It's a "Velvet Underground" t-shirt, redone in Arabic. For more info check out this style article, or just go to the gallery at brendandonnelly13.
It's fun to realize that not all English sounds are available in the Arabic alphabet (even though Arabic has more characters, including three forms of what English speakers might call "Z" ... two forms of "T" and two forms of "S"). There is no "P" in Arabic, and no "V" ... so it's reasonable for an Arabic-speaker to read the t-shirt as the "zee fell-feet andar-gerawoond" at least it's bossible. I can joke about that because I do speak Arabic and find the transliteration of English words can be priceless entertainment (in case you're wondering, when I first read the Joy Division t-shirt it parsed as "Gooey Defeegin" and then it parsed as "Jawey Defeegin" which meant "my weather is ..." and the word defeejin/defeegin had me mystified.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
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