SafetyThird

Safety Third is a philosophy that goes way back among those who attend Burning Man. I started making these Safety Third shirts for my Burner friends back in 2006, & they encouraged me to share our attitude with the rest of the world! I did not invent the phrase -- it's one that's owned by all!

An attitude born from those daily bombardments of exhortations of "SAFETY FIRST", and deadly boring meetings about on-the-job safety. From those poor souls who find their shoulders bent with the weight of safety manuals, safety missions, safety recommendations.

"Hell yes, we know how to be safe -- we're adults", say the poor pathologists and engineers and rocket scientists and computer geeks and gamers, who secretly long for the dangerous days of yore when kids could be boys and tomboys. So they go out into the desert to blow things up, and go to Burning Man to build and burn.

Throughout America, those responsible people who question authority all know It means that Safety is near the top of the list of considerations. But you do not let every bit of fun and spontaneity and exhuberance and excitement be obliterated by the bureaucrats and mothers who would insist on the Safety Imperative:

>> You must wear oven mitts when holding your coffee cup.
>> You put pontoon-like wheels on bicycles so they don't fall over.
>> You put diapers on dogs so they don't have an "accident".
>> You don't go outside after dark in fun neighborhoods.
>> They put rubber tips on your sewing scissors.
>> And tell you to never, never, RUN WITH SCISSORS!!!

....and now that you know the definition of Safety Third -- wear one of my shirts to prove it!

They're each hand-pulled, with ink mixed as I go, This means I can do color combos on multiple pulls. And since my safety images are modular, I can put them where ever, and combine them however, you wish. Many of my sales have been those custom combos.

Create your Safety dream shirt!

a short footnote: I got my Master's in lichen physiological ecology, from work in the Brooks Range of Alaska...while at Arizona State University, in the Sonoran Desert. I changed to neuropathology research after my son was born with a developmental disability. And so that's where the Down Syndrome awareness tees come from -- you will see him as a model for the larger shirts. He's a "Burner", too!