DBZ isn't a real company, just a small hope held by me and some friends -- one in particular-- to rid the world of T-shirts that suck.
Yes, that's about it. One day, a couple years ago, we were walking around Hilltop Mall in RIchmond, CA, and were just appalled by the sheer volume of truly wack T-shirt designs. At first, we just mumbled and grumbled to ourselves or each other that we could do better. But then we started saying so aloud. When challenged, we unsheathed pen and pencil and proved that we were right. As of now, there are still a few shirts of ours wandering around out there, but many more business cards, flyers, album covers, posters, framed pictures, cels, and at least two tattoos.
While putting together this page, I had the black and yellow construction tape up, but liked it so much that I adopted it, and made some elements on my own. In keeping with the theme, I tacked on "Heavy Industries." If I remember correctly, in Bubblegum Crisis the Genom Corporation has such a division, and they did construction/demolition.
Since then, many things have changed. Other aspects of life tended to interfere, and my partner in the effort, Jamie Roshan Sanders, passed on June 18, 1999 at the age of 25. Therefore, DBZ is, for the most part, officially disbanded. Since I came up with the name -- which originally stood for Design Bureau Z -- I figure I can basically do with it as I please. Meanwhile, me and Jamie's vision of functional art for the masses lives on.
The DBZ movement continues in my work for LL Enterprises LLC. This Geocities site is my personal site, and should only contain fleeting reference to my work. No shilling or advertisement outside of this mention and maybe a few pictures. Otherwise, no LLE business is conducted here.
Anyway, just to keep Geocities from mistaking this from a commercial enterprise...
1. No price lists here. Reason: Nothing sold here.
2. No products or services sold here. Reason: Like I said, there's nothing sold here.
3. I extoll the virtues of some products and/or services but don't receive compensation if they get purchased. I don't figure there's anything wrong with saying something is great. How would you know anything is good if not for recommendations from friends or family? Then you try it and either agree or disagree.
4. I don't market the products or services of friends or family members. Reasons: Either they're doing fine on their own, or the organizations they work for have their own site for that.
5. I don't state or suggest that products or services can be acquired by contacting me. Not here, anyway. Drop me some e-mail and maybe we can talk. I'd like to do request/commission art sometime, but right now I reserve it as gifts for friends and family, plus I'm much too busy. If you want, you can say that you like my art, but I don't do requests unless it's for desktop wallpaper, which you can then acquire for free. When I don't respond, the answer will be: "Thanks, I'm flattered, but no."
6. I don't discuss ways to make money with any group or company that I hold a distributorship or franchise with. Reason: Didn't I tell you there's nothing sold here?
7. There are links to commercial pages beyond GeoCities, but I don't receive any compensation of any kind, directly or indrectly. You might argue -- with great difficulty -- that I receive (VERY) indirect recompense: I praise a product or service, folks see that and check it out, provider gets more attention and sell more product or service, product or service improves further, I get new and improved product or service, thus reaping the benefits of my initial praise. But what if that product or service winds up worse? Does that mean I can sue everyone who suggested the "improvement" that would eventually ruin my life? Interesting thought, but let's not have to go as far as all that...
8. I don't represent myself as an agent of any kind on this page. Actually, I was going to have a "secret agent" theme to this page, but liked the "heavy industry" look and went with it. Nonetheless, I don't sell real estate or insurance, represent actors or athletes, or anything else requiring an agent. Reason: For the last time, you can't buy anything here!
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