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ianthemighty wrote:Very nicely done. You've got my vote, but I'm also more okay than most with wearing a well-done shirt that makes me look foolish. Adder might be right in that some kids would be afraid to wear it.

Think about the average wooter: I mean, what kind of person hovers over his computer every night at midnight just to see what new schlock he can buy? What motivates this person? Obviously, he's desperate for a spark of humanity in the dark caverns of the Internet. Obviously, he wants a shirt that makes him feel like a member of a club. I could see people shying away from your shirt because it'd be too ambiguous to the people who'd see them wear it. "Is that guy cool...? I can't tell."

And now I've joined the advisory board you didn't ask for.

My first preference is a lot of votes. But a close number two would be some well thought out posts that serve as a kind of broad commentary on wootshirt art vs. design and wearability vs. visual stimulation (not that any of those are mutually exclusive, of course!) Regardless, thanks for some attention- I'm already looking forward to the next derby. (Plus I'm in a good mood because UNC just beat Dook in college hoops!) Thanks, folks.

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=11320]Inspired By

Love this design, and the song it is modeled after. No offense, but when I saw the banner piece below Rocky, I thought, "Is this a Jimiyo design?" HA! I should've known it was a JamesCho!

SailorButterfly wrote:I like the little guy peeking over her shoulder. hehe

I like the little guy biting her dress...lovely. Glad I clicked on the thumbnail.

MOSMaster wrote:It doesn't matter if it is bunny or rabbit it is still a great, funny shirt. I'm new to this forum does everything degenerate into such big issues over one word!?

Na, I don't think so. I think it's half the fun arguing about a childhood song.

Raining wrote:Just so you know, we purchased several of your Halloween shirts for the kids in the family. They really like them and wear them all year, not just at Halloween.

Thanks Raining. My nine year old wears his occasionally at school, where the boys (who are the only ones who matter to him- for now) all seem to think it's cool.

Re: Inspired By: Monkey Wrench

Nice one Andy! GMV.

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=11241]inspired by

Cockfight with weapons! Love it! And Kings of Leon are awesome. GMV.

Re: Inspired By: Grateful Dead's Walk In The Sun

SailorButterfly wrote:This shirt made me giggle. ^^

Dang...I just realized, though...the 8's will probably count as text and get rejected.

You think so? That would seem a little harsh to me. It's use is more of a graphical one in that it's a symbol to better recognize the object. "Text" to me consists of labels, captions, and signs. However, we will see.

andrewlb check your private messages.

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mjc613 wrote:In order for this shirt not to be rejected, it has to have a title that starts : "Inspired by".

Keep in mind that the design can only be a limited area, so the underarm hair will not be by the underarms. You might also want to reconsider the leg lines (for lack of a better description) to be sure this is considered PG-13.

Ummm... they're not "leg lines". it's just the lower transverse abdominal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_abdominal_muscle

stannley wrote:I love everything about this BUT for the cigarette hanging out of Rocky's mouth. Maybe I'm more of a prude than I thought but this is one I would've gotten for my son (he's in kindergarten) and I just don't think I could send him to school in it.

It's a lollipop, silly.

SailorButterfly wrote:*votes again* glad you resubbed!

thanks! im glad you like it

Re: Inspired By: Yellow Submarine

superspryte wrote:I learned it as Little Bunny Foo Foo.

Looks like it's different all over. Michigan here.

I support the bunny foo foo version! I totally grew up that way (and with the hand motions too!) great job Sokowa

mihalis aya wrote:I loved this song from the moment I heard it, during the movie Juno

"I am a vampire
I am a vampire
I have lost my fangs"

Cute. I thought about doing Tree Hugger, but I didn't think anyone would get it.

I like Warhol Weasels!

KENPARS0NS wrote:My wife teaches music to children which I think was the inspiration for this shirt... She is the one who actually sketched it, I just scanned it, cleaned it up for her, and put it in the illustrator template... So full credit for this design goes to my lovely wife Liz... Great job hon...

This is how I know 5 little speckled frogs-almost at the bottom of the page on the right
Priory Woods

Re: Inspired by Good Vibrations

AdderXYU made one excellent point about this design, that it had too much of the wave in front as a wide open expanse, so I remade the design with an additional sound wave there. In addition, I gave it a bit more of the 60s feel by adding a couple of those flowers that were everywhere back then on the back speaker. I already tried for some of that feel with the peace sign sticker on the front speaker. I made the speaker fronts black too, to give it a bit more of the feel of the times. I am well aware that the song isn't about surfing, but the Beach Boys certainly were, and the sound of the song really evokes the surf sound they did so well.

AnGeLiCbOrIs wrote:i wish you would have changed it a bit more.

I love FOTC, but would agree that the addition of a rhymnoceros would make this shirt a real contender. I'd definitely buy it if there was a rhymnoceros, but as it stands it looks a little too much like a hungry hippo listening to his stereo. I think the FOTC reference is lost.

Re: Inspired by The Ants Go Marching (PLEASE CLICK)

This is my first entrey ever. Your constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated.

I was hoping Cho would take something from The Decemberists. All his nautical-inspired works remind me of them. Any chance of a visual rendition of The Mariner's Revenge Song, Master Cho . . . ? ps - love your designs, always!

brizz wrote:i'm confused. so the last derby is evidence that voters DO recognize the best designs? So this one can't win because it's not one or the best?

I think you might overestimate this just a tad. It's good, but you can't say the designs in the fog aren't also fantastic shirts. there's a lot of really good ones this derby, and if this doesn't win, i'm sure we'll see plenty of beefcoat entries that do compete for printing in the future. He's got some talent!

The derbies are evidence that they DO NOT recognize the best designs. I mis-typed (it was really late). Apologies! Ya, I was totally using hyperbole there... but I would love to see this design win.

SirJediDave wrote:It's random clips of the Star Spangled Banner that are in order, but leave out measures randomly and starts in the middle. Also, the first four lines are the dual staves (first staff is the right hand, second is the left hand) while the last three staves are only the right hand.

Please, if you are going to include music notation in designs, at least have some sense of what you are doing.

I agree. It's the right music, but it's all mixed up in the design. Obviously made by a non-musician. It's a fantastic idea, but I think I'd actually be embarrassed to wear this.

AdderXYU wrote:See, when people ask me to explain my shirt, I normally make shillelagh up, because explaining your shirt is foolish. I vote aesthetically, and so long as it makes sense to me thusly, I don't care who else asks "duh, what?"

Also, it's fun to guess because we know this is a music theme. In 4 months, when you're walking around non-wooters in your lemon shirt, you will have more impact with a vaguer shirt that can be interpreted more widely than you will with something which spells things out for you.

But that's hopefully the last I'll say on the subject. Wooters love things being spelled out for them, so I guess I'm not surprised

Ok I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I personally like it when people look at a shirt and say something like, "Devil went down to Georgia, great song". I don't necessarily think you'll get that response with this. At best, you may get "is that a devil went down to Georgia shirt?". Georgia makes it less ambiguous. With the lime in the coconut shirt, I think that everyone will get it and think it is great without explanation. I think that is the point of this derby and a shirt that clearly spells out devil went down to georgia accomplishes this goal better. However, everybody has their own taste and some people like wierder, more abstract shirts. To each his own.

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=10969]Inspired by

Like the shirt, but grappling with my aversion to shirts with cats on them. Don't want to be that guy.... the one that wears an lolcat t-shirt to the party.

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=11327]Inspired by

This is depicting the first line of the song - "The world is a vampire."

Since I had to resubmit, I wanted to bring over this comment from my first submission:

AdderXYU wrote:Nothing I can say, were I to rhapsodize for years, could adequately sum up this shirt. I'll let you all decide for yourselves whether that means I like it or not.

ctravers1085 wrote:Ok I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I personally like it when people look at a shirt and say something like, "Devil went down to Georgia, great song". I don't necessarily think you'll get that response with this. At best, you may get "is that a devil went down to Georgia shirt?". Georgia makes it less ambiguous. With the lime in the coconut shirt, I think that everyone will get it and think it is great without explanation (and also think about reservoir dogs if they've seen the movie). I think that is the point of this derby and a shirt that clearly spells out devil went down to georgia accomplishes this goal better. However, everybody has their own taste and some people like wierder, more abstract shirts. To each his own.

It really bums me out that people are referring to one of the greatest movies of all time and a shirt that is so simple and cute. I've seen resevoir dogs several hundred times, probably, and a simple, cute design like this would never make me think of the movie, regardless of the fact that the song is played over the credits. Give me "Stuck in the Middle with You", and I'll think resevoir dogs. Sorry, but cute things don't make me think of a movie where someone's ear gets cut off. [/rant]

Please note that this post was to express my opinion and not based on some ill-conceived notion that my opinion will change the voter's minds (which seems to be what everyone thinks all posts are intended for.)

Re: Inspired By Rocky Raccoon By The Beatles

What a terrible waste would this be if it didn't even show up on the shirt right? I don't think by adding this highlight throws anything on the design off - I'm pretty sure it'll look badass when it's printed. If it does anyway. Thanks for the votes and caring about Ol Rocky.

deceptiveanomaly wrote:The thumbnail detracts from your overall design. It doesn't express at all that this looks good.

Yeah, I suck at picking out thumbnails... Ah well - I don't know that it's worth a resubmit.