yet another (fun) total waste of time

Ser­vices that will print a cus­tom fab­ric for you have been around for a lit­tle while. Now there’s Short­omatic, a firm that will take a design or photo that you upload and turn it into a pair of boardshorts–just in time for sum­mer. Even if you don’t spring the $99 for the shorts, you can noo­dle around on their site and see what your pho­tos might look like turned into cloth­ing. I played a bit with some mostly gar­den photos:

The orig­i­nal photo, some var­ie­gated Agave amer­i­cana at the Hunt­ing­ton Library’s desert garden…

…And the photo imag­ined as a pair of shorts using the Short­omatic design tool. These have a bit of a lederhosen/bondage vibe. I’m not sure I could pull off this look at the beach.

Here’s a photo from last sum­mer of a sphinx moth hov­er­ing at night over some sage flowers.

…And the same photo turned into a pair of shorts.

A photo of the West Side of Los Ange­les, taken from out­side the gar­dens at the J. Paul Getty Museum on a cool, clear Jan­u­ary afternoon.

Board shorts with the sky­line used for a bor­der at the base of the leg openings.

This is another suc­cu­lent photo, using the “find edges” fil­ter in Pho­to­shop, a huge cliche if there ever was one. And then I took the photo and tilted it towards the red end of the spectrum.

And here’s what it looks like turned into shorts.

Oh good, another black hole where you can throw your spare time…

May 24 2010 06:30 am | Categories: art • gardening | Tags: • • •

10 Responses to “yet another (fun) total waste of time”

  1. Town Mouse on 24 May 2010 at 8:04 am #

    That is just too cool! You just wait, I’ll run around with some cool native plants this sum­mer ;->

  2. Loree on 24 May 2010 at 9:56 am #

    Oh god…great find. I can’t let myself even go there…too much fun!

  3. ryan on 24 May 2010 at 10:42 am #

    Those are great. Though, your designs are kind of scary. I see lederhosen/bondage for sure in the agave shorts, but also maybe Mad Max becomes a hor­ti­cul­tur­al­ist and then goes surfing.

  4. Gayle Madwin on 24 May 2010 at 2:39 pm #

    I could totally see the sky­line shorts becom­ing a hot seller.

  5. Jan (ThanksForToday) on 24 May 2010 at 6:40 pm #

    So cool:-)

  6. Wendy on 25 May 2010 at 6:18 pm #

    omg, how fun! I really like the sky­line shorts. Those are cool. The agave, def­i­nitely not!

  7. Arleen Webster/Camissonia's Corner on 25 May 2010 at 8:10 pm #

    Wow, this is too fun. I’m not too keen on the leder­ho­sen, but am lovin’ the red suc­cu­lents. As Paris Hilton would say, that’s hot!

  8. Barbara E on 25 May 2010 at 9:14 pm #

    I vote for the agave. I don’t know you per­son­ally but you never know whether you can pull this kind of thing off unless you try. Go for it! (Thanks for the laugh!)

  9. Brad on 25 May 2010 at 10:42 pm #

    Don’t be so mod­est. I’m sure you would rock the lederhosen/bondage shorts. All kid­ding aside, the sky­line one is def­i­nitely my favorite. I bet some­one could make some money sell­ing those. I’m off to check out that site.

  10. Lynn on 31 May 2010 at 12:50 pm #

    thanks for a great laugh on a dull hot day. I can’t click over–too tempting.

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