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striker138 wrote:Obviously not a complete entry, but I wanted to submit something... and this is what I had.

I finally got my tablet working completely, and this is my first 100% attempt at doing something via the tablet.

Haha, this is cute. I totally did that when I was a kid =)

jabberjaws13 wrote:you are the one who stated it must be a superman pose not me. get it straight.

Your sig is an image link to a shirt of a bird flapping its wings, your username is jabberjaws13, and you're trolling various forums in a feeble attempt to gain votes for an unpopular design.

mjl9320 wrote:The concept of flight is not limited to a bird flapping its wings or an airplane mid-flight unless you are a toddler who hasn't yet made this mental connection.

Q.E.D.

spanishmel wrote:Let's not.

and say we did!

HalfWheat wrote:Beer! That explains everything. I think I'll go have a beer now. It also fixes everything.

Ah, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life's problems.

roofdiver wrote:It bothers me that this shirt is doing fairly well and no one has even mentioned that it doesn't have much to do with fight. Yes, I know, birds can fly. But these birds are singing and getting electrocuted so where is the flight in that? Seems like another boots design that, cute as it may be, was shoehorned into the derby theme.

love the design , but I have to agree

no flight. more like perch.

Leahbh wrote:I would have been fine if the rejection was for the ET character, that one actually makes sense, but similar shirts exist is a stupid argument. Copyright? fine.

similar shirts were proven to exist, though, so...

Look, if you're panties are in a bunch because this is less like said shirt than the rocketpack is to other rocketpacks, I'm with you. Woot is proving why people are so malcontent with them on that move. But it is still a viable rejection made no less viable for what has gone unrejected.

Blackfox19765 wrote:What I find most funny about this situation is that if this were a Ramy or Seki shirt, people would be FREAKING. OUT. "this is unoriginal and disrespectful blah blah blah whine whine whine reject NAO!".

Agreed.

Blackfox19765 wrote:What I find most funny about this situation is that if this were a Ramy or Seki shirt, people would be FREAKING. OUT. "this is unoriginal and disrespectful blah blah blah whine whine whine reject NAO!".

Blammoed has no past history of disrespect. Ergo she has no or at least less of such argument here. Though I do think that subbing something after having multiple similar pieces pointed out to you is certainly beyond my personal sense of logical actions. Suffice it to say, the others' reputation is one of negativity, disrespect and general cheating the system to increase their own net gains, and has been consistently for nearly a year. That could possibly explain the difference, were you to contemplate for more than a second upon it.

It's charming how people who have no concept of this site's past will try to correlate things which are in no way related in order to sound less ignorant, in the way a child, ignorant of the world, is charming. The same sticky-handed, annoying, "I can't say this isn't charming because everyone likes kids, right?" charm.

You will also note that there is NEVERTHELESS quite a bit of insistence that this be rejected, as it surely should be.

Re: Grand Battle of Flightless Birds V.2

It's killing me that this obviously-improved version doesn't have even as many votes as the original. If you voted for the other one, vote for the resub, people!

Re: Gaseous Irony

WHAT!!! I love this shirt. It is one of the best ones in the derby. It takes some intellect to actually get the shirt, and so what if it has letters on it.
I think sometimes it is okay if a shirt has text, and in this case it isnt even words!

Mrspott wrote:I'm telling ya someone at woot has a kid that wants this shirt

Dead on.

Re: 99 Luftballons

man, how original.

Re: THIS SIDE UP

I love it.

Blackfox19765 wrote:What I find most funny about this situation is that if this were a Ramy or Seki shirt, people would be FREAKING. OUT. "this is unoriginal and disrespectful blah blah blah whine whine whine reject NAO!".

No, the actual difference here is that there isn't a massive rush of irrationally angry blammoed fanboys and fangirls spouting insults and ignorance about how amazing the design is and how perfectly on topic it is and how they don't care if there are similar shirts because they like it and that entitles them to buy it, and how all the negative idiots should go away and not badmouth the shirt they like, etc.

You'll notice that every flame war on this site starts because the one or another of the people who like a design absolutely refuse to accept that there could be anything wrong with it and won't allow any criticism. There is a very strong correlation between these kinds of people and people who like ramy shirts. I don't know why exactly (though there are plenty of reasonable hypotheses) but you don't see flame wars elsewhere because the supporters are reasonable and the artists welcome criticism which can help them improve. They aren't just here for the win.

Re: Red Flew

Love it, but not on white... would get it if it was on gray.

Blackfox19765 wrote:What I find most funny about this situation is that if this were a Ramy or Seki shirt, people would be FREAKING. OUT. "this is unoriginal and disrespectful blah blah blah whine whine whine reject NAO!".

Exactly. The crybabies must be very upset this week with no Ramy to rag on.

walmazan wrote:I love it.

Thanks Walmazan. I like your rocket piece, though I'm afraid of the end consequences to the poor little guy once it reaches it's apex :s ... boom

Re: Something I Must Do

Amazing. As always another quality entry by BootsBoots.

Re: Your Time to Fly

Oh please oh please oh please get printed. And it's on black thank goodness! Awesome job!

What, no balloon bot entries?

Re: Master of the Earth and Sky

I love red and I love dinosaurs. I hope this gets a huge surge in votes

srm8ib4 wrote:Nevermind. I saw the bigger picture. I think the design is incongruous. I like the style and the intricate detail you have in your design, but there are huge spaces of blank on the shirt. If you continued the design throughout the shirt, it would be a more cohesive piece.

It's probably a pretty easy fix.

It needs another color to delineate the sky, because right now everything kind of reads on the same plane (pun intended). In addition to the flattening effect, it also diminishes the immensity of the sky fortress/airship. That, and playing around with the placement of the crashed plane (and maybe connecting somehow the its piece which appear to be floating) would help a ton.

Re: 99 Luftballons

man, how original.

I had never heard this song until about a year ago, and had not seen anything like this before, so it's original to me.

Re: Simple Owl

this is cool. weird that it hasnt gotten more attention. i just noticed it now

Re: Sky Fishing

Just came back to look at this. I hadn't even noticed the wavy markings on the fish or the smoke coming from the chimney. You're brilliant, spens.

Re: Balloon Farce '09

no, just enough with the balloon boy.

Re: Simple Owl

This is very nice! GMV

crazacool wrote:Just came back to look at this. I hadn't even noticed the wavy markings on the fish or the smoke coming from the chimney. You're brilliant, spens.

I agree - I keep coming back to look at the detail, and love that he is a true fisherman with no time to repair his fence

Re: Ride it, baby! Yeah!

LOVE IT!!!!

spentfromnz wrote:Hmm I was thinking drakxxx when I saw the thumb on the derby page.

Please take it back. That's not fair to Drakxxx and far to complimentary to this plonk.

benjaminleebates wrote:Yup, Wouldn't it be fun to ride on a maple seed.
Better pack your ipecac...
Or some ginger at least...

Why would you want to induce vomiting with Ipecac?

Re: Hm.... Who knew?

Very cute paratrooping turtle! GMV

EmoryCash wrote:I had never heard this song until about a year ago, and had not seen anything like this before, so it's original to me.

go to threadless. or just type in, "99 red luft balloon" in google images and see what ya get.

Re: paper bird

Looks like you're a talented artist - here's a link to some helpful submission guidelines for next time:
http://shirt.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=1946963

Talesin wrote:Thanks.. this was only a partial of the full composition I was planning (a few more bats in the background in various states of balloon-related distress, and some clouds), but was running low on time.
Heh... and floating-off-in-nothing is exactly what it's supposed to look like. Why it's off-center. ;)

Awesome dynamic tension! Would have loved to see the rest, but I like just the one - GMV

Re: Sky Fishing

reminds me of the dreamworks logo...

What does GMV mean?

brooklyn11218 wrote:What does GMV mean?

Got My Vote, I think.

Took me few days of reading here to catch what it meant.

Re: Flying

Wish this nice design would've made the fog. It's super excellent. But, congrats on the BLA!

Re: The Gamble

I really like this shirt. The design for the Dog couldn't be better. My only issue is that the cat is a little hard to see, but that might just be me. Great Shirt, especially for your first submission.