Copyright was pronounced (by Pete Versus Toby) dead on the 13th of June, 2010. The current suspects are Google, Photoshop and the Legal Marijuana movement.
"To create anything in our contemporary world is a struggle. Language has been prostituted to marketing; Images have been auctioned off to advertising. Where is meaning? Who knows? Us antipodeans receive culture through osmosis; as culture crosses the world its significance is often lost on the ocean floor. So accordingly, when one wishes to represent an image on a t-shirt, as Pete Versus Toby does, one has to be aware of this scission between reality and representation. Luckily, confusion creates a great foundation for creativity...
Modern life is constantly crying out for it to be reflected. We use t-shirts as our mirrors. We instill our shirts with challenges. Our aim is to deconstruct the collective conscience which decides what is good and what is bad...
In an age of confusion, a different outlook is needed. Pete Versus Toby intends to provide this. Our shirts may seem perplexing at first sight, but look deeper and find that meaning isn’t all together lost..."
We have spent time cataloging EVERY print that we have ever made. Here they are, Public property on the World Wide Web.
Modern life is constantly crying out for it to be reflected. We use t-shirts as our mirrors. We instill our shirts with challenges. Our aim is to deconstruct the collective conscience which decides what is good and what is bad...
In an age of confusion, a different outlook is needed. Pete Versus Toby intends to provide this. Our shirts may seem perplexing at first sight, but look deeper and find that meaning isn’t all together lost..."
We have spent time cataloging EVERY print that we have ever made. Here they are, Public property on the World Wide Web.
See You Later Alligator
In a while crocodile.
Perhaps when Robert Charles Guidry first penned this iconic song, he never would have thought it would appear on a Pete Versus Toby design. Perhaps it's why he wrote the song in the first place.
90. Grillson
Jacob Rivers illustration I met Jacob in San Fran, he is a homeless kid from Minnesota, anyways he loves living in the park in Haight/Ashbury district, there are plenty of other trippers like him just chillin out. If you like his art his phone number is on the design (actually his parents in Minesotta) Marijuana is a Herb. We have been living in prohibition for the last 50 years. The move to legalisation is gaining momentum. This is our international collaboration to help…
96. Aboriginal Supermodel
One night at ching a lings with my friend Sonke, we were fucking around with werdz and trying some contagious amerikan namedropping. It went something like this: Marco: I met this epic Aboriginal model in New York Sonke: Aboriginal Supermodel? Did you go back to her crib and hit the hammer? Marco: Yeh then she ended up in Hospital, it was real hectic Sonke: What did you do? Marco: I thought it was weird that she thought her Vinyl collection wasn’t that cool, I mean it had some street punk bands from 80s Newtown and that’s rare in young models these days… Sonke: damn you and your smelly Werdz…
You can find the Actual artwork and the story behind each of the prints
HERE. [currently working on designs for #111 and #112]
And these images are now yours, with love from Pete Versus Toby.
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