Stickers! Stickers! Stickers!

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Thu May 27, 2010 6:32 pm

So about two years ago I offered to develop an Ice Pirates logo for Taco (I was a graphic designer in my distant youth). Two years went by without much happening, when suddenly a month ago I experienced a burst of creative vigor and started grinding out designs based loosely on a Jolly Roger figure with ice tools.

Once I discovered the term "Ice Pirates" is closely associated in the hivemind with a cheesy scifi movie from that distant time when I was a graphic designer, I thought to myself, "This will not do," and settled on a Teutonic replacement that has a more Alpine ring to it: Eispiraten.

There's a website and everything (click it and see what happens).

I know Taco is thinking about turning this forum into some kind of more general site for SoCal mountaineering, and should that effort move further along there is already a domain (several, in fact) up and waiting. But in the meantime, we have STICKERS!

So anyone who sends me a street address will receive all the stickers he or she can eat, free of charge.

Now, I would never, ever suggest that people liberally plaster these stickers on public or private property without authorization; that would be vandalism. But what I personally often do with stickers is leave stacks of them in bars and coffee houses. By chance, they magically find their own way onto nearby walls, street signs, windows, etc. Handing them out to schoolchildren works wonders, as well.

So send your mailing address to stickers@badharvest.net .

Variations on the final design, as well as abortive gropings towards perfection, can be see at this link.

Stickers are cheap. The can be given away by the hundreds. Tee-shirts, on the other hand, cost real money. So do embroidered patches. If there is enough interest and firm commitment, I can get shirts made. But a minimum order is 124 shirts.

Zach · Post by **Zach** » Thu May 27, 2010 8:54 pm

Oh hell yeah! PM sent.

TracieB · Post by **TracieB** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:54 am

Thanks for the stickers!!

8) Let's see how much trouble the stick em ups can get into in the OC bwaaahhhaaahaa!

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 11:37 am

In my business, we hand out logo stickers at every opportunity. One is included in every product package, for example. Tracie got a few with the Eispiraten stickers.

My office is here in the barrio, and every few weeks these two little Mexican kids, maybe 10 years old, come round begging for stickers. We give them all they want. I suspect they take them to school and sell them to the other kids. Very enterprising; they will go far.

During the last two weeks they have been back TWICE because now I give them Eispiraten stickers too. They are into the skulls.

I don't give them Bad Harvest stickers because that site is not appropriate for children.

Post by **Taco** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:12 pm

Reckon maybe the guy who runs the site should maybe have one or two.

TracieB · Post by **TracieB** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:47 pm

simonov wrote: I don't give them Bad Harvest stickers because that site is not appropriate for children.

I wasn't going to mention that ... some of those subject lines even scared me off!

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:44 pm

Moar sticker designs coming soon, if I can convince he sticker printers to do me a deal:

And for Zach:

cougarmagic · Post by **cougarmagic** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:56 pm

First!

Post by **Taco** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:51 pm

Nice!

We need some non-skull ones. Skulls are all hip and shit these days with the dang hipster kids and their silly hats and no-bathing and whatnot.

I know, nice to say this now, since I kinda drew the design up initially and whatnot. Mebbe we can have some SGMDF one that's kinda basic?

"SGMDF: Bigass Ham"

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Sun Jun 06, 2010 7:11 am

Oh, hell, I never liked skulls in the first place. Never got into them.

cougarmagic · Post by **cougarmagic** » Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:11 am

TacoDelRio wrote:We need some non-skull ones.

Oh, hell, I never liked skulls in the first place.

Oh fer cryin out loud! My helmet went out of style in only one day!!

Post by **Taco** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:11 am

That was the plan...

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:47 pm

My car restoration is now officially complete:

Post by **Taco** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:40 pm

Wow, surprised you put the Ice Pirate sticker on yer El Camino.

Thanks again, Mitch.

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 2:22 pm

Post by **Taco** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:59 am

BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYES!!!!!!

BIG. ASS. HAM.

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:13 pm

How to get seven different designs on one silkscreen sheet:

Let's see if the printers go for it.

Post by **Taco** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:28 pm

Holy crap, are you gonna print all of those?

We should have a contest on here... CREATING THREAD.

TracieB · Post by **TracieB** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:08 pm

No way are you going to get the Ice Princesses to represent with a sticker that says "BIG ASS HAM". At least, not this big ass....LOL

but I like the California republik one...please please

Post by **Taco** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:53 am

I'll rock the living crap out of the big ass ham one.

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:20 am

Dudes and dudettes:

We might bring a lot more traffic to this site by taking Eispiraten stickers on climbs and leaving piles of them in summit registers.

Just an idea.

Post by **Taco** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:35 pm

We should have ones that say, "Does this piss you off? Look at all these damn stickers up in yo register!" with the URL underneath.

TracieB · Post by **TracieB** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:30 am

Your Big A$$ Ham and Eispiraten stickers are now rockin the register atop Mt. Whitney 8) thanks to a super agent who shall remain anonymous..... bwaahhaa!

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:06 pm

Just got some crash damage fixed. Stickers were the first thing to go back on:

Post by **Taco** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:27 pm

Huzzah!

simonov · Post by **simonov** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 8:29 am

Visited the top of Bighorn Peak yesterday. Left some stickers in the register box:

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 4:22 pm

What the heck is up with this "Big Ass Ham" thing??

HJ

lilbitmo · Post by **lilbitmo** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:42 pm

Hikin_Jim wrote:What the heck is up with this "Big Ass Ham" thing??

HJ

Taco likes things that are off the the wall - Thus the TACO Del Rio (it's a taco stand by his house)

Bad Ass Ham is something David Letterman used to remark about when someone would "win" something - I see you "won a Bad Ass Ham" something like that - check "You Tube" it might be on there.

Post by **Taco** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:33 am

Big ass ham, not bad ass ham. Can't be badass if you got slaughtered and your leg is offered in stores.

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:45 am

TacoDelRio wrote:Big ass ham, not bad ass ham. Can't be badass if you got slaughtered and your leg is offered in stores.

He might be bad ass -- if you're eating the butcher's leg.

HJ

(I really need to get more sleep)