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I think Lisa Frank's business is going out of business.

Semantics, a symptom of the furious attempt to assign meaning, very particular meaning, to whatever is.

Toys!

Did it not already? I figure somebody just picked it up for the sake of making dollar store items.

I don't quite recall it being quite as absurdly colour-mush as what I've seen of late.

I'm so jealous of Gizmo. Lisa Frank stuff isn't sold in my country but I looove the designs.

My friend was in the US until she was ten, we lived in the same apartment complex and would play together. When she was moving to another complex and clearing out her house I took her Lisa Frank stuff. It was just a pencil stand and a sticker collection but I adored it. She'd won it and a game in an amusement park or fair of some sort, and it was old.

I hope they become more available sometime in the future. I didn't know it'd run out of business that makes me as sad as when BarbieGirls.com shut.

I didn't even know Lisa Frank before this signature trend started on Trisphee, and then I was slightly disappointed to discover the quotes apparently do not belong to the original merchandise. The sharp contrast between eye-hurting flashy rainbows and nihilistic messages makes the most awesome part in my opinion. It reminds me of those companies who sell all kinds of sarcastic shirts, even though they usually don't do rainbow. Or a fashion style where people dress up with skull and skeleton motives but in a perky cute way.

Fixed that for you. We have standards to uphold here.

BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST LISA FRANK THAT ISN'T AVAILABLE TO BUY FOR ME, IT'S ALSO GOTHIC LOLITA LOVELINESS. I CRY.

Mine's clearly the best because I had to make it :|

Suze, now I've got a mental image of Rupert riding that rainbow pegasus. Thanks.

It might have. Last I heard there are still a couple of employees working there, though they don't know why they even work there since they don't do much.

You guys are so wonderfully upbeat. :D


...Super cheery rainbow shit coupled with painful levels of nihilism would make for an excellent product line.

Imagine the t-shirts.

Shut up and take my money.

OMG how did you make it?! lowkey wants to too

EXCUSE ME?! Those words are NOT interchangeable, thank you very much! The futility is known! The furious part is in our attempts to deny and re-frame the inevitable into something of comfortable concept. But if you insist...

Sigh!

"..a symptom of the furious and futile attempt to assign meaning"

better?


And I've always thought the contrast is more fun when you take into account the development of life and thought. ;)

Of course the futility of life itself is known, but that's why we need to point it out even more. With rainbows.

Edit: You're talking about the really bright, cute images with dark text yeah?

Eh, it was more like, I saw a Nihilisa quote that I liked, but didn't like the image in the background, so I found art that I /did/ like (took some time, because HQ pics of old 90's things are pretty rare), and put the quote onto it in photoshop. Some effort involved, since fonts and gradients are weird.