"Japan Art" T-Shirt Design

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper,ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, kiri-e, kirigami, origami, and more recently manga—modern Japanese cartooning

 and comics—along with a myriad of other types of works of art. It has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the present.

Historically, Japan has been subject to sudden invasions of new and alien ideas followed by long periods of minimal contact with the outside world. Over time the Japanese developed the ability to absorb, imitate, and finally assimilate those elements of foreign culture that complemented their aesthetic preferences. The earliest complex art in Japan was produced in the 7th and 8th centuries in connection with Buddhism. In the 9th century, as the Japanese began to turn away from China and develop indigenous forms of expression, the secular arts became increasingly important; until the late 15th century, both religious and secular arts flourished. After the Ōnin War (1467–1477), Japan entered a period of political, social, and economic disruption that lasted for over a century. In the state that emerged under the leadership of the Tokugawa shogunate, organized religion played a much less important role in people's lives, and the arts that survived were primarily secular.

Painting is the preferred artistic expression in Japan, practiced by amateurs and professionals alike. Until modern times, the Japanese wrote with a brush rather than a pen, and their familiarity with brush techniques has made them particularly sensitive to the values and aesthetics of painting. With the rise of popular culture in the Edo period, a style of woodblock prints called ukiyo-e became a major art form and its techniques were fine tuned to produce colorful prints of everything from daily news to schoolbooks. The Japanese, in this period, found sculpture a much less sympathetic medium for artistic expression; most Japanese sculpture is associated with religion, and the medium's use declined with the lessening importance of traditional Buddhism.

Japanese ceramics are among the finest in the world and include the earliest known artifacts of their culture. In architecture, Japanese preferences for natural materials and an interaction of interior and exterior space are clearly expressed.

"Bloody Peace" T-Shirt Design

At least 170 million people were killed in wars in the twentieth century. 

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." 
— Voltaire

"Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?" 
— Laini Taylor

 "War is peace. 
Freedom is slavery. 
Ignorance is strength." 
— George Orwell 

"$nakes" T-Shirt Designs

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." — Mahatma Gandhi

"Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends." 
— Michael Bassey Johnson

"The real sharks are human" T-Shirt Design

"If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed."- P. J. O'Rourke


"In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself." 
— Henry A. Wallace

"In my world, people are always plotting. Youhave no idea of all the crimes people in business commit everyday. Like it was nothing. Or there’s a set of special rules for them.Remember when Bush made that whole speech about ‘corporateethics’ last year? What a fraud. You think stuff like Enron orWorldCom is an aberration? It’s only the tip. Business is a religion.Probably the only one practiced all over the world." — Andrew Vachss

"We killed our nature" T-Shirt Design

Earth has 'lost more than half its trees' since humans first started cutting them down.                         

 As to the "number of trees" this represents, it's impossible to get an accurate count. Tree density in primary forests varies from 50,000-100,000 trees per square km, so the math would put this number at 3 billion to 6 billion trees per year.

1. 13 million hectares of forest have been converted for other uses or destroyed by natural causes. While I’m writing this, almost 3 hectares have been cleared.
2. Up to 28,000 species can go extinct in the next quarter century due to deforestation.
3. By the year 2030, we might only have 10% of Rainforests left and it can all disappear in a hundred years.
4. 10% of the world’s forests are now protected areas. This is roughly the size of India.
5. Tropical Rainforests store more than 210 gigatons of carbon and deforestation is the cause of 15% of carbon emissions.
6. Cures for diseases have been found in plants and the raw materials come from our tropical rainforests.

"Pablo Escobar (Viva Colombia) " T-Shirt Design

The "King of Cocaine" was the son of a poor Colombian farmer, but by the time he was 35, he was one of the world's wealthiest men.

Despite his humble origins, Pablo Escobar became the leader of the Medellín cartel, which was responsible for 80% of the global cocaine market.

"El Patron" brought in an estimated $420 million a week in revenue, making him one of the wealthiest drug lords ever.

Once he started a fire with $2 million because his daughter was cold.

"King Doberman" T-Shirt Design

Doberman Pinschers were first bred in the town of Apolda, in the German state of Thuringia around 1890, following the Franco-Prussian War by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann. Dobermann served in the dangerous role of local tax collector, and ran the Apolda dog pound. With access to dogs of many breeds, he aimed to create a breed that would be ideal for protecting him during his collections, which took him through many bandit-infested areas. He set out to breed a new type of dog that, in his opinion, would be the perfect combination of strength, speed, endurance, loyalty, intelligence, and ferocity. Later, Otto Goeller and Philip Greunig continued to develop the breed to become the dog that is seen today

"U$A" T-Shirt Design

 In 1978, over two billion Valium tablets were sold.

In 2010, over sixty million Valium prescriptions were written.

Diazepam (Valium’s chemical name) has over 500 different brands worldwide.

Common side effects may include:

memory problems;

drowsiness, tired feeling;

dizziness, spinning sensation;

feeling restless or irritable;

muscle weakness;

nausea, constipation;

drooling or dry mouth, slurred speech;

blurred vision, double vision

"Colorful Native American" T-Shirt Design

An estimated 80% to 90% of 

this population died after the 

arrival of Europeans.

It's now estimated that between 80-100 million native people may have been killed as as result of the diseases which swept through North and South America. 

A Spanish priest by the name of Bartolomé de las Casas wrote in the mid 16th century that he estimated that his countrymen had killed 40 million natives.

"Prison of Gold" T-Shirt Design

The US, where the federal minimum wage is$7.25 per hour, or $6.26 after taxes, ranks 11th. Broken down by state, however, there is some variation among the 45 states that require a minimum wage, ranging from $9.05 per hour in Washington, DC, to $5.15 an hour in Georgia and Wyoming. 

The absolute lowest federal minimum wage is in Sierra Leone, where workers can expect just $0.03/hour. India is the lowest among larger economies with a $0.28/hour rate. Australia is at the opposite end of the spectrum, with a whopping $16.88 hourly mandated wage.