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lucky1988 wrote:love this lbb!

thanks man!

jasneko wrote:So nice to hear that, thanks whisperatdaybreak!

You're welcome

wugsby wrote:So what makes a shirt good?

A desire by a purchaser to wear it. Nothing more complicated than that.

Re: Asteroids Killed the Dinosaurs

I love this shirt. Put me on the "contact if woot doesn't sell it" list...

gallifreyanarchangel wrote:I'm a huge fan of this design and was the first time around too. "Cute" is a valid reason to like something.

Yeah, I'm not going to lie there's nothing wrong with a shirt just because it's cute.

Nice shirt! It's not exactly my style, but I like the art work.

Re: All this for the girls...

I would wear this shirt! I love the little guy on the front! He reminds me of a few of my exes, lol!!

AdderXYU wrote:Does it need to either be "life or death" or "totally unserious"? Most people react like little babies the second their favorite sports team loses a game. Everyone's still getting a million dollars for throwing a ball, and the world doesn't end.

The world also doesn't end if a good tshirt doesn't print, but the difference is, if something wins due to a horrible call, they're the only one getting paid.

No one is saying this is life or death. We're simply saying that, in a contest with over 100 entries any given week, it shouldn't be too much to ask that three of the top 25 pieces (based on quality) be what gets printed. People get more worked up over things that effect them less. No matter what woot does, it will be unfair to customers... either there will be a monopoly on guppy design, or there will be a print schedule that doesn't reward on popularity alone. How about woot does what's fairest for the designers, instead?

"quality" is a TOTALLY subjective concept in this context. I didn't see anywhere in the derby rules where it says, "vote for the design that you think best captures the true essence of the theme." I'm pretty sure woot wants to make money by selling shirts, which is why they let us vote for shirts that we want to BUY (I'd want one!), not that will support the t-shirt designing community's efforts to achieve the perfectly crafted t-shirt (I'd admire one from a distance!).

maybe voting for a shirt should include a commitment to buy it if printed...that should yield some interesting results haha.

or all of us could read Travels of a T-Shirt and see how consequential all these shirts we love (and I have dozens, believe me) really are!

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=30787]The

wow y so few?? i reeeeeeeally want this shirt!!

Re: Electronica

FACT: I will buy this if printed.
HOPE: This will be printed.

SailorButterfly wrote:She has Spirit of the Stag available on Unetee:

http://www.uneetee.com/category/productInfo.asp?idx=202

She has tons of shirts up for voting across different sites. You can see them all on her blog:

http://theinfinityloop.blogspot.com/

I would especially encourage you to vote for her Loiter, DBH, and Shirt Fight designs.

Yeah, what she said. Thanks, Sailor!

Re: Viva La Tree!

My personal fog includes this one...how did you do the tree texture?

BaldBob007 wrote:Not sure why this is here... Still too many colors, as was pointed out in its first submission.

Orange
Yellow
Light Gray
Dark Gray
Blue
Dark Blue-Gray
White
Pink

Did I miss any?

There is some red in there, too, below the sun. Not to mention, this is also outside of woot's printable area. Very confusing...

L3g3ndQ wrote:i would rather wear a shirt with a Druid Monk on it than a shirt with an Anime Fox jumping over an Anime Dog or a bunch of anime chipmunks on a branch!!

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

.... failing to see the anime in it

This was the only entry in the current top 7 that got my vote :/ Too bad. I love your work, Drakxx!

Re: INSPIRED BY GI JOE

I thought this shirt was...OK. It wasn't a great shirt. Maybe it's because I'm not a GI Joe fan (in that I don't care, not that I dislike it).

It took me a minute to get it. Then I went 'Oh...Joe...coffee...a pun.'

I definitely think it should be printed over some of the others in the fog, though. It's very wearable and a lot of people will like it.

Reminds me a bit of the ninja turtles shirt in that regard.

Re: Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth

That may be true...but I love how this looks.

Salzorin wrote:The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

.... failing to see the anime in it

The style is 100% chibi/desu. It is nothing BUT anime.

mxmvlcty wrote:"quality" is a TOTALLY subjective concept in this context. I didn't see anywhere in the derby rules where it says, "vote for the design that you think best captures the true essence of the theme." I'm pretty sure woot wants to make money by selling shirts, which is why they let us vote for shirts that we want to BUY (I'd want one!), not that will support the t-shirt designing community's efforts to achieve the perfectly crafted t-shirt (I'd admire one from a distance!).

maybe voting for a shirt should include a commitment to buy it if printed...that should yield some interesting results haha.

or all of us could read Travels of a T-Shirt and see how consequential all these shirts we love (and I have dozens, believe me) really are!

So, if people are not supposed to vote with the theme in mind, why does woot give themes?

Everyone wants to make money. But there are billions of consumers in the world. Selling for a mass bloc instead of selling what you believe is worthy of printing is the only way to stand out. Because seriously, when woot only sells 600 copies worth of a daily, do you really think they're not turning a hell of a profit for the day?

Other sites are able to continually be diverse every time they roll out new shirts, and that is why people keep checking them. They are also able to shape an identity if they wish... there is a "Threadless" shirt, and a "DBH" shirt. A "Woot" shirt, if you were to define it, is bottom of the barrel... a design either created for people who find walmart clothing too challenging, or a design from an otherwise solid designer that comes from the failure pile, because who's going to give their best work to a site that doesn't appreciate artists? Profitable or not, being OK with that is pretty pathetic.

Cormano wrote:Praying that this is an editor's choice. So cool, so different.

Yeah... I promise to buy two. Please, Woot?

inmytree wrote:I love this shirt. Put me on the "contact if woot doesn't sell it" list...

Shall do, thanks!

Cormano wrote:Love this shirt. Will certainly purchase if printed.
Cute and witty. Deal with it, people. They're t-shirts, not "wearable art." This is $10, free shipping Woot-Land. You want fancy stuff that costs a bunch and doesn't appeal to people who aren't art students (or who hang around on the internet all day), go to threadless.

No you deal with it, you're the one who's spending $10 for it.

Re: Sea of Dreams

Come onnnnnnnnnn Editor's Choice! I liked that Woot did that last time and i hope they'll do it again.

ProfHotpants wrote:This shirt was selected for the Double Take Derby with the belief that it was on a Brown shirt color. It's probably our fault for not going deep into the threads of each design that gets nominated for an HM/Double-Take, but we definitely don't want to sell a product that looks radically different from what people have seen in the Derby and voted on. If this shirt does place and qualifies for a print, it will be printed on Brown.

Even though our templates aren't perfect, we have tweaked them time and again to more accurately reflect our shirts' colors. I guess we need to be far more vigilant about not allowing entries that are not on our official shirt colors. If you don't have the most recent templates, folks, I suggest downloading them ASAP.

I just emailed Woot about this and am hoping for a reply soon. But for those out there that are worried about the black on brown issue, I'm hoping to be able to adjust the design slightly.

Since I'm only using 5 colors in this design, I'd like to add a 6th color(slightly lighter than the brown of the shirt) to the monk to keep the black details of his robe visible. I'm hoping that would resolve alot of the issues raised in this thread.

Thanks for all the support everyone. My initial reason for matching the color to the actual shirt was to reduce confusion for the buyer, not create it. So for that I sincerely apologize. I hope the change is not great enough to change people's opinion about whether they like the design or not.

ProfHotpants wrote:This shirt was selected for the Double Take Derby with the belief that it was on a Brown shirt color... it will be printed on Brown.

When I said brown mostly worked, I meant mostly. The trees are now missing and are wholly brown due to the shirt color. I have no doubt that along with the shirt color the inks must be adjusted to the same degree that the shirt color has just now been.

This time around the brown has been eyedropped, interestingly, from the Let's Play shirt. The comp color is on the left and "Let's Play" brown is on the right.

Re: Song Bird

This is such a great design!

The fox looks like something from Firefox

The fox looks like something from firefox, but I like the design.

Re: The Quick Brown Fox

Firefox anyone?

ramyb wrote:Uh oh, here come your designs to crush everyone's dreams, heh- I will be shocked if you don't get (at least) one print out of this double-take. Shocked, I tell you. (GL)

re: inspired by dr. who

Love it.

Re: Uh Houston....

thanks everyone for the comments and especially the votes! it was a good effort. look for this design on Cameesa sometime next week. that way if you really want it and can get enough people to join your effort it will get printed and you'll make something off it as well!

PS darthfro, if you haven't yet check your PMs.. there's a link for your desktop image.

tgentry wrote:I don't know what thread this is in, or what the ongoing debate is, but I found this quote interesting. I immediately thought of those movies like Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans. At least a couple of million people desire to see those movies, and yet that fact does not make them good. It may be good to them, but there's always another stratum on top of personal taste that takes into account critical, historical, and cultural taste. There's a lot of bad things out there that some people desire (crystal meth, Sandra Bullock movies) but just the fact that they want them doesn't make them good.

Translation: I don't like it, and anyone who does like it is a moron. Great argument.

Comparing a bloody T-shirt to crystal meth is just embarrassing. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

Re: Persephone in the Garden of Hades

Wow. I don't normally buy this kind of shirt but would totally rock it. Beautiful.

ProfHotpants wrote: If this shirt does place and qualifies for a print, it will be printed on Brown.

Yuck. Brown shirt.... Can I take my vote back?

Salzorin wrote:The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

.... failing to see the anime in it

well for one, a sentence is just words where as Anime is a style of art. B^P the style of the T is an Anime Style.

as for the sentence where is that from?? ive never heard it and people are fawning over it like mad!

also foxes are usually reddish orange not brown B^P there are white ones but we aint talkin bout dim! B^)

ProfHotpants wrote:This shirt was selected for the Double Take Derby with the belief that it was on a Brown shirt color. It's probably our fault for not going deep into the threads of each design that gets nominated for an HM/Double-Take, but we definitely don't want to sell a product that looks radically different from what people have seen in the Derby and voted on. If this shirt does place and qualifies for a print, it will be printed on Brown.

Even though our templates aren't perfect, we have tweaked them time and again to more accurately reflect our shirts' colors. I guess we need to be far more vigilant about not allowing entries that are not on our official shirt colors. If you don't have the most recent templates, folks, I suggest downloading them ASAP.

You might have selected it thinking it was brown, but I'd say that way more people voted for this knowing it was on olive- printing it on brown is going to be a huge disappointment to a lot of people, but I don't think anyone would be confused or feel like they voted on something radically different if it were printed on olive. I think it is a mistake to print this on brown.

ProfHotpants wrote:This shirt was selected for the Double Take Derby with the belief that it was on a Brown shirt color. It's probably our fault for not going deep into the threads of each design that gets nominated for an HM/Double-Take, but we definitely don't want to sell a product that looks radically different from what people have seen in the Derby and voted on. If this shirt does place and qualifies for a print, it will be printed on Brown.

Even though our templates aren't perfect, we have tweaked them time and again to more accurately reflect our shirts' colors. I guess we need to be far more vigilant about not allowing entries that are not on our official shirt colors. If you don't have the most recent templates, folks, I suggest downloading them ASAP.

that embrangles just print it on olive!! if you look at the pic you can tell its a green color if not turn up the brightness of your monitor B^P
im not sure it will look as good on a brown tee and also brown tees look... well brown! eww

I adjusted the colors slightly for a brown shirt.

Here's the result.



Sent it in to woot, but I haven't heard back whether it's acceptable or not, so who knows what will happen.

Nyghtewynd wrote:Translation: I don't like it, and anyone who does like it is a moron. Great argument.

Comparing a bloody T-shirt to crystal meth is just embarrassing. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

Can we stop with all the "Translation: (insert guppy here)" posts please? You didn't just oversimplify the argument, you heard only what you wanted to argue against, and from one of the people that was actually very polite about not liking this shirt. Especially since his last sentence (which you did not quote) said if you like it, vote for it.

Thanks for clearing up the edit button, eHalcyon.