{"id":9574,"date":"2007-05-25T17:26:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2007-05-25T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T17:26:05","slug":"happy-mutant-handbook-tat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9574","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mutant Handbook Tat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" border=1 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/evolveTat.jpg\">One of my favorite parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Happy_Mutant_Handbook\" target=\"new\">The Happy Mutant Handbook<\/a> was the &#8220;Urban Absurdist Survival Kit&#8221; with designs by the mysterious Ward Parkway, a.k.a. the incomparable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anigami.com\/jimwich.html\" target=\"new\">Jim Leftwich<\/a>. We all got to brainstorm ideas for the &#8220;kit,&#8221; and Ward did the amazing sticker art for it all (and the lion&#8217;s share of the content, as I recall). It was a popular part of the book. MTV even did an ad for itself using art inspired by the stickers. BTW: MTV, you scumbags still owe me $1,000. I helped create an ad for MTV and all I got was a stinkin&#8217; MTV sweatshirt. <\/p>\n<p> Anyhoo, love for the HMH and Ward&#8217;s stickers lives on. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fynes\/441490433\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"new\">This guy<\/a> liked the &#8220;EVOLVE: Support Mutation&#8221; sticker so much, he made it into a tattoo. <\/p>\n<p> Looking over the Survival Kit again reminds me how brilliant these stickers are and how we should really try to get them online. It&#8217;s SO much easier now to actually make them into stickers (&#038; T-shirts, mugs, etc.) <\/p>\n<p> <b>UPDATE:<\/b> Ward just sent us a copy of the original sticker: <\/p>\n<p> <center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/evolve.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite parts of The Happy Mutant Handbook was the &#8220;Urban Absurdist Survival Kit&#8221; with designs by the mysterious Ward Parkway, a.k.a. the incomparable Jim Leftwich. We all got to brainstorm ideas for the &#8220;kit,&#8221; and Ward did the amazing sticker art for it all (and the lion&#8217;s share of the content, as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Mutant Handbook Tat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}