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Re: Emergency Dark Roast

It's like you have a camera in my office! That's creepy.

Re: It's My Olive

If the design were about 1/2 the size and bumped up into the top 1/3 of the shirt...i'd be totally sold!!

Re: yummy

did "free bird" eat a bad berry?

Re: It's My Olive

Aww...what a pitiful look on his face.

He can keep the olive...I don't like them anyway.

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=19511]

resubmitted!!
[url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=19551]

fablefire wrote:Right. It'd be nice to get a definitive answer on the bird stuff though. Part of the to-do is because popular derby entries have been rejected in the past due to similar designs already being printed. If woot's willing to embrace the "we're selling shirts here" philosophy, and print similar shirts for the sake of profit, then this shirt is awesome. I might as well give them more "profitable" designs too in the future.

I agree! I also hate when they reject good shirts because it's close to a past entry, but then again wouldn't want people to start puking really bad feathery designs just for the sake of it. I think there can be a balance... this design is very good in itself and obviously a lot of people would like to own the shirt. The best thing about this type of art is that lots of people can wear it and take it places, it gets the biggest audience... otherwise, if a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one there to hear it... does it make a sound?

Re: Famine Famine Hippos

I'd take this over any of the entries in the fog right now. It needs to get back up there!

Re: i seem to have dropped this piece of wood.

It's so good it hurts.

Andy47240 wrote:I believe that would be a flaming bag of dog poo.

Yep, the flaming bag o' poop was the angle I was going for here. Not really one of my better efforts, but I had to get this random idea out of my head. Maybe I should add the word "Welcome" to the welcome mat and resubmit, but then I'd lose that one whole vote that I've garnered!

Re: i seem to have dropped this piece of wood.

And you did :D :D :D :D :D
Thanks for the laugh!

Re: Never a Good Idea

Great design. I think it's different enough from the Farside comic. You've got a very distinct style Sokowa. I can always tell which ones are yours. :D

Re: Swallow Rescue Squad

Thanks for the votes everyone. I got the idea about 30 minutes before submissions started so the design was rushed. After 60 days are up I'll refine it and put more detail in as I think the idea is good, it's just the execution that left much to be desired.

hmmxkrazee wrote:Great design. I think it's different enough from the Farside comic. You've got a very distinct style Sokowa. I can always tell which ones are yours. :D

Thanks
I can see points from both sides, but obviously I feel stronger that this is unique enough (otherwise we have issues about "how far down the rabbit hole do we go in terms of uniqueness")
Regardless, I know there are two camps forming on this design (and others as well). I don't envy Woot's position at the moment. I know it's a business first and foremost and no matter what they'll have 3 good designs when the derby is over this week, so they won't be at a loss, but I trust that they are trying to come up with some fair decision overall.

Re: Larping Mis-hap

Holy smokes, I'm really pleased to see that this jumped up so fast. Yay!

Re: aMEHrica

marissakuf wrote:I love this shirt!! I'm crossing my fingers!

Better cross a few toes too. And maybe your eyes for good measure. Thanks for the votes though ;)

Re: Bananasaurus Rex

Thanks for all the kind words and votes everybody.

Re: St Bernard Action Dynamo (resub)

Extremely cool. GMV

Re: CaliforniAAAAH!

Yeah this was hard because i made the Meh shirt first, then thought it might get rejected (take THAT fake Adder), so I whipped up a substitute in the form of the shark shirt. Turns out I haven't been asked to leave yet and even my dinosaur is doing better than this one. Sometimes you just can't tell which way the wind is blowing here at Woot

Re: Deserted

Nice design, very detailed

Re: i seem to have dropped this piece of wood.

Reminds me of UHF:

"Can you believe this?! Would you look at that! Just call me 'Mr. Butterfingers'! I think it's on the floor somewhere. Is my face red."

d-:

Re: Bat's Suit Shrinkage

I wish I did too. :p

Re: I don't have much left, Martha.....I love you..

Some days I feel like I'm almost out of pepper. Great designs this week, man.

Re: Famine Famine Hippos

@mlovesr - Thanks. Too bad I can't roll on up into the fog and stay there.

@rglee129 - Thanks rg. I always appreciate it when great artists tell me that I'm doing *something* right.

@donsolo5 - Looks unlikely at this point, but I'll keep hoping if you do too!

@ItsBradford - I'm surprised that you recognized it as a hippo without seeing the reference. When I was working on this I looked up images of hippo skulls. My depiction is nothing like a real hippo skull; I figured this cartoony look was more appropriate given the joke and the fact that it's a plastic hippo anyway. I thought that most people would either not get it at all or understand the reference to Hungry Hungry Hippos (through the visual clues of the lever and the bright green colour). I'm glad I somehow conveyed hippo-ness in the skeleton, even if the lever wasn't clear.

@SailorButterfly - Much appreciated. We've still got a few days. Anything can happen, right?

Thanks for the comments and continued support, everyone.

Re: Be McGuyver!!!!

I clicked, but I'm still not as awesome as McGuyver.

I feel duped. I didn't even get to see a shirt.

Re: Salmon Run

Once again you've made one of my favorite designs of the derby and don't have nearly the number of votes that you deserve. Good luck with this one!

Re: Fire Escape

Fire Escape = Free Bird. Boring. Hackneyed. Clip-art.

Re: Never a Good Idea

Wow, looks like I will need to spend half the week of a derby researching every possible thing on the internet to make sure an idea isn't even remotely related to something out there already. This is twice for me a fog'd entry was canned.
heh, well I have a herculean butterfly and a carrot still if anyone is interested. . .

Re: Larping Mis-hap

I just want to say that this is some amazing artwork. I would not wear this shirt, but please please keep designing.

Re: i seem to have dropped this piece of wood.

Reminds me of salad fingers.

This shirt is amazing.

Best i've ever seen on woot

Re: Deserted

Nice design, very detailed

sokowa wrote:heh, well I have a herculean butterfly and a carrot still if anyone is interested. . .

Oh, wow. That's a blow, eh? Well, if it's any consolation, I so love and voted for the butterfly and elephant!

sokowa wrote:Wow, looks like I will need to spend half the week of a derby researching every possible thing on the internet to make sure an idea isn't even remotely related to something out there already. This is twice for me a fog'd entry was canned.
heh, well I have a herculean butterfly and a carrot still if anyone is interested. . .

I still think your design was distinct enough. Well, better luck next time sokowa.

Re: Never a Good Idea

That sux! You do great stuff Sokowa. I'm still pulling for your elephant.

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=19562]

I couldn't believe that no one had thought of a red phone emergency. Escpecially after the recent release of the new batman movie. The idea came to me after waking up at 1:00 in the afternoon. 3rd shift really messes with you.

Re: This is not a test

Can someone explain to me why this design is not original? I haven't seen this on a shirt anywhere.

If you haven't seen my shirt, it is a rendition of the Emergency Broadcasting System's test that they used to play on TV.

Re: That's NOT GUACAMOLE!

Ok, I redesigned it taking suggestions from helpful Wooters... and I LOVE it! Thanks so much. Fablefire, you rock!

WaldoVJT wrote:Can someone explain to me why this design is not original? I haven't seen this on a shirt anywhere.

If you haven't seen my shirt, it is a rendition of the Emergency Broadcasting System's test that they used to play on TV.

The test pattern is all over cafepress, for starters. Here's one specific example.

Re: That's NOT GUACAMOLE!

Ouch! I know what's that like!

Love the design. Your style is really neat. GMV

Re: Revenge!

"This might qualify as parody if I understood what was going on."

Dunno if it will help the shirt's case...but I can try to explain. Usually Mario rides on Yoshi (the dinosaur) and makes him eat turtles. This has Yoshi riding Mario as revenge.

Hmm...after explaining it, I don't see the emergency theme anyway, though.