Vintage Journal
Quiet Storm
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Quiet Storm
Sade spent three years studying menswear before she sang a note. The jacket, the arrangement and the voice are the same discipline — all three are about what you leave out.
All Is Full of Love
Björk doesn't have a look. She has a commissioning practice.
Hayao Miyazaki Has Won the Oscar Twice and Been in the Room Neither Time
The story everyone half-knows is that Miyazaki boycotted the 2003 Oscars over the Iraq war and said so. He did boycott it. He did not say so — not for six years, because his producer stopped him.
Anime T-Shirts: Sixty Years of Japanese Animation, and Why It All Prints So Well
Anime looks the way it does because Tezuka couldn't afford to make it move. That single constraint produced flat colour and the held pose — which happen to be exactly what a t-shirt press wants.
Silverchair Made Freak Show at 16 While the Industry Tried to Break Them
Silverchair's second album was made by teenagers being paraded around the world. The imagery told you exactly what was happening.
The Vintage Tee Spectrum: Bootlegs, Overprints, and Why It Matters
A guide to vintage tees: true vintage, bootlegs, overprints, and reproductions. How we source from thrift shops, estate sales, and overprint artists — plus Pemulis Originals designed in-house. All art is derivative.
Æon Flux Died at the End of Every Episode and Nobody Thought That Was Weird
The Mazda RX-7 Used a Type of Engine That Almost Nobody Else Would Touch
Rage Against the Machine, 1992, and the Shirts That Weren't Supposed to Exist
The 90s Thriller Promo Tee: A Film Marketing Format That Died With the Decade
Terror Has Been the Same Band for Twenty Years and That's the Point
The Gulf War Lasted 42 Days and the T-Shirt Industry Was Ready on Day One
The 90s Military Graphic Tee: When Gun Show Merch Crossed Over
Albert Einstein's Face Is on More T-Shirts Than Any Scientist Who Ever Lived. Here's Why.
Kurt Cobain Memorial Tees and the Year Everyone Made One
In the Weeks After September 11, Everyone Made a T-Shirt
Natural Born Killers Was the Most Controversial Film of 1994 and Everybody Saw It Anyway
Nirvana Played Live for About Four Years. These Shirts Are What's Left.
Woody Harrelson Was a Sitcom Actor When He Got Cast as a Mass Murderer
Ozzy Osbourne Has Been a T-Shirt Longer Than He Was a Rock Star
The Word 'Rice' in Car Culture: Complicated, Contested, and All Over the T-Shirts
The Problem With Putting Rage Against the Machine on a T-Shirt
John Pasche Got Paid £50 for the Rolling Stones Tongue. Then What Happened.
Salvador Dali Designed His Own Face and Then the Bootleggers Printed It on Everything
Mike Kelley's Thrift-Store Animals and the Sonic Youth Shirt That Came From Them
Se7en Was David Fincher's Revenge on Hollywood and It Made $327 Million
A Cure T-Shirt Used to Be a Signal. Now It's Just a Shirt. Both Are Fine.
The Cramps Never Made Sense and That Was the Entire Point
The Smiths Lasted Five Years and Left Enough T-Shirts for Fifty
