The Marcus Troy Experience : iMeet, again

Another night, another design, another iMeet with The Marcus Troy Experience. Tonight, I joined the room with the likes of William Yan, Daniella, Wesley Brown, Dale Coachman, Ray Protege, Tanner Bachman, Olumide Yerokun, Bobby T, Hugh L, Corey Scott, Corey Knight, Joey Jepson, Bernard James, Sean Quincy, ::GASP::, and of course, Marcus Troy.

Tonight, the discussion started off on the topic of presence, being present, and commitment to the moment. Here’s some notes and a fragmented journey through two hours in The Marcus Troy Experience iMeet tonight:

Goody Bag

Take home a little Goodness (for less). Shop The Good Child.

Recyclable Packaging : Happy Earth Day

Happy Earth Day! Honestly, I don’t exactly celebrate Earth Day, because I respect our planet 365 days a year instead.  One fine example of how I respect our planet is through The Good Child packaging.

Unlike a lot of other brands, I package The Good Child product in 100% stamped, recyclable paper. The twine wrapped around each package is reusable (e.g. cats love it) and will act as compost in a landfill. Take a look at the package here in a short video shot by Marcus Troy.

When you get The Good Child product in the mail, you know that it is exactly that – Good product. (Most people don’t want to open/destroy the package once they get it)!

I’m going to expand on this packaging and find a way to work around having to also ship it in the UPS shell (not easily recyclable); I’m looking into designing a custom-sized box to put these packages in – all recyclable everything!

Now, what are you waiting for – shop The Good Child.

P.S.

Don’t forget – Series One is now on sale!

Series One SALE!

Here it is, The Good Child Series One SALE. The new spring/summer line will be out soon enough and now you can grab any tee from the first series for ten dollars less than before.

Pretty Good, right?

What will you do with the ten dollars you save? If I were you, I’d save it to put toward the new tank in the spring/summer line (my favorite), but then again I might also spend it on lunch, gas, or a Reggie Watts album.

Remember, every t-shirt comes in a super limited run (30 at most) and most size Mediums are sold out already! NO design will ever be reproduced. Visit http://thegoodchild.bigcartel.com to get yours!

Sneaks Up 5 – Goody Two Shoes

Yesterday, I attended and participated in my first Sneaks Up event – Sneaks Up 5 – in San Antonio. The event was popping with great designs in both sneakers and clothing. I ran into some amazing brands – old friends and new – like Loyal KNG, Grits, Fresh Kaufee, Nerdy Fresh, Pur3ly Root3d, Kaught Looking, Nice Kicks and more. See the whole thing below from my angle!

Trouble-Makers

Today, I had a professional photo shoot done on the streets of Dallas’ Deep Ellum for The Good Child product. Photographer Margie Woods Brown took some AMAZING shots and I can’t wait to share with all of you. The models for the shoot were incredible, too. I could not have asked for a better crew; all of them were personable, full of individual character, and expressed the brand well. Big ups to all of them: Killa MC, Skylar Rain, Chevi, Chris, Manuel, and Nic (and of course, my photographer).

The photo shoot was pretty eventful…before noon, we were stopped by Dallas (DART) police officers twice! Don’t worry, I am THE Good Child and I only work with Good people, so nobody got in any trouble. There were a couple of misunderstandings and I really hope that the people in each incident who phoned the police are having a better day. I truly believe that the people who bothered the Dallas officers to investigate us were simply bothered themselves from the heat and the early hour at which they were called to work on a Sunday. I will not go into detail, but here’s two lessons from today’s photo shoot:

The Marcus Troy Experience : iMeet

I just spent about two hours “having dinner” with the following people:

Tonight, I joined into my 3rd iMeet session with The Marcus Troy Experience. Tonight’s session started out about “the game” — knowing it, living it, learning from it, and succeeding (and sometimes failing) in it. In the end, however, we touched on the fashion industry and its past and present game-changers.

This iMeet session was one of Marcus Troy’s best. I took some notes to share with you all.

Pool Days

With the weather getting warmer here in Dallas, TX, (the high today is 90˚) pools have been on my mind a lot (especially since I don’t have one anymore). I was a damned lucky kid growing up – for many reasons. One reason was I had a pool behind every house I ever lived in with my family.

I loved swimming. In grades 2nd through 4th, I was on the swim team – straight bronze winner. As I grew up, I dropped the swim team and just swam for fun. As a teenager, when classes got out for the day my friends would come over to my house. We would hang around the pool with our crappy boombox and listen to music, tell jokes, and swim (sometimes in swimming suits, but most times in shorts, boxers, t-shirts, you name it).

Goody Two Shoes

In 12 days, San Antonio will pop off its fifth Sneaks Up event. On April 17th, from 2-7pm, join us for FREE at the Backstage Live center.

Who is “us,” you ask? Well, me (The Good Child), Loyal KNG, Grits, and MANY more, as well as music performances and – duh – sneakers galore.

This will be the fourth major event for The Good Child brand and I’m so excited that I’ve made not one but TWO exclusive t-shirts for you to choose from at the event.

I present to you Goody Two Shoes:

(Option one: Classic Vans on aqua – my personal favorite for years)

(Option two: Air Jordan III Black Cement on teal – for all you sneakerheads)

Both t-shirts come on 100% fine jersey cotton made by American Apparel in the USA. The artwork was printed right here in the DFW – just like all of The Good Child styles. Stay fresh AND guilt-free!

These styles will be available first at Sneaks Up and any remaining inventory will go online April 19th. REMEMBER: no style is ever produced again outside of the original run – and these two runs will have only TWENTY-FIVE each!

Stay good, be humble, and I’ll see you next weekend!

1992-2011: Listen Up

When I was about 9 years old, I was well-rooted in music; I played and listened to music on a daily basis. Now, that might sound classy, but I wasn’t listening to the most intelligent stuff…or, was I? Am I now? Have I ever?

Here’s a timeline (best to my memory) in order of how old I was and what music I was mainly listening to at the time. Ride the wave of sh•tty pop, boy groups, girl groups, solo acts, ghetto rap, pop punk, punk, indie, hip-hop, turntablism, experimentalism, singer-songwriters and folk:

1992-1993 • Ace of Base, Boyz II Men, Janet Jackson, LL Cool J

1994-1997 • Montell Jordan, TLC, Da Brat, Brandy, Tupac Shakur, Bone Thugs n’ Harmony, Master P, Notorious B.I.G, Lil’ Kim, Outkast, Erykah Badu, Missy Elliot, Mase, Nas, The Fugees, No Doubt (a classmate with a skateboard gave me their 1st cassette release), Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt