Yesterday me and the fam headed downtown to South Congress to check out Storyville’s booth which was selling Thriving Ink shirts! We got to chat with Josh and enjoy the sunshine! 

We spotted Josh’s friend Edson wearing Radical Rambunction by Ken Marshall!

We then headed down to Guadalupe to visit Gabe and Meredith at the shop.  

 Thanks Josh for the pic! 

Two of our awesome artists, Ken Marshall and Ryan Alamillo were interviewed by Threadless. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Threadless, they are a website that allows the community to choose designs from a huge pool of artists and the chosen ones get printed. Pretty cool. Ken Marshall has had his designs printed 3 times and Ryan Alamillo, 1 time! You can read their interviews here… Ken’s Interview and Ryan’s Interview.

Ken even gives Thriving Ink a shout out!

Our buddy Ken Marshall

Our buddy Ryan Alamillo! 

The three-day Austin City Limits Music Festival kicks off today down at Zilker Park. Huge names in music will be converging on our beautiful city like The Foo Fighters, Beck, The Mars Volta! Personally I would kill to see Jenny Lewis or N.E.R.D. I have a feeling one of the best places to catch a glimpse of rock royalty will be down on South Congress… Our good friends over at Storyville (www.wearyourstory.com) were lucky enough to snag a booth next to Vespaio. They will be selling Thriving Ink tees as well as a bunch of other awesome tees from local artists. If you stop by tell them Thriving Ink sent you! This weekend may be one of the last chances to snag the first-run of Obama tees. Make sure you get them while we still have them! See you around town!

As I watch the weather forecast, and see that we will have a 92 degree day, it seems as though life is pretty normal for all of us here in Austin. But, it is not. We have thousands of evacuees here from Galveston, fleeing from Hurricane Ike.

The Red Cross is doing the best they can to accommodate the evacuees, who are all sleeping on the floor, some without sleeping bags or bedding. The families have no idea when they will be able to go home, and if they do, what they will find.

Were doing our best to help out any way we can. We initiated a canned food drive in our neighborhood and collected around 350 lbs of food in one day! Nice people here in Austin. We are going to head down to the shelters today to see what else we can do to help out. 

How can you help? Get on the Red Cross website,  www.redcross.org and donate anyway you can!