Friends of the show: Meter Maids Eat Their Young

We struck up a conversation this morning on Newbury Street. Meet Joe and his family visiting Boston from Ireland. They are looking forward to the trailer coming out soon at www.parkme.biz

ODESSA INSTANT SHOE REPAIR

Horn has a new friend. By the way best place to get your shoes repaired or spiffy up.

ODESSA INSTANT SHOE REPAIR

219 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

(Between: Exeter and Fairfield Street)

How Gilbert mass produces thousands of t-shirts

I wanted to learn how Gilbert made t-shirts so I got the tour through his shop and the process that Gilbert goes through to make thousands of t-shirts every day. 

So meet Gilbert. Gilbert owns the Art Shirt Company located at: 

228 Lowell Street,  Somerville, MA

http://www.artshirtco.com/site

Gilbert first showed me on his Mac computer how he separated Horn’ image that I gave him from a JPG into all the different colors. Horn is a cartoon character that works inside of a parking meter. 

Learn more about Horn at www.parkme.biz 

So off we went to the processing room where the images of Horn were developed and transpired into the 8 screens. Kind of reminded me of my high schools photography dark room. Gilbert explained to me that he created 8 unique screens to make the front and back images of Horn' t-shirt.

Gilbert' shop

 This is Gilbert’ t-shirt manufacturing shop. Gilbert makes lots of different kinds of t-shirts for all different kinds of customers and business in the Boston community.

Gilbert has 15 years experience making t-shirts

I learned Gilbert has been at his t-shirt making craft for better than 15 years. We spent a lot of time together and let me tell you, making t-shirts is a huge amount of work. Much more goes into this business than meets the eye.

Custom mixed each primary color by hand

Gilbert then custom mixed each primary color by hand until he is satisfied with the color.

Lots of mixing is involved

Lots of mixing is involved. Gilbert would mix a color than off load the color onto a screen and then mix the next color up and off load it onto the next screen and so on and so forth.