buy this, pollute the earth. T-Shirt

love the symbolism. lucan you are on fire today!

No.

You can’t go uploading two tees in one day of this calibre. It’s simply not the done thing. Where are your manners man ?

The universe is an intruiging thing, I understand what you’re saying about priorities, but astronomers wouldn’t make good farmers. And besides, they are searching for our nearest escape route, or some aliens with an all-in-one ozone hole repairing, carbon emission reducing, greenhouse gas removing, lazerbeam positron ion cannon rescue package.

It’s possible.

Aha, indeed, look I’m not swinging a blow at astronomer, it’s a metaphor. There’s an article in The Age this very morning about a chap who’s spending 3 million to go into space, the whole mission is hundreds of millions of dollars, as far as I can tell the answer is not ‘out there’ and even if it is it’s not happening very soon, whereas what is going on down here, could well happen very soon.

You scare me with the detail you go to get your art and message across.
What else scares me is the fact that it is over the head of 99.9% of the population.
Genius is not a word I throw aroung freely.
So I’ll call this fucking genius

Universe, universe. How cool, I love the drippy-ness. And the spatter look like more stars, almost… love it.

can I just say I really like the design.

Very cool work.

Seriously beautiful

Ooohhh! At first glance I was like, ’ Oh wow, it’s so simple yet so cool!’ But then when I looked over at the detail on the right, I realized that it’s so much more than just an awesome design – it’s a very big statement about a very complex issue. I should have expected it, though, since you are so good at that stuff :)
I agree with you 100% by the way. My boyfriend and I are both huge nerds and we talk about this stuff a lot.
I like that the outer paint splatters just look like paint splatters at first, but then when you realize there’s a whole galaxy in that razorblade they look more like stars spilling out :)

Absolutely Perfect!!!

Genius.

www.youtube.com/muscularteeth – check the video “DEATHLY DOES IT”.

did you get that razer from that video perchance? (not mine, but the original movie/advert)

No, I got it from a razor. They seem to all look the same. Oddly.
Was that just a clever way to link to your video portfolio? You should learn how to make proper links if you’re going to play such crazy games.

This is amazing, i love it. I love its meaning. love love love. Its so impressive. WOW. I think its more the meaning and thought put into this that i love. Amazing.

Hey the internet wouldnt lie!
...would it?
Cool pic…very subtle image yet strong icon feel to the blade.

love this. i wont be disagreeing with your historical information as you seem to create blades nicely….!!!

great work

This is so cool.

Brilliant way of thinking. I disagree that folks will not understand it, they simply don’t care unless it affects them right now today.

An intelligent T – brilliant.

I love it!

My perception of the image really changed when i read your little story and i agree with you we should stop looking up and start to look around us!

wonderful concept

Interesting idea. Although I think it’s unfortunate that you’d suggest there’s a matter of priorities that has the study of the universe at one end and the perceived well-being of the planet at the other. It seems like a bit of a false dichotomy to me.

Moreover, looking and studying has nothing to do with getting there. In daily life I don’t make a point of only looking at, appreciating or photographing (for example) those things I can walk up to and touch. If I took that attitude I wouldn’t care about all the parts of this planet I’ll never get to.

On top of all of this: astronomy is one of the few areas of study that can really help you appreciate just how unique this planet is.

Of all the things that could be presented as being in “opposition” to caring for this planet…

Now I’m thinking about MASH.

Aha, Mr Pearson, I’m amazed that it took so long for someone to stand against this, I was waiting from the off. I agree entirely, which is why I said slightly higher up in the comments that it was metaphorical, that ultimately it has nothing to do with actually stopping looking up, or a even a call for astronomers to start researching solar power and eating organic food, in fact it has nothing to do with them at all, but merely an observation that we spend all our times ‘discovering’ things, like new shoes that make you run faster, and kettles that look better than other kettles, when really we have a big situation glaring at us in the face.
The elephant in the room if you will.
It has absolutely nothing to do with astronomy whatsoever, it was merely a catalyst for me and a way of transcribing a thought. Most visual art rarely has anything to do with what you can actually see.
Not that I’m calling this art, it’s a t-shirt, with a stencil on, that might make someone cycle to work if I’m very lucky.
I also agree with you that studying the galaxies helps us realise just how unique we really are, I did some work with Deep Ecology on the solar system, using it as an example of the vulnerability of Earth. However I would say that we know enough right now to act upon a serious situation down here, and when we have it sorted we can dust off our scopes again. Metaphorically.
Thank you for playing.

Metaphorically, we can carry on using our ‘scopes and do other stuff. While the time spent on housekeeping and wandering outside to look at the wider world (metaphorically) might be a zero-sum game in some respects (time being one obvious zero-sum variable), it doesn’t have to require that (metaphorically) we spend all our time dusting and cleaning (or manufacturing t-shirts whose shipping around the world will make the problem worse).

Well absolutely, and if these aren’t delivered personally by a man in a Hummer, I’m taking it down.

:-D

Just the one Hummer?

I love the title!

Well, I’m not convinced by the title, but I think the addition to the work’s description totally misses the point about debating concepts and metaphors.

Kind of a shame really.

Aha, well the title is just a good old fashioned piece of good humour, and as for totally missing my own point, I’d like to add that debating concepts is my thing generally, not debating top level metaphor. But I’m happy to do both, but not on the interweb.
I doubt people stood around Hirst’s ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ and discussed sharks. In fact they probably just ate ice cream and complained about the smell. But nonetheless I accept the point gracefully and would say that this is how I debark on debates on the internet because I think it’s a fucking useless tool for debate because words are inert and really one needs to be in person, so I do my best to insert my own special brand of dryness into it all and respond in ways that I’m allowed. But clearly it’s all a massive joke, this is a playground for people whose bosses don’t watch them closely enough at work, who have expensive digital cameras and think that makes them photographers, or who have just found the filter drop down in PhotoCock #9103, this is not the place for serious debate, in fact I’d say it was dangerous. If one really wished to spark debate in the world one wouldn’t upload a half arsed shirt to the net to get lost in the other 826,63598,138,346,335,2,5,6,7,78788554,,3335 shirts already there. One would probably go outside and talk to someone else. A dying art I fear.

But still, it can be an awful lot of fun.

/me dreams of owning an expensive digital camera

I dream of my boss watching me even less at work.

great design

It’s a razor…? Cool. What an amazing stencil :)

No shit, the elephant in the room.

Courtesy of Banksy by the way.

Of course, thief.

Im buying this with my next student loan!

in my recent lack of bubble time i missed this
the concept is a banger, if you’ll pardon the pun
another gem with a huge idea behind an understated image

great image – love the minimalism

i like this one.

well cool,great t shirt…..................

I didn’t see the galaxy in the preview, but that is clever… looks pretty nifty :)

Very nice design.

LOL I Just saw your comment over at zazzle where you caught someone who had stolen the razor blade portion from this image. Great catch! Might I ask how you found out he had stolen your work? Don’t you hate assholes who do that? Kinda makes me wonder how much of “his” other work is stolen from others.

Anyway, love your gallery. great work ;)

massive impact!

I´m so impressed :D love it