Happy 6 Monthiversary [repeat ad naseum to the tune of Happy Anniversary, Flintstones-style... hmm, no, can't find a clip of that online; oh well]

This'll have to do...

http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/information/lyrics.php?song=anniversary

This site is fantastic, congratulations, Dag and James! This place really sets itself apart from other video/community/blog sites. I'm happy to be a member. When are you opening the Sift shop? I'd like a mug. :-) Cheers

Is that a mug or a sifter in that pic?

Regardless, congrats and hurray again.

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It's a sifter, it has a crank. Though if we ever do make a VideoSift commemorative mug, it should have a crank on the side.

whoop!Im glad to be apart of Videosift it is the best thing on the internet. Thank you so much dag for choosing to make videosift rather than the old stodgy TV company trust me when I say you made the rite choice:)I am honored to even talk in your comments...and no no my good chum the thank is on you...so hip hip hurray for dag and for Videosift!

Happy 6 month anniversary!

happy 6 monthiversary!
it's a great site, and I hope it continues to grow!
I'll take 1 mug and 2 t-shirts

Ummm and I would like a t-shirt from the siftshop.

oooh, and a cookbook.

boredom = me
http://mwhite.slowchop.com/images/vshirt1.jpg
http://mwhite.slowchop.com/images/vshirt2.jpg

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That's neato Ren. It would be cool if we could pick any video screenshot we want when ordering a Sift Shirt. I think though that they would be too low-rez to be practical.

That ninja vid is still one of my favourites, i figured it would work nicely on a shirt because if people saw it they would be like "WTF?"

I don't think it would really be a problem resolution wise as you can do a few photoshop filters after enlarging for print(cutout, blur, or some kind of brush filter) .. also because its screenprinting, and people will be >1metre away, the quality doesnt have to be the greatest.

I know the website bustedtees.com makes a shitload off selling t-shirts with random crap on them, so surely random crap that is widely known via you-tube or goo-vids would sell like hotcakes. Like just last night I saw on SBS news a short segment at the end about the old guy that made his first you-tube video, which apparently is worthy of world news.

I was kinda tossing up on whether to unclude the you-tube control bar or not, it looks better as a t-shirt without it, but with it on there it really gives a clear image of the site's scope to use a marketing wankword.

Anyway, probably copyright issues with that idea.

Yeah the copyright issue would certainly be an important one. It's nice to see that there is interest in videosift t-shirts / mugs. We have been thinking about them for a while, our main concern is that if we pay to have a large batch run we might end up with a ton of surplus. One possible solution to this would be to ask people to sign up ahead of time saying they wanted to buy x number, and then when we had a large enough order go ahead and process them.

Would you guys mind holding holding off for a bit if we did it that way? If the first round was successful we would no doubt continue to make them. Also, mug or t-shirt, what's the preference?

wh00t demi-birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!1!ONE!!!!

6 months off the wagon, gee thanks alot.

How are you gonna make sift mugs? What, so good coffee stays in teh mug, and the Naruto-mashup flavored coffee spills on to your foot? Nice job wiht site changes also.

Three Cheers!

Hip Hip, hooray!

Hip Hip, hooray!

Hip Hip, hooray!

Happy half-a-versary! See you in February when the BIG party starts!

Go Sift!

I WANT THAT SHIRT.

guys, make sure to consider cafepress.com

I don't know if you get much of a "return" from them, but I don't think you would be beholden for any major investment - they do everything custom-made. They print t-shirts with your choice of comic strip and related stuff like that from websites.

In fact, if ren would send me the high rez versions of those mockups (nudge nudge), I would totally get them to make me a shirt like that...

I used to run a Cafe Press t-shirt store. My main complaint with Cafe Press was that the product quality was sub par. That goes for everything from the shirts to the ink used to print them. If we were going to do a shirt run we would do a small batch; probably on American apparel t-shirts as they seem to be the most popular with the "blogosphere"

lol sure Krupo, do you have a favourite vid in mind you want put on there instead?
also umm which logo? and what colour shirt?

I suspect you have gone to bed (don't know alot of the timezones involved here), So I beefed up the resolution and took out the bits that were bothering me.

http://mwhite.slowchop.com/images/vshirt1_highres.jpg


I'm sure you can get the printer to cut the sections out that you want to keep and create the shirt that way.

Gimme a yell if you need something different, ie different file type as it is made in photoshop atm.

That is awesome... I'm trying to cut down on my online/extracurricular time right now, which includes shopping for custom t-shirts, but this is on my to-do list for late September, once my exams are out of the way. Well done so far, though.

Interesting feedback, James. I once ordered a shirt with a Get Fuzzy strip on it because it featured my friend's name in an amusing context - I should ask how it's holding up a year down the road...

Hehe yeah I need to go back to having a full time job so I can afford random crap like this, but I am tempted to get a few of these shirts made up for friends anyway.

Will tell you how it goes and what price i ended up paying.

I didn't realize that I had jumped on the bandwagon early on when VS was a baby and have been riding this incredible ride with you guys! Does this make me an original too (even though I haven't hit 100+ yet)?

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You betcha bnsa, you are totally old school.

BTW FYI, on the main site, you can hover over any member's name in a comment, to view when they signed up.

Cool deal. Thanks!