Spray painting versus Screen printing verus Painting, Photography and Sculpture

What happens when they all meld together. For sculpture I am refering to molded items, not so much carving things. For photography I am refering to the photographic process and using photographic images in graphical compositions, not just literal photographic display. Painting ain't so much painting as mixing colors and painting around printed objects. Spray painting by using stencils of graphic images and regenerating them onto objects and transfer mediums. Screen printing is what it is since there is no one typical way the screen printing is represented by. A mish mash of the graphic techniques I mentioned above, in no specific order, are what I am currently working on, so I can't really give the stuff a name other than research. I keep going back and forth with what the final product should be, but the applications are more interesting than the end result.

Candles are one potential final product as they are marketable in small quantities. I've made spray painted trucker hats, but they have more of a limited market than candles. T-shirts are the obvious potential product and by randomly composing a set of images on t-shirts virtually and I almost have something ready to roll out there. Mousepads, everyone needs one of those, and they sell too, almost too easy. Magnets fit this same category, but at least they are small and anyone can purchase them for fun since they are cheap. Pictures/Paintings are fun, but not an everyday item that people are willing to spend money on and therefore they are good for display purposes. Plus the Photo Fresco plaster pictures I've been making are quite heavy and dangerous. The Black Velvet prints are marketable in a small way. Oh, what to do?

I just keep running from one thing to another, with each leg of the journey advancing some other part of the research. However, I have to reach the end of the course somewhere along the way and make a little money, I just don't want to stop and make the things I keep coming up with. It's much more fun to invent and create than to finish things and sell them.

It's not easy being Green - American Apparel faces the facts

The fact is that survival in corporate america isn't easy, especially when you sell out. American Apparel tried to sell out, everyday, and it isn't working. Selling out is the American Way, so this is an obvious path for the company to have taken, but don't get fooled again. This isn't just about the libido of Dov Charney, this is about profitability and extortion. The financiers that control the clothing industry of this country have a strangle hold on the companies that work in this country and right now is not a good time to have debt. The debt is what is destroying the stock value of American Apparel and the profitability of the company would be sufficient if it weren't for the exhorbant interest rates that are being charged to the short-term financing and covenents that are restricting the ability of the company to post a profit. I am not saying that the other realities like over-expansion and negligence on the part of the administration aren't obvious problems, but that shit happens all the time from Apple to the White House, so stop throwing stones. Face the facts that the very people that made American Apparel what it is are upset because they can't profit as much as they want. REMEMBER PUTNEY SWOPE! SAVE AMERICAN APPAREL!

Earthqualkke - Quick Jolt Medium

Just woke up in time to feel an Earthquake, it took a few minutes to find a reference to it online, but it was around a 3.0 and it was a quick little jolt that
did a little structural shaking. No major rattling around, just a bump, bump, bump.

Success - Failure - Success - Failure

I can't see the forest for the trees, but I know if I keep cutting down trees eventually I will have a better view. This is how it feels my world filled from morning to night with experimental materials and schemes. I can't seem to stop figuring ways to mix one product with another to try and get to a final product, that I can no longer figure out what it is. I've got laboratories set up everywhere I go with a painting technique here a molding technique there, a drying area under the hood of my old F250 truck and gallery built into the back of my Mitsubishi truck. Every square inch of my back yard has some purpose, from the stump for cleaning brushes to my craps table for flattening out and applying gesso to canvas. I've even got plaster frames hanging from my deck by strings like a deer being cleaned so that can test the bond of the hangin hooks I've installed hoping the pieces don't crash to the ground. It's a big mess with me being pulled from one type of experiment to the other and I know longer am sure just what the hell I am making any more.

Today I did get to a product that I could describe as a metal sticker. My oldest daughter thought it was absurd, but I am impressed with the flexibility of the material I have concocted. I can figure some other ways to use this technique, but I am not sure what it is that people need. I spent a good part of the afternoon thinking about what is something that everyone has, or wants, besides money, and I can't come up with anything that isn't electronic that people have a definite need for that is decorative and simple.

How American Apparel retail customers are being ripped off

Slowly American Apparel has restricted the flow of it's products to the wholesale market to create a monopoly in the retail market for their basic t-shirts. The end result is that the consumer is being ripped off by higher prices than are reasonable for their basic t-shirts. As a reseller of t-shirts for screenprinting I find this alarming in many ways. Number one it eliminates a major product from my offerings which restricts who I can and cannot print for because of the availability of American Apparel t-shirts. Two, it has affected my ability to increase my market share by being forced out of the market for basic American Apparel t-shirts. Three, it has limited my companies ability to create a profit from buying and selling t-shirts.

Is this legal? Is this right? My personal opinion is that is not legal and there is definite harm being done to the consumer so that American Apparel can increase it's profits in an unfair way. I am not sure how far I can go to fight this, but it is alarming that they have gotten this far by implementing such a non-American strategy in the manipulation of the pricing of their products to the retail customer.

Blank - This blog intentionally left blank

Choosing a name for a blog is as depressing as starting a new blog. The whole subject of what I am trying to write about has been destroyed by the fact that I had to choose a name for the location that I am going to write about something at first. In this case I am trying to make t-shirts that are blank, but that are printed with the phrase, "this t-shirt intentionally left blank". I wanted to make it personal, by naming the blog "billyt" or "billyts", but no go. So I ended up using the store name for my retail establishment in Los Angeles, Y-Que. Although that was not directly available, so I had to use "YQueTrading", which is linked from here on in as "http://yquetrading.blogspot.com". W/E. So much for being personal, now I feel like I am being forced to be commercial because I don't want a slick name. La, La, La. This should be better for business anyway.


This is going to be my street corner, my yelling spot, my place to go to show stupid things to the world. So far I have only the Blank T-shirt to go forward with, although I did spend a large part of my day making cat designs, I don't take those serious enough to write about them in detail. I should, but I will save that for later. Blank t-shirts are my last salvation and because I am a printer I can't really be successful by selling blank t-shirt all the time, which is why I am making this line of blank t-shirts with the phrase, "this t-shirt intentionally left blank". My biggest decision is whether I should print the design in black ink so that it is readable, or if I should print it in clear ink so that only upon close inspection would someone know what is printed on the shirt. By printing the shirt in the latter fashion the shirt can still be sold as a blank t-shirt, whereas by making the t-shirt readable it would only be another ironic t-shirt pointing to it's own stupidity.