Streetscape 2004

This is the front of the shirt which is further described below.

Streetscape 2004

Physical Description: "Seeds of Change" in yellow, at an arch. How great. I touch myself. A small bullet window shape in yellow has a clear purple cutaway of a nine-branched tree. In the middle of the tree there is a yellow heart. "20" is in bold yellow. I shout with glee. Next to the "20" is a city shape. The city shpe is formed first by a helping of yellow. the Skyline has a wide two-towered bulding. The two towers are implied by the the short cut down the middle and by a cut on the side of the leftmost tower. Next a churchesqued top building holds down the middle while the last building on the right has some shape to which I'm not even going to give symbolic meaning. Starting from the left again is clear purpleness which forms a pen and carpal-tunnel rest shaped building. The next clear building is underneath three clear purple lines. The building itself has a huge cut in the top of it that almost completely makes it to the end. Fortunately, it does not make it to the end. There are three clear purple lines underneath the building that alternate with yellow lines. To the right of that is "04" in yellow. Underneath that business is "Streetscape" in yellow, and in a more formalized font then seeds of change. At the bottom of the "p" is a yellow line that goes as wide as "Streetscape". "Downtown Youngstown" is in a comic sans if it were an art student type of font. "Trinkle Sign Co." is in the Seeds of Change font and completes the design.

Streetscape was a street cleanup project that involved people from the community cleaning up streets that I don't recall the names of. Some residents got mad over the volunteer efforts of other people. As Donor Dan pointed out, those who wanted privacy on public property shoud have kept up the maintainence. People yelling at volunteers, to me, is boggling. At least they care enough to help.

I was sick with a weak flu the week of the Streetscape that this particular shirt was earned. I put in some awesome performances at work despite not feeling good, but decided against volunteering to make myself more sick. Instead, Donor Adam went on a Saturday to help clean a neighborhood in Downtown Youngstown. The next Monday he came back to give me this shirt and, naturally, to resume his normal job.

I was shocked Donor Adam gave the shirt to me. I did not realize how well-known the free shirt archive had gotten. People that I didn't know knew about what I had done online.

Perhaps I was a little too secretive about the existence of the free shirt archive back in that day. I knew Donor Adam for a few years at that point, but I was very reluctant to tell many people about what I was doing online. I regret not being more forthcoming about the free shirt archive with Donor Adam. I should have been the one that told him.

Still, I don't mind. A free shirt is not worth more then self-imposed privacy, but a friend surely is.

Donor and Proofreader Adam has since done some proofreading of some of the write-ups on the free shirt archive. This provided service will not be forgotten and is still greatly appreciated.

I'm sure most people see a lot of typos that I make, but never fix. This is more a testament to the way I do these write-ups. I just sit down and start writing until I stop. If I actually proofread, then the write-ups would only technically be better. They would not have the same charm that the very moment has. In the moment is how I wear the shirts. I did end up having to work a later Streetscape. There was no opportunity of getting a free t-shirt out of my work that day. Which is O.K. because that would have been work, and work is a form of payment. Payment is not free.