Cameesa - The Blog

Andrew Lockhart of Thinking Interactive introduced me to Jessica Hagy’s blog Indexed.  Jessica refers to Indexed as her project that let’s her make fun of things while making sense of others. As she puts it, “I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.”

Anyhow, I always have a good laugh every time I see a new index card.  One index card I especially liked was “This is what 2.0 means”.

On Friday Cameesa was featured in Webware. I’m glad Josh found the idea of crowdfunding interesting. Although he did mention that the selection slim was slim, the article was positive overall. The selection is slim right now,  and it’s steadily growing. Hopefully, the next time Josh visits we have a wider selection.

I’d like to thank our initial community for their participation on the site.  It’s growing quickly and things are going to become very interesting soon.

One of our artists, stevebalistreri, recently submitted a real-life design, the Flabongo. (http://cameesa.com/support/design/28/flabongo-evolution)

In my 26 years of existence, I have done my fair share of partying, but I have never encountered a Flabongo; hence, my inquiry on Steve’s post asking “what the hell is a blongo?” (http://cameesa.com/forum/post/12/new-design-flabongo)

Even after Steve explained the Flabongo concept, I was still somewhat puzzled, and skeptical of the Flabongo.

So, this past Saturday night, I attended a Lincoln Park house-party at a friend’s place. As midnight struck, a mysterious creature entered Brendan’s home. It was pink, had no legs, and its insides were ripped open. Lo and behold, the Flabongo had entered my life for the first time ever. I was stupefied and amazed as to what I was seeing. Who would have ever thought that I would see a design on Cameesa.com - for the first time ever - and get a real-life taste of it, only days later.

I flew off the couch and greeted the gentleman who brought the Flabongo into my life. As I approached him, he quickly jumped back because he thought that I was going to kiss him (note: it’s atypical to kiss strangers in Chicago…although it has been accomplished before.) I told him the entire Flabongo/Cameesa.com story but he clearly did not understand my amazement of Flabongo.

The moral of the story is : “Cameesa.com brings people together, whether in designs or real life.” I want to deeply thank Brendan for a great party, Steve for the Flabongo design, and the gentleman, whose name will remain confidential, for bringing Flabongo into my life…..I miss you dearly.

Cameesa was featured in Mashable yesterday. It’s a good article overall outlining our goals and questioning the value of crowdfunding. Read it here.

When sitting down and brainstorming a t-shirt design you can find inspiration from many places. One notable place I look to is street art due to its rawness and edge. I know many times when looking for the next t-shirt idea I do look at the work of Banksy, Faile and Shepard Fairy and other street artists to get the ball rolling. While searching for some inspiration and street art I came across the blog “Wooster Collective” that is dedicated to celebrating street art. There are lots of interesting works to get ideas from. (Image: Gunflower, in the streets of Paris, via Wooster Collective).