Behind the T-shirt: Meteor Crater Arizona

In February 2005, I drove cross-country with my brother and a Green Giant Little Sprout telephone. We took the mid-southern route along Interstate 40, which is the old fabled Route 66.

Not far off I-40 in Winslow, Arizona is a landmark called Meteor Crater.

(from meteorcrater.com) -

Meteor Crater is the breath-taking result of a collision between a piece of an asteroid traveling at 26,000 miles per hour and planet Earth approximately 50,000 years ago. Today, Meteor Crater is nearly one mile across, 2.4 miles in circumference and more than 550 feet deep.

Here is a 70's or early 80's souvenir t-shirt from this very place. It is soft and thin and silky and lovely. It may have been touched by aliens or alien dust.

T-shirt available on Etsy here.

More photos with Scout the Sprout here.

Crazy Critters and the Downtown Asheville Hurricane of Vintage T-shirts

I recently went downtown Asheville with a hamper of my finest Skippy Haha Vintage t-shirts.

Alli Marshall of Asheville StreetStyle had arranged for local rock band The Critters to meet up and shoot a video for their song "Visions of Light."

The rough concept was for them to try on a shirt, come through the Flat Iron, pose for the camera, go around back, take it off and try on another shirt, ad infinitum, until the hamper was empty. Something sped-up and lighthearted like the intro to the Monkees TV show.

What actually happened was, as the Mountain Xpress said - total mayhem. It was a hurricane of t-shirts, a t-shirt-ornado. No one could have been prepared for the energy and enthusiasm displayed by those Critters.

Here is the video, expertly edited by Steve Shanafelt of the Mountain Xpress. You can see me at the end, as shirts are being flung into the trees of Wall Street, silently screaming in my head "AAAAACKKK! My precious heirlooms! Save my precious heirlooms!"

No really, it was fun. Really fun. It was all over in under 10 minutes. I came home and washed all the shirts.

Mountain Xpress article here