Flying Fortress

Some point at the end of high school I heard about this t-shirt art show going down in Somerville. I went with Willie and my girlfriend at the time. I remember thinking it was a pretty cool scene, a part of someville I didn't know, kinda ghetto but lots of art folks around, near the place where Willie had recently gotten his tattoo done. The show had work from TONS of artists, all mostly within the street art scene or kind of new graphic t-shirt style. Evil Designs + NFS Industries was running the thing, and they are Boston based. TEXTSTYLES it was called. I think I read about it on Woostercollective.com just as I was discovering all this street art shit going on. There are links to all the artists websites on the show website, so I used that as a resource for finding out more. We were there for opening night. The deal was, most of the t shirts were going to be given away at the end of the show, and everyone at the opening got to fill out a card with their shirt size and make ranking the shirts that they liked by their number. So bascially when they took the show down, they drew cards and gave you the shirt that you had ranked highest that they had in your size. When we went to pick them up at the record store, every shirt was packaged in an envelope with a bunch of free schwag from the various designers and artists in the show, stickers and postcards, etc. Willie and Micaela got sweet shirts too. I like to think that my shirt is a unique print, which I think was the case with a lot of them. The color combo is nice and loud. Flying Fortress has a great website, and I guess now I am just another one of his 'soldiers.'

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