Llama People Clothing Blog

posted by Llama Chris on Mar 16

Brian e-mailed me yesterday with the sketches for our next three Llama designs. It’s a pity I’m not making millions of dollars of this whole llama thing yet, because I’ve got a list about 200-llamas long of hilarious and brilliant ideas for llama-as-human designs. In fact, just writing that then I had another great idea - Purple Tentacle from Day of the Tentacle? Instead, Purple Tentacle Llama. I don’t know how that would look, but I like that idea. A poster, “Day of the Llama.”

Bernard: [Unties the tentacles] There, you’re free to go.
Green Tentacle: Thanks, Bernard!
Purple Tentacle: Yes. Thank you, naive human. Now, I can finish taking over the world! [Purple Tentacle leaves]
Green Tentacle: Wait!
Bernard: Oh yeah. Now I remember. He’s incredibly evil, isn’t he?
Green Tentacle: Uhhh… I’ll try to talk him out of it.

Anyway, that little bit of nostalgia out of the way I was here to talk about Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. Something about this one just made me laugh hysterically. Though, in all honesty they all do when I first see them. My initial joy and amazement doesn’t start to wear off until I’ve ordered about twenty products featuring the design and realise that even though I sell them, I still have to pay for them.

The sheer expression and character that are prevalent in all of our Llama designs just makes me so happy, the style is so perfect for what I want to portray; and in an effort to sound significant I will describe my artistic desires as being a visual representation of the human condition, as presented through the image of llamas.

As brightly as the sun shines, these llamas just ooze character. If Frankenstein Frankenllama isn’t a roaring success, then I’ll have no choice but to rant and rave about the depravity and general apathy of the working class. Until then, savour the sketch…

posted by Llama Chris on Mar 14

So, just when I was starting to lose hope about all chances of ever getting this great Llama project off the ground (not that I have hade much time to put into this project of late, unfortunately real life concerns sometimes get in the way of my grand dreams) I hit the jackpot. And let me tell you a little something about that jackpot.

We went away for a little vacation these last three days to Mount Gambier in South Australia. We saw some caves, some lakes, some sinkholes, lots of famished possums and only two llamas. It was a great trip. I wish I could spend my entire life just travelling around.

Anyway, we were on our way home from this (three days without a computer, it was great!) and not far from home I began formulating in my mind what I would need to do when I got home. First and foremost, before even beginning to unload the car I would need to check my e-mail for any hordes of fan mail that I would have undoubtedly recieved and then to see what success we had in sales for the last three days.

I started dreaming that I wouldn’t have many orders. But that what orders I did have, would be huge. I was pretty sure that the son of the Nigerian president was going to place an order for about 100 varied Llama shirts for his servants, and then I calculated how much money I would make from that. I added it all up, got excited (even though I wouldn’t be close to break even point for this whole project at this stage) and couldn’t wait to be home.

So then we got home, and because I didn’t want to get my hopes up for nothing, I said out loud, “It’s okay - I know I haven’t made any sales.” Just so that in the off chance my Nigerian friend hadn’t placed his order, that I wouldn’t be too let down.

So I hopped into Thunderbird and there it was before me. An e-mail letting me know that I had made the sale I was after.

No, it wasn’t 100 items. But it was my first official sale! And when I say first, I mean second. Because about one month ago, before the site was even up properly I made a sale of a Dalai Llama womens shirt. Don’t know where it came from, but it doesn’t count because I didn’t work for it.

This one, which I probably didn’t work for either - it was probably some poor internet traveller that acidentally found themselves at my little llama site, was my first official one. And though it wasn’t for one hundred items, it wasn’t for one item either.

It was a sale for one Drama Llama t-shirt, and a Embrace Your Inner Llama tote bag. I was so excited! My first official sale. Surely it can only be up from here? So far I am off on my projected outcomes for the Month of March - one sale per week - but there is still time to make up for that.

Anyway, I’m going to go to bed now and dream the dream of success.

My millionaires mansion will be shaped like a giant llamas, if you were a roaring success, what sort of extravagent house would you buy yourself?

posted by Llama Chris on Feb 6

Brian completed the most recent request of Llama Pictures over a week ago now, and I forked out the cash for them. I’m more than happy to do that, have you seen this guys work? If not, go check out the main page - Llama People Clothing and look at our designs. This guy is a creative genius. We give him some vague ideas like, “Man, you know… a llama… and, like… you know the Da Vinci thing with the guy… and the circle? I think Dan Brown drew it. Um, can you draw that… but it’s like a llama instead…” And then he turns these embellished (is there an opposite word for embellished, I wonder?) directions into works of art. For the pure brilliance of each and every drawing he does for us, he provides a very competitive rate.

Anyway, the point I was getting at was that it’s costing me a little bit of money and quite a lot of time to get this whole Llama Clothing thing happening. I’m in a spot of trouble if it doesn’t work out for us. I’m kind of laying all my hopes and dreams on this idea, and my idea of a future free of work (I’ve calculated that I only need to sell, gee, about five hundred shirts a day to be able to retire comfortably) and travelling as I please in the vein hope that this website is a roaring success.

But come on, who can resist these llamas? Llamas are in general pretty awesome, and they have a little bit of popularity on the internet, but if you aren’t even into Llamas - these shirts just look so awesome. How can anyone not buy them? In fact, I’m expecting a bucket load of Dracullamas to arrive at my front door tomorrow.

Anyway, so now that I have a reasonable amount of Llama Pictures (though I will be ordering more and more to help expand the site as we progress through this project) I need to work hard on the site and everything that goes with it, so that I can make this go where I want it to go.

Life would be so much easier if I were a llama.