Shirt.Woot

mjc613 wrote:You are so right. The bellyaching heard all during the Water derby was quite dismaying. And it's not as if the winning designs were ultra feminine. After all, we are talking about tshirts, not delicate chemises!!

The funny thing is that all the water derby designs made it into Woot top 10 and have been selling well. Jaden's Nessie has actually increased its rank since its debut in the top 20. I think Zenne's wave would have fared better had it not been for the odd colors that woot chose to use. So, there are definitely buyers who like the non-skull, non-zombie, non-death, non-robot, non-nerdy designs. I just don't think these buyers are also voting in the derby. Consequently the derby winners tend to have a more masculine focus. That's okay if they are selling out and people like them. But if they aren't selling out or lasting well after their debut, then one would suspect that the voters are not choosing the designs that the buyers really want to buy. If this is happening, then woot should choose a few of the remaining daily slots to help promote artists who offer a more female-oriented design.(And not offer designs that just reinforce the stereotypical designs already abundant in the derby.)

People were a bit harsh when my enchanted garden design printed as a daily...saying it was 'too girly'. Yet, it printed beautifully and sold over 1000 units as a daily. This is actually pretty high for a daily offering. I suspect that women bought the shirt for the most part. But, it does show that there are women buyers. I just don't know if these buyers are also voting in the derby. If they are, they are a small segment of the overall voting demographic, I suspect.

I must admit....I'm in shock that we had a Spring derby and I didn't buy a single design. When I first saw the derby announcement, I predicted I'd buy all 3. Guess I see Springtime much differently than most people. I was really surprised to see a winter (dead tree), a robot crushing butterflies and a zombie win a Spring Derby. They are great shirts and very well done designs ...I just expected at least one to have an optimistic, colorful interpretation of Spring.

I don't see many in the text as art derby that I would buy either even though there are some very creative ideas. They just don't appeal to me as a shirt.

superspryte wrote:I thought it was spelled ribbit. ^_~

It can be. Since frogs do not have a written language, what they actually say is up for interpretation, especially when trying to transliterate it into English. Neither spelling is listed at dictionary.com , fyi.

Re: Teh Bomb

I'd like the graphic centered a little higher, but still off to the side. Great concept though, got my vote.

jeremynjaxx wrote:i wish it weren't fogged, would rather see She Loves me.... not.? or Eeeny Meeny Miney Moe up there . . . better ideas, pac-man was boring in the 80s and is boring now . . . but that's just my two cents.

(did pac-man come out in the 80s? I forget)

If you had been alive then you wouldn't have to ask.

Re: om

love it! this would make a great yoga shirt!

superspryte wrote:No, just that you show the color properly. This doesn't look like the color on the template. I've linked the PDF file there but if you go to the submission page you'll find several different types of files you can use, although I think you know this because you have the shirt in your comp...but just in case. ^_~

thanks. i have used the template before, but failed to look at it when putting this together. you're right, the color is way off. i'll have to pay closer attention next time.

Re: dragon fly

thanks so much! : )

Re: Sunflower

amyjem321 wrote:Cool design! I would love it on a brown t-shirt, I look horrible in yellow.

LaSassy wrote:Very creative! I really like what you did.

Nice

Thanks! Didn't have room for this one in the signature. But, glad you found it and like it! I tried it on a couple of different colors, but yellow just seemed to stay true to the idea of a big, bold sunflower.

I'm a butcher, and this shirt is awesome. I'd wear it all the time. You do an awesome job.

Re: Read My Lips

any shirt with a big red set of lips on it will automatically have my vote under most circumstances.

superspryte wrote:But a google search gives me some mathematician for ribet.

PS - This has no real bearing on anything because it's not actually in the design. I just thought it was funny.

I thought it was funny too , and in my own way tried to add to it. I even thought about postulating that the alternative spelling was a subconscious homage to the mathematician and the theory named for him, but I thought that woudl be too much, so decided to go with a literary riposte instead a mathematical one. Just giddy silliness on my part.

Brilliant!

Re: Norwegian Blue Pining for the Fjords

Love this one!! Hubby and I really want to buy this.

Clever idea. ::wants one::

I'd like to see a bigger image of what the pictures on the shirt looks like, rather than a closeup of the words. I can tell its a sunset, but I'd like to see it better.

bonipoof wrote:So maybe it's copyright infringement. So maybe it isn't parody. So maybe there are enough Pacman shirts out there to make one giant Pacman shirt for the sun so it can dress as Pacman for Halloween.

But really, how can anyone repeatedly say the word "wakka" in their head and not feel some form of joy?

I know I laughed out loud. Besides, I don't have a Pacman shirt....

My daughter loves this shirt. I would guess, if it is still here, it has passed the Woot copyright infringement standards.

Re: Gettysburg Address

really clever....i wouldnt wear it just because im not a fan of having a giant head on my shirt...but you did really well. good job

Re: Ebony and Ivory

I'd like to see the entire 8 octaves on a piano done out so the words themselves are a little less obvious.

Re: Time in a Bottle

awesome

Re: Love Me/Love Me Not

I love it! Not so sure about the black background though.

CAMMS wrote:My daughter loves this shirt. I would guess, if it is still here, it has passed the Woot copyright infringement standards.

This isn't necessarily a safe guess. Generally speaking, rejections are VERY sparse until around Monday. This time, however, there were almost immediate rejections (I'm guessing it was the debut of a substitute rejectatron, but that isn't based on "evidence.") Woot is very careful about rejecting top designs, because they know the rejection will kill all chances. They oftentimes wait till they are absolutely sure of what they want to do.

In this case, I would guess that the temp rejector wasn't interested in making any rejections that called for serious judgement, and we haven't seen the rejectatron hit in full force yet. (Again, all conjecture, nothing based on facts.)

CAMMS wrote:My daughter loves this shirt. I would guess, if it is still here, it has passed the Woot copyright infringement standards.

Joel's out of town until tomorrow...so that may be one reason there haven't been rejections in the past couple of days. Rejections of entries higher in the rankings may have to come from one of the heavy hitters.

But, you might be right about this being a parody...I'm not sure what the rules are regarding parodies.

edit: Looks like Bluchez and I were typing at the same time.

Re: Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Cheeseburger

how do you vote?

darksuperstar111 wrote:this is tight
but instead of putting the Ts in the middle so it's a shirt-in-a-shirt thing, I'd put the Ts all over the actual shirt, so your smaller picture is the actual shirt
just an idea, nicely done either way

That wouldn't work for this derby. The text has to make some sort of picture - just splattering a shirt with T's would get it rejected. =P

squeezebox wrote:how do you vote?

On the derby page you'll see all the submissions. Over each thumbnail on the left side is a button that says "I'd want one" or something similar. Click that to vote. You can always take it back later on, if you change your mind. You can vote for as many shirts as you want, but only one vote per shirt.

Note that you have to have made a purchase here before you can vote - this is to keep people from making a bunch of fake accounts just to ramp up their own entry.

Re: Going Bananas

This is fabulous! Love it!

Re: War

YAY for the 60s coming back! I think I still have a pendant with this saying on it somewhere. GMV!

snarkygal wrote:YAY for the 60s coming back! I think I still have a pendant with this saying on it somewhere. GMV!

Thanks! I think it's reapplicable now!

Re: Sated

This is one of the most hilarious ones I've seen in this derby, to be honest. Nice work! It's too bad that being a late entry puts you at such a disadvantage. =\

Re: Never Stop Dreaming (resub)

the colors really pop on this one. kudos!

punkfiveo wrote:maybe you should change the placement so it's over your heart.

Isn't the actual emoticon a bit over done? I mean, you can get this design or a </3 pretty much anywhere. Why not get a different take on it...



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SkekTek wrote:Oh, side note, woot... if this is a taboo subject, I'll pull it... pleeeze don't probate me

sadly, even if you 'pull it', apparently it won't matter. ;^)

Re: MORE COFFEE LESS SLEEP

"Oversleeping is the leading cause of coffee deprivation."

Genius.

Re: Binary Jump

I don't know how well this will print if I have troubles seeing the picture on my monitor in daylight.

Re: om

I can't get "Ohm" out of my mind now. Partially because I really should be doing physics homework...

eHalcyon wrote:This is one of the most hilarious ones I've seen in this derby, to be honest. Nice work! It's too bad that being a late entry puts you at such a disadvantage. =\

thanks for the vote, and the comment, especially.
Been on vacation, just got back, and this was my first chance to enter this week, so I had to be late. Still, late entries can win. :^)

drgupp wrote:I like this shirt it GMV, but is the question mark there just to help the shape? or does it mean something more?

hope you win

It can mean whatever you want it to mean. Maybe you like someone but don't know if it's love. Maybe you love someone, but don't know if they feel the same way. Maybe you just want to know what love is.

Design wise, the question mark isn't needed to help with the shape - the phrase is a heart all by itself. But then it would have all been one colour as well - needed an extra kick. ;)

Zenverse wrote:I love it! There's a lot of good shirts in this derby, it's hard to choose. I also voted for the pi shirt =).

You got my vote. I hope you win.

Thanks! I can't believe that the pi pie left the fog. This week's fog is quite dark, and at this moment, all of them are ascii style. I'd like to see some of the pieces that had more work put into them get up top - things like "Going Bananas."