Mondo Lizzie Borden

A group of rather inventive T-shirt designs have popped up recently on Zazzle.com.

Zazzle is the world’s leading platform for quality custom products. Zazzle’s proprietary technology enables individuals, professional artists, and major brands, including Disney and Hallmark, to create and offer billions of unique products for customers worldwide. Zazzle’s rapidly expanding product base covers every topic imaginable and includes t-shirts, business cards, invitations, in addition to a variety of custom gifts. Upon creation, products are instantly and accurately visualized on the site and offered in the Zazzle marketplace. When ordered, each product is made on-demand, typically within 24 hours. Launched in 2005 and based in Redwood City, California, Zazzle’s vision is to redefine commerce, powered by the world’s imagination.

Here are a sampling of their Lizzie Borden wearables.

I really like this one!

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This one is less dark and more comical.

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This one reminds me of the Haunted Mansion characters at Disney World.

Purchase yours here.

There is an interesting contest that unfortunately ends today where people can submit their ideas for a film poster for a movie that never existed, but models itself as a parody on B movies.

JohnLennon15 submitted a poster for a fake film titled “I Married Lizzie Borden.” It is pretty imaginative and well done (see below). I think it might win as it seems to me to be the best of the entries.

Here are the rules:

Yes, it’s B-Movie time! Your goal? To create a convincing poster for one of those enjoyable B-Movies (or lower down the alphabet).

Sound’s simple? Well, we’re going to make it even more challenging! Your goal is NOT to mock films, not to parody them – your goal is to take a randomly generated B-Movie title and make a poster that is as believable as possible for the movie you’ve imagined!

Here’s what you do!

* Go to the B-Movie Generator and generate a title you want to do the poster of.

Now, when you do this poster, you also have to include the following on your entry at the site it’s hosted at:

* The year it was made.
* A summary of the plot and characters.
* Any other extra detail to make it more believable.

So if your fake picture is from the 70’s, the poster is going to be in a different style than say, the 90’s or the 50’s. This also gives you a chance to find a style that fits your artistic skills and interests, from the cut-and-paste oddness of grindhouse posters to some of the strange and lush art of the 70’s and more!

A few resources to help those of you looking to do a blast from the past:

* Some 1970’s posters.
* Some 1960’s posters.
* Some 1950’s drive in posters.

So go on, let’s see what kind of wonderfully cheese films you can create – that never were.

Happy new Year from MondoLizzie.com!

Perhaps the walk signals in Fall River could be changed to this: