GOING, GOING, GONE! Thanks to all who have supported this project! There are only a few shirts left, and they are being taken to The Last HOPE conferece in NYC this weekend. Thus, the shopping cart is being closed down. If you're going to the conference, come visit the Philly crew in the vendor space, where The Hacktory will be doing some live printing with a really hilarious image. Thank you!
We are currently accepting donations to help send a few shirts over to Senator Steven's staff. Click below to toss in a few bucks for shirts and shipping, and make sure to note it in the comment field. Any overflow will go to The Prometheus Radio Project, so they can keep fighting for free and open media, and help communities get on the air with Low Power FM radio stations.
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March, 2007: Back from Kenya, getting ready for South Carolina!
Like Guru from Gang Starr said on the great album Jazzmatazz, "Never no time to play." In January, six Philadelphians traveled to Nairobi, Kenya to participate in an Indie Media Convergence and the World Social Forum. While we were there, we participated in independent journalism skill shares and helped some new friends in Nairobi and Maseno University get their community radio projects off the ground and on the air. We've unpacked, unwound, and debriefed, and hopefully soon we'll have some more stories to tell. In the meantime, here are some places you can read about what we and our friends in Kenya did together, and the work that is ongoing.
Next up on the project list is another barnraising-style community radio build with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement in Greenville, SC. Preliminary info about this project is here!
December, 2006: Thanks, Violet Blue!
Aw! SF Gate columnist and "open source sex" blogger Violet Blue mentioned the project on her Boing Boing special, Top Ten Sex Memes of 2006. Thanks to Violet and everyone else who has bigged up this project. We love you too!
August, 2006: Gone Barnraisin'!
It's time to take a break from shirt making and go build a new community radio station! Those of us who have been gratefully and busily filling your orders are heading out to Woodburn, Oregon to build a radio station with Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United or PCUN, and touring a bit of the Pacific Northwest after that. Please feel free to place an order, but unfortunately it won't be able to be shipped until about Sept 4.
June, 2006: How it all started...
Hannah explains the basics of net neutrality, corporate media ownership, and tubes.
Let's see...
Goof on a cute meme: Check!
Get lots of geeks to wear fallopian tubes, and say things like, "Ok, you line up the tag with the cervix, then print the screen...": Check!
Create monster: Check!
It's been barely a month since a few of us were joking around about Senator Steven's famous tubes faux pas, and thought it would be funny to make a few joke shirts for ourselves and bring some to the HOPE conferece in NYC. In about 35 days, we learned to silk screen, ran some tests for ourselves, discovered that people actually liked them, launched a minor e-commerce monster, commissioned new original artwork, got introduced to the exciting world of wholesale apparel, and finally, discovered the joy of outsourcing labor to local indie businesses--shortly after discovering the horror of trying to heat-set huge numbers of orders with a regular iron. We definitely outgrew our little West Philadelphia cottage industry of screening shirts on the porch. We are still screening a few orders by hand, but moved mass printing over to the wonderful Philadelphia-based Outlaw Print Company. They did a great job, and as of now, we're almost all caught up. If you haven't received your shirt yet, it's on its way or you'll hear from us soon. We also ordered lots of organic, fair trade black shirts from HAE Now Organic Cotton Clothing, so if you ordered a black tee, it's possible yours will ship with extra SMUG. Thanks!!
