I love DFTBA tattoos.

dftbarecords:

Eddplant’s new shirt, designed by Alan and featuring my handwriting (it’s super weird/awesome to see it on a shirt), is now in stock and shipping from DFTBA! And as a bonus, you get a FREE download of the new single “Singing About Hating You (It’s Getting Old)”.

-Kristen

carolynnawilliams:

Working on things at home during the day is a blessing and a curse. Like, I enjoy doing school work in my pj’s; it makes me feel rebellious and like a “bad” kid. However because my desk is facing a window (not actually a desk but my bed where I do most of my work) I have began to notice the enormous amount of random people going to the back apartment building and then leaving shortly after. 
The majority of the people people seem to have the following traits:

• Missing Teeth 
• Dead eyes
• Talking to themselves
• Smell of death and chemicals

I had the misfortune of running into one of these people this morning. Since they did not attack me I feel I can rule out the idea they are zombies, so my best guess is that my neighbor is a dentist in training. I asked Maureen Johnson on Twitter if this was a correct guess. Since she did not reply it is clear that the obvious answer is obvious. 
I mean looking at the number of missing teeth some of these people have it is obvious why they have dead eyes and are talking to themselves; dental work is painful. 
I think I should drop in unexpectedly to my neighbors apartment and see if I can get discount dental work done. I have not been to a dentist in a while and there is not one near me that accepts state health-care.


I tried to do a google search for, “I think my neighbor is dentist”. There were no results, but I did notice something interesting with the search fill. 

I worry that more people are asking if their neighbors are raptors than dentists. I mean haven’t they seen “Little Shop of Horrors”?

Hah. I love this post. I would guess drug dealers before dentists though. Numerous hard drugs cause tooth lost and dead eyes. And it’s the most common type of neighbor to have, right after raptors.

pretty-o-d-d:

i need more of nerdfighteria on my dash.

dftba.

Liked.

I live such a Risk-y life…

Working on the cover art design for the compilation CD DFTBA Records - Volume 3… what do you think of this one? This is an early rough draft, it’ll probably change (a little or a lot or completely) before it’s released at VidCon.

I’ve been so busy the last two weeks.

I…

• finished designing a website for a new young adult mystery writer. It was a freelance gig, gotta love those.
• started designing a new website for myself. Won’t be ready for launch for another two weeks though.
• submitted a new Rhett & Link single to iTunes, it goes live later this week. I won’t spoil it, but I will say that when I told Kristen the name of the song, she replied “if you don’t remember what it’s called you don’t have to make something up”, it’s that out there.
• set the gears in motion for DFTBA Records to publish its first book! How freakin’ exciting is that? That’s a very long-term project though.
• landed this freelance gig designing “fantasy US Mint coins” for a book being published later this year. Basically, the author found a lot of old US Mint records describing coins that were never produced back in the 1800s and I get to design them for illustrations in the book. Love it!
• wrote the lyrics to “Shortwave, Part 3” …which I HOPE will be a new digital single by Luke Conard and I, we’re working with Jason Munday to see if we can turn my lyrics into sonic gold, yet again. ;)
• am working on producing the first single of this cool singer/songwriter I found on YouTube. I heard her video demo of the track and loved it.
• am working on designing the cover art for DFTBA Records, Vol 3 and putting together all the various new tracks for that so we can have it ready in time for VidCon.
• started a new Jillian Michaels DVD. I was getting bored with the old one. This new one kicks my ass though. 60 minutes of ab and weight and mat work. Ugh.
• sat on the phone with UPS trying to get them to pick-up 78 boxes full of t-shirts from Charles and Alli Trippy. Their drivers keep skipping the pick-up for some reason. Boo.
• designed a new t-shirt for Eddplant. He liked the first idea I threw out there, and that doesn’t happen often for any client. So, yay. Now to get it printed…

Okay, I think that catches everyone up. Back to work!

Alex has been having a lot of fun lately throwing around the “unsigned musician” phrase. Technically, Alex and most of the other DFTBA artists are “unsigned”. That’s because DFTBA is awesome, and we don’t lock our artists in to any kind of deal that would hold them back from exploring other avenues/options.

So Alex isn’t “signed” to DFTBA, he just has an agreement with DFTBA. He’ll sell the majority of his merch through us, and we’ll pay him an awesome royalty on what we sell. But he can also sell stuff on his own, or through other shops, and we’re cool with that too.

When Hank and I started DFTBA, we basically set it up to run how we, ourselves, would want a label to treat us. One thing that was important to us, and to others we came to find, was that we had options. Options mean loose agreements, not rigid contracts.

That said, DFTBA offers a better royalty cut on physical merch sales than ANYONE ELSE. And because of that, not only do the artists we work with continue to work with us time and time again, but we are constantly attracting new artists to our awesome little group, including recently, Nice Peter (Epic Rap Battles of History), Charles Trippy and Matt Maggiacomo.

So while you will still be able to buy Alex’s next physical release from DFTBA, including his new shirts and posters, you will also see him doing other cool stuff… like Sopio and Wrist Bands, the kind of brain crack that DFTBA started as, and that we would never want to limit our artists from exploring. =)

So a couple weeks ago I was playing Super Mario Wii, and Kristen was hanging out watching me wipe the floor with Bowser.

I kept losing my mushroom power on this one section and she blurted out “What doesn’t kill me, only makes me smaller.” I laughed. And then put it on a t-shirt. You can buy that t-shirt now from DFTBA Records: http://dft.ba/mario

w00p!

I only have about 500 packs of TFioS discs left to assemble, so we’re in the home stretch!

One thing I want to say before we send these out… There are seven different discs, four different postcards, a ticket stub, a wrist band and a piece of styrofoam in each and every one of these 3,000 box sets. There is a very good chance that at least a couple boxes will miss a CD, or one of the postcards, or we’ll skip a wristband.

We haven’t noticed any of these mistakes yet, but there’s bound to be one or two.

IF your box has two Disc 3s, or no DVD, or whatever… please just send us a nice email about it and we’ll be more than happy to make it right. Kristen and I are assembling these by hand, we’re both human, we both make mistakes. They are not intentional. We did print a few extras of each item just in case. We WILL make it right, DFTBA always does. Just stay calm and email us. =)

Okay, that’s all, back to the packing table.