Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The new JMGNole SmartAssTees website is up and growing.




Hey now, I've finally decided to get smart and bring my domain, http://www.jmgnole.com/ to life.


I'm going continue to build the site into something strong and interesting and funny and sarcastic and use it to point folks to all of the cool and fun things that I have scattered across the internets. Different vendors have different products and all sorts of great things to offer. The only way that I can offer them all is with a central site that's showing you the way.


Rude, crude, sarcastic, funny, bawdy, raunchy, beachy, preachy, teachy, and peachy. All of it. Sports, too. (gators still suck, FMFFM)


Shirts for guys, gals and kids, and even your dog... Caps, mugs, buttons, magnets, cards, stickers, yard signs, banners, hoodies, thongs, shoes and even skateboards. Just not all in one place, until now.


If you don't find what you like, let me know, and we'll come up with something together that makes your friends chuckle. Just drop me a line. (jmgnole at gmail dot com)

Saturday, June 20, 2009

The Big Move...


...has begun, in earnest. The rectal violation that CafePress has just given us Shopkeepers is the last straw. The hubris, the arrogance, the betrayal, are all things that I might bet past in a business sort of way, if they weren't all in a crappy bundle. The fact that Fred Dustbin hasn't bothered to even acknowledge the shopkeepers since he put his pants back in is the height of arrogance. The people who helped him get rich, are now getting their businesses crushed by him. Screw CP.




Anyway, I'm daily uploading and adding designs to Zazzle. I'm not a fan of their setup, making a shop there with sections and some sort of organization is a total bitch. Luckily, most of the cool folks from CP who shared their knowledge are now at Zazzle, greasing the skids and making it an easier transition for us slower kids. Find my new stuff at http://www.zazzle.com/jmgnole and check out the new options on products. I don't like the trucker hats, but the choices in shirts for guys and gals are a big improvement on CafePress and they've also got a customize choice that lets you fiddle with whatever designs you find there.


Some see a fat old man.

JMG

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Vote Beer in 2008!


Screw electing another round of liars, crooks, and lawyers. Let's elect a round of BEER, or three. It's time to vote for something that we truly believe in and when is the last time you liked any candidate as much as you liked a frosty cold mug of beer? Forever? Never is more like it. Vote American, VOTE BEER!
Vote Beer! shaped like a cold mug of beer with a big foamy head, and backed with the colors of the USA, this design is the answer for how to vote in this, and every election. Vote early, vote beer!

Saturday, August 23, 2008

There, Their and They're


There, Their and They're. Often used interchangeably, and not even close to meaning the same things. I know they sound the same, but they're NOT the same word. Folks who constantly mix those up drive me batty, and they make anything they write suspect, no matter how well written or accurate. Soooooo, take a second and get it right.


I know that this is nothing but grammar snob stuff, but it's something that so many folks do when posting. Nothing ruins the validity of a well written and thought out comment than that mistake.


JMGNole SmartAssTees

Hola, I'd like to tell you about my online business, creating smartassed designs and products and selling them online. I use a variety of POD (Print On Demand) vendors to create and sell t-shirts, ceramics, prints, photos, and what-not. It started out as fun, but now it's turned into something more, and it's really a lot of fun. My first design was something making fun of the florida gator football team, back around the time that the US invaded Iraq and had that wacky information director on television all of the time. He was ALWAYS wrong, even to the point of denying things that were on camera behind him. A total flake.




I made a spoof of that about a Florida State victory of the hated gators and sold the hell out of them. Too bad I had zero markup on all of the products. It was just for fun, but that would have been quite a little beer money haul. Oh well, lesson learned.
I didn't do anything else with the shop for over a year until I got another inspiration, insulting the U. I sold a few of those, got roughed up by the collegiate licensing folks, and learned a very valuable lesson. Stay away from school trademarks. That's worked out pretty well for me.
I still do sports related stuff, but I also have added a long line of stuff pointing directly at sarcasm and smartassery. Those are my strengths, so why not gear my designs toward something that I really understand.
I began using primarily PhotoShop to do all of my work, but I've moved directly to Adobe Illustrator and that's about all I use any longer. What a great piece of software to use for vector art and t-shirt design. It's made me much better at my actual job, as a designer for the State of Florida.
So, I think that I'll begin to post designs and their inspirations here and see how that works out. I have found that simple is better, and that's not making me happy. I want to do some art, and put it on productss. Luckily folks buy the simple stuff and give me the freedom to do the art thing when I get the urge.
Check me out at www.jmgnole.com, www.cafepress.com/jmgnole. www.cafepress.com/niceguystees, and www.zazzle.com/jmgnole. I have some links to the other shops on www.jmgnole.com. Enjoy, and let me know what you think.