or coffee mugs like you guys!) Between the superior stock and image quality, we think you will be quite pleased.
So, get to voting. You've got 10 days to decide and we have to schedule the models for the shirt promo-shoots before their schedules fill up. (Classes at the local high schools start soon, you know.)
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I concur with several other posters. Can we get a 'Classic' design t-shirt with just the picture/emblem you have at the top right corner of the site?
"0 Zerohedge | On a long enough timeline the survival rate of everyone drops to zero."
Perhaps that picture on the breast, and/or perhaps as a larger print on the back of a t-shirt.
Thanks Marla,
Keep up the great work!
Why not put both Swan and dream On? Hey, swan can be in front and dream in back, or vice versa. On second thought, put the dream onto and under the rear end of swan.
How much does the autographed versions go for?
Really? Are we really voting on T-shirts? What is happening to this blog?
Something about the swan doesn't look quite right. Neck too thick, head too big for the body. It's supposed to be a swan, not a long-necked duck. e.g. c.f. this one which has an almost identical profile http://www.bonorris.com/images/black%20swan.jpg
And it just looks like an advert for a Western Australian radio station or DJ anyway.
Can we get an official looking zerohedge coffee mug please? The Digital Dickweed mug is a little too deep for my co-workers and are making their heads explode.
WTF!
What's with switching the A and the B for the vote?
The blog is getting buttery.
Under Ni-Ju-Bashi swim four swans ... Mated pairs ... 2 white & 2 black. ... The daring can go out in the morning and feed them. They prefer slices of bread, torn up, & tossed into the moat. Only once a year the people are allowed to cross the bridge. (Once upon a time, the land in front of the moat was the most expensive in the world. ... Now, after two lost decades, the land values have dropped by half.) ... Recovery may come, but it is still a long way off. ... But the swans still swim & the bridge is still guarded.
So, who among you has seen the bridge. ... And how many of you has ever crossed it?
Under Ni-Ju-Bashi swim four swans ... Mated pairs ... 2 white & 2 black. ... The daring can go out in the morning and feed them. They prefer slices of bread, torn up, & tossed into the moat. Only once a year the people are allowed to cross the bridge. (Once upon a time, the land in front of the moat was the most expensive in the world. ... Now, after two lost decades, the land values have dropped by half.) ... Recovery may come, but it is still a long way off. ... But the swans still swim & the bridge is still guarded.
So, who among you has seen the bridge. ... And how many of you has ever crossed it?
count me with crowd wanting simple shirt...ZH logo w/-273 would be kewl
I voted for the black swan, but will only buy one if it has a pocket.
Cheers
Strange that the survey has A as swan and B as dream, while the results page has them opposite. Marla, are you sure these are being counted correctly?
Tyler,
Please just start charging for site access (or to see the posts 24 hrs earlier than non-members).
You're degrading your site with this junior-varsity bakesale-style fundraising.
I think you'd be surprised by how many readers would pay for premium access.
Cheers,
Popo
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/files/black_swan.gif
see where SPY was at the moment
Astounding. Well done.
34650...nice move! I saw that floating around several months ago and it is genuinely hysterical.....that would be one hell of a shirt.
LOL!
I'b buy one that said, Black Dream. American Swan.
I really don't understand the black swan concept. To me it seems like all it says is "crazy shit happens" or "models aren't always right" or "there are unexpected events sometimes." So I'm not getting that one since I take all that as a given anyway, but the American Dream I'll think about.
The only reservation I have is that a fellow consumer of alcohol in an establishment might interpret the shirt to mean that I hope they/we get srewed. Of course in reality the shirt mostly represents the hope of failure of the robber barrons but I fear that the message that will show will be one of schadenfreude over the misery of the 401k holding population.
I suggest a new shirt:
In Gold We Trust w/the "L" crossed out and superimposed over Bernanke's face.
Can we have option C - just plain old Zero Hedge log and maybe the log text in the front or vice versa
I was hoping Zero Hedge would have picked up my cursing fish saying, "Banks Suck".
Whhaaatt.
My dyslexia proving a real problem.
Are they ar$e about?
What about PayPal from cafe for us out of towners?
same here, i had to read it twice. i suppose the A. vs B. swap is on purpose? Kinda like the CAPTCHAs that require one digit for two digit answers?
I want one that says 'the guerrilla terrorist of the financial services industry'
Now that's a shirt I would buy.
Take the American Dream logo and put it on the back of the t-shirt.
Take the ZH logo and put it on the upper left side of the front of the t-shirt.
Pleeez stop posting sh*t like this on the blog. Pretty pleez......
sure, just make sure your contribution is big enough to keep the servers going. Oh, and make sure marla doesn't run out of cigarettes. As for tyler, I don't know what he's on. Judging after his productivity I doubt he only runs on coffee.
i wish i was half as productive in my life as TD is at his blog hobby
Can we just have a plain shirt with nothing but the ZH Logo on the front and back? I think this would afford the wearer a ready-made opportunity to respond to the inevitable 'What's that?' inquiries with an elucidating diatribe on the manifest failings of our current monetary policy and thereby contribute to the general level of awareness in re all things financial and corrupt.
Hey guys, how bout ty and marla's fight club pic, I'd like that....hum? trademark interference? I'd love one of both. Can't you make the black swan look a little sick and diseased or something? lol
I've always been partial to this t-shirt logo...
http://i27.tinypic.com/2dtsw80.jpg
Any chance?
Hey Marla, how about we unleash the creativity of the space monkeys and we have a contest who designs the best T-shirt? Many space monkeys seem pretty creative judging after their posts, why not have them come up with some ideas? Heck, even a black T with the 50 most hilarious avatars would look great.
Superimpose the the swan onto the bar graph. In an abstract way, the curve of the swan's body kinda tracks with the line on the graph.
what does the 273 mean. i keep up with this blog pretty well, but i am lost on that.
-273 is absolute zero, where theoretically all motion will cease.
-273 is absolute zero. 0 k on the kelvin scale. We worked on the design with ZH.
It is actually 273.15. That 0.15 difference seems small, but for the physicists who study Bose-Einstein Condensation it is huge, since they're dealing with micro and even nano Kelvins.
did not know that! thanx for the fyi. gonna get me some free drinks by quizzing my bartender
"Paulson pissed on my face - TD"
put a zerohedge logo on the sleeve of the black swan
I second that
I hope the black swan tee is for girls only. Otherwise it would be pretty lame on an adult male. For the AD tee you should put some words above or below the graph... something along "Got 401k?".
Got Originality?
Hi Marla. I kind of like the -273 plain logo t's better. Do you also get a revenue share from those?
It's for the kids, man... I mean servers!
Both are ghey. How about a regular tshirt with "zerohedge" on it so that I can wear it to work?
Yep...this guy has the right idea...straight up....zerohedge....I' m in for that.
Word is bond. symbol in front, zerohedge in type on back.