Leg Fries

Leg Fries from Insomniac

I love surrealism. It can have deep meaning or just be weird for the sake of weirdness depending on who is viewing it, as well as their state of mind. With this piece you could wax lyrical about consumer culture and sex in advertising, or just admire the fine artwork. It is entirely up to you.

Author Tone

Author Tone by Fourscore

I had a teacher at school who would drive us all insane by droning on and on about the tone of an authors writing. Everything we read had to be examined, dissected and studied until we got to the point of hating it, then we would move on to the next text. I loathed that class, as did all the other students. I read for escape, for enjoyment. I don't want to pull it apart to see how it works. The funny thing is I remember watching an interview with a certain author, years after school, where he was discussing a particular book that I had been forced to analyse. The author debunked myths regarding certain hidden meanings in his book. The same hidden meanings that our teacher had proclaimed true and scolded us for not picking up on them. I wonder if that teacher ever saw that interview?

T.V. Crab

TV Crab from Insomniac

This is one of the most bizarre, yet coolest tshirts I have ever come across. I have no idea if the artwork pertains to something or if it is just surrealism for surrealism's sake. Either way I want one in my wardrobe.

Slices Of Wolf

Slices Of Wolf by Nicolas Barrome

I am not sure how to describe this. It is quirky, surreal and has a touch of humor. I really like the slice in the wolf's forehead revealing a pea for a brain. The style of the illustration, with the crossed eyes and tongue poking out, turn what should be a macarbe scene into something almost cute. There is something about this that appeals to me at a deep level and that is what art is all about.

La Nona

La Nona by Diego Verhagen

I guess you would describe this as pop surrealism meets steampunk, although to be honest I am not really sure. It is bizarre in a strangely comforting way. What I love is seeing something new done with the steampunk genre.

Balloons

Balloons from De Bellemort

 I love the crazy surreal aspect of this tee. Skulls as balloons has been done before but the fact that lots of different skulls (including some animal) have been used instead of repeating the same one sells this for me. It is from a French site whose name roughly translates as Lovely Death. Rather fitting I think.

Friendship

Friendship by Tangguh

This is one of those tees that really captured my imagination. Once you get past the surrealism of animals stranded on a small floating island, there is an amazing story happening. The zebra helping his enemy the tiger is a great metaphor for how we should all be treating each other. The fact that the tiger is pulling of his stripes shows that we may be hurt on our journey. It also helps tie the animals into the scene with its surreal aspect. The only gripe I have with this is that I would have liked to see it on a blue tee with some white clouds. That would of really given it a feeling of height and isolation. 

Jumping Brain Stencil

Jumping Brain Stencil by jumpingbrain

Although this is a printed shirt it looks like it uses a graffiti style stencil. Even the over spray has been included by the artist. The effect gives it a cool homemade, garage punk style that was really popular back in the 90's underground culture.

Badseed

Badseed from Electric Zombie

I was immediately drawn to this tee because of my childhood. Growing up around cars and heavy metal music flying eyeballs and skulls were normal. This shirt is something different though. At first the electrical cord threw me, but it did get me thinking. Being portrayed as an umbilical cord it seems to represent the technological culture that we find ourselves in. It is monstrous, obscene and bizarre. Are we supposed to be ready for it as soon as we are born, or should we unplug to be reborn?

Surrealist Bird

Surrealist Bird by Alan Maia

This amazing Escher homage is sadly unavailable. As it is on Threadless there is a chance it will be reprinted if there are enough requests. For now you can just dream and add it to the denial files.