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mistressofpez wrote:I really like this style. Nice job.

Thank you!

j5 wrote:I'm happy to see this doing well.

Me too.

It's quite a thrill to have one hit.

Re: Chemical Warfare!

Nicely done pun! Your line work, especially the scientists, is great!

Any reason you didn't use your 6th color? some low lights and highlights on the test tube spray would have been nice.

GMV +1

Re: Chemical Warfare!

Really nice illo.

Re: Be Practical

Why resub this design while completely ignoring this... http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=55339 ?

Re: Better Living Dead... (resub)

Great colors on the asphalt!

Re: Chemists' Tree

Looks nice on the shirt.

Re: Atoms Everywhere

Colors on this are great! The whole design really pops.

Re: Life

Fantastic colors!

Johndis5 wrote:Why resub this design while completely ignoring this... http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=55339 ?

That was rejected, hard.
Unrecoverable error.
Not sure what you want him to do about it.
Are you looking for a mea culpa, maybe?

Mavyn wrote:Very cute, but how is this related to Chemistry?

A definition of chemestry: "The investigation of their properties and the ways in which they interact, combine, and change"

So take a Komodo Dragon, "Combine" with household items and it will "change" into a dragon. :D

In all seriousness, this is off topic. But I hope that a topic comes in that this art will apply to and it eventually gets made into a shirt.

- J

Re: The End Is The Beginning

Boom! There it is. THE FOG! Congrats.

nblottie wrote:Boom! There it is. THE FOG! Congrats.

ha ha thanks. i was chasing your design all weekend. now they can hang out and have a beer together

j5 wrote:That was rejected, hard.
Unrecoverable error.
Not sure what you want him to do about it.
Are you looking for a mea culpa, maybe?

I would just really like to know what his excuse/reasoning for doing that is. He is a loud mouth about absolutely everything, why so silent here?

Re: Life

Wish this would get to the fog!

Re: Not Part of the Solution

Love it!

Re: Caffeine, alcohol, and pants.

I think the concept is very funny, but I'd simplify the work+alcohol result (just assuming that's what it is? I'm no chemist*oh yea you totally said that's what it is*) to just the guy standing up at his cubicle waving his pants.

Keep it the same view-point as the work+caffeine guy, just standing and waving pants instead of looking wired. I don't think you need that extra frame at the bottom at all.

Simple is better with this one. Very funny idea

Re: Golden Union

I love the design and would wear it, but I don't like the harry potter references. They seem out of place. You don't need harry potter in order to make a cool alchemy shirt!

I voted anyways, though, because the design is great.

ochopika wrote:I think the concept is very funny, but I'd simplify the work+alcohol result (just assuming that's what it is? I'm no chemist*oh yea you totally said that's what it is*) to just the guy standing up at his cubicle waving his pants.

Keep it the same view-point as the work+caffeine guy, just standing and waving pants instead of looking wired. I don't think you need that extra frame at the bottom at all.

Simple is better with this one. Very funny idea

I completely agree. I also love the censor bar.

Re: Frankenbuddha

ummm... I guess it would require some knowledge of chemistry to make a Frankenstein's monster capable of becoming a religious/philosophical figurehead.

ochopika wrote:ummm... I guess it would require some knowledge of chemistry to make a Frankenstein's monster capable of becoming a religious/philosophical figurehead.

I thought it was a centerpiece surrounded by potatoes.

Johndis5 wrote:I would just really like to know what his excuse/reasoning for doing that is. He is a loud mouth about absolutely everything, why so silent here?

Was he given a ban from posting? it seems like he is trying to say something with the images submitted.

xepherys wrote:Seriously.

On that note, isn't parody protected under fair use? I don't think they can send cease and desist orders (with any legal backing) on such a thing.

Really, if the artist is pursuing people legally than woot wants to play it safe here.

However, being a long time fan of Weird Al, I've picked up a few things on parody over the years. Weird Al usually contacts the people that he is parodying and asks for permission before doing his humourous take on them. Most say yes, some are jerks and claim they never said yes then take it back when they are found to have no sense of humour, and one (Prince) consistantly turns him down. That being said, parody artists do not need to ask permission to do parody, it is in fact, protected legally.

All that said though, I can understand why woot would reject. If the original artist is really uptight, then even if they have no ground to stand on, why would woot want to entangle itself in a possible legal battle?

blanked wrote:Was he given a ban from posting? it seems like he is trying to say something with the images submitted.

This is a resub, I think he already had this one up in the pre-derby thread.

SirOrlando wrote:I love geneaology! This is a really fun spin on combining genetics with the traditional family tree. And the genetics of a family tree definitely has it's roots in chemistry!

haha - 'roots in chemistry'

Re: Einstein(ium)

Well done. +1 from me. And I think it's brilliant to just use Einsteinium.

Re: Cool, Refreshing, and Explosive

Cool, Refreshing, and Explosive!!!
OK Last one I promise. This came to me earlier today so now I give it to you.

Yes I know Mentos is no spelled Minto's but the copyright thing would have gotten this rejected, also I know it should be Diet Coke but again copyright. So I tried not to step on any ones toes.

Check it out

Johndis5 wrote:This is a resub, I think he already had this one up in the pre-derby thread.

He put up 2 other designs before this one though.

blanked wrote:Was he given a ban from posting? it seems like he is trying to say something with the images submitted.

Sure has a long history in rejected and/or removed: http://shirtwhat.com/archive_a.php?artist=blinddog3d

Re: carbon dating

I would like this slightly better if the diamond and coal didn't have spindly little arms. But it's still cute enough that I'd buy one.

taternuggets wrote:ha.

I look back now at his other entries and just shake my head.... Wonder if any of them were original.

I just looked him up on shirtwhat and noticed that he quickly removes a lot of entries when he resubs or when they are rejected.

Immediately after the Adamantium rejections, he put this up: http://shirtwhat.com/archive_e.php?entry=55438, "Rejected because: Seriously, you need to stop using other people's artwork. http://tinyurl.com/3q9wthh http://tinyurl.com/3rma93r"

Seriously, people have no incentive not to steal if you don't even ban them from the derby for two instances of demonstrable photo plagiarism in two days.

Re: Pb Snack

please disregard the odd distortion of the above image. the thumbnail is accurate. thanks so much! please vote :-)

dssimon4 wrote:please disregard the odd distortion of the above image. the thumbnail is accurate. thanks so much! please vote :-)

Make sure your shirt comp image is exactly 580x580 px and it won't happen.

Your design makes me hungry...for metal.

ApeLad wrote:It's too bad there's not a D'oh! element nearby on the table.

Nope, though (Ba)rium could've been Bart.

Re: Pb Snack

Noooo, don't eat it! You know this is in the lunch box of the person who thought an H2SO4 cooler was a good idea.

Re: Pb Snack

Is that pb imported from China?

bluejester wrote:Really, if the artist is pursuing people legally than woot wants to play it safe here.

...

All that said though, I can understand why woot would reject. If the original artist is really uptight, then even if they have no ground to stand on, why would woot want to entangle itself in a possible legal battle?

Just a month ago, this lawsuit involving a parody design hit Threadless.

Woot has had its share of dealing with lawyers in the past ... and they probably don't need more of that. So as I see it, if there's any doubt involved in such a close parody, rejecting is a safer bet than having to deal with the legal aspects later.

Re: Hexagonal

Really great color choices! I wish this was doing better, it's probably the only thing in the derby I'd buy.

Re: Bonding

You've brought animated thumbnails to a whole new level of annoying

ochopika wrote:Make sure your shirt comp image is exactly 580x580 px and it won't happen.

Your design makes me hungry...for metal.

it totally is 580x580px! i don't get it! thanks:-)