Just in time for the MLK Holiday, check out our newest “EPIC” tee, “Who’s the Master.” This one features Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a tense chess match with Malcolm X, beyond the pearly gates. President Barack Obama looks on and represents the “HOPE” that both of these men fought for their entire lives. To all of our chess masters out there, we pose the question, who do you think would win…Malcolm or Martin?

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Renaissance Girl

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Hey folks,

Be sure to check out our new vintage sunglasses on the site now. We have several unique sunglasses ranging from the 1980′s Run DMC Cazal’s style to a few pair of out-of-this-world sunglasses that take you back to Star Trek. Our shades start at $9.99 and up and all of them are extremely limited edition (here today, gone tomorrow). See a few styles below.

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Renaissance Girl

“Saving the world, one “EPIC” tee at a time”

When folks ask me what does my “I Created Hip-Hop” tee mean, I try to explain to them what, when, why and how I have created hip-hop and how big it is to me. Then tonight I saw this kid, Brian Bradley, from Simon Cowell’s X-Factor and his performance pretty much sums up what the phrase “I Created Hip-Hop” means and how poignant the art form can be in it’s rawest form.

I loved this kid’s performance and see big things in his future. 
Check out our “I Created Hip-Hop” tee here.

Purple hearts to all,

Renaissance Girl

“Saving the world, one “EPIC” tee at a time”

The day has finally arrived where we are taking our tees global! We have now set up our store to allow international shipping.

To celebrate this giant leap forward in our quest to take over the world, we’d like to offer all of you a 10% discount on your next order. Simply enter the code OMC10 at checkout.

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Renaissance Girl

“Saving the world, one “EPIC” tee at a time”

Now that Osama Bin Laden has finally bit the dust under the direction of President Barack Obama, we think it’s time to release one of our all time favorite designs we’ve done thus far. It’s our play on the Tupac Shakur movie poster for “Juice” but with President Obama taking up the spot of Pac with Bill, Hillary, and Bush looking over his shoulder.

After taking care of business in Washington on the daily and taking out public enemy #1 aka Osama Bin Laden, we think it’s safe to say that “Obama Got the Juice Now.”

Click here to check out this tee.

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Renaissance Girl

“Saving the world, one “EPIC” tee at a time”

This tee is just SOO soulful!

While folks are out proclaiming that Hip-Hop is dead, you can’t help but wonder what happened to soul music? Turn the radio on any station and long gone are the days when you would hear a song that gives you butterflies upon first listen. The horns, the drums, the guitar licks, the lyrics about loving someone, wanting someone, needing someone…all gone.

This tee was made as an ode to those real “soul” singers from back in the day who made everybody wanna fall in love. And to those new “soul” singers that get no radio play but are steady trying to give us something we can feel. Click here to check out this tee at our store.

Purple hearts to all,

Renaissance Girl

“Saving the world, one “EPIC” tee at a time”

We created this “I Created Hip-Hop” tee for the true Hip-Hop heads out there who feel like they have been a part of this Hip-Hop movement since the beginning. Nobody thought it was going to last but here it is over a quarter of a century later and the beats are still “def“, “stupid” and “fresh” – just like this tee.

So, if you’ve ever busted a rhyme, a beat box, or a breakdance move…this tee is for you. Check it out at our store by clicking here.

Purple hearts to all,

Renaissance Girl

“Saving the world, one “EPIC” tee at a time”

If you haven’t been to our website lately, we have about six new tees that we’ve added to our line. The tee above is one of my favorites. Although I have zero tattoos,  I’ve always found finger tattoos fascinating. This fascination coupled with the belief that those with this “Crooklyn” aka above the law mentality (Lindsey Lohan, T.I., DMX, Paris Hilton) always seem to compromise their freedom is what brought on this design…

Click here to check out this tee at our store.

Purple hearts to all,

Renaissance Girl,

“Saving the world, one “EPIC” tee at a time”

Hey Folks,

Just wanted to announce that for “THIS WEEK ONLY” we’re offering free shipping on our tee-shirts. So whether you buy one or twenty the shipping is on us .

Purple hearts to all,

Renaissance Girl

“Saving the world, one “EPIC” tee at a time”

For the first pop-culture entry on the OMC Tees blog, I’ve decided to post my review of M. Night Shayamalan’s upcoming film “The Last Airbender.” Last week, a friend of mine invited me to attend a special screening of the film. Despite never seeing the cartoon, I thought the trailer looked really cool and since I’m a BIG fan of martial arts films, I figured it would be a fun evening out. Plus, I wanted to give Mr. Shayamalan one last chance to impress me since he’s had a pretty spotty record since “The Sixth Sense.” Note: SPOILERS begin in paragraph four and they are announced.

First, let’s talk casting.  Judging by the previews, I assumed the movie was going to be a martial arts film set in Asia and was totally expecting to see a huge cast of Asian actors. Boy was I wrong! The first scene of the movie plays (after some really cool 3-D credits I might add) and to my surprise the main two characters Katara (Nicola Peltz) and Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) are white. A few moments later, the star of the film, Aang (Noah Ringer), is introduced and I found myself leaning over to my friend to whisper “is that kid Asian?” She replied, “I don’t know, maybe he’s mixed.” As the film progressed, and Ringer’s southern accent presented itself, I realized two things. One, the casting for this movie is way off and two, my hopes and dreams for a kid martial artist on the same level as Hung Man Ting (Miu Tse) from Jet Li’s “New Legend of Shaolin” (click here) were dashed.

On to the movie…Overall, I thought film was mediocre and all of the acting was pretty lousy across the board. The way the actors delivered each line of dialogue made me cringe and the people behind me sigh. It felt like the actors had spent so much time learning their lines that they had no time to work on making their characters believable. However, this may not have been all their fault since nearly every line of dialogue was so on the nose. Usually movies like this meticulously reveal just enough information about each character and the story to keep us intrigued…not this movie. If you want to know why Princess Yue has blue eyes, she’s going to tell you in a two minute dissertation EXACTLY why her eyes are blue. This struck me as odd since Mr. Shayamalan is known for his “twist” endings and was famously able to keep all of us in the dark with the big reveal in the “Sixth Sense.” I thought how could there be such mystery to those characters (from his other movies), yet these characters in Airbender are singing like canary’s every time they appear on the screen.

SPOILERS BEGIN HERE…

Sadly, character ambiguity wasn’t the only thing missing from this movie, there also seemed to be a lack of character development. Zuko (Dev Patel) and his father Firelord Ozai (Cliff Curtis) had some serious father/son beef in this film. This beef could have really been played out to be the ultimate family feud and give Zuko and Firelord Ozai some real character depth. Instead, their whole storyline fell totally flat with talk, talk, talk. There was a LOT of talking about what happened to make their relationship so estranged but there was no real action or scenes to show us firsthand how Zuko was banished from the family or how Firelord Ozai preferred Zuko’s sister over him. Actually, all talk and no action seemed to be the common theme throughout this entire film.

Two more characters who suffered from Mr. Shayamalan’s zero character development syndrome was Sokka and Princess Yue. Instead of us slowly watching their love for each other grow, we simply see Sokka arrive at the Water Nation one day, he makes eye contact with Princess Yue for a moment, and then abracadabra…in the very next scene, they’re deeply in love. Of course one of the main characters comes out and tells us that they’ve now been at the Water Nation for weeks now but we never get the chance to see this. Therefore it feels rushed and we don’t really get a chance to explore the Water Nation with the main characters before the bad guys arrive. Sigh.

Finally there was Aang. I really wanted to care for Aang but the nonchalant way his back story was presented made it really hard to feel sorry for him. So he runs away from the monastery and when he returns a hundred years later, all of the monks who raised him have been annihilated by the Fire Nation. That’s a pretty dire situation for a kid to deal with. Unfortunately, all the film shows us when Aang returns to the scene of the crime is a sea of skeletons scattered across a field. Aang looked pretty sad but the audience sure didn’t seem to care. I think for us to really feel something for Aang it might have worked better if maybe we see him run away right before the monastery is invaded. This way we have an emotional connection to what Aang is feeling when he returns home. A similar film that did this well and rather quickly was “The Golden Child.” Before the Golden Child was kidnapped by Sardo Numspa and his cronies, there was a scene where several monks were killed in order for them to kidnap the Golden Child. Without two words of dialogue, this scene made us feel sorry for the Golden Child since he’s just witnessed his people being wiped out right before his eyes and we know that this kid must be something special for Numspa to go through so much trouble to get him.

What was good about the movie you might ask? Well, Shaun Toub was really good as Uncle Iroh, he presented some depth with his character but unfortunately it was never totally fleshed out. M. Night Shayamalan finally did a movie where he didn’t cast himself. The film also had some really nice special effects and the costumes were outstanding.  James Newton Howard did a phenomenal job with composing the music from start to finish. He’s sure to get another Oscar nom for this one. And eventhough Dev Patel’s portrayal of Zuko started out with a lot of overacting, he improved a lot by the end of the movie.

To conclude, my main issue with Airbender was its lack of subtlety. Shayamalan had a tendency through the film and its dialogue to force feed us every little nugget of information rather than trusting that we ‘d be smart enough to figure  things out for ourselves. Having not seen the cartoon, I can’t really comment on whether the movie does or does not do it justice. However, I will say that as a martial arts, fantasy action film, Airbender was pretty painful to watch. The film ended with a total set-up for the sequel to come but after reading about all the controversy surrounding the casting choices and the lackluster performances in the movie, I have to wonder if Part II will ever see the light of day. I’m really interested to see what happens when the film hits theaters next week.
Purple Hearts to All,

Renaissance Girl
“Saving the world, one “EPIC” tee at a time”