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lindab53 wrote:Ha! It took me till a week ago to FINALLY get mine. It would have been really nice if I was wearing a bagel bear shirt to the bagel shop!

hehe, I hear that, it took way too long for me to get some after the cravings induced by those bagel bears too! But at least the ones I've been having have been quite yummy.

Indeed, bummer you couldn't have had that shirt to wear there!;) How were the bagels?

Re: His boo is worse than his bite

I like it, a good first entry. For it to win it would have to be alien (like the movie) shaped ghosts playing video games over some cute kittens with big eyes.

Re: Saddest Ghost Ever

I don't know why I like this so much, but I do.

jenopy wrote:Is this you?
http://zatransis.blogspot.com/2008/01/zombie-zoo.html

This image is less pixelated than the one you uploaded for the shirt.

Based on previous entries, I'm betting the submitter isn't related to that website.

Ikonos71 wrote:I don't know why I like this so much, but I do.

I'll accept that, thanks!

By the way, don't go see Pixar's UP and then look at this shirt, there's some dust in my eye now or something.

Re: I Like Candy

This design is not TOO bad, but it could use a zombie dog and maybe a kitten coming out of a pumpkin. Just my two cents.

mikenytola wrote:I'm a troll, good one. Go look up what it means, not what's in the Addy dictionary. He just pretty much spews diarrhea and hate out his mouth most of the time, that's all. Then calls me a jerk and then says I am calling him names. Those posts got deleted, I just told him to take the tamp*n out since he didn't say one constructive criticism in his post at all, nada. I didn't say "hey bit** take the tamp*n out. But woot deleted my response to his whining that I was name calling right after he called me a jerk.

I have tried to have a discussion with him before and he kept contradicting himself over and over and over again. Saying one thing and then switching what he said later even when I pointed out to him what he was doing. So sorry, you are wrong on this one. Why explain to somebody when they don't read even what they wrote. When I debate with you at least you are coherent and pay attention to your own words and don't contradict yourself especially if I directly quote you, which I did with him. I don't like you, but at least I can have a somewhat intelligent debate with you, and not have to point out you are saying the opposite of what you JUST said.

I wasn't defending the design or Ramyb at all, I actually wanted to know why the dog was not in a costume since it made no sense to me, that post got deleted. I never said mrwednesday was wrong did I, or to explain himself? Nope, wrong with your assumptions again Addy. Would you like me to go on another thread to tool on mrwednesday? If so let me know and I will, just so you can stop with your never ending assumptions and ignorance on my stance against rude jerks that have nothing constructive to add. You have said quite a bit on constructive stuff lately, and surprise surprise, I haven't been debating with you at all except for now, because again you love to make assumptions! I don't care for this design at all, the dog just bugs me and I HATE shirts with cat's in them. Can't stand them. So... I'm not defending him or this design. Check your assumptions at the door next time.

k thx boi

Plain and simple. You are too unintelligent to understand anything I said. You still don't. By continuing to rail against me you just make yourself look more unintelligent. I mean you're talking to me about menstruating? You sent me an apology about how you were just overreacting because you had a hard day at work and it made you angsty. Get a grip man. You aren't smart. You have nothing to add. No one agrees with you.

At first I thought you were just ramy's jock rider but now I'm beginning to think the jock you want to ride is mine. But really man, I don't swing that way so you'll have to get your jollies elsewhere.

Re: Lil' ghosts

heh, kinda quirky...

at least u didnt put it on black... but hey

wheres my blue/red shirt?

sekiyoku wrote:I'm surprised tigers are not more associated with halloween- they are the perfect colors.

Now the viewer has even more of a dilemma. Should he or she allow the tiger to remain in the pumpkin, it may end up eating the viewer when it gets older.

i think i'd get eaten... stupid bambi eyes

Re: I Like Candy

drakxxx has a better formula than RAMYB and SEKIYOKU.

weird/creepy art on brown/blue/red.

Re: Trick AND Treat

this shirt needs moar votes

Re: RAWR! WE'RE MONSTERS!

needs hot girl

mikenytola wrote:If you can't stand him THAT much, why do you continue to critique him? Do you honestly want him to do better so you will vote for him? Because I fail to see why somebody who is trying to make things better is trying to do so with a designer they obviously hate. Why help to improve a designer you will never approve of? Do you not see the idiocy in this? You can't say it's because he's making it so other good designers are not winning, because technically you are critiquing him to do better. You can't say so other people will see what's wrong, if they like it, they like it, no matter what you say. Just as if they hate it, they hate it, no matter what you say. So what is it? What are you trying to accomplish? Please enlighten me if you can.

Because I don't judge the designer, I judge the design. If they stopped submitting garbage every week there would be no reason to critique them. I don't care who wins, but I do care when garbage wins and I do care when garbage designers continue to submit garbage.

Now I know as does everyone else that ramy is never going to become a quality designer, but there are many many many new people here who do not have the benefit of knowing his history at woot and may be seeing things like this for the first time. Every post I make, and anyone else offering criticism, is doing so for their benefit.

I also do so because it gets your panties in a bunch and I so love watching you write ignorant walls of text with so very little understanding or comprehension of what is going on. The more vocal I can get the "ramy supporters" the more negatively it reflects on him because not a single one, especially you, makes any sense or has any capacity to make a well reasoned argument based on available evidence. Every single time you post it's a win for me and a lose for ramy so please please please continue. You highlight everything that is wrong with supporting ramy and I love it.

Re: The Pumpkin Witch

one more for this derby

i also made a time lapse video of the making of the shirt.
http://www.vimeo.com/7123450

Re: Bear?!

I'd imagine this happens every so often on halloween.

Votes and feedback appreciated.

Thank you!

I don't expect to do well this derby, but I hope that at least a few of you enjoy this. I know a witch infront of the moon on a broom with bats isn't a very original concept, but I hope the way i did it is enough to get past the axe. As always I welcome critique and opinions.

inaantokkaba wrote:this shirt needs moar votes

haha agreed.

Cantatus wrote:Ah, like this one a lot. Sort of unusual combination, but it really works for me.

It is this very unusual combination that drove me finish it.

1. the bright orange robe of Buddhist monks fits quite well with Halloween.

2. I decided to make the begging bowl into a pumpkin and filled it with candy (begging bowls are used for either money or food for Buddhist monks so it is not a far stretch). Technically speaking your trick or treat bucket is a begging bowl for Halloween.

3. I placed a bunch of carved pumpkins around the monk as if he is sitting in the middle of a lotus, another parody to the Buddhism symbol.

4. You can also think of these floating pumpkins as mysterious protection mechanism for this fighting monk (like those floating skulls swirling around the necromancer).

5. The gigantic moon of Halloween behind can also be interpretted as the halo or aureloa commonly used in Buddhist iconography.

This one was inspired by Sin City and bad treats.

"Trick Or Treat down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything".

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h224/odysseyroc/treats.jpg

Re: Curious Brothers

i like the simplicity of the concept. and beyond that, i love the way it looks

Re: And you are?

the colors (the yellow and teal) would break this shirt for me. and the dots...out side of that i like it!

i feel like it would work better if it were all in purple tones, but what do i know :P i'm no shirt designer

Re: BRAINS!

!!!!!!!!!!!! i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh god its creeping into the fog.

Re: Bear?!

Ok, I changed my mind about the thumbnail and resubbed...bear?!

I'd imagine this happens every so often on halloween.

Feedback and votes appreciated - thanks!

Honestly, guys? I bought shirts and subsequently voted for a good long while before I read comments and had any idea this was a "community" as opposed to just a t-shirt design contest. I'd be willing to bet that most people don't read the comments at all. I have a handful of friends (ballpark number, we can call it five) who have 5+ woot shirts. I asked them if they ever read the derby submission comments, and they said, "No, why?" I realize this is a very small sample size and therefore nowhere scientific or conclusive, but if you wonder why stuff gets voted up despite strong opinions by the diehards, it's probably because most people don't even know it's happening. If I hadn't read the comments, I wouldn't know. And I probably would have voted for this because I'm a complete sucker for doe-eyed baby animals (even though I normally avoid cute-animal shirts like the plague).

But if you wonder why this isn't a "good community," it's probably because a large number of voters don't know it's a community at all.

Re: The Halloween Tree

I love the little monster guy.

sirensmask wrote:I voted, happily. Its cute.

This is about 99% of the justification for voting for anything these two idiots put out. Okay, so you all like cute things. That's fine. But what doesn't make sense is the low ranking of every other cute shirt on this website. Most weeks there are cute shirts that are actually really well done, yet they rarely make it close to the fog.

I am, therefore, inclined to believe that what your kind intends to say is "kawaii" while squinting your eyes and making a V-sign with your hand. It shows us so much more of your true personality (read: flaws).

Here is where I let you in on an apparently little-known fact: A shirt can be cute and not look awful at the same time. Unless, of course, you're using cute in the way you would to blow of small chil'en and 'tards who try to impress people with their underdeveloped motor skills without hurting their feelings.

Re: The Great Pumpkin Witch

Nice! i think we both submitted pumpkin witch shirts at the exact same time!

mrwednesday wrote:Sure there is. ramy and seki make a living off of pretending that the dissent is a vocal minority. It's very important that people start speaking up so that woot and everyone else will realize there is a real problem here.

That and everything about this design is rehashed. Why shouldn't the comment be the same?

The problem with your post is that they're basically spot on and you a pretty radically off. I'm thinking that the people who frequent this site can be divided into two categories. The first is people who like it because it's a democratic design collective that runs on a system that encourages innovation and constantly produces new designs on a variety of subjects. These people would also tend to browse the forums for comments. The second is people who found a T-shirt site that has pretty T-shirts, decided to buy a few, and then kept coming back because the new T-shirts were pretty too. And that is honestly perfectly fine.

That might be oversimplifying, but that's in a nutshell why three shirts win each Derby rather than there be a multitude of Derbies with only one shirt winning each. Besides being less work for the artist, it allows for the shirts that win to cater to multiple designs. You can obviously see from the amazing amounts of votes their shirts consistently get that you are the vocal minority. Nobody who buys the shirts because they think they're cute and like to wear them rather than clever and original is going to go ahead and argue with hipsters about deontology on a random internet forum. You have absolutely no reason to hate on the people who like the shirt and want to buy it just because you and your subculture, my subculture, happen to disapprove. Nobody who likes these shirts should be able to have these shirts simply because of some random hatefest?

I would never buy a shirt like this myself, but everybody posting here should recognize that they are to an extent the minority and should probably stop ranting against people who don't happen to have the same tastes as them.

Also lol at tgentry and edwardmcherly or whoever you happen to like (those are my favorites personally), not being in it for the money. They appeal to a different audience and have more fun doing it personally, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with having fun drawing cute things and being able to do so for a living.

Also, can you honestly say that a design like this is better at all just because it happens to cater to a different demographic?

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=36185

EDIT: Oh wow lots of pages that I didn't read. Oh well?

In other news since I'm posting already can anybody link me to edward's, if he did one, or tgentry's designs? I would really like to see what they did with this. Assuming I don't find them in my continued search.

Re: Treats Gone Bad

This one is inspired by Sin City and the horrible treats old people gave out when I was growing up.

"Go Trick or Treating down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything"

Re: Were-Pumpkin

Oh my Gawd that's fabulous!

Re: Lil' ghosts

icymallard wrote:heh, kinda quirky...

at least u didnt put it on black... but hey

wheres my blue/red shirt?

Quirky is good... thanks!
Ah... well actually, as I said in my first post, I did consider this one on royal blue (the one you requested) and thought you would like that;) But ultimately the navy blue worked better for this design... sorry about that. I do have an orange one in this derby though, if you want to check it out.

I will try to use royal blue or red sometime for ya soon... just want it to fit the design!: )

Re: Trick or Treat Terror

I LOVE this one!!! More so than the other version too. GMV GMV GMV!!!!

Altheahelaine wrote:See, this is a definable style. Drakxxx illustrates over and over again that you can have a style without rehashing things in a disgusting manner. I know a Drakxxx entry when I see one, but I never feel they are reused or just the same thing plopped onto a different shirt. I wish more people knew that this is what actual style was, vs. just reusing the same scaffolding.

+1

Okay I COMPLETELY agree with you on that! Drakxxx, you are by far my favorite artist on Woot!!! You get my vote every time!=]

jmmbell1987 wrote:Woot drew the line. They rejected this design. Then Seki went and resubbed the design with changes that were laughable. I just wrote this.

As for it fogging, see Adder's post. It's generic. Generic sells well.

And as an English major, I object to your abuse of ellipses.

As a conscientious user of the English language, I object to your use of a conjunction at the beginning of a sentence.

ramyb wrote:Ok, after a couple of edits/mishaps, it's back I decided to get rid of the halftone instead of dealing with arguments for the rest of the week because I don't think they were really adding anything to the design.

I had said that I wanted to rework my design from the harvest derby, and here is the result. Thanks again for the support.

Click for full version

i am glad and approve of the move away from the ramyb style, its nice to know you can actually do other forms of art
you can show a glimpse of hope when you want to, i approve of the move towards actual forms of art that shows potential
think outside of the box

Re: No One's Friend

Hahaha, "you are not nutritious!" Love it^_^

pandase wrote:Ahhhhh, the awesomeness hurts my eyes! I'm definitely buying this if it places! It reminds me vaguely of Friends Are Forever (a fav shirt of mine)

That's what I was reminded of too! That was my FAVORTITE shirt ever! Sooo this one's up there too now=D

kaseyfleming wrote:one more for this derby

i also made a time lapse video of the making of the shirt. music got killed by the copyright thingy but thats ok.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZfTGDfRCmE&feature=player_profilepage

Very nice! Video's cool too.

Re: but srsly it's mai pumpkin

I usually don't do this but, ITS THE SAME SHIRT!!!!!!!!1!111!!!!!11!!!11!!11!eleven!!!!1!