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Andy, in full-blown pirate gear.

IG211: “So, tell us a little bit about yourself (i.e. name, age, day job, where you live).”

Andy: “Name: Andy, a.k.a henryv
Age: 28
Day Job: Financial Accountant
Location: Manchester, UK.”

IG211: “What lead you to start blogging about t-shirts and when did you start Thunderfrogs?”

Andy: “I started Thunderfrogs a little over a year ago — I just started
blogging about my interests: cool t-shirts, going to (and bootlegging) gigs, horse racing tips, that sort of thing. Thunderfrogs is pretty much exclusively t-shirt-related these days (though there are still some nice bootlegs in the archives). I try to avoid duplication with the other tee blogs I follow (not easy when t-shirt companies contact us all at the same time with promotional emails), and mix original content with the best of the internet. Sometimes the t-shirt is just an excuse to share a cool youtube video or relate a good story. Because of their endless variety, t-shirts can be used as a jumping-off point for discourse on just about any subject. Your recent publicity in The Gawker is a perfect example.” (Editor’s note: more info on that development can be found on our blog here.)

IG211: “Do you collect t-shirts? I imagine you must have a great number of them…”

Andy: “One of the main reasons I started blogging about t-shirts was to curb my rampant t-shirt buying, which was fairly unsustainable. Instead of buying all the cool t-shirts I liked, I settled for writing about them. My t-shirt collection is currently around 60 tees.” (Editor’s note: pics of Andy’s wardrobe are embedded at the end of the text.)

IG211: “What do you look for in a tee shirt design? What don’t you like?”

Andy: “In a t-shirt I like strong, original design. The idea must be cohesive, communicated clearly, with appropriate use of colour, and I’m not averse to attention-grabbing large prints. I tend to steer clear of “witty” t-shirts that get less funny each time you wear them, and “type” tees, where the particular typeface used gets a lot of emphasis in the design. I think type tees are probably aimed more at designers, and I’m not a designer. I’m not saying they’re bad, they just don’t do as much for me as a nice graphic… (I think this question would be better answered by looking at my wardrobe or my blog, as I’m not a designer or design expert.)”

IG211: “What are some of your other favorite t-related websites (stores, blogs, designers, forums, etc.)?”

Andy: “My favourite t-shirt blogs are:

Funky Duds (just cool tees)
Hide Your Arms (extremely prolific blogger — 146 posts in November!)
Teecycle (recycled tees, for ethical consumerism)
Tcritic (the most popular t-shirt blog, written by a social media expert)
Cottonable
Troundup
The Daily Tee (first tee blog I read)
OMG Tees

“I like a lot of work by a lot of different designers — Glennz, Mathiole, Collision Theory, Olly Moss, Jimiyo, Travis Pitts, Tom Burns, plus others I can’t remember off the top of my head.”

IG211: “Plans for tee future? (Sorry, I couldn’t resist…)”

Andy: “2009 will be the year I try and turn Thunderfrogs from a blog to a brand; I plan to migrate to a .com or .co.uk address, which will involve learning some web design and webmaster skillz — as well as trying to learn adobe illustrator (or commissioning a graphic designer) so I can convert some of the ideas I’ve got rattling around into t-shirt designs for the Thunderfrogs Summer 2009 collection!”

Straight from his wardrobe, some of Andy’s preferred tees:

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Aside from an impressive library of vinyl LPs and DVDs, Woods has also compiled a closet full of vintage band t-shirts, some of which date to the late 70’s and early 80’s. You may have even seen some of them yourself in informative books such as this. Old shirts such as these are often highly coveted and known to fetch princely sums on eBay; from whence Dantronix found them, he won’t say exactly…

We’ll just chalk it up to hard work and good luck digging through the bins at dusty thrift stores.

In any case, two of his better tops have been embedded below:

This tour tee was produced circa 1981-2. The design on front, borrowed from the album’s cover, is obviously faded somewhat, but still visible and soft to the touch.

This example neatly summarizes Dan’s approach to life (to be fair, this one was a custom production).

In the upcoming weeks and months, we’ll bring you more of Woods’ prized tee possessions, including rare shirts from Madonna, The Breeders, Daft Punk and everything in-between.

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The sound quality here is a little rough, but this is a classic song from a classic artist.

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Our very popular Toxic Waste tee was used last week by online media behemoth Gawker as a visual accent in a blog post riffing on fallout from the market meltdown. The piece doesn’t really address the shirt in any way — it’s a metaphor, you see — but any press is good press (or so the mantra goes). We commend Gawker, apparently the site for NYC-related gossip, for their good taste in tee shirts.

Major props to FIC superfan Anne Lewis for bringing this to our attention here at It Goes To 11. On a related note, let me use this as a convenient opportunity to segue into a final word on FIC tee-spotting. If you scout our shirts somewhere cool (in print, on-stage, the web, tv, etc.), please, by all means, let us know. Photographs, video clips, links — the more specific the evidence, the better. If it’s something we don’t know about or arranged ourselves behind the scenes, we’ll hook you up with some FIC swag. No joke, yo.

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First off, Andy over at the newly-redesigned Thunderfrogs did a nice write-up on our non-movie shirts (which you should buy as gifts for your loved ones). On a related note, we’ll have an interview with Andy about t-shirts and relevant topics in the near future.

Secondly, It Goes to 11 has been added to the mix over at Alltop.com, a self-described “online magazine rack” that collects and aggregates posts, articles and news on all manner of subject matter from various sources around the web. If you couldn’t guess, we’re in the t-shirt category, which as other tee bloggers have noted, is a rapidly growing online community.

Finally, observant readers will note that we’ve added a new sidebar, entitled Greatest Fits, to the blog. This plug-in spotlights some of our best, most distinguished (read: popular) posts and entries to date, thereby rescuing them from the proverbial bottom of the (blog) pile. Give ‘em a read if you have a free moment. BTW, we’ll change them up every so often in the interest of freshness.

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Michael J. Fox is certainly the star of the film, but in many ways Jerry Levine’s Stiles character (pictured below) steals the show with his self-assured preening, cocky chutzpah, entrepreneurial spirit, and rich, fantastically colored wardrobe. (Shameless reminder: we sell two of his attention-grabbing tees here and here.) For a more in-depth discussion of Stiles’ cultural significance, I urge you to read this informative, expertly deconstructed piece of film criticism that I stumbled across while researching this post.

In any case, I’ve compiled a list of Stiles’ best, most memorable lines. Enjoy!

10. “Are you gonna tell me you’re a fag?”

9. “Surf’s up…”

8. “That’s my middle name.”

7. “What’s it like coming out of the closet?”

6. “You looking to catch something?”

5. “What can I say — you’re beautiful.”

4. “I heard Mr. Johnson from shop class got his dick stuck in a vacuum cleaner.”

3. “Hey baby, nice hair cut. Be all you can be…how was Grenada?”

2. “So, what can a teen wolf do?”

1. “Can you do that anytime you want?”

Honorable mentions: “All sizes, no waiting!” and “How do you think he feels? He feels like a WINNER!”

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