Shirt.Woot

Yay Text! Wait...

Actually, this could bring out a lot of nifty stuff... I'm gonna work on two things tonight.

Ah....text shirts. This should bring out some interesting entries.

Hee. I started to do that for the Canada derby, just for fun, but it never went anywhere.

edit: The start of a fill or something: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/alexandreazenne/canadatextthingy.jpg

Huh...I had one worked up already...not that it's any good or whatnot...time for color!

Interesting... I like it...

Re: Born to Rock!

Hmmmm...somebody with a little inside info jump the gun here?

Maybe I should submit a tree spelling out something? hmmmmm

mwiseman wrote:Hmmmm...somebody with a little inside info jump the gun here?

Too bad he already submitted at Uneetee. or is it DBH. well anyways its somewhere else.

Hey gang. Question for any past derby champs out there: Do the folks in the Spring fog find out today if their design was top three? Or do the foggers find out along with everyobe else if their shirt won? Thanks...

I thought about doing something like that but now I'm concearned that they really truly mean only text, and no illustrations.

I think that is an example of an illustration forming text and not the other way around.

dekonstruct wrote:I thought about doing something like that but now I'm concearned that they really truly mean only text, and no illustrations.

I think that is an example of an illustration forming text and not the other way around.

Youre right, but it's not clear that they would specifically reject images used as text.

Oh, and comic sans FTW!

edit: now that I've read it a fifth time, I think that images as text would be rejected. Who knows, though, it's so sporadic.

Yay! Sounds fun.

Its like woot begs me to resub

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really ug....all i can say is ug.....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'm excited =)

TAYLORT5 wrote:ug
really ug....all i can say is ug.....

I like my coffee like I like my women?

artulo wrote:Youre right, but it's not clear that they would specifically reject images used as text.

Oh, and comic sans FTW!

edit: now that I've read it a fifth time, I think that images as text would be rejected. Who knows, though, it's so sporadic.

Oh boy...another one up for interpretation. I read the rules similar to Dekonstruct. Text only and your text forms your illustration. The Born to Rock looks like an illustration that creates the text.

I think illustrations as text would make great shirts, but it sounds like the opposite of what Woot is asking. I think they want the text to create the illustration.

Is that how others are interpreting the derby theme? (I think Dekonstruct and I are in agreement.)

Is Trichotillomania too obscure of a reference?

ASCII art? really? i think ASCII Art should be banned.

I'm confused too as far as text = image or can image = text.
Need examples. Otherwise I might sit out on this one and just make drawings for myself this week.

yeeter wrote:ASCII art? really? i think ASCII Art should be banned.

Great! But then people won't be able to use this:

http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/

to convert all their home photos!

Mroczkowski wrote:Is Trichotillomania too obscure of a reference?

im pulling my hair out trying to remember that word.....

klswoot wrote:Oh boy...another one up for interpretation. I read the rules similar to Dekonstruct. Text only and your text forms your illustration. The Born to Rock looks like an illustration that creates the text.

I think illustrations as text would make great shirts, but it sounds like the opposite of what Woot is asking. I think they want the text to create the illustration.

Is that how others are interpreting the derby theme? (I think Dekonstruct and I are in agreement.)

Agreed, that's how I read the description as well. Presumably illustrations forming text would qualify as slogan shirts, which Woot specifically stated they didn't want.

I think they want something like this



Reference: http://theunsettled.org/?cat=136

peppersagooddog wrote:im pulling my hair out trying to remember that word.....

that wuz teh funneh! but seriously...will people hate it because they will have to explain it?

Better as one word used once? or one word used many times?

Mroczkowski wrote:I think they want something like this



Reference: http://theunsettled.org/?cat=136

Now that is cool. I would like something like that. That takes talent.

ASCII TOOO EASY

Mroczkowski wrote:that wuz teh funneh! but seriously...will people hate it because they will have to explain it?

Better as one word used once? or one word used many times?

dunno man, that's alot of letters.
i wouldn't have to explain it cause i have smart friends. those average people though...

Quitters Derby Resub?

GF you haz PM

Mroczkowski wrote:Great! But then people won't be able to use this:

http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/

to convert all their home photos!

Or, here's a free open source version too. Just so we're all on the same level with ASCII art.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ascgen2/

sokowa wrote:I'm confused too as far as text = image or can image = text.
Need examples. Otherwise I might sit out on this one and just make drawings for myself this week.

I interpret the theme as one that if someone a few feet away would see your tshirt and view an image. It's only when they are face to face with you that they see text.

The opposite would be the born to rock design. It looks like text from a distance...and it's only when up close does one see that the letters are illustrations.

I think Woot is asking for the former....text that creates an illustration. But, I've been known to be wrong on many occasions.

Hopefully Joel or another staff member can clarify. But, for now, I'm going with text only and the text must form the illustration.

yeeter wrote:Or, here's a free open source version too. Just so we're all on the same level with ASCII art.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ascgen2/

Here's my first effort with it. It's ME!




EDITED TO ADD: Just to be clear: I am against this type of submission. -Y

tgentry wrote:I would second ascii art being banned. There's tons of it out there, I think there would probably be a whole lot of stolen ascii images and it will be nearly impossible to track them all down. Not to mention there are programs that automatically make them, you just give it a picture and press a button.

I agree. I'd hate to see a lot of illustrations run through the free program. I might buy one...really cool one. But, I certainly wouldn't buy all 3 if they were to make it to the end of the derby.

So, for variety...woot may want to add a few more stipulations to the derby rules. Just to make it a bit less broad.

KLS, I thought of your Freud entry with this theme.

yeeter wrote:Here's my first effort with it. It's ME!

I think that if ASCII stays in as an acceptable option, we should all submit a self portrait generated by one of these programs.