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sugareeali wrote:I like this idea but I wish the text was different.

Huh. Well I figured I wanted it to look like bad lettering from the souvenir shops. As opposed to bad lettering.

odysseyroc wrote:I love the concept and the drawing, but I don't like the shirt color at all. I'd be in for one on a different shirt color.

Because Mount Rushmore is blue/asphalt/cranberry?

Re: A Breath of Fresh Air

I'm a little shocked by this rejection though it's completely warranted. It's unfortunate they won't reject the shiny garbage as well. Designs like this are much more what I'd hope to see out of ramy.

Littletygerkitty wrote:Being of the "fairer sex" I must say that there's not a chance that I would wear this. It's a nice design, and the colors are pleasing, but I'd prefer guys weren't imagining what my lungs look like under that shirt.

Honestly I don't own a single Woot shirt that doesn't make people stare at my chest. If I thought "someone might look at my hooters" every time I picked up a shirt, I'd never buy any-especially from Woot.

tgentry wrote:Here's an example: you can create a character that slightly resembles Garfield to do a parody about Garfield. You can't create your own comic strip with a character that looks like Garfield if you're not parodying the original comic. That's the difference. On the one hand you're commenting on someone else's intellectual property, on the other you're infringing upon it. If the artist was clearly parodying Mini Moose I doubt it would have been rejected (as long as there were some clear visual differences between the the new version from the original). As it is the character looks a lot like the original without any commentary or parody of it.

Hi tgentry. Got a question in response to your parody statement. When I was making my "Violent Hare Shirt" (also rejected), I was thinking it would get rejected (which it did). Now, what about the Gummi shirt, is it considered a parody (commenting) because it is the Gummi Bears in an environment we do not normally expect them in?

I am new to this whole thing. My son's and I come up with a shirt design, lay it out and then submit it on Friday. They don't get too motivated by being rejected and I want to avoid it from now on.

Re: A Breath of Fresh Air

Nice consistency woot. Seriously.

Re: A Breath of Fresh Air

Wow, that's super upsetting.. :|

Re: Image.nation Park

Great concept and execution of design!

Are those Twitter birds, or leaves?

Jaiyla wrote:but i didnt say anything other than it was adorable! weird :O

You had an "o m g" in there. ;)

Re: Named After Sam (Redux)

I'm liking the style of the park; but the Sam character kills it for me, for some reason...

Is that supposed to be Buggs over on the right? ;)

It reminds me of my Uncle talking about Japan. He would pick up last years computer in the alley because the locals needed the top technology of the year.

Re: Dead Technology National Park

kylemittskus wrote:Nice consistency woot. Seriously.

is that sarcasm?

I absolutely love how you create another layer of depth using the shadow and light effects of the cave. Great stuff.

Re: Yellowsnow National Park

i wish the sign was a little bigger. i'd buy one.

Re: The Last Park

i love this shirt i want it

Rejected, why?

Re: Bear. In. Station. Wagon.

I absolutely love this one. Captures the spirit of visiting national parks.

omninull wrote:Rejected, why?

i'm guessing because it's too similar to the game.

I thought it would be okay since the shirt references a game within a game show, and I changed the name (slightly). guess not.

since I'm out, please vote for jewelwing's "Thanks Dad". I want that shirt!

Sorry, I liked this alot better with less parody. Stupid woot rules...

SirGecko wrote:I absolutely love this one. Captures the spirit of visiting national parks.

Thanks Draxxx and gecko I'm gonna need some serious love to even get an HM though.

tgentry wrote:It's very specific to the theme. Giant Sequoia's appear naturally in one area in the world, and the Sequoia's in this image are based on specific trees in Sequoia National Park. I even added details to make it even more park specific. For instance there's a small sign in front of the main one (known as The President), a giant tunnel bored through one just like at the park, I even put in some lines to suggest fencing of some sort. How much more on-topic could it be?

I can't believe you have to answer "on theme" questions this week. This shirt is more on theme than any other one in the derby!

nice illustration by the way. and congrats on today's print!

Re: A Breath of Fresh Air

Damn, I LOVED this shirt! Since it was rejected here, but was in the fog and so obviously VERY sought after, please consider having it printed elsewhere! And PM me so I can buy it!

jerroul wrote:I see a similar base concept, but different artistry, different intent/treatment, and to me, at least, a totally different "feel". As I said above, on Friday, my first reaction to this shirt is that it is a visualization of how my lungs feel when I first wake up in the morning camping up in the redwoods of Sequoia or Kings Canyon National Parks.
The other shirt, while also having "lungs" as its starting place, is not saying that to me, in my opinion. It is rather a comment on trees as the breathing mechanism of Earth, ie lungs. I confess I do not understand the Roman Candle reference in the other shirt's title, so maybe I am missing something that those who are using it as proof of "unoriginality" can see.

Just as an FYI, Roman Candle is a band and I believe the shirt is for the CD "Oh Tall Tree in the Air".

Edited: Reread and realized I misinterpreted what you were saying.

Reminds me of the call on a craps game when the shooter throws a die into the wooden rail that surrounds the table: "Too tall for ya...it's in the sequoia."

mwithers337 wrote:It reminds me of my Uncle talking about Japan. He would pick up last years computer in the alley because the locals needed the top technology of the year.

Sounds like my kind of place!

Re: A Breath of Fresh Air

So why don't the rejected shirts fall to the bottom anymore?

It's weird that this is still in the fog even though it's rejected. Woot really needs to put it back to the old way.

Anyway, this was a nice departure for you Ramy. Hope to see more like this in the future.

Re: Lost Souls Cavern

I think I would like the skull profile to be not so askew, but I would buy for sure!

Re: Pine-Scented National Park

Love it. Hope it gets more votes.

billratio wrote:is that sarcasm?

No. I am very glad that they rejected this shirt, not because I didn't like it (although I didn't) but because it deserved to get rejected. However, I give woot only a small amount of credit since they really couldn't ignore that other shirt.

tgentry wrote:As posted in my own thread, my design is very park specific, with details that appear only in that park, with a species of tree that appears naturally in one area in the entire world. Mine could only be one place in the world, Sequoia National Park.

Interesting. In that case, I retract what I said, including on your shirt's thread.

reesmaxwell wrote:Damn, I LOVED this shirt! Since it was rejected here, but was in the fog and so obviously VERY sought after, please consider having it printed elsewhere! And PM me so I can buy it!

It was rejected for being like many, many other shirts. I think other sites might have the same issue.

tgentry wrote:It's very specific to the theme. Giant Sequoia's appear naturally in one area in the world, and the Sequoia's in this image are based on specific trees in Sequoia National Park. I even added details to make it even more park specific. For instance there's a small sign in front of the main one (known as The President), a giant tunnel bored through one just like at the park, I even put in some lines to suggest fencing of some sort. How much more on-topic could it be?

I apologize for my ignorance. Adding to my shame is that I grew up in California, and I probably should've known all this. I never realized that sequoias only grew in that one park.

skirochester wrote:I can't believe you have to answer "on theme" questions this week. This shirt is more on theme than any other one in the derby!

nice illustration by the way. and congrats on today's print!

I disagree with that. It is surely on theme, although so are many many other shirts this week. TGentry took the second part of the derby prompt and not the first. Great skills. I hate this derby though -- much like I've hated the derbies lately -- so no buy/vote.

Re: Yodel-ay-ee-ooooo

I'm surprised this was rejected.

tgentry wrote:As posted in my own thread, my design is very park specific, with details that appear only in that park, with a species of tree that appears naturally in one area in the entire world. Mine could only be one place in the world, Sequoia National Park.

Actually, they have some of those trees in London. They've gotten pretty big by now, since they were planted there many, many years ago.

And I had a sequoia growing in my back yard in Tennessee in 1994. This was in a ranch house in Murphreesboro Tennessee. I hardly think that they were the first to grow Sequoias, and certainly it has been long enough since they were discovered that they are growing in a variety of places all over the world by now, and getting to be pretty big. As big as the one you drew? doubtful, (please just ignore the rest of this ill-informed drivel: but I have to say that the idea that your design is legit because the trees only grow naturally in northern California is like saying that Pandas don't bring to mind the San Diego Zoo in California or the National Zoo in Wash DC, because they only live in nature in China. It's really a pretty thin argument you have, as far as I can see.)

edit: Actually, my argument is the thin one. Shamefacedly, I have to concede that the way he has constructed the design makes it certainly quite well on target, on theme, certainly within woot's guidelines for this contest, most certainly not a game reference, with no National Park named, having nothing to do with Mario brothers or any actual video games, or specifically naming National Parks, quite certainly on theme and fitting the description also, and really nicely drawn to boot. whew!

Re: Yodel-ay-ee-ooooo
Rejected because: Cute, but no.

Not even a real reason? cancellation.