For the past couple weeks I’ve been working on a website. It’s not done but it doesn’t make my computer explode anymore, so here is a preliminary site for Trishaw Mafia. Trishaw Mafia makes T-Shirts, only with three arms instead of two. It’s going to change everything. Now people can pick up three times as many things and hold a hula hoop more efficiently, all thanks to modern T-Shirt Technology. Which is a joke. Trishaw Mafia is (at this point) literally a few people with a laptop, iron and T-Shirts who make funny T-Shirts. Sri Lanka is, above all, a very funny place, usually unintentionally. As such, my favorite shirts are the ‘Ah Nangi’ and the club time-saver, ‘You Know Who My Father Is?’ There is also the Vondutchburgher, which is both offensive and a copyright violation.

The T-Shirts are designed by Deshan (pictured here. You can also request stuff. I’ve found that T-Shirts are a great canvas to think of ideas from and I’ve begun meticulously photographing some funny things I see on Trishaws and public transport. It’s also relatively simple to sketch up a design and turn it into a T-Shirt. Some of my favorite things I’ve seen are the eagles on the back of trishaws, and the ‘No Weapons on Board’ sticker. Also ‘Gread Power’. I’d also like some T-Shirts with fake sports teams, like the Battaramulla Swamp Rats, or the Kollupitiya Bombs. But I digress. The designs as they are is at

trishawmafia.com

Posted on Friday, December 15th, 2006 in Art, Tech.