Dirty Pictures’ New T-Shirt!
If I’m lucky during my walks down U Street, somewhere between the dead rat and the bird eating the discarded jumbo slice, I will see one of Anthony Dihle’s rock posters. Known as Dirty Pictures, Anthony has printed posters for all kinds of local as well as international acts. I particularly like this poster for the Secret Pop Band:
We put our silly questions to Anthony and he didn’t even want to talk posters!
1) Is there a specific product that you will be selling at the fair that you would like to talk about?
Yep. The anxiously and long-awaited DIRTY PICTURES T-SHIRT!!!!! HELLYEAH MOFO HELLYEAH!!
2) Does this product have an origin story? Did the idea come to you in a dream or through a portal or other strange way?
This is the first Dirty Pictures t-shirt. I decided not to talk about any of my posters in this Q&A because it felt unfair to the other posters that one be singled out. They’re like my babies, can’t pick one over the others although honestly some should have been aborted.
It just felt appropriate that I make a shirt for my poster company. I’ve made 75+ posters, and some shirts for bands but no Dirty Pictures merchandise. It’s time to get pompous and start with the self-promotionals. I like lightweight cottony tees (think Hanes undershirts), and that is what I’ll be printing these on. I will be printing them in my living room 3 days before Crafty Bastards. They will be 10 dollars each, and in the event they don’t sell I will mark them down to 5 and if they still don’t sell I will give them away with the purchase of a poster.
3) What famous personality (alive or dead, real or imagined) would most likely be found wearing/holding/admiring this product? Why?
Benjamin Franklin. Because he’s our most celebrated dissident, printmaker, inventor, skirt-chaser, bald guy, and diplomat.
4) Convince me that this piece should be one of only 3 things I could take with me to a deserted island!
The lightweight cotton fabric can be used as a makeshift water filter?
You can check out Anthony’s posters and new shirt at the Crafty Bastards Arts & Crafts Fair this Sunday, September 28th from 10am-5pm at the Marie Reed Learning Center in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. He is in booth #25.
