Interview with T-shirt Designer Finty
21st Jun 2007
Interview with T-shirt Creator Finty
Here at the PRC HQ we do be likin' it when we discover some serious new talent - especially feens who can spread the PRC spirit in visual form. One such new talent is Finty, a smooth talkin' Murphy's lovin' man-about-town.
He's a man on a mission, and that mission is to design new clobber that reflects his burning pride in all things Corkish. His first design for the PRC reflects his deeply held belief that finally, after 6 days practicing, God only perfected Creation itself when He made Cork.
"It stands to reason," says the shiny scalped scoundrel, "shur how else do you explain places like Glandore and Beara like?"
Finty's second design came about after a certain Cyrpus match earlier this year. To try and console himself after the shock result he stuck on his dvd box set of the A-Team and found himself wondering what Roy would have said about Stan if he was in BA's shoes...
PROC recently caught up with the chuppa-cheeked chappie and put some serious questions to him...PROC: Do you think the roof of the Sistine Chapel should be updated following your design, or should it simply be painted on the ceiling of the City Hall?
Finty: I think it should be a mix of both. In all fairness to Michelangelo he done a fine job there on th'oul ceiling job like, but I think he was being a bit too general in his painting. Especially as everyone knows that God saved up his best work for creatin' all things Corkish.
My image sets the record straight and shows what really happened after tea on that famous 6th Day. And now that the truth is out, tis time the Sistine Chapel dome was not only updated, but boxed up and shipped back to Cork so we can put it where it truly belongs - as a new roof on the City Hall.
Proposed 'new' interior for City Hall |
PRC: Who was your muse for the "Then God Created Corkman" image?
Finty: In truth I didn't have one single muse at all. I just traipsed around the hurling pitches of Cork soaking up the spirit of Corkman. When I actually sat down then with me crayons and copybook the image came to me.
I think the result is a fine combination of the old and the new. "Corkman" is lean and clean cut, up to date with his new clobber, but also harking back to olden days; a bit CËchulainn-ish, lyin' there nonchalantly, sayin "Thanks God biy, nice wan like."
PRC: Blackpool girls are very rude - they go swimming in the nude. But your Corkman isn't depicted naked. Why not?
Well, I know I might seem a bit of a heretic for disagreein' with the song there like, but I've seen them Blackpool girls goin' a-swimmin' and, in all fairness, I didn't think they were rude at all at all. Quite the opposite in fact.
But I think paintin' a fella in de nude would have been rude. Not only would I have been ignoring the fact that every Cork feens Birthday Suit is red and white, but more importantly, I'd have had to draw Corkman's tackle. And I'm sorry like, but the only tackle I want to see is on de pitch...
PRC: If RTE Cork were to remake "The A-Team" with Roy as B.A. Baracas, who do you think should be Hannibal, Face Man and the mad fella?
Finty: Great question biy! Lemme think... Well Hannibal was always lookin out for the ordinary feens, fightin for truth 'n' justice and havin a good oul rage against The Man, so the only sham that could play him for RTE would hafta be craggy oul' Eamon Dunphy.
Face Man was de pretty boy of the outfit, a ladies man and a dapper dresser, so only Ray Houghton and his triple-windsor tie knots could fill them shoes like. And as for crazy-fool Murdoch, always livin in fear of the Wrath of Baracas? Well shur that's an obvious one'