Tickler brand ukulele T-shirt

Artist Amy Crehore designed the logo for the Tickler brand ukulele, and you can get it on a T-shirt. I think it's beautiful!

Very nice quality white, heavyweight, unisex t-shirts, 100% cotton, pre-shrunk. This 3-color silkscreen t-shirt was made from an original ink drawing by artist Amy Crehore. For ukulele lovers, cat lovers, girl lovers, little pierrot lovers, & polka-dot shoe lovers.

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• [krylon]

  Somewhere in the world there must be a discussion of the use of footwear in nude portraiture, both erotic and non-erotic.

  Thinking entirely off the cuff, in pornography it seems to serve three purposes (in declining order of importance):
  1. keeping the performer’s feet clean as they go around the set (utilitarian)
  2. titillation of the audience (practical, in the sense they serve to further the purpose of the work)
  3. creation of an air of spontaneity on behalf of the performers (subtle practicality)

  Again these are just my guesses and directors/photographers probably could give far better insight.

  But in art? What purpose does it serve here? How are Amy’s goals met not only by the use of shoes but of decorative ankle ribbons? The ribbons were what inspired me to write this. They do not appear to have been left on after disrobing, quite the opposite: the ribbons are the sole nod to typical clothing. She has not picked up the ukulele after growing tired midway through playing dress up, she IS dressed up.

  There are likely also connotations involved in artistic nudes that gingerly hide the most sexual parts that I am not qualified to discuss and make any comparisons to erotic nudes that much more difficult. Regardless, it is a fascinating picture, as are nearly all of Amy’s works.

• [Neill S Mitchell Esq.]

  I do hope that one day I can become smart enough to understand why repeated images of creepy Pierrots, kitties and bloody Ukuleles is a worthy subject for so much BB space.

  I’m not expecting an answer, as I have seen what happens to posters who do not share the authors love of Amy. See http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/09/amy-crehores-deja-vu.html for the ‘if you don’t like it shut up’ post.

• [fenixpollo]

  Great design. Thanks for sharing such unique clothing.

  The girl’s big feet and gangly legs give me the impression that she’s a teenager. So wearing this shirt around would be like wearing a sign that says “Pedophile!”

• [RugerRedhawk]

  $32 shipped.

• [mirrormonkey]

  #10: boing boing bingo needs more crehore

• [Squashy]

  I guess if you ask Amy Crehore to design something for you, you can at least be pretty sure about what you are going to get.

• [jjasper]

  If you’re a francophile uke fan in the NY metro area, check out Les Chauds Lapins. I saw them play with TMBG and was wowed.

• [Mark Temporis]

  The bipedal kitties make the whole picture. Very cute.

• [Mark Frauenfelder]

  #4: I guess you might think that if you have a sick mind. How sad.

• [Tgg161]

  In case there are other ukulele players out there saying to themselves, “I’ve never heard of this brand,” here’s the previous BB link:
  http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/20/amy-crehores-tickler.html

• [grey]

  It’s an intriguing image, but I can’t get past the idea the pierrot is staring at her butt crack and is mildly shocked by what he sees.

• [Paula Wirth]

  I think someone just won BoingBoing Bingo.
  http://www.boingboingbingo.net/