Tiny Giant Clothing

Its been a while since I’ve posted. Not sure how many people actually follow this  but I figured I would say hello and give some updates on everything. The wife and I unfortunately still havent found the space in our schedule to start booking again. I REALLY miss the local scene and booking. I really hope that we can get back into it. Work seems to be the big hurdle to get over right now. Things the last few weeks have been really good screen printing wise. If your band or your business or friends band etc needs T-shirts please send them our way :) The more we can earn  printing the more time we can take off from work and  start booking again :)

(If you were curious while I am typing this I am listening to EYENINE (www.myspace.com/eyenine) Honestly I hate almost all rap/hip hop, or rather anything on the radio or mainstream. If you havent heard eyenine go take a listen)

Other than the snow we had the other day I am really getting excited about spring coming. I’m not looking forward to getting back to landscaping season but I am looking forward to better weather and enjoying life outside. I am also looking forward to grabbing the camera and getting out to the Rochester skate park to do some photo sessions. Everyone down there was great and fun to shoot.

Something AWESOME happened the other day when the wife and I were shopping at Goodwill. I discovered they had a large format Epson 2200 printer for sale. Came with new in the package ink and the kicker…. it was only $20. Normally this printer is $400 used and sold for about $800 new.  So you might be asking.. yeah thats a good deal… but why would I care? well its large format so it means i can start printing screens  that are 13×17 (full shirt) I still have to save up some more cash to get the attatchments on my press to actually print the images on the shirts… the hurdle of having the cash to buy the printer is bypassed though .. which is huge. Such a blessing.  I brought the printer home and did a few cleaning runs and tested it out. The printer is perfect. Such a good score.

Well, I think that about covers any new developments in the Life of Chris and Megan from Tiny Giant.  I’ll try to start updating things more often :) Work and a recent addiction to Call of Duty MW2 (ps3) have side tracked me from updating the site and getting things done.  The playstation network has a problem and is down so I had nothing better to do .. So now you get to read this :)

Thanks again for all the support! Take care! Keep it Brootal and Post some comments!

Friday I decided to start the morning at the print shop getting flyers printed up then I figured  I would walk down to the skate park again. I spent a couple hours there shooting bmx bikers and there were a couple skaters that showed up toward the end of my stay. The kid in this picture above was practicing 180s and started landing them shortly after getting there. There were also two other skaters there too. One that I’ve shot before and one I hadn’t seen before. The one I hadn’t seen spent the entire time trying to land what looked like a hardflip 180 or a Nightmare flip 180. I don’t think i saw him land it. It reminded me of the days when  I used to skate and kids would try the hardest trick they could possibly land to make it look like their ability was higher than it really was. :)
The BMX Bikers were giving me tons to shoot and they were super excited that i was there taking pics. They also asked a ton about free Tiny Giant Clothing t-shirts. The first day I hit the park I brought 5-6 shirts and gave them out for free.  I have a large box of shirts that I plan to print up this week and bring down there and maybe make them play some skate games for :)  Check out the flickr page to see the pics from the session.

I spent today at the skate park in Rochester, NH. I planned on heading down there to snap some shots of kids at the skate park. The park is only 3-4 blocks from my house so its something I plan on frequenting. I really expected to find skateboarders at the skatepark but quickly discovered that BMX bikers completely outnumbered the skaters. The  guys at the park were very talented and were complete camera whores… which i was very happy to oblige. I hope to maybe start showcasing some of these kids to help get them some exposure.  Cody Zombeck is pictured above and gave the camera plenty of eye candy to shoot. He is a very confident biker. From what I heard he has a quarter pipe at his house and frequents the Rye Air Field. You can tell he spends alot of time on his bike. Hopefully it will pay off for him.

Tomorrow we have to work. Landscaping…bleh. Hopefully things will continue to grow in our efforts to free us from crappy summer jobs like this. For the time being we work a couple days a week to keep the bills paid. But our passion is not landscaping and its something we would love to kick to the curb as soon as we can find something that pays the bills that we enjoy doing.

I guess thats enough for tonight,
Chris Murphy