EyeBallMania Announces two new t-shirt designs for 2008

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EyeBallMania in its never-ending quest to see what eyes are doing around the world has come up with two new images that are sure to get some heads turning.

The first is Lareye, your financial advisor. Financial advisors are those people who help you figure out what to do with your money. Where to put the extra cash you sometimes get so you can retire in a Donald Trump style. Yes you can picture yourself with the yacht, fancy cars, and mansion. Don’t do your homework or go to an advisor and you may be looking at the used double-wide while you’re working as the door greeter at Wal-Mart.

Lareye is there to make sure the last sentence does not happen to you. Lareye always has something witty to say at the right moment. Take some time at the EyeBallMania website and see what t-shirts you could be wearing with one of Lareye’s quotes.

Our other t-shirt is the one that all of us can relate to, guilt trip quotes from your mother. Yes your mommy, the woman who did everything for you and is now not letting you forget it. Our Momeye guilt trip quotes are designed for you to wear so you can show the world what line your mother loves to throw in your face in front of everyone.

Leonardo da Vinci t-shirt from EyeBallMania

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The second eye we are spotlighting is Leonardo da Vinceye. Come back often for more in-depth profiles of all of our parodies of Eyes Through the Ages.

Leonardo da Vinci t-shirt. Few people have influenced the world as Leonardo da Vinci. Born in Italy in 1452, Leonardo became a man of infinite curiosity and inventiveness. During his life, Leonardo would become an architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician, and painter.

Leonardo’s father realized that his son could draw at an early age and was able to get him an apprenticeship with a local artist. Leonardo spent years learning the trade and would eventually surpass the master artist at an early age. Leonardo would continue to paint for his entire life which would pay his bills and put him in great favor of the ruling class.

Leonardo’s mind was amazing. He conceived new military ideas, the tank, machine gun, and better fortifications. Leonardo developed new methods for casting bronze which could make better canons but also could be used to make very large one piece statues.
He saw flight as possible; he designed a man powered airplane, the helicopter, and then worked out a design for a parachute that would safely land you back on Earth. Leonardo worked on designs for using concentrated solar power along with a basic calculator. Using maps that explores were drawing of the African coast line, India, Far East and the newly discovered Americas’, Leonardo started to theorize that the continents fit together which would later be known as The Theory Plate Tectonics. He worked on engineering problems such as water supply and bridges. Leonardo worked on optics, mathematics and in his spare time, music.

Going back to what is probably his greatest love, Leonardo painted. His drawings and paintings astounded people of his time and through the ages. Leonardo thirst for knowledge and his drive to paint humans as accurately as possible lead him down a dangerous path which could have gotten him arrested or put him in a position to get a deadly disease. Leonardo started to dissect people. He paid off the local official who collected the bodies of homeless people who would have no relatives burying them. Leonardo would be told a body had come in and at night would open them up and draw what he saw. As bad as this sounds, no one had ever recorded what we looked like on the inside in any type of detail. Leonard’s drawings, when discovered after his death, would become illustrations doctors would use for hundreds of years. Leonardo would use his drawings to paint people the way they really looked. The way our muscles really move. The way skin actually wrinkles, bends and stretches. Leonardo drew and painted countless works. His two most famous paintings are the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.

Leonardo was a man vastly ahead of his time and for this artist, one of my personal heroes.

Cro-Magnon t-shirt from EyeBallMania

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Each week we will give a short history of an “Eye” that has influenced and changed our planet. Eyeball drawings for our t-shirts are made following a strict set of rules so that they maintain the quality and look we at EyeBallMania have set as our standard. In the beginning, not a pun, the drawings were destined for a history book for kids so that they could learn in a fun way about their ancestors and those who later would make different types of contributions to mankind. People who looked at the drawings started saying that the eyes would look great on t-shirts. Some thought went into this and EyeBallMania was born.

The first eye in our upcoming series, and will eventually be the first Eye in our history book, is Cro-Magneye. Come back often for more in-depth profiles of all of our parodies of Eyes Through the Ages.

Cro-Magnon t-shirt. Over the past few million years, nature has tried out a number of different types of two-legged, upright walking, opposable thumbed creatures with larger brains with us being one of them. While we where making our way out of Africa to populate the world we ran into an other humanoid, Cro-Magnon who was already living throughout Europe and parts of Asia. We really don’t know how these two different species interacted. Some have said peacefully and others, well things didn’t work out to well in the, welcome to the neighborhood, nice to see someone new, I’m sure we can work things out, kinds of way. Based on the fact that we keep fighting among ourselves all the time now, things probably didn’t go to well and Cro-Magnon disappeared off the face of the planet and was forgotten with our species taking over.

In the 15 and 1600’s when we finally stopped torturing and killing people for saying such things as “I think the Earth goes around the sun,” “Aristotle might be wrong,” or “I have an idea that could change things,” mankind started to make great leaps forward in science and technology. One thing that became clear was that animals could actually go extinct (something we as humans have learned to do very efficiently to large number of different species who are no longer with us.) Fossils had always been found but no one could figure out what they were. The Chinese found dinosaur fossils and dragons became part of their culture. Europeans were also finding dinosaur bones and slaying fire-breathing dragons became part of their myths. In the eighteen hundreds scientists finally started putting all of the “pieces” together and realized for the first time that they were looking at ancient forms of life. This enlightenment would then help stop some of the practices that had been happening around the world like grinding up fossils and eating them as medicine to help cure various aliments. (If you think that’s weird, look up what people were doing with mummies when they first found them in Egypt and why people eat rhinoceros horns today.)

Fragments of Cro-Magnon bones were being found throughout Europe but no one could figure out what they were. That changed in 1868, when French geologist Louis Lartet started digging at Les Eyzies, Dordogne, southwest France, at a spot on the side of a hill that had rocks sticking out of it making a perfect shelter. Lartet discovered five skeletons in the rock shelter that the local residents called Cro-Magnon. (If you can’t figure out at this point how Cro-Magnon got its name then you probably can’t figure this out; there are three kinds of people, those that can count and those that can’t.)

The skeletons Lartet found showed many characteristics that we modern humans have a high forehead, upright posture and slender skeleton. But the teeth and jaws were larger. The bones showed that Cro-Magnon had slightly larger muscles. The base of the skull where the backbone joins is in a slightly different position, but one that would have made speech much more difficult. As more Cro-Magnon skeletons were discovered in Europe and Asia, artifacts started to be found with their remains. Tools have been found that suggest that they knew how to weave clothing. Use animal skin. Have a varied diet of meat, grain, vegetables. Construct shelters and to paint pictures inside of caves.

Cro-Magnon lived 40,000 to 10,000 years ago and would be what many would call caveman. Dinosaurs died out 65 million years before Cro-Magnon walked on this planet. So when you see those movies with cave people fighting off a Tyrannosaurus, it just didn’t happen for real.

Note: Caveman is a bad term. Nobody wants to live in a cave if they can help it. Caves are usually damp, dark and cold and can have rather large animals living in them that could ruin your day. People like Cro-Magnon lived at the entrances to caves or natural rock shelters that kept you dry and out of the rain and snow.

Another note: For a time, people in the United States who had TB (Tuberculosis) lived in one of the largest cave systems in the world, Mammoth Caves in Kentucky because it was felt that the damp cool air would help cure them. Today Mammoth Caves is a National Park you can visit and see the remains of the hospital and go spelunking.