Clothes Whores: Enthusiastically examining Kansas City's sartorial shenanigans
A million years ago (or in 2005, which is the same thing), I wrote about a "precious snowflake" of a guy named Ricardo Mejia. Back then, he was showing off his muscular legs beneath cheerleading skirts while dancing enthusiastically at the Hurricane, earning the role as the bar's unofficial mascot.
Scott sponsors Mejia's running, paying his entry fees for local races and marathons. Walsh, who has also been doing freelance design work for Scott Fitness this year, created the T-shirt design from photos he took of Mejia. The shirts are a bargain -- $3, paid in an on-your-honor fashion via a bag hanging on the T-shirt rack -- at the gym's third location at 2020 Washington. The proceeds from the shirt will go towards further supporting Mejia's runs.
Mejia not only knows about the shirts made in his honor, Walsh says, he owns three or four himself.
"My girlfriend's band, Softee, had Ricardo dance on stage a few months ago while wearing his shirt and people loved it," Walsh writes. "How could you not love that face and body?"
Whoa.
Walsh says he plans to further encourage Mejia's local-icon status by plastering his image around town on stickers and posters. Even more designs will be available through Trick Pony Studio's Etsy site in the coming weeks, according to Walsh.
With Trick Pony Studio, Walsh and Stokes plan to create non-Ricardo-related tees, posters, prints,
wallpaper and even furniture, in addition to turning out original work for
clients as a full-service graphic design firm.
You can get your own Ricardo Runs tee at Scott Fitness 3.0, or by e-mailing Walsh.
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Long Before he was at the Record Bar, he was practicing throwing and catching a baton on the grass at hallmark near the ice rink. He IS baton boy.
Ricardo's Famous: he's in a video for a band
called The Belated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Check out Trick Pony Studio on etsy:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/trick...
or email my boy Walsh at: colin@trickponystudio.com. They have some cool
shirts coming out in January!
-Dean
I tried contacting Colin through the email link you provided above and it did not work.
I think it may be a dead link. I think his email address is colin@trickponystudio.com
Their etsy page is http://www.etsy.com/shop/trick...
Congrats Walsh!
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