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Author Topic: Greetings from Wiltshire  (Read 1338 times)

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Greetings from Wiltshire
« on: September 28, 2009, 08:38:33 AM »
Hi everyone,

I'm new here but wanted to join as; a) I'm a geek (although out of 11 I'd say I was more of a 5!) and b) I am launching my own clothing label/range of t-shirts in November (website 'n' all!  How exciting) and it is YOU guys and gals who are my target market (basically I make designs that me and my friends would wear!).  Best way to describe them is geek chic.  A mix of old school computer and console stuff, sci-fi, music and 50's, 70's, 80's and 90's pop culture (not the 60's...it was too hippy :P ).

Anyways, I just wanted to formally introduce myself and will be adding too discussions as well as starting my own over the coming days, weeks, months etc...

I will also be updating how things are going with the label and providing info and links et al!

For those interested, my company/label is called Louwax (hence my screen name).  Anyone who wants to know where that name comes from can feel free to ask.

Will 8-)
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Re: Greetings from Wiltshire
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2009, 09:49:19 AM »
What time is it on the moon?
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Re: Greetings from Wiltshire
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2009, 10:33:50 AM »

Quote from: Louwax on September 28, 2009, 08:38:33 AM
and it is YOU guys and gals who are my target market (basically I make designs that me and my friends would wear!).  Best way to describe them is geek chic. 

I measure about 11 on the Geek Scale. I'm 6'7" and weigh 495 lbs. My waistline measures about 7 feet. I am so glad that someone is finally making chic apparel that I can wear! I have been a long-ignored demographic.

What about underwear?

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Re: Greetings from Wiltshire
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2009, 10:38:30 AM »
Also, that slight against the 60s and us aging hippies was offensive and ignorant. I'll wear your clothes, since you are designing them just for me, but only after I tie-dye them out of all recognition. It's what we do.


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Re: Greetings from Wiltshire
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2009, 10:57:12 AM »








Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era -- the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run ... but no explanation, no mix of words or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant ...

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history," it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights -- or very early mornings -- when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L.L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket ... booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) ... but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that ...

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda ... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning ...

And that, I think, was the handle -- that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting -- on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave ...

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

--Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Re: Greetings from Wiltshire
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2009, 04:51:07 AM »
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