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Re: Helium: Octo's Great Adventure

OK, everyone who voted needs to get a friend to vote. We need at least 52 to fog today, and at least 300 to be sure this prints. Hurry up!!!

blahmcblah wrote:So when's Joel going to admit he "goofed" up on this one too? My guess is never. BS rejection.

indeed. This was so simplistically pretty that it should have remained... he could have spent more quality time on other entries.

mjc613 wrote:OK, everyone who voted needs to get a friend to vote. We need at least 52 to fog today, and at least 300 to be sure this prints. Hurry up!!!

ha ha, go go mjc Thanks, but I'm loosing steam . . or in this case helium. Let's see if I can incorporate a drawing in the next theme with an octopus splattered on the ground ;)

Re: Plutonium: Powers This Shirt

AHH, what are you doing next to me? you're supposed to be in the fog!

blahmcblah wrote:And we all know expressions are sokowa's domain, so that's some high (and well-deserved) praise right there.

Indeed it is! it's one of the reasons I was so happy for her to comment. She always does so well with faces.

Re: Helium: Fun for all the Family

Superb! Hope this wins.

sokowa wrote:AHH, what are you doing next to me? you're supposed to be in the fog!

Tell me about it...then tell two friends, and they'll tell two friends and they'll tell two friends.....and I'll buy them all shirts!

Re: Tin: Old Skool

A threadless shirt


I think I figured out the star wars issue... You can use copyrighted SW characters, but only if they are shown with their backs to the viewer. Apparently Mr. G. Lucas and his army of litigators cannot recognize them from the wrong-way-round.

Also, you can avert being sued by Lucas by standing very, very still (his vision's based on movement I'm told.)

This is an awesome shirt rglee, I hope it wins.

Re: Tin: The Element of Cute

Oh so cute!!

Re: Silver: Colloidal makes a body blue

What one looks like after bathing in colloidal silver for several years:

JonSnow wrote:Love the animals, they remind me of Invader Zim. GMV

I was thinking the same exact thing! I *LOVE* this!! GMV

Re: Tin: The Tin Man Cometh...

Great stuff, as always xzanthis. One suggestion, when i look closely at my monitor, it appears that there is quite a bit of detail on that there tin-manzilla. You might have been better served by using a slightly lighter hilight color over that reddish, this making the details easier to see. The way it is now they're not clear and muddied.

I didn't notice the remote control until you mentioned it. That should have been the focal point of the design, the idea seems immanently awesome to me.

Re: Indium: yep

I always always love the purple half tones!

Re: Lead: Just awful!

I voted for this one as well, but, quite frankly, I liked the Grays better. It had more "punch".
In any case, as I have said before, I *LOVE* the design. Good luck!

Re: Plutonium: The First Step Towards World Domination

CrrrrAzy!!
GMV.

Re: Chlorine: Just A Little Too Much

Ewwwww!

brydesign wrote:Wow! I just noticed the integration of the bomb and explosion in the head dress. Terrific. GMV

That's the part I wish wasn't there. I don't know if I want to wear a bomb and mushroom cloud on my chest, even if they are beautiful.

Re: Phosphorus: Oooh Glowy!

Oooh Glowy!

Like a lot!

YettaNother wrote:That's the part I wish wasn't there. I don't know if I want to wear a bomb and mushroom cloud on my chest, even if they are beautiful.

agreed YettaNother.

Much as I love the detail work that tgentry has done, and much as I adore the other shirts I have that he has designed, I don't think I could wear this one. I know I couldn't wear a bomb shirt either. Maybe I'm too much of a softie pacifist. :P

YettaNother wrote:That's the part I wish wasn't there. I don't know if I want to wear a bomb and mushroom cloud on my chest, even if they are beautiful.

I don't mind the bomb, but my Buddhist friend was offended. He said the picture is actually of Tara who's like a god of prosperity. Also that the green color makes it a variation that means enlightenment or something, so the bomb and calling her Shiva was "like spitting on a crucifix" to a Christian (his words).

I guess it doesn't matter if you're not Buddhist though. I'm not, and I'd wear it!

uhhuhhuhhuh wrote:I don't mind the bomb, but my Buddhist friend was offended. He said the picture is actually of Tara who's like a god of prosperity. Also that the green color makes it a variation that means enlightenment or something, so the bomb and calling her Shiva was "like spitting on a crucifix" to a Christian (his words).

I guess it doesn't matter if you're not Buddhist though. I'm not, and I'd wear it!

Tara:


Shiva:


Tgentry's:


REALLY hard to tell if it is Tara or not. Either way, I'm not Buddhist, and I'd wear it too.

uhhuhhuhhuh wrote:Nice job on depicting the surface tension - good luck! GMV

Thank you! I think it came out pretty well for a first attempt at such a thing. Fun to do, but tough to pull off. Thanks again.

Re: Helium: Octo's Great Adventure

This shirt is one of the reasons I wish Woot printed the top 7 in the derby instead of all the random shirts. I don't know about everyone else, but I don't think I've ever bought one of the random shirts.

It just always seems that some of the best shirts don't quite make it.

Re: Mercury: The QuickSilver Psycho

Geez louise! I keep coming here and hoping this one is in the fog...so vote for this one people and make it happen!

This is so appropriate for Tim Burton's rendition of Alice in Wonderland in the works. With Depp as the Mad Hatter and all, I would proudly wear this one to the first showing.

Plus, I am a Disney and horror fanatic so the combination is evident in this very shirt. Again, I really want this shirt so I truly hope it gets printed.

uforeader wrote:LOVES IT!! Definitely my fav of the derby. The horse at the top is great, and that dragon is hilarious. I'll be disappointed if this doesn't get printed. Good luck!!

brooke711 wrote:i LOVE this...now i have to go take back my other votes.

Great to have your votes. Thanks for the comments! Oh, and I guess its sort of obscured because it is so small, but that's actually a unicorn on top. To "double" the magic.

Re: TIN: I have something of his

Never thought I'd get up to 170 votes... this is going to be hard to beat next time!

rglee129 wrote:The Dorothy in the corner seals the deal. I'm in for one if this wins. PROPS!

AND Toto! (down and to the right of Dorothy)

Is that a remote control in her hand?

Re: Silver: Colloidal makes a body blue

AH! He's almost the blueberry girl from willy wonka! Fantastic, hahaha! I love your style too-- very funny. Best of luck, gmv! :D

Re: Calcium: Jolly 2.0 (it's in the cracks)

Thanks for all the votes!

Re: IRON: Laundry Day... Neat!

Thanks for all the votes... you've made this "newbie" feel welcome!

derekfilley wrote:Great stuff, as always xzanthis. One suggestion, when i look closely at my monitor, it appears that there is quite a bit of detail on that there tin-manzilla. You might have been better served by using a slightly lighter hilight color over that reddish, this making the details easier to see. The way it is now they're not clear and muddied.

I didn't notice the remote control until you mentioned it. That should have been the focal point of the design, the idea seems immanently awesome to me.

Thanks, yeah I really like this concept but there are a lot of things I'd like to go back and change. I think I'm going to almost totally redraw it and throw it up on threadless or something later. Thanks and I'm glad you like it!

Re: TIN: I have something of his

steampunk++

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=21054]Iron: Man or

*giggles* i love it... its a pun, its social commentary, its beautiful.

illuminator wrote:HALP! The tin man cometh on the voting stats! And he keeps chasing me with an ax!!!

RAAAAR!!! BRAINS... I MEAN... METAL HEARTS!!!!

Re: Tin: Old Skool

Congrats on the fog! 'Tis well deserved.

sokowa wrote:Nothing is certain. And I like being surprised by their choice of derby themes, but not random rejections/no rejections thing. Who will want to put a lot of time in something that might be rejected for odd reasons. We come here to study and learn the rules so we can work within them. We are trying to work WITH woot. I didn't like the uncertainty of my fish when it passed 3 stages of rejections then got dumped right at the end, that never ever feels good. And I'm not the only one where this happened. And if Joel is indeed waiting until the last minute (theoretically) that's not an effective way to prove a point, that would be down-right malicious.

Believe me, I've had a malicious rejection. Whoever did the rejection (Joel, I'm assuming) said my shirt promoted fascism, of all things. I think he must have been on crack or drunk at the time. But yeah, I've felt that sting, so I know what you're talking about.

Maybe I don't take it so seriously now since I stopped submitting designs. FWIW, I hope you never get another rejection like the fish one. That was not nice. And I usually vote for your designs, because you usually submit good stuff.

But don't read too much into what I said, please. I'll go over what I said again: If this one gets rejected at the last minute like yours did, there won't really be any question as to why, and if it does, it's anybody's guess why they would leave it until the last minute, but they could. Since they've done it before, who knows what they'll decide to do?

I was stating a supposition as to what might happen, not saying "This is what WILL happen", and I said I don't get all upset about Woot's shenanigans anymore. I think it's okay for me to say that, don't you? I'm not saying how other people should feel, just how I feel.

EDIT: My apologies to rglee - sorry about the discussion here.

uhhuhhuhhuh wrote:Tell me about it...then tell two friends, and they'll tell two friends and they'll tell two friends.....and I'll buy them all shirts!

Can I be one of the friends and get a free shirt?

Re: BORON: More like BOR-ing...

SO FREAKING AMAZING!