thank you so much for everyone's kind words! they certainly do mean a lot more than a professor's, haha.
LOVE the box freddy! i tried doing a film grain on mine as well, but it either messed with the contrast on the dial so that it no longer had that punchy, trademark look or, in hopes of combating that by turning up the contrast, i lost too much of the subtle detail, so i had to scrap it. so glad to see it worked out for somebody...
the details, shundi, since this was the first assignment of the course, were simple: "find something you love and sell it to me." so, i'm really, really, really hoping that freddy secretly turns out to be my professor and teejay turns out to be my "tee-a!". wow that was lame, i apologize.
ammandel, THANK YOU for FINALLY rewording my slogan. i thought about it for so long trying to simplify it, but all of the ways i came up with were too ambiguous. i LOVE "made for the bottom, worn at the top," and in fact, i'm going to steal it.
if anyone would like larger res (even without slogan/logo or with the new slogan, i won't be upset, haha) just let me know what size you need and i'll make it happen! i sent a 1024x768 to laz earlier today that turned out really well...just be warned that anything too large (original res is 3008x2000 or whatever) will start to show all my photography flaws, haha.
thanks again everyone!