This was the first on the alien abduction phenomena. I think everybody knows what that’s about more or less. My first thoughts were of the title sequence for the mini series Taken where the guy gets lifted up, but I didn’t want it to be as serious as all that. I thought another way to go would be a kind of comical pose.
Do you remember that scene at the beginning of Ghostbusters when Dr. Peter Venkman is conducting his research on “the effect of negative reinforcement on ESP ability?” If you don’t its a classic, go rent it. Basically Bill Murray holds up what look like large playing cards with different designs on them, and people try to guess what the design is. They’re called Zener Cards and they were created by Karl Zener in the 1930’s for ESP test conducted with J.B. Rhine.
Throughout history there have been many credible accounts of strange things falling out of the sky with the rain. Fish, frogs, worms, snails and even stones have been reported and in some instances photographed. Whether there is a natural or supernatural explanation for these falling objects has been debated for a hundred years or more.
I’m calling this shirt the ESP shirt, but its just as much about remote viewing as it is about extrasensory perception in general. So far people get the idea just by looking at it, so whatever you see in it, that’s what it is.
The government has put money into remote viewing research and programs, but I don’t know if they are doing it anymore. I think they officially stopped funding, but who knows what they are doing in secret. I believe it wasn’t that the US thought remote viewing was so powerful, but that other countries like the Soviet Union had psychic spies, and we didn’t want to be left out. From what I’ve heard they did develop a program that could be taught to the average person, so you didn’t have to be natually psychic to be a psychic spy, although I’m sure it couldn’t hurt. There are people who still claim to teach this method, and I’ve always wanted to try the courses, but I never have. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was all bogus, and it also wouldn’t surprise me if it was for real.
Do most people know that the Men In Black are a real thing or does everybody assume it was thought up for the movie? If you don’t know, reports of men wearing black suits, white shirts, black ties and black hats, showing up and intimidating people about UFOs have been recorded since the 1950’s. Even my old Time-Life Books series from the 80’s Mysteries of the Unknown has a page on the MIBs. I think they do exist and these witnesses probably have encountered some being, but I couldn’t say if they are extraterrestrial in origin or if they are government agents or just weird hoaxers. Even Dan Aykroyd mentioned a strange encounter when he was filming a video series on UFOs.
I’d like to do a whole series of different common UFO shapes. Other than the standard flying saucer, the big black triangles were the next form that came to mind.
So this is really a two parter, wrapped up into one design. The first is that the Nazis had a working flying disc craft in WWII, the second is that they had (and possibly still have) a secret base in Antarctica. It seems the Nazis did grab a chunk of Antarctica between 1939 and 1945 and named it New Swabia. Some UFO researchers will say there is evidence to support the creation of an Antarctic base, others say no there isn’t. According to Wired, that’s all garbage and the myth was finally put to rest here. We each sort of pick and choose what we want to believe, so believe what you want.
So the Illuminati is an old group that used to exist and a modern group that may or may not exist. I sincerely hope they don’t, but I’m not totally convinced either way. If you have no idea what I’m talking about then this would all sound pretty crazy to you. In a nutshell the Illuminati, if they exist, wants to create a new world order, in which an elite group controls everybody else. In order for this to take place there would need to be one world government or one governing body controlling just about everybody on the planet and these dudes would be in control of that governing body essentially. Why would anybody want to do this? I actually have no idea, and I personally don’t see how any one group of people could effectively manage everybody on the planet. I don’t think we can manage everybody in the United Sates effectively as it is.
There wasn’t much design work to do for this shirt, and it may not necessarily belong on this site, but it always makes me smile. There wasn’t a lot of design work to do because it was mostly done for me. At the first design job I took out of college, I often would talk to people about ghost stories or paranormal stuff and this was actually on my computer monitor once when I got up to go use the bathroom or something. I just liked the idea that a ghost comes by to haunt the place, there is nobody around, so the spirit leaves a haunted calling card. Sorry we missed you, boo.
The beginning and end of this design.
The Close Encounters of the Third Kind motion picture came out a little early for me, actually one year before I was born, but it’s one of my favorite films. I like everything about it, but in general I like how Steven Spielberg and the producers of the film took the subject of UFOs and alien encounters and abduction seriously. There wasn’t anything camp or tongue in cheek about it. I’m not gonna go into a whole big thing about it, but all the movies involving extra terrestrial life that are on my favorite list are almost all there for that reason.
