again with the pictures, this one

i keep losing cameras! luckily i only buy cheap used digicams, so it's kind of like losing a crappy pair of sneakers. however, i just bought another cam the other day (thank jeebus for kijiji) so i took the opportunity to take a few snaps of some of the latest prints that have been cooking through the conveyer belt as of late. for more pictures and/or to view more about the shirt in question, just click on the pic.


1984 charcoal (viva antiga)



ATAK (red)


men in orange




killbots (red & grey) did you know that my high school colors were red and grey?




1984 (yellow) i'm feelin' the camo.

sorry to say, none of these shirts are currently available for order. you'll have to wait another 6 months for that. boo hiss.

hey, i did get one entry for our contest, and i will be giving that man a couple of free shirts whether i use his ideas or not (i probably will, he sent a few and a couple of them are quite good). but seeing as i'm a super lazy ass layabout it will probably take me a little while yet to post that information, so feel free to enter yourself and possibly win some zb goodness.

shirts are 95% printed and are shipping this week. unfortunately the
11998844 track jackets and zip-ups have been delayed for another few days, but those will go out soon. everyone else that ordered stuff before the june 8th deadline will be seeing that stuff very shortly. and don't forget that the next deadline is coming up fast- july 2nd, the day after canada day of course, which will be midnight, next wednesday.

one more little tidbit: i am doing an inventory of shirts i have on hand and will be working to bring back the in stock page, hopefully by as soon as the end of this weekend, for those who like their shirts both fresh and fast. the cool thing is that there will be some new stuff in there as well as a few older classics; as we go through and print new shirts every 3 weeks we inevitably print a few extras, and those i will post on the in stock page on an ongoing basis as well. because life is all about choice. is it not?

nwo v. holy frack

defaced

does what happens in the facebook stay in the facebook?

print update

we're still waiting for the blanks to arrive for the last batch of shirts- the supplier messed up and they wound up sitting in their warehouse for 3 days before they actually got sent... >:( so anyway it means we won't be able to start printing until tuesday, however everything should be completely wrapped up by friday, after which all of the remaining orders will be sent via airmail. many of you could potentially be seeing your stuff by the following week (june 23-27) and almost everybody should have their gear by july- just in time for summer.

plug alert: i've been a fan of group hug for a while now: the confession site is a cool concept that works well in the context of the internet. i recently discovered another similar site called creepy confessions that does more or less the same thing, but with a definite element of badassery added for good measure. because what's the point of being bad if no one knows about it?

oh my frackin' gods

if you can't tell from this post's headline, i am a fan of battlestar galactica. i think it's the best sf show of all time, and possibly the best show period. so yeah, i like it a little. so this post is about bsg and if you ain't down with the bsg then you ain't down with me.

so did you see "revelations" last night?



spoiler alert

i thought it was overall kind of a weak episode, that is until the end of course, which was mind-blowing. the whole thing just had a rushed feel, like they were trying to cram so much stuff into one hour that there was no time to explore the ramifications of what was happening. i mean appollo giving the coordinates of earth to the cylons just like that? and then adama being just kind of ok with it? granted, he had just discovered that his best friend was a toaster and he was probably in shock, but still, come on. it was just all a little hard to swallow. it doesn't help that i don't nor have i ever liked appollo- he's a whiny, bitchy spoiled hothead, and it's hard to feel empathy for him. and this episode seemed to focus on him a lot, which was boo.

however that ending!! of course one of the huge questions for this season was "if they find earth, when exactly in earth's history will they arrive?" i was kind of rooting for present day earth, either that or back in the paleolithic age, but honestly for some reason i just didn't see a post-apocalyptic earth coming. what a great fracking way to end the search for earth- and so in tune with the whole overarching struggle the surviving humans (and now cylons) have gone through: just when freedom seems within grasp, a new problem presents itself.

so apparently there will be no new episodes for at least several months. fracking hell.

anyway enough about that. zbq rock banners coming to a bedroom near you. bigger prints. more styles. less filler, more killer. always on zb radio.

new prints for june

june is a nice month. why can't it be june all the time? there ought to be a law.

as threatened, june 9th has come and gone and so have the 9 prints that were available for order- in the zbq vault for at least 6 months. but in their place i bring you 9 other morsels of deliciousness for your amygdala to fillibrate.

what if you threw a contest and noone came? a few days ago i posted a contest looking for help in naming this next print. well, maybe 3 days just wasn't long enough, because noone took the bait. not wanting to call it "no name", i decided to name it jade starr because, well, that's the girl's name. if you can come up with a better one i'll still consider changing it and giving you the free shirts! but it better be a good one. thanks to eon mckai for the photo that inspired this design.


i'm happy to have another new print to offer you today: meet duvelle.


the rest of this month's batch of goodies are a mix of old and new. first up: robin antiga's 1948 inverse and 1948 blue


another creepy favorite from way back with a new twist: white wasp and white wasp (pink)


proving your vote does count: manko received a lot of votes, so i brought it back. i'll be watching the vote tallies to decide what to bring back in july.



remember the ghetto princess? yeah, so do i. and i still love her. so here are 2 variations on her loveliness for you: orange princess and pink princess.


new order deadline is july 2nd. happy june!

all city, new art

locals only: i will be giving away shirts tonight (saturday june 7th) at all city, the soul/funk/disco/r&b night at the tribeca (1583 granville). the only stipulation of getting a shirt is that you have to put it on right away and then dance with it on. but not like a fake dance you're just doing to get the shirt- you have to really mean it (i find that liquor can help with that). and thanks to djs jorun, gordski and double a's extra helpings of motown, stevie wonder, chic, kool & the gang, parliament and way more funke by the tonne than could possibly be measured by instruments known to man, that's not usually a problem.

working behind the scenes on some new zb freshosity for ya eyeballs: several in-house designs, some amazing new things from robin antiga, slawek kasolka and (possibly, fingers crossed) jason nelson as well. only 2 days left to order the current selection of prints: on tuesday june 10th i will be posting 9 new prints and these 9 will go into the vault for a minimum of 6 months:

   
   
   

rollin' rollin' rollin'....

contest time

well it's about time i got back to having contests on this site. time was, oh lessee, way back round about 2003/2004, i used to have a monthly contest on the site and give away shirts right, center and left. well those glory days of yonder time are back! starting today, i will make it my duty to post a new contest every 3 weeks, probably within the first week or so after posting the newest 9 designs (i post 9 different designs available for print every 3 weeks- usually a mix of old and new. the current batch will end on june 9th, then the next group will go live on june 10th). alright, enough nannering! let's get this potty stotted yul...


this is a print i've been working on for some time. it's the first 6 color zbq design and it's based on a photo sent to me by eon mckai (link nsfw), who makes very interesting dirty pictures and was also the man behind the lens for the photo that became hawaii 84, hawaii 2084 and hawaii blue. anyway, i printed a few of these the other day and it's turned out pretty much as planned, i'm pretty stoked on the 6 colors and i am planning another 6 color soon.







so here's the thing: usually i'm pretty good at coming up with clever titles for the designs, but with this one i seem to be coming up short. and so i need your help. if you can come up with a cool name for this design that i decide to use, you'll win a shirt of your choice with this print on it, plus another shirt of your choice (from either the current print run or the next one going live on the 10th). plus you'll help to make t-shirt history, right here live on the ol' intertube.



all you need to do is to send us off a quick e-mail to zero@zeroboutique.com with your suggestion(s) (and yes, please feel free to make more than one!!!!). i'll post all the entries on the 10th and announce the weiner. thanks for your help kids!!!!!

sassy new pictures

hey everybody. i've just posted a bunch of new photos to the visualiser. click on the pictures to go directly to that t-shirt.

first of all, kevin carroll from a digital cure sent us some very nice pics recently. i'm hoping to get some more flicks from mr. carroll soon, and when i do you'll be the first to know.


vampire in paris


the zb sports bra. hoping to have these available on the site before too long.


undead paris


undead paris


undead paris

i also dug out a few photos snapped by our friend sarah devenne that had previously been posted on zerotique:


inverse princess (hubbah)


oblique inverse


vampire in paris

and i also posted some pictures of some shirts that should have had photos put up a long time ago but which i never quite got around to (until now):


undebs


motherhood (cream)


loca (pic courtesy of superlicious)


dirk wears black sox


manko


connections (nice package)


1984 inverse (once again thanks superlicious)


dirk wears red sox


che grovera


war is hell (gabbey!!)

and just because i'm in a pic-postin' kind of a mood, here's a look at the new way we're printing the logos now: they're quite a bit bigger and they come up farther on the shirts at a bit of an angle. i think it looks cool:




damn, i have a pretty cute tush, don't i?

and just because i can, and because it's got absolutely nothing to do with anything, here's a picture of me in one of my favorite shirts:



so it's high time we got back to having good old-fashioned contests on this site, and to that end i am going to post a new contest tomorrow: i have a new shirt design i've been working on and for which i've printed a few prototypes, but i haven't come up with a name for it yet. so if you come up with a clever enough name that we use for it, you'll win one of the new shirts plus one of your choice. so keep your eyes peeled, potatoes.