Best posts made by GTPowers

About 277 days straight, one soak and one wash.

That's a wrap!
IHSH-295ib

Spooky floating CPO!!!!
Set up a home studio shoot with this seven year old 292 as a stand in for my competition 295-IB.
Love this thing though I’ve sized out of it. Got it the day my youngest daughter was born.

My final submissions for the Redline Rally. Great jacket but I've got to convince myself to stop doing comps in overdye!

Double OD! 301OD under the SEXPOOD. Shirt has a few more days of wear than the jeans.

Missing some of my studio equipment to really make this full shot work but at least I got out of my Pit enough to get back out from behind the camera.

Hey Folks,
Had the chance to be filmed for our school's recent run of PSA commercials. Had to sneak in some Iron Heart!

For context: My wife and I work for a large boarding school in Central Pennsylvania. We run a home of 12 teenage boys and have been at it for about a decade.

Here's a couple stills.

Me pretending to know how to throw a football:

And me pretending to know how to play pingpong, personal daughter my sparring partner:

Still waiting on an interview commercial where I wore the recent UPS UHF, which happens to be a perfect match for our school colors!

Hope you enjoyed!
-GTP

One of the best!
-GTP

Surprised they used this b-roll because of the patch and the fact you can tell that I have no idea how to peel an acorn squash…but here’s my piece where I get to use it everyday!

Over a year of wear.
-GTP

Worth every penny.
As for the Redline… always a bridesmaid, never a bride ‍

Thats a wrap. 365 straight, lots of washes. Headed back to IHUK for repairs if they're willing.

Traded my IIY4 19Ls for this shirt without really knowing what I was getting my hands on. Thanks @marc-from-earth !

Congrats to all the IH (and others) winners this year!
On a side note; I feel like throwing in the towel. In four years I've never broke out of the top 50. I don't want to push my entry onto others and seem desperate but the community never seems to look my way. Are the studio pictures too sterile? Does my shirt not stand out in anyway? I live by the "just wear it" mantra for every comp and....I don't know.

I'm not a competitive person by nature so it's weird I even let it get to me but it's like this every year. I spend the year really enjoying to community and the updates, not really thinking about placing after the finish line then...boom I see my stuff just fizzle out in the community vote and my morale follows suit.

@Mizmazzle That sounds like a dream.
I would say our school's focus is Career/SEL based education for underprivileged kids. It's a completely free program. The school covers food, clothes, housing, education needs, etc. The students even have the potential to earn a $95k supplementary scholarship for post secondary.
We've been here long enough to see some really great stuff happen for kids who needed it (and wanted it, because some of them don't). I've got one '23 grad who started pre-med on a full ride to Columbia. He came out of one of the poorest neighborhoods in Baltimore. Another grad, '22, who is wrapping up his second year at Villanova, on a full ride as well. He came from bo-fawk-no-where PA, born into a family of junkies. Calls me dad now, which is hilarious because I'm hardly a decade older than him.
It's just so cool. I really love it!

Breaking in the pair on a cold morning ride to a cafe.

Snuck in the UHF for an info-mercial. The colors are so spot on for the School’s Brown and Gold.

@Mizmazzle

It’s tight so I don’t really have a great answer. When it was new….crunchy as Captain Crunch lovelessly leaving its mark on the top of your mouth.

What do you call a cat that can turn into a potato?

A Mew-Tater!

@Luijim78 @Davids_denim thank you both! It’s a strange sensation. I’ll be so fired up just to be a part of it once the Comps start but almost recoil over the voting and competition.

Your words are an encouragement to an end none of us have yet seen. I know I’ll look back at this words another day when I need them more and feel a duplicative buffering of my motivation.