thoughts from gav & jof

Twin Peaks is a cult TV series and is still a firm favourite of mine. Surely, I thought, there must be a Twin Peaks Sheriff Department t-shirt somewhere on the internet. Well, there are t-shirts available but there's a catch….

My brother had already pointed out a t-shirt and mug design which can be bought on CafePress. The problem being a typo in the word Sheriff; there is one 'R' too many!  While there are other versions of this design elsewhere with the word Sheriff spelt correct I was not happy with the trees if you compare them to the various props listed below.

Bad examples from elsewhere

• Some misspelled Sherriff's Department Tees & Mugs at CafePress.
• Correct spelling on a sticker but using the same design from ozsticker.com.

Good examples of official Twin Peaks props

• Sheriff Department Cap at Props from Another Place.
• Sheriff Dept. Prop Decal (Original) at Twin Peaks Props.
• Twin Peaks T-Shirt photographed by Sam Howzit.

I decided I wanted my t-shirt to look like those seen in the movie props. Comparing Sam Howzit's t-shirt to the one on CafePress you can see that the colours are more subdued and the trees look like very different. So, set about to draw a vector illustration over the top of Sam's photo, using it as a guide. The artwork, as usual, is available for download below to use in your own designs.

Designs available on our streetshirts shop at http://www.streetshirts.co.uk/gavjof.

Feel free to download the illustrator artwork below and modify it for use in your own design. Just remember to attribute gavjof.com and to share your design under the same license.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Attached to this thread is the original artwork used in our Wing Chun Tee – the Siu Lim Tao (小念頭).
Wing Chun Kung Fu's 1st open hand form.
Chinese characters for Siu Lim Tao

Designs available on our streetshirts shop at 

Feel free to download the illustrator artwork below and modify it for use in your own design. Just remember to attribute gavjof.com and to share your design under the same license.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

It’s been quite some time since my last blog post. I’ve had a busy year. I’ve moved house and have had several other side-projects on the go which has left me with little time or motivation to keep my blog going. Jof and myself have started a new venture together which should help give the blog some direction.

I’ve got myself a Pro Flickr account now so we’re able to upload all of photos onto their for hosting.

I’ve also registed with Tumblr so I can do micro-bloggin about this new project. More about that later

2010 is also the year where I make an effort to train more so that I can keep myself in shape and hopefully broaden my skill set. I’ve already been training nigh on every weekend so far. This is good as it was one of my new years resolutions.

Well, boots actually. I just couldn’t resist the Twin Peak reference from Leo Johnson when he’s reduced to a vegetable dribbling on about new shoes.

Last weekend after looking at many boot sites we finally went through Newcastle and got ourselves a new pair of boots ready for this years activities. We had looked at several brands including Scarpa, Berghaus, Magnum, Caterpillar, Merrell and many more. We’d liked the look of the fullsize Magnum Boots, in particular the Elite Series and the Stealth Series, but the problem was finding a stockist in our area. We’d ventured into a good number of outdoor specialists in the past and could not find any. Already owning a pair of excellent Merrell Chameleon II Kahuma Sandals, I knew they were good quality but wanted something different.

The Scarpa Boots looked very expensive, very good, but perhaps a bit overkill for what we’d be using them for. Again, Cat Boots were expensive and the styling did not immediately grab my attention. Berghaus had a good range, but again they were expensive, looked suiting for someone doing mountaineering and were ridiculous colours. I mean wearing a pair of these Quake 3 moon boots would look the norm for Sarge, but I don’t think I could put them on my feet. Read more

A nice little animation depicting a violent russian-esque mario.