This monday we've got two new shirts to offer. Without further hesitation the first one of them is „Moosh.“ It features humans taking a serious beating from a superfly – this insect clearly feels that it's our time to suffer. The design is by GUS, thanks a lot for the nightmares I'm about to have!
The other new shirt is „Become a legend“ which is available in two different versions; gold and silver prints on black shirts. So, this one goes to the all the people that either support making the final solution or are desperate for fame at any cost. This one's by Connect!
Berlin is cursed. I've only been here for a day now and it seems that I'm heading from an accident to another; yesterday my laptop case broke when I was sitting on a bus and now I have to haul the damn thing from a handle, which is really inconvenient. Not that it even matters because I forgot the recharger back home and now I'm sitting at the office with a dead battery. All my work files are on my laptop and I've spent half of the last two nights working on finalizing a presentation for our french boss Guillaume to see. I pretty much got finished with it 9AM today after which the laptop died on me and I noticed the missing recharger. I've spent 2 hours searching for a replacement with no success.
Besides that there was only icecold water in the shower this morning (well, at least that certainly woke me up in a matter of seconds but I almost my brain washing my hair), Mike spilled his coffee and we briefly locked ourselves outside the office door on cigarette break. Yeah, I know I've quit but today's such a trainwreck I can't handle it without nicotine.
Yesterday was really nice though. I visited the East Side Gallery with our german blogger Mike and his bunch for a lovely day of painting graffiti. We both did laFraise-stuff; he painted our logo and I did a fairly large piece. My photos from yesterday are on my laptop so I won't be able to share them with you before friday but here's one by Mike:
My piece is on the far left. I'll post better pictures as soon as I can.
The world can be a rough place for a t-shirt junkie. While having a vast reserve of these comforting and soothing wearable cotton blankets with pretty and ingenious prints is a must people need to eat too. A steak would be nice every now and then (or whatever the vegetarian's choice might be) but with so many shirts out there it's more like noodles day after day for many of us. This is where we come to the rescue! As you know, there are various ways of getting our own currency, brouzoufs (or "bonjours" as my friends call them), to your user account. The most effective one is to join our affliate program by linking us on your website.
Read more about this from the affliate page, but the idea is actually pretty simple. You puts up links, we gets traffic, peoples buy shirts, you gets 10% of teh sales, everyone can has cheezburgers.
It's working for me, make it work for you too!
Being awake at this hour of the night (I've actually been awake since 3AM) on sunday is ungodly. But hey, I'm doing it for a reason – little after 9AM the whole 96 kilos of me become airborne again as I head down to Berlin. In the land of huge sausages and maids that serve beer 1 litre at a time I will first meet Mike today (we plan to paint graffiti together later today, pics will be posted) and our powerpuff boys from France, Guillaume and Lâm, tomorrow.
My stay will last until next friday and I'm pretty sure it'll be an adventure even if most of the time will be spent sitting in our office. I already screwed up booking the hotel (even if Guillaume kindly served me the info on a plate) because I was ever so busy and simply forgot about the whole thing. On friday it became painfully obvious to me that even though Berlin is a huge city for a small town guy like myself the hotel capacity doesn't quite meet with the size of it. Well, now I've booked myself a room in a hostel for the first two nights and the damn thing looks like something that has been lost in time since the 60's – they actually have a "YELLOW SUBMARINE LOUNGE."
I survived Paris without anything else than a "merci beaucoup" and a retarted smile on my face but the trouble with Berlin is that I don't really know how to say "thank you very much" in german. I only know words like "leatherpants" ("lederhosen"), "a tank" ("panzerwagen" – this is my absolute favourite because it sounds very manly) and "faster, faster" ("schnell, schnell"). The way I'm thinking it's not probably a good idea to upset the locals with those. While Mike is really friendly and mellow guy by all means I'm not quite sure Dieter, Franz, Jürgen and Karl-Heinz are. ^_^
To make sure you have a nice selection of shirts to choose from we decided to release yet another shirt. "Pi(s)" is our newest one – 500 of these beauties available in silver. The design is Laurent, thanks!
"Pi(s)" in our store
We also know that if there's anything our community loves more than the laFraise shirts it's getting a nice discount on them. As you've propably noticed we have a pretty large stock of shirts at the moment and that gives you a nice chance to purchace some of the recently released ones for 11€. Check out pages 3 & 4 in our store – even the Barbapapa shirts (which I feel we just released) are included in the offer!
A friday game with this same idea has actually been used a couple of times before but I do love music and I do love trivia. So, download an mp3-file from here. It contains 10 clips and your job is to name the artists and the tunes.
List them like this:
1. Artist – Song
…
10. Artist – Song
The first user to get all 10 of them right wins enough brouzoufs for a t-shirt or his / her choice from our selection (shipping included). The game shouldn't be too tough but if nobody gets all 10 of them the user with the biggest number of correct answers by midnight (GMT) tonight will be announced the winner. Have fun. :)
…will be here in a few minutes. I'm currently exporting the audio file for it and that takes a little while.
In the meantime: I know many of the winners of the friday games haven't had their brouzoufs yet. I'm extremely sorry about that – things have been really hectic lately here at laFraise and I delivered the list of the winners late to Camille. Now she's been way too busy to do the transfers. I hope you accept my apologies and I promise you the brouzoufs are on their way. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
This week is just packed with the nicest shirts. After the triple release we’re now doing a double!
Let’s start with “You Rock.” A HUGE print with lovely halftones leaves me in total awe. This is exactly the direction where I think laFraise should be heading more and more – high up in the air with trendsetting design work from the 21st century. It’s not us that rock but you, Cuypi!
The second shirt we’ve got today isn’t a bit worse than the first one. Theoze has definitely gone the extra mile with showing us that using 4 colors isn’t really a limitation if you decide not to treat it as such. You can achieve pretty much all the colors of the rainbow with them if you know what you’re doing and “Colorz make me happy” certainly illustrates that like never before.
Dudes, keep up the good work. I think I just fell in love with these!
"You rock" in our store
"Colorz make me happy" in our store
