The Joey Factory

I have received my first letter in response to what is and what is not appropriate content on CafePress.com!

From Margene a Content Usage Associate:
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Thank you for contacting CafePress.com!

As you may know, CafePress provides an automated service to a rich and vibrant community of international users. Unfortunately, because our service is automated, sometimes content that is not consistent with our Content Usage Policy is posted on CafePress. Another reason why the images in question may be up for sale is because certain shopkeepers have obtained authorization for the use of certain designs and we also host official shops and portals (such as Dexter, Twilight, American Idol, L Word, The Office and so on). The use of elected officials such as Obama, Bush or anyone else that serves in the office was never prohibited on our site. We appreciate that you have brought this content to our attention and we will look into it.

For more information please review our Content Usage Policy (http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/law.aspx), which is an accurate measure of what you can and cannot do through the CafePress service.

Your ticket code is LTK419066508638X. Please use this code in any further communication.

Best Regards,

Margene H.
Content Usage Associate
(650) 655-3104 (O)
(650) 240-0260 (F)
www.cafepress.com

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That’s very nice and dandy. But I enjoy how some things were still ignored or simply set aside. So I have written them another email:
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LTK419066508638X

Attention Content Usage Team,

I appreciate your explanation and clarification about some of these images in question. It just seemed a bit strange and I wanted to make sure that you were aware. It’s good to know that these portals have obtained authorization of certain images.

It’s nice to know also that elected officials such as George Bush and Obama are fair game in the t-shirt design world.

I do however want a real response as to why I am not allowed to sell Image #34755926 on a t-shirt. After reviewing you content usage policy I do believe that my image is in the clear. I assure you that it is a computer drawing and not a photograph. I have a few questions I’d like answered below:

What needs to be changed on the design in order for it to be sold on CafePress.com?

Is there a process of reviewing my design? What is this process?(ie is there a board or person that decides yes or no)

Now that I’ve brought some of these other questionable images such as Chuck Norris, Adam Lambert, etc. Will there be swift action in taking these down? (Because I don’t believe anyone other than Adam and Chuck have the authorization, as it were, to sell these items.) I Heart Adam Lambert

Can you send me an official email letting me know if my design has been approved or not?

Thanks to Margene and the Content Usage Team for a speedy response regarding my questions and concerns about Content on CafePress.com.

I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,
Joey Broyles
www.cafepress.com/j17productions
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Perhaps I should let go of the issue? Hell no! In fact until these two images are taken down from CafePress.com I’m going to continue to mention it to them! If I cannot put up a ‘political cartoon’ of Perez than neither can the CafePress Store Owner ‘Chuck For Huck.’ It’s only fair. I have a feeling that they probably won’t take down either of these images, but they can prevent mine from altogether not going up.

It’s a little bit more than “our service is automated, sometimes content that is not consistent with our Content Usage Policy.” It’s more like we caught you, but these other two, are grandfathered in and we are not going to take the time to take them down. Nonetheless I patiently await their next reply!

Stay tuned for our hopeful conclusion of Joey Gets The Curb!

So I’m totally in love with these outfits I just created on Photoshop. Obviously the T-shirts are designed by me and are available on my store, but the whole outfits are amazing. In fact these would be my fashion recommendations for all boys! Please disregard that these beautiful models do not have arms nor heads, lol.

This first outfit is obviously my personal style personified! POP STAR.In my heart I am a Pop Star and I always have loved this style. Something great to wear when you go out or to shoot a music video in. Wink! I was amazed to find these jeans online, because they look just like my old ones! Advice: Never throw away your bleach jeans, ever! I think I’ll make a new pair.

The Casual Defiance Style. Looks like you are just in an every day outfit but, then of course, you have your thought provoking t-shirt on. Below The Influence. Honestly I designed this t-shirt specifically for those damn commercials, “ABOVE THE INFLUENCE.” Those commercials annoy the hell out of me. First off the commercial categorizes drug addicts as minorities, and then it has the audacity to brainwash you as well. I’m not a drug user, smoker, or drinker but give me a fucking break. I’m Below The Influence, not above, I support my druggies and Abby Normals.

And lastly Vintage Chic Style. The Alphabet Pony T-shirt may be a new design, but the whole feel of the outfit is definitely vintage. Skater like shoes, baggy jeans, and a charcoal t-shirt with a design that resembles vintage company logos. And it’s of course it’s chic because I designed it!

In other news look at Britney Spears’ shoes:

Aren’t they amazing? Yes!

Well my shows are all coming to an end this week and next… Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, and 90210. When the shows are over, it’s time for summer! Yay!

Today I also worked on a top secret project which only a few people have known about. It’s a special song that I plan to do the triple threat with: song on iTunes, video on YouTube, and if you’re lucky, REMIX! All I will tell you is that I have made lots of progress with this song today. I’ve got the vocal tracks all layed out, as well as the basic melody, and even a beat! I have my new iDrum program to thank for that. Seriously beats come easier when I can just create patterns with a program. I admit that beats are my weakness, but I will no doubt continue to work on them. Oh one more thing the song is called IF U LUV ME. That’s all I’m giving. Those of you on the inside with recording experience may see my songs before others, but it’s cause I’ll need input!

I love the character I’ve created, Shanikwa Jones. She is an amazing character and I love playing her. But lately my energy level and enthusiasm have grown numb. It takes a lot of my time and energy to portray this character and I’m not sure if I’m bored of her or if it has something to do with: supply and demand. She isn’t heavily wanted. I’ve been trying to get more and more hits on YouTube with no success. So I’m hoping I can change that.

Currently I have 28 videos on YouTube dedicated to her. And I know that one of the issues is people on YouTube have very short attention spans and they seem to hate everything. It’s very hard to put so much effort into something and then just be told, “this is stupid.” So my need to succeed is sometimes influenced by these random jerks on YouTube. But that comes with everything you do online. And trust me if you slam me, I slam you back and make a t-shirt with your face on it. They call that defaming someone, I call it, “Go fuck yourself.”

Of course on the other hand Shanikwa has a pretty big fan base on Myspace. People send her messages all the time and say really sweet things and that definitely makes it all worthwhile. But sometimes trying to come up with new and exciting material can be difficult. Hence the prolonging of my Shanikwa movie. OMFG! Talk about doing it all yourself. First I’d like to thank all the talent that I was able to manage getting in this film, but the EDITING is killing me. I want the movie to be an A+ movie, but I do not have the computer power or producers or any film gurus to help me with this. But with the same token this is suppose to look like one of those really bad films, that is sort of the charm of Shanikwa.

Now about new episodes and the future of The Shanikwa Shanikwa Show.

With Shanikwa it has always been about what’s really raunchy and shocking. Also she flourishes more when she has an audience to interact with. For instance when she’s with a few students from a local high school she becomes this thing that words cannot express. Her looks alone are shocking. I mean, you don’t see people who look like her every day. But on a personal note I have no friends who have Tuesdays and Thursdays off, like I do. If there is a friend out there who for sure wants to be my camera person, LET ME KNOW RIGHT NOW! All you have to do is stand by the tripod and hit record, we’re not a fancy film production, yet.

Now I’ve been toying with the idea of having Shanikwa do a new series called: News With Flavor with Shanikwa Jones. Now of course this isn’t even original at all, but I think I can incorporate Shanikwa’s style into a news show to make it stand out. My troubles I’m having right away are, of course, I have run out of room to shoot such a show. My office, where I shoot, is filled. It has all been done before and I’m trying really hard to figure out how to make it look like a real news show. I know I need a few more lights and a router speed controller, for variable lighting. Then I can properly light a green screen. Green screen is easy when you have the allotted room for one. Otherwise you have what is called green spill: this is where it gets all over the actors face and then you are royally fucked.

Either way you can see that I clearly have a passion for this character because I’ve already dedicated a few years of my life to her and look how much I can write about an Africasion Queen Bitch. I love everything about Shanikwa right down to the platinum lip stick and black eye liner. When I portray her I have so much fun and I hope I can expand this character into the success that she deserves. So I will make a plan right here, right now!

THE PLAN:
1. Finish that damn movie!
2. Finish that damn movie!
3. Make more episodes!
4. Try out the news thing and see how it works
5. Finish that damn movie!
6. Make some flyers?
7. Have that crazy poetry reading for the movie!
8. Finish that damn movie!
9. Start making episodes on Sundays, too!
10. Make a Facebook! A Twitter!

Hey friends do your part and visit and bookmark these links!

Shanikwa Videos–This will help me a whole lot if twice a month you just visit and watch my videos. Sharing them with others is a must. Please help!

Shanikwa’s Myspace–If you aren’t a friend with her on Myspace, please add her today!!

And don’t forget to visit and forward her website to your friends: Shanikwa

Thanks for your support!

Do you like my new Facebook profile picture? You don’t? That’s okay you don’t have to like the Queen. You just have to deal with the facts that you are living in denial. Nah. I’m not that superficial. I’m going to show you my top five favorite t-shirt designs I’ve created and tell you a bit about each of them.

Let’s start with GLAMOROUS!

When I first bought the Fergie cd I was totally excited for her song Glamorous. I believe it embodies how every artist should feel about their fame. It’s really great and amazing to be famous, but “I still go to Taco Bell, Drive thru raw as hell.” I had a vision when I heard this song of velvet ropes and the celebrities are behind the rope or bouncer who’s holding a sign Glamorous. I took photos of each of my friends and myself and then put them through several effects in Photoshop and then ended up with the look. (From left to right Kelly, Jackie, Me, Danny, and Lnz)

The Sponge of Love

This design was created back in early February 2004. What can I say? Love was in the air. I was talking online with Danny and our friend Matt and listening to Janet Jackson’s Just A Little While. I was incredibly excited for my first Valentine’s Day with Danny and just generally in a super good mood. As I remember Matt was not in a good mood so I suggested he could absorb some of my happiness. He said something to the effect, “Sure. I’ll soak it up like a sponge.” Instantly I thought The Sponge of Love. Of course later The Sponge of Love birthed an arch nemesis called The Sponge of Evil!

Breathe

Now what I love about this design is it sold a whole lot! In one month I sold seven t-shirts for the ladies. So cool. Danny wasn’t ever really interested in this design, which I think is why fate made it sell over and over again. In total, without promotion of my store, I’ve sold 16 items with this design on it. The idea was inspired by all the times that I wished I would’ve just taken a breath and let go of all the bull shit. So this design means a lot to me.

The Undiscovered Collection

There was something amazing about this design. I have never seen anything quite like it and I have Photoshop to thank for it. It originally started as a gift for my aunt denise and then turned into much more. I used some cool effects on Photoshop and then used the air brush tool to apply makeup onto myself. A lot of the times I totally feel undiscovered and wish I’d be undiscovered and that’s pretty much where the title came from and I was listening to a lot of Ashlee Simpson when I made these!

Last but not least. The Shanikwa Shanikwa Show logo.

I’ve put a lot of time, effort, and sweat into Shanikwa Jones. I have created a character who I think is very original and I totally love her. I love the look of the logo because it looks like one of those old cartoons from Warner Brothers. Sort of like Porky the Pig at the end of each cartoon. It just works so well with branding the show. So please if you haven’t watched the show, try it out!

The Shanikwa Shanikwa Show

Completely off the subject I’m totally booked this summer. Here’s the list of
Blockbuster Movies I Must See:
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Star Trek
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Angels & Demons
Terminator: Salvation
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Public Enemies
Chéri

Danny and I already have our tickets for both Wolverine and Star Trek: The Imax Experience(is there anything better?). It’s so sugar!

Click to Watch The Shanikwa Shanikwa Show

Above is that video that Jamie and I worked on very hard so you better watch! It was a lot of fun to make and things are a lot more interesting when someone else is behind that camera, aside from the tripod.

So the past few days I’ve been creating a more professional look for my website and I think I’m finally content with it. I wouldn’t leave my computer for hours at a time and I felt very much like a zombie. Oh well, I survived. Take a look:

Please go to my page and send me some love. J17 PRODUCTIONS

So today was a rather fun day. I drove downtown to see my gurrl Krystal. She is a good old pal from the high school days and I think she’s the shit. She is a really good person, yet she’s got a wild side, and if you don’t have a wild side, get one. Cause you can’t compete with this gurrl right herre! LOL. No, she really is great.

Before I had lunch with Krystal, I went to visit Lnz at her lovely job. I was looking for some new hair product and shizz. I was glad she didn’t have a client, because as my hair grows longer, I need to learn how to style it. So I had her show me how to flat iron my hair the correct way. You see when I flat iron my hair, it does just that, it goes flat. You notice they don’t call it a straight iron.

It’s amazing the tricks a hair stylist can teach you. So if you want your hair to be more voluminous then here’s what you do:

First flat iron your hair the opposite way that it usually lays. For instance a majority of my hair lays to my left, so I flat iron towards the right and sort of flick my wrist. And there’s a little volume. To really encourage volume I do recommend the following products. First for frizzy hair may I suggest some sort of skinny serum that will defrizz that shit we call hair.

After you got that out of the way, let me tell you about this awesome product! It’s called Pure Abundance Hair Potion by Aveda. So it’s super cool, it’s a thickening agent and it never gets sticky. The cool things about it. At first it is a powder of some sorts. But when it contacts your skin it becomes some sort of lotion. So from potion powder to lotion! Super awesome. Love it. It gives you that second day look for your hair. Yay for grungy-dingy basement hair, lol. Voluminous or Volumness!

So after my fun downtown, with Lnz and Krystal, it was back to home. Where I ignored the apartment that desperately needs to be cleaned for Friday’s Twilight Movie Night! Instead of cleaning, I played with Skittles for a while. We call it laser kitty. Then I went to my computer with intentions to edit Shanikwa or edit my gallery page for my website. Instead I worked on an old melody that I made up in high school.

Originally the song was about how I was sorry for my father, not being able to save him from the stupid court systems. But I thought to myself that shit is so old. Those emotions are pretty much retired. My father and I are very close, once again, so it just wasn’t the same. Instead I wrote about a breakup of sorts, putting my two cents in on my own past pains. I came up with some awesome shit. Here’s a little part of it:
Sorry by Joey Broyles ©2009
It’s in it’s real rough form right now. I’m experimenting with lots of sounds, but the lyrics came pretty easy and I’m glad about that. I’ve had a really hard time composing songs. I can write lyrics till my fingers bleed. I can come up with some really awesome music, but I can never fuse the two together. Everything about this song fuses and I’m really excited about it. Yay!

Now this evening was an amazing night filled with 90210! Seriously I’m glad I stuck with that show because the actors and the writers have found their niche. And it’s really good. It brings back memories of the first 90210. Back when I was eight years old, back in the day. Silver is a crazy bitch, but it’s okay, because she’s bipolar now. WTF! Um I know bipolar and that was way out there. Trust me on this, trust me! But Silver is still one of my favorites fo sure!

I had someone come into the store the other day. She was a very pretty girl around my age, dressed in fun bright colors. She seemed to be pretty cool. She was looking for a little bit of every thing. Living room set, dining room set, bedroom set; basically looking to refurnish her whole apartment/house. She wandered around the store for about a half hour.

Our conversation started with, “I’m looking for a black leather recliner.” And ended with, “My fiancé. I caught him cheatin’. He’s gon buy me a new living room set, dining room set, and a bedroom set.”

To which I responded with an odd response, “Okay. Okay.” Affirming that yes you have been cheated on and now your prize will be a bedroom set, living room set, and a dining room set. Congratulations. What the fuck?

How can you even stay with a man after he’s done that to you? Seriously! I’ve never understood this as far back as the Clinton scandal. Don’t get me wrong I love Bill Clinton, but I don’t approve of him hurting Hilary the way he did.

Anyways back to my poor customer. Girl what makes you think that new furniture is going to make things better between you and your fiancé? First off, after you catch a man cheating on you this is a very traumatic experience. It has no doubt left you with a slew of emotions and new found trust issues. He has damaged the trust in this relationship and also belittled you in the most cruel way. In blunt English, somebody else’s pussy is better than yours. That’s just fucking devious. Don’t stay with him. Unless you are more devious than he is…

Watch my imagination spiral. So the motha fucka has cheated on you? Good! Try this, maybe this is what my girl is up to. So you get that man back, get him to buy you all the furniture you want. Then make sure he gives you cash and you put everything in your name. Next get your furniture all set up in your house. Set the table, dinner for two, and get the man all comfortable and cozy. Make the best dessert he’s ever had. Let him spoon with you on the sofa after dinner. Get him all excited and bring things back to the bedroom where you, pardon my french, fuck his brains out.

After the greatest sex of his life and a good night’s rest this is when you let the demons out. You of course wait until he leaves for work. You’ll have already prearranged one of the following:

1. A moving truck service where you have all your furniture packed up and ready to be moved to an apartment/storage unit. Stay with a friend or family member.

2. Change the locks. And drop off his belongings at the nearest dumpster or just throw them out the window for a more dramatic flair.

3. Combine one and two with the added suggestions. Change your number that day. And then move across country and he’ll never find you again!

Maybe I have wronged this girl too much. Perhaps she is more like me than I thought, maybe she figures the son-of-a-bitch owes her that much. However with me I wouldn’t go this dramatic. I’d kick his ass out because I’d be way to hurt to stoop as low as him. I don’t condone cheating because that old saying, “once a cheat, always a cheat” is damn true.

Either way I’d leave his ass! I wouldn’t waste my time getting hurt over and over. What’s the point of getting back together for the millionth time? No, seriously? Tell me what it is about this person, that you like so much that you are willing to wait a month or two for him to do it again. This just isn’t about cheating this goes across the board to all people. It super sucks to be alone, and maybe I’m not allowed to voice an opinion because I’m in a healthy relationship, but why do you wanna keep hurting yourself?

There is a lot of love out there and you don’t have to settle for second or third place. Hold out and you’ll find it when you don’t want it. That’s how it works!

“Take a bow, the night is over. This masquerade is getting older.”

On a lighter note I have discovered some great music look at this playlist if you wanna mimic the coolness of my mix:

This mix is just super amazing. Suggestions use for strutting your shit in the gym or walking. And totally okay to play at work because there are no American swear words! If I had to pick the key tracks that shape the feeling of this mix they would have to be: À cause des garçons,Fragile, and of course Sour Cherry!

Oh yeah buy my t-shirts! J17 PRODUCTIONS

I’ve had and have many guilty pleasures, aside from Girl Scout cookies. Trashy prime time television has been my favorite since Melrose Place. “Mondays are a bitch!” I was no older than eight years old when I started watching these kinds of shows. I went from The Smurfs to Melrose Place. I can remember when Jane (Josie Bissett) and her sister Sydney(Laura Leighton) got into that fight. Sydney was in Jane’s wedding dress and Sydney said, “Let me go or I swear to god I’ll break your arm.” and in the pool they fell. I don’t know when the expression OMFG was invented but for me it was at that moment. I’m in love with gossip, teen angst, and a good bitch fight. What else does life have to offer?

Since the rebooting of 90210, I have hoped and prayed that the remake of Melrose Place was around the corner and it so is! I just read this amazing story about Ashlee Simpson joining the cast of the new Melrose Place.

I fucking love it and the description of her character as follows: :”Violet Foster, a Spokane, Wash., gal who hops on the bus to Los Angeles the day after she graduated. Violet is described as having a sex appeal she’s not afraid to use to her advantage and a seeming small-town naiveté that masks her shrewd, plotting nature.” I hope she’s a slut, I really do. Now I do mean that in the nicest possible way. She’ll be wonderful and maybe she’ll put another CD out soon, I hope!

You better believe that I’m an Ashlee Simpson fan. I’ve been one since her reality show and I’ve bought every cd she’s recorded, on the release date.

I hope this new Melrose Place soars and gives me a bunch of those dirty camera angles of clothes falling to the ground, ie sex! And there better be a gay boy on this show, for real! For me the character Matt(Doug Savant) was the first gay person I knew of and I always thought, secretly, that he was beautiful.

Last night I watched three episodes of the new 90210 so that I could catch up. That show has gotten really juicy, aside from Annie’s lame parents. Seriously! Any of you out there ever recall both of your parents coming into your room all lovey-dovey to see what you were doing? Maybe when you were like what, an infant, not when you are a teenager. It’s so fake and maybe this really does happen, and I’m just out of the loop because I grew up in the land of dysfunctional. Any way anytime they have a scene I want to either skip to the next scene or yell at the screen. Now of course Annie was never my favorite character until last night! She’s getting bad and that’s great!

But I do have a confession that my straight crush award goes to Anna Lynn McCord. She’s just a knock-out! And plays the best bitch, the one you love to hate, and I love a real bitch!

In other news where the hell is Gossip Girl, now that’s my favorite show. The idea of a bunch of Upper East Side New York kids and all their money, fashion, and problems. Delicious and something to envy or even die for. Now with this show I really don’t have any pet peeves other than I wish it was not on rerun right now.

This show has style, class, grace and a very improved talent. The character I might identify most with is probably Dan, but we all know I’d rather be Chuck Bass(Ed Westwick), or just sleep with him. Simply put, I really wish there was a Gossip Girl who existed during my time at Sun Prairie High, it would’ve made life that much more fun!

Well I made my own Gossip Girl site but it’s really just poking fun at my friends. Trust me I’d love to have my site anonymous and waste my days texting and blogging about current high schoolers for sport! But alas, I am not one who likes being arrested or sued for slander. Below is a screen shot of my site!

Yes the expression has been used many a time, Joey “you have too much time on your hands.” Well friends, there is never enough time to do whatever you set your mind to. If I want to bleach a couple pair of jeans, design a website, or make a YouTube video then I’ll do just that. Keep in mind I have to two full days off a week, so that’s all I’ll ever need. Two days!

That’s right you…BITCH!