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rpower75 wrote:Because they are splitting the vote. I don't understand why artists put up two versions. It almost guarantees that they won't print.

Well, in my case (as a newbie) I put up a couple different versions of mine in order to try and get a feel for what works around here. I think maybe once I've been here for a while and feel more comfortable in the community and with my designs that I won't have the need to do that.

Re: Lon and Mr. C visit god.

If only we could crawl inside your head for a day..

+1

Re: Bats!

I love the colors! GMV

Mrspott wrote:stop being a troll other deigns are far more worthy of being rejected this is original not some sham copy

A good design doesn't put one's submission above the rules. I don't see how I'm trolling. I like the design. It won't print.

Re: Diet Coke Mentos = Rocket

Also this isn't incidental text, it's kind of imperative to the design.

Copyright issues will continue with this, I'm afraid - Diet Coke is sold as Coke Light up and down Latin America and in other parts of the world - and abbreviation Coke is protected.

Re: Sky Fishing

this is a cool looking shirt, i just don't understand what it has to do with flight. i mean it has fishing, which is great. and a floating (magic?) island farm scene. but i am just not making the connection. not that it's required either, because plenty of shirts have printed and been so far off theme its ridiculous. i am just surprised there hasn't been a discussion on this one.

AdderXYU wrote:I don't think I've ever seen a thumbnail, said "this looks just like kdeuce's last piece", and had it not be you.

Conversely, I've never seen a kdeuce thread where you're not being a complete jerk. I guess everyone's just stuck in a rut!

Re: Flying Squirrel

SQUIRRELS > ALL

Re: Lon and Mr. C visit god.

Two things:
First, can someone please explain the meaning behind this? I have been staring at it for five minutes and still do not get it.

Second, the wrinkle in the shirt template you use made it look like the 'god' sign had a mustache. I was rather confused for a second why they did not match up. :/

Re: Flying Squirrel

i really like the concept and squirrel/flying machine, but i don't care for the tree. it looks like an afterthought and doesn't add to the composition, IMO... but the idea is really cute.

Re: Bird Feeder

I just that bird feed is all that lands in that squirrel's plate...

jabberjaws13 wrote:this is a cool looking shirt, i just don't understand what it has to do with flight. i mean it has fishing, which is great. and a floating (magic?) island farm scene. but i am just not making the connection. not that it's required either, because plenty of shirts have printed and been so far off theme its ridiculous. i am just surprised there hasn't been a discussion on this one.

The land is floating through the air and the whale/fish are flying nearby. Flight has been illustrated. There's really no argument to be made.

EclecticMuse wrote:Well, in my case (as a newbie) I put up a couple different versions of mine in order to try and get a feel for what works around here. I think maybe once I've been here for a while and feel more comfortable in the community and with my designs that I won't have the need to do that.

Submitting more than one version either at the same time (like your first two) or when your original design is not doing as well as you wanted (ie, your third design) makes sense; version 2 of Battle of Flightless Birds was submitted when version 1 was in 5th place, iirc. This worked last week for Shigwarm when his Beetles shirt was in the fog because v.2 was significantly different (different shirt color, extension of the joke), though it's hard to point to that now since those designs ended up being rejected anyway. In Drakxxx's case, version one kept falling (or maybe just being displaced) after version 2 went up, which suggests that they were not different enough and/or that they ARE splitting the vote. Some people are only voting for one either way, but some people might have just decided that version one was "good enough" and voted for it anyway without v2 being there.

This is mostly speculation, but I don't think it's necessarily wrong.

endangeredomega wrote:Yes, the shirt will be available and on the reckoning list for at least another week. You can purchase it for $15 here:

http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k=10446

Thanks so much. I need to finally buy a shirt so I can vote for the rest of Boots gorgeous pieces. And the rest of you guys. I'm so jealous.

melsterchaos wrote:Two things:
First, can someone please explain the meaning behind this? I have been staring at it for five minutes and still do not get it.

I've been thinking about this since it went up, and I think the point is that there's nothing to "get". You either like it aesthetically or you don't; a title like this makes you think there must be something more, and maybe there is, somewhere external to the design itself. But generally, no, I don't think there's anything to "explain here".

The average person wants things to make sense or have purpose, though, so I doubt I could wear this without being asked "what's your shirt all about?" and then being met with frustration when the best I can offer is the title.

For some people, that's a good thing.

Re: Up, Up, and Away (Cream Shirt)

I think this looks really good on the cream shirt. I like the fishies.

8bitcat wrote:I really just wanted to draw something interesting and ridiculous, that looks like it shouldn't be able to fly but somehow is able to. If nothing else, this was a fun challenge for me, I've always wanted to draw something that's needlessly complex. Hope you enjoy, thanks!

It is interesting. I really like the color choices you made too. It looks neat on the shirt.

Re: Given to Fly

This is one of the few designs I've seen that I'd buy on heather grey. It looks neat. You wouldn't think the colors would go with the grey, but they really do.

Not so much with the comments orrrr votes this week huh?

mjl9320 wrote:The land is floating through the air and the whale/fish are flying nearby. Flight has been illustrated. There's really no argument to be made.

i am not trying to argue, so don't be a jag. i am simply stating there was no flight to me.

if someone drew a cat with clouds around it would that be flight?

if david blaine was levitating would that be flight? he is perceived to be floating, so by your statement it would count as flight.

regardless, i said i like the design, i am just stating it is weird the usual haters aren't creating a storm, but then again its not ramy or seki so they aren't fueled with as much hatred.

anyway, congrats on the design, i still like it.

Re: Fail

This is a TERRIBLE rejection. Why is that stupid jetpack shirt still not rejected. It's way more similar to already printed shirts than this one is.

And that example that someone else posted as similar is NOT. In that one, ET stole the bike and pushed elliot off, in this one, they both crash into the moon, not similar at all. And as for your similar colors argument, it's a freakin' moon and sky, what other colors were they supposed to use?

You all just don't like this shirt and wanted it rejected. Well, you got your wish, now go tattle on the jetpack shirt.

EclecticMuse wrote:I don't know, I still have a little bit of an issue with the obvious reference to a copyrighted property, but that's just me. It's a beautiful design and very funny though.

leaps into the vacuum that this one is rejected. far out the best thing in this derby. not at all like the busted one and originality? good luck finding any.

oh well, another derby i save money.

wootasourous wrote:Dandelions... enough for rejection...

Huh? Why would dandelions be grounds for rejection?

Re: Sky Fishing

Oh wow, so glad this is in the fog now. I actually kinda want to buy this!

BootsBoots wrote:I think this looks really good on the cream shirt. I like the fishies.

Thanks Boots. That means a lot to me, coming from you. Your fishies are cute too--I want to hug them!

(And I really like your bird shirt too ... would buy that in a heartbeat.)

blammoed wrote:

Also wanted to say, this would definitely be a back print.

If this wins AND is printed in kids' sizes, our whole family would be sporting this awesome design.

jabberjaws13 wrote:i am not trying to argue, so don't be a jag. i am simply stating there was no flight to me.

if someone drew a cat with clouds around it would that be flight?

if david blaine was levitating would that be flight? he is perceived to be floating, so by your statement it would count as flight.

I have no interest in arguing either, but I wanted to jump in and make a point that I've made many times in the past in my own defense, and which a lot of people seem to ignore (whether selectively or altogether)- Woot has a write-up for a reason. They give the themes names so that there is a general blanket under which designs should potentially fall, but then there is a much longer description to explain what they are looking to see with a theme. Sometimes it's extremely specific, and they mention things that will not be allowed. Other times, they make it very clear that they will allow any interpretation of the theme (ex. harvest)- and anything encompassed by the writeup is fair game, and always has been. In all my time on woot, I can't remember any rejections for being off topic on anything that fell under the description, even if the connection to the name of the theme wasn't obvious. It is usually very easy to look at the description and figure out what they are looking to allow. This week, they stated:

"If it moves through the air, or at least wants to move through the air, it's fair game for this week's Derby"

The fish look like they are moving through the air to me. They don't have to be flying. In fact, if it was a fish looking at the air, it would be on theme. There's no reason for anyone to get on patrickspens's case for this entry, because I believe that it is exactly what woot described in the writeup. People will always get on my case and I know that, but in this case there is no reason for anyone to question this entry at all. Just because people might have made a fuss if I had posted it, doesn't mean they should make a fuss if anyone else does. It's just irrelevant.

Anyway, great design and congrats on fogging. I hope it prints

How ironic, the shirt called "fail" has just failed. :P

bvillarreal wrote:Maybe we should start a woot band/choir - I didn't count, but it looks like there are quite a few musicians/vocalists. GMV

I'm in! I've been watching Glee and it has inspired me to want to sing broadway versions of stupid pop songs.

Re: Red Flew

This is an awesome design, if only it were on something other than white, such as asphalt.

Re: Cheese Cracker!

Cute design, I love the crosshatching detail, keep up the good work.

Re: Your Time to Fly

I find it interesting that the E.T. Fail shirt was rejected for "Similar shirts exist," but this one is still in the running.

The Woot works in mysterious ways.

Leahbh wrote:You all just don't like this shirt and wanted it rejected. Well, you got your wish, now go tattle on the jetpack shirt.

Throw your toys out of the pram, why don't you?

I don't think people were making a fuss over whether they liked it or not--I didn't see any complaints on the caliber of the design. It was just rule technicalities people took issue with.

mrnnn wrote:leaps into the vacuum that this one is rejected. far out the best thing in this derby. not at all like the busted one and originality? good luck finding any.

Aesthetically I do think it's a shame it got rejected. IMHO it looked great and made me laugh; I would have considered buying it. I can only speak for myself, but my point of contention was the obvious reference to ET, not any similarities to existing shirts. I just feel uneasy about the use of copyrighted properties, and would rather play it safe than sorry.

Re: The wrong type of wings

So THAT'S how you get wings.

GMV!

Re: Gaseous Irony

Sad about the rejection for the text, as a chemistry teacher I would have loved to wear this to class the next time we have a jeans day.

jabberjaws13 wrote:i am not trying to argue, so don't be a jag. i am simply stating there was no flight to me.

Just because you perceive flight as no less than an airplane with squiggly lines behind it doesn't mean there's not a broader concept to flight.

if someone drew a cat with clouds around it would that be flight?

if the cat was in a superman pose, then yes.

if david blaine was levitating would that be flight? he is perceived to be floating, so by your statement it would count as flight

probably would.

Lagbert wrote:Huh? Why would dandelions be grounds for rejection?

In the past, Woot has rejected dandelion-themed shirts under the ever-so-popular "Similar shirts exist" rule.

These entries make me angry on so many levels.