I want to tell you about a new venture I’ve started called RIPT Apparel. RIPT is a new online retailer that sells one of a kind t-shirts for a limited time of 24 hours, then they “rest in peace” forever.

Over the past few months, 2 good friends of mine and I have been meeting weekly, discussing the necessary things to tackle in order to get RIPT off the ground. We’ve collectively built the business using our unique skills and talents and surged forward to produce what lives now at riptapparel.com!

We launched the site Monday, June 8th and have heard such wonderful praises and responses from people all over the globe!

One of our main missions at RIPT is to provide a unique outlet for up and coming artists to promote and sell their art. We feel we’ve provided just the place for this!

One of the ways we’ve done this is we built a community right through the website. Anyone can sign up and join in on the conversations happening everyday! Since Monday’s launch, we’ve had over 400 people join so far, and the number keeps on climbing!

We have also been running a promotion all week, giving away a free shirt for a random new member of the RIPT community as well as a twitter promotion for 50% off their next purchase.

Some of the wonderful artists and their shirts that we’ve collaborated with this week include

• Melostar’s “More trees for birds”
• Dave Perillo’s “A bull by the horns”
• Maxime Francout’s “Green Haven”
• Ryan Clark’s “Queen of Hearts”
• Tang Yau Hoong’s “Fly Away”
• heinrichz’s “Queen of the dammed”
• C86′s “Summer Madness”

I just want to thank everyone for the support and for going to the site and even more for the people who picked up shirts in the first week! You are all absolutely amazing! There will be many more updates on the on-goings of RIPT so check back soon.

And don’t forget to stop by the website and say hi in the comments! Also feel free to follow us on Twitter too!