Shirt.Woot

Re: My name is Ozymandias, King of Springs

One of my favourite poems! I like the forgotten old obelisk.

Re: My name is Ozymandias, King of Springs

One of my favourite poems! I like the forgotten old obelisk.

fablefire wrote:Ouch. That's rough. I'm more of a S.Cali girl.

that coastal breeze makes all the difference

Iambusyeating wrote:My inspiration:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
~Percy Shelley

Well, it's springy, with the vines and all.

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=12103

*blink blink*

Gracious!

I'm sorry... but this reminds me of the famous Kevin Costner/Sean Young limousine/Washington Monument scene in the movie "No Way Out"...

I'm going to go wash my mind out with soap now.

lunartan wrote:that coastal breeze makes all the difference

That's the one thing I miss from SoCal. Oh, and my lemon tree. I'd miss the beach too, if I'd just made it a point to go more often. Voted. Do do do do...

sailstud25 wrote:I agree, I like the three frames... perhaps update it with the suggestions above, and a detail view. Although, it may be getting too late in the derby now :-/

yeah a bit to late and I will never compete with the big dogs here.....

Re: Zombie Garden

physicalmishap wrote:maybe its too literal for me? the hand is reaching out for spring? cause i was thinking what you said and then there is the zombie hand. more halloween to me.

I guess the zombie hand could be viewed as the yang to the flowers' yin: the dichotomy of life and death (undeath). If you really need a reason for it to be included, undeath in-and-of-itself could be representative of spring - life from death, albeit a bit twisted & given that a zombie alone wouldn't be enough to pass in this derby as on topic. Regardless, the depiction encompasses the spring theme of rebirth enough for me.
But I think it just adds a bit of whimsy to the flower garden with the incorporation of a popular meme, is all in good fun, and is executed well. The desire to impose a direct connection to Halloween exhibits a lack of imagination imao. But you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

sokowa wrote:Anyone want to vote for the Blossom barfing dragon? Hope dragon's aren't out of the question still :/

Wow, what a frigin joke that i woke up today to find your shirt got rejected. Maybe we should reject all shirts with trees on them??? I mean i have a shirt that was printed by woot with a tree on it, so maybe thats grounds for rejection? Honestly i dont get it.
Great shirt and sorry that it got rejected.

Re: Gonna be a good year

michael jackson pants.

Re: Zombie Garden

I love it! Every time I see it, I smile. Well done. GMV

dekonstruct wrote:Skek, that is really elegant. The beauty lies in the simplicity. Well done.

Thanks! I was thinking about what kind of simple designs could resonate with the voters, and I came up with this. It's really late, but I liked the idea of droplets becoming tulips.

Re: Click for Full Springing Pucker Party!

You should make a design of a puckers on stems.. a field of "two-lips"

parkermc wrote:Explain my reasoning on what? How argyle is similar to argyle? By definition, argyle is one distinct pattern. An example of that very distinctive design has already been printed here and there are two in the derby at this moment, so....

I've already explained my reasoning on why this snowmen design was dissimilar to the simpler one already printed. My saying leaves would be next was tongue-in-cheek, but not by much. It's a slippery slope Woot has chosen by rejecting a shirt due to a similar object in the proper context (like, for instance, snowmen in the warming days of early spring). Just as an example: The derby for Halloween ought to be quite something seeing as most icons of that holiday have already made it onto a shirt here. That means no ghosts, graveyards, pumpkins, candy corn, zombies, vampires, sugar skulls, etc.

Oh, and lest I forget, no more squid or octopi. Ever. Been there. Printed that. Multiple times, too. Skulls, as well. Gone. Flowers. Leaves. Anything that is used in its natural context that has already been printed (e.g., squid swimming in the ocean, birds flying or resting in a tree, or even flowers blooming in a garden) is fair game.

That's what this rejection means, anyway.

The coming of spring (the actual derby theme) and warmer weather. Snowmen in their last days. Wow, who could have expected that tie-in?

And, yes, I do know about the tattle button. Thanks for the heads-up, though.

I've been thinking about this too. Most targeted themes are going to loose their art/fun factor and become a chore of comparisons and guessing if things are close enough (and by close enough that's woots subjective opinion) Skulls with "stuff on or around them" is too close too, Any clipart looking stuff that's layered over itself, a large amount of dragons/monsters, tree shirts by the dozen, etc etc. Anyone following this thread and taking it to heart is going to feel their creativity drained. There was nothing wrong with trees, skulls, more abstract shirts or even snowmen until now it feels
Even without seeing the "original" shirt I consciously decided against having the snowmen melting OR putting a sun in the drawing because IT WASN'T ABOUT THEM ACTUALLY MELTING, just knowing their death was going to happen someday down the road.
Since I highly doubt Woot will do anything about their decision at this point, does this mean that once it's "rejected" I can do with it as I please? Or do they still have control over it for 60 days?

Re: Super Happy Panda Loves Spring Flowers

How many happy pandas must die before one makes it past the rejectorator? I was rooting for the onion one.

Re: My name is Ozymandias, King of Springs

I like the way you handle your obelisk.

I mean that in an arty sense, of course.

Re: Spring Irises

aw, i thought I only used six, but i did use opacities. oh well.

Re: The first bud of spring

Wow these forums get slammed with posts...

Re: Boing!

the brilliance of the shirt lies in the fact that this little bear/beaver/chipmunk thing does not care that those flowers will not break his fall.

Re: A home FOR the BUZZIN BEES

nap time , hope you like bees.. cause this is the finyl vinyl design.

superspryte wrote:Thanks for looking out for me.

It's okay though; let the bad drama run its course until someone deletes it. Do your best not to get involved and you'll be much happier when you're not probated in the end. ^_~

Yeah, I try to stay out of the drama, so I'll try harder now...

I like the monochrome look too; the two greenmen ARE very different.
The hummingbird and bee are really nice accessories for this greenman. GMV (sorry spryte! l o l)

trippregan wrote:Thanks all, the design does look cool on a bit of a tilt, but it looks weird on a shirt like that. I had tried it out, but it just wasn't working IMO...

Cool, I kind of figured you had tried it... and I wasn't sure how it'd look on the shirt.
I like the way the tilted one messes with your eyes and has the illusion of the solid stripes coming towards you look like they curve and have a little waviness to them, when I don't think they do...(right?) Anyway, it's a little crazy! :-D

superspryte wrote:You can call me mean, but I can see the resemblance with this one and I understand woot's reasoning. I do not, however, see the connection between the argyles. Argyle is a pattern and will inherently look like others of its type even if a side-by-side comparison shows they are completely different. Melting snowmen are not inherently similar and yet this had a striking resemblance in thematic material. Granted, the style is different, but I also think that if I submitted a grimm on a unicorn in my own drawing style it would be rejected, regardless of whether I knew about jimi's derby win or not.

All of that doesn't mean I'm happy though. It's terrible when someone puts in effort only to be rejected.

So basically we will never see a shirt with a snowman melting on it?? But why can we see thousands of shirts with trees growing on them? Is it the idea of snowmen melting?
Ijust don't feel like the rejection was fair. Sorry.

superspryte wrote:Why apologize? Why woulld be offended? ^_~

it was a humorous apology... in jest perhaps...?

Amach06 wrote:So basically we will never see a shirt with a snowman melting on it?? But why can we see thousands of shirts with trees growing on them? Is it the idea of snowmen melting?
Ijust don't feel like the rejection was fair. Sorry.

Yeah this is really lame.
1. I didn't get a chance to buy the old shirt.
2. People were voting for this so it would have sold.
3. I think this is a better design than the old one.
4. There was no reason to reject this.
5. Get off your power trip.

This is just my way of fixing a post that wound up on the wrong thread. Good luck!

Fbi2thegrave wrote:brilliantly done. great idea!

Thanks, I wish the desgin got more voting traction though.

Re: The first bud of spring

Very nice!

superspryte wrote:The composition had strikingly similar elements too. I'm not going to get into an argument with you about it. People get up in arms over a rejection and say woot's rules have changed and that it's not fair and start going off the deep end every week and this week it's this one. The same thing will happen next week. And the week after. Rejections and the resulting drama are kind of a fact of shirt.woot. I think people don't realize how often it happens because they don't notice until it happens to a design they really like.

PS - If you saw this and then saw it disappear, I accidentally deleted it. I'm glad it was my own post and not someone else's. >_<;

just because something happens alot doesn't mean that its justified

Re: god of spring

Unique and wonderful. I love this!

superspryte wrote:The composition had strikingly similar elements too. I'm not going to get into an argument with you about it. People get up in arms over a rejection and say woot's rules have changed and that it's not fair and start going off the deep end every week and this week it's this one. The same thing will happen next week. And the week after. Rejections and the resulting drama are kind of a fact of shirt.woot. I think people don't realize how often it happens because they don't notice until it happens to a design they really like.

PS - If you saw this and then saw it disappear, I accidentally deleted it. I'm glad it was my own post and not someone else's. >_<;

Well i apoligise if i came off wrong. Basically i was wondering if it was the "theme" or something else. And you anwsered that. You said it was the comp. and the elements.

Re: helicopter

o-m-g this is the best one of the derby!!! love the detail and the single color!! Excellent job! you have my vote!

Re: Hope Springs Forth

How do I vote manda???