Shirt.Woot

JustJiggles wrote:This looks like something Woot would print on a daily.

Lately, I'm not sure if this is a compliment. Hehehe, this looks really good though!

The Moon looks a lot like a shower cap to me.

Looks familiar...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HMo7qoiF43U/R-FAWtvxW7I/AAAAAAAAAzk/k6sE98KFT_8/s1600-h/platypus.jpg

Looks familiar...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HMo7qoiF43U/R-FAWtvxW7I/AAAAAAAAAzk/k6sE98KFT_8/s1600-h/platypus.jpg

pebblesbuddy699 wrote:I hope this shirt gets made. I feel it shows mystery very well and honestly people need to get over the fact it shows a murder. There are more important things out there people GET OVER IT

I don't think anyone is genuinely offended by the murder. One of the other shirts in the fog also has a less graphic depiction of death on it, and it also has a murder mystery theme. I think it's that the brain splatter featured in this shirt might be a violation of Woot's PG-13 policy, and therefore Woot might be being inconsistent in keeping it. I can see why that might draw the ire of some. However, woot also featured a more violent shirt recently (Sheer bad luck), which may have set their precident. I haven't been around here long enough to know how violent they've allowed shirts to be in the past.

Personally, the violence doesn't bug me at all. I'm just not a fan of the design. Additionally, without the title "murder mystery", it could be just about any genre.

Assuming it prints (it will), I won't lose sleep over it, so long as "An Unfolding Mystery" prints as well.

pebblesbuddy699 wrote:I hope this shirt gets made. I feel it shows mystery very well and honestly people need to get over the fact it shows a murder. There are more important things out there people GET OVER IT

What is more important than life? It is annoying that people defend this design by making blanket statements about American's being uncomfortable with violence. There are many levels of violence...and murder is the top level. Are we just supposed accept this design so we don't come off as puritanical? We all watch the same movies as you, the same TV, the same video games...most people are in touch with pop culture...it would take special effort not to be! But when did an execution style murder become trendy...or attractive even? I appreciate the role violence plays in entertainment culture. This design just completely missed the mark! It completely lacks context, message, meaning, plot, emotion or reference...it is just murder in pretty colors. I'm not opposed to purchasing a shirt that contains violence as a part some greater meaning...but what is the motive for wearing a shirt with no meaning other than murder?

Icemank91 wrote:click the red small x to the side of your submission. =)

Read through this link also, very helpful!

Better luck next time, and if you have any questions feel free to private message me.

-John

thanks for the link! i still cant find the x though... lol it's not a big deal

dave154 wrote:thanks for the link! i still cant find the x though... lol it's not a big deal

hah it's hard to find!

When you're looking at the thumbnail of you entry, along with all the others on the main derby page, locate your entry and to the top right of the thumnail there will be a small x. Make sure you're logged in, then click the x and tah dah it will delete your entry.

cheers

re: tonight, a tail of murder

Dang!! i really want this shirt!!! if you submit it anywhere els please let me know!! this is WAY better than any of the top 4...heck better than any of the other shirts ahead of this one B^(

ISO30 wrote:JJ you sly dog. Startin' all this controversy knowing it'll get votes up on this design- very clever! Not that it needs any extra help- it's excellent work.

and, uh, thankuuu! thankuu vry much. huh!

Re: tonight, a tail of murder

Thank you all! This is a suprise! This beats my old record of 202 votes in the Dance theme, with Dances with Death.
I appreciate all your support. Let's keep it going, woo-hoo!

Re: Mystery of the Platypus Solved!! (RESUB)

oh, no, you did not!

benjaminleebates wrote:oh, no, you did not!

I mean that in a funny, that's great, way...
by the way, ahem...

thatrobert wrote:

Woohoo! Thanks for the honor

It really looks like a live trace of a photo.

Re: Yes... ANOTHER clue shirt. [resub cause I'm dumb]

top 10 baby!!!

Hakai wrote:clearly its the sassy one in the red thing. She exudes and air of "I DID IT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

Even if you were right, that would be one plus one plus two plus one, not one plus two plus one plus one.

Nice to see you entering the derby. This sir, is hilarious!

spanishmel wrote:What is more important than life?

Depends on who's life.

Nothing is more important to me than my life.

The life of a pedophile however... a slice of pizza is more important.

thatrobert wrote:

Awesome! Thanks for the BL nod!

Re: Giallo

nice technique! totally diggin it.

brendecko wrote:My, aren't we being anal?

Well duh, the stomache does rearrange things. Perfect shirt for teachers, by the by. GMV

JustJiggles wrote:Even if you were right, that would be one plus one plus two plus one, not one plus two plus one plus one.

AWESOME! Man, I need to get that movie on DVD.

g8skey wrote:Depends on who's life.

Nothing is more important to me than my life.

The life of a pedophile however... a slice of pizza is more important.

Oh hey God, sup? I didn't know you liked Shirt.Woot...small world. I hear they are serving pizza at the pedophile bar, care to join me?

Re: The Irony of Ant Detectives

I can't believe it doesn't have more votes. I hope it gets a second life on another T-shirt site

Its really quite funny!

Its a cool illustration but I can't help thinking...who stole this guy's crack?

Okay... everything else aside... and one other person mentioned it, but nobody else commented...

When so many others have, why has this not been rejected for having a question mark?

That's the one big thing baffling me. I haven't been around long enough to know artist drama, so I don't know who it is or if they have favor with the woot staff, but a dozen or more submissions were rejected for containing a question mark. This one has a HUGE one that makes up a good portion of the design and yet... it stays? What's the justification on that double standard?

jmmbell1987 wrote:I don't think anyone is genuinely offended by the murder. One of the other shirts in the fog also has a less graphic depiction of death on it, and it also has a murder mystery theme. I think it's that the brain splatter featured in this shirt might be a violation of Woot's PG-13 policy, and therefore Woot might be being inconsistent in keeping it. I can see why that might draw the ire of some. However, woot also featured a more violent shirt recently (Sheer bad luck), which may have set their precident. I haven't been around here long enough to know how violent they've allowed shirts to be in the past.

Shear bad luck was a daily, for starters. They just had a second beer-label tee as a daily, and alcohol remains consistently rejected in derbies. Unless this user submit an almond headed squirrel with a brewski.

It is also a very clear humor piece, given the nature of the design and the style. This is seriously done. That should make a difference.

Clearly it doesn't, being 24 hours away without any explanation from woot, but it should. No one else would get away with this, and certainly not without any commentary from the staff. It is as simple as that.

davidryandesign wrote:this is such a boring dumb shirt...whats to like?

This isn't opposite day. Stop being so silly!

slvrwhispr wrote:Okay... everything else aside... and one other person mentioned it, but nobody else commented...

When so many others have, why has this not been rejected for having a question mark?

That's the one big thing baffling me. I haven't been around long enough to know artist drama, so I don't know who it is or if they have favor with the woot staff, but a dozen or more submissions were rejected for containing a question mark. This one has a HUGE one that makes up a good portion of the design and yet... it stays? What's the justification on that double standard?

Probably because, at this point, woot knows it's moot. It won't win, and even if it breaks the rules, it's not worth the time and effort to reject.

I'm with Adder on this one. We are here for the shirts. If we weren't discussing the content of the designs on them this would just be a cotton and ink forum.

erina7262 wrote:Sometimes I know who the artist is, but sometimes I don't. I havent been here long enough, nor do I document all of their attributes. I am sort of bummed that the lynch mob STILL came out for this derby and gave away this entry among others. I really was hoping to keep them all a mystery and have been avoiding cheating. But it is hard to avoid when the same people say the same things about the same artists each week. This is becoming a freaking witch hunt each week. So I guess its my bad for reading the comments, but thanks again for ruining most of the entries this week.

Yeah I feel the same. I have been here for a while but I don't study individual artists well enough to be able to tell who draws what. I thought this special theme can be a good way to find out if shirts get voted because of the names attached or because of good quality work. But when I come in here and see adder viciously attacking this artist, I realized who this has to be then. Someone also said something like "you've gotta know who made this before reading the posts", but no, I really didn't.

JadenKale wrote:Probably because, at this point, woot knows it's moot. It won't win, and even if it breaks the rules, it's not worth the time and effort to reject.

I don't love that logic. There are shirts that were TERRIBLE designs that didn't have a prayer of getting more than ten votes, let alone fogging, that were rejected on the question mark technicality. This shirt is in the fog, violates the same rule, and is allowed to stay. If the time and effort are worth it for entries that don't even contend, why would it not be worth it for a fogged entry that could potentially push an entry that is not in violation out of a winning spot?

slhampel wrote:poor Grover...

big bird is a biznatch.

slvrwhispr wrote:Okay... everything else aside... and one other person mentioned it, but nobody else commented...

When so many others have, why has this not been rejected for having a question mark?

That's the one big thing baffling me. I haven't been around long enough to know artist drama, so I don't know who it is or if they have favor with the woot staff, but a dozen or more submissions were rejected for containing a question mark. This one has a HUGE one that makes up a good portion of the design and yet... it stays? What's the justification on that double standard?

For all the reasons this SHOULD be rejected, the question mark is loose at best. It certainly COULD be one. The user and cohorts are well known for pushing the envelope of what should be rejected, so I wouldn't put it past them to try it. But in reality, the smoke is so haphazard and so poorly conceived that it really doesn't look like anything. It curves like a question mark, but also like smoke. Insofar as it looks anything like smoke.

In all seriousness, if woot didn't have such a generous payout, I would want this to win, just so we could all see how right EVERYONE is when it prints uglier than mike tyson and shelley duvall having a baby. Not that it'll matter: the second oldest shirt on reckoning has been printing poorly since day one, and is showing no signs of being effected. But there is a part of me that is interested in seeing it print just so I can be right again. Just not a big enough part to make up for the part that is sick of this user cutting corners and skirting rejections and making money off the same exact vote patterns week in and week out.

Re: What Happened to Steve?

WE JUST GOT A LETTER I WONDER WHO IT'S FROM.
OH THE FBI!

Re: An Unfolding Mystery

excellent shirt. i really like the color scheme.

nicetry wrote:It was submitted saturday evening. That should be plenty of time, really. I think that if people wanted it to win it would be in the fog by now.

Agreed. The other week we saw Deadfrog's one shoot up into the fog submitted on a Monday I believe.

Great work coloring this one. X )

cobolisdead wrote:I haven't flamed anyone here(unless you count me saying that I don't respect you anymore), so I don't know where you going with that. However, you have flamed in this very thread. And you might not like the system around here, but you seem to have no quarrels working it. I can't fault you for your designs being cute, as you've always been that way, but I can fault you for your seemingly unwavering defense of these artists, even if the accusations/complaints are founded/valid/reasonable.


And just reference, I still love the Say no to scurvy shirt.

"Junk" winning is a threefold responsibility around here:

1) Artist
2) Voters
3) Woot

Sure, if I didn't submit QFB as a joke, the voters wouldn't vote it up, and woot wouldn't have ECd it, and voters wouldn't have voted it up again. I take responsibility for submitting it, but I can't say that I was like "sweet, this design is epic win for $1000". I can't take all the responsibility unfortunately, especially when woot revived it with the EC. It was dead as I thought it would be.

IMO it's PG-13. Your opinion it's not. Regardless of which one of us is right Joel gets to decide what PG-13 is.

Well I'm glad you don't think me a liar. I defend the wondertwins because a) I think they get a lot of nonsense flamers and b) They are still getting backlash from the initial voting conspiracy suspicions (which was never proven true). Aside from that sucking in general it start to trickle into my submission threads which starts sucking for me personally.

Again, on this entry it comes down to a portion of the people think this is PG-13, and a portion don't, but it it doesn't matter who is correct by the MPAA because Joel doesn't work for them.

IMO, making a hit and run comment about "yeah we used to like her work" is a minor flame, especially in the context that it was responding to a comment that discussed my motivations. There's no explanation, just the hit and run. I am sick of the hit and runs around here.

I don't see why people can't agree to disagree on the PG-13. I think the shirt is ugly and there is no way I would ever buy it, but I was just stating an opinion that actually included a reason for why I thought it was on topic. Then Captain QQ came in with the hit and run flame.

Glad you like Scurvy btw.