Our friends over at Philavania sent us this amazing post about Roller Coaster Chess. The concept is simple, yet brilliant. Simply fasten chess pieces to the board, sneak it onto a roller coaster, and pose for the camera mid-ride while they take your picture. Don’t limit yourself to Chess though. Try Connect Four, Scrabble, Backgammon, or if you really want to push the envelope try Asshole (might have to cover your beer with Saran Wrap).

Learn more at: Know Your Meme

All of us at the No Star HQ love this video. Maybe you will too.

Throughout our storied, if unremarkable, history, No Star has had a semi-fascinating run of prophetic t-shirt designs. It seems that every couple seasons we debate pulling a shirt from the lineup as it too closely parallels real-life, real-crappy events. We had our “Big Bucks. No Whammies” tee we scrapped after 9/11 as it depicted people assuming the crash position on an airline safety card.

We had the controversial “Tornadoes Love Trailers” shirt that coincided with Katrina. We decided that though hurricanes and tornadoes share many qualities, not the least of which being sustained gale-force winds, they are not synonymous and one would not be mistaken for the other at a social gathering. We printed the shirt, and, ironically, ended up donating hundreds of those very tees to the displaced and shirtless victims of Katrina. We should have cut our tags out.

A few years back, No Star also had the “Mt. St. Helens Blows” tee. That one was more of a close call than anything really. If we had designed a shirt that said “Mt. St. Helens Steams and Burps Ash for a Month and then Goes Back to Sleep”, now that would have been eerie.

Now, we have this….Killer Whale. Ugh. We don’t really think it is right to keep 13,000 pound animals in swimming pools, nor are we proponents arming and tattooing them. That said, what happened at Seaworld was undeniably tragic.

Actor, writer, Neil Diamond worshipper, Brian Klugman sent this pic of himself wearing our Hang In There T-Shirt during the filming of the TV series Head Case. We love how he drew in the cats paws onto his apron. If you haven’t seen the show, you can stream it via Netflix. It’s good. Brian wears the tee in every episode he appears in. Very awesome.

Have you ever seen ridiculous classified ads and been tempted, even partly, to respond somehow simply to explore a dialogue for entertainment’s sake…but never have. Well, now you don’t have to. This site has done the responding for you, and been very creative in the process. Some of these email exchanges on Don’t Even Reply are amazing.

Pretty awesome stop motion video. Apparently they used 222 custom t-shirts and shot the video in just two days.

Stop Motion T-Shirt War – Watch more Funny Videos

We came out with our Football is Gay T-Shirt a couple of years ago.

Some people got the shirt. Others didn’t. Tony Gonzalez’s wife has been spotted wearing one. That made us smile. So did the following photo:

Today MTV premiered it’s new logo. It’s pretty similar to the old one and could just be the result of an accidental crop. What matters is they dropped the Music Television text part. Seems fitting since they dropped the Music Television programming part years ago. Mostly it’s just a sad reminder of the slow decline of a once grand cable channel.

We’re not ones to brag, but we changed their logo years ago, with our NO TV t-shirt.

A big thanks to Bows & Sparrows for blogging about our Heart Maze Tee. And we couldn’t agree more, this tee, made of super soft organic cotton, is the Perfect Valentines Day Gift for that special someone.

Our Breakfast Makes Me Smile T-Shirt was chosen as the #11 Food T-Shirt of all time by t-shirt blog Hide Your Arms. We had a few more in the top 200 with our Bacon Heart Tee at #58, Fortune Cookie Tee at #81, Corn Dog Venn Diagram Tee at #130, Kevin Bacon Tee at #133, Meat and Potatoes T-Shirt at #154, Omnivores T-Shirt at #170, and our Hoppy Meal T-Shirt at #177. Let it be known that we are very proud to have 8 tees in the top 200 and to celebrate, we are heading directly to the nearest All You Can Eat Buffet.

See the whole list here: http://hideyourarms.com/2010/02/03/food-t-shirts/

Super slow motion did for basset hounds what high-def did for older newscasters….not much. This video is a few years old, but that just makes it a few years awesome. It was made by Pleix.

Well, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, which means we should all watch Groundhog Day everyday for the next 6 weeks. We should also spend the next 6 weeks debating the merits of PETA’s suggestion to replace Phil with a robot.

The Rocker Kitty T-Shirt we did exclusively for Delia*s is now available online. You can purchase it at: http://store.delias.com/item.do?itemID=53127&categoryID=463

Found these inspiring graphic representations of famous quotes over at FreshBump. You can see them all here: http://www.freshbump.com/special/10-design-quotes-designed/

Pretty interesting project here called Track Your Happiness. It’s an app for the iPhone that asks you a series of questions throughout the day and provides thoughtful insights to what actually makes you happy.

Sign up here: http://www.trackyourhappiness.org/