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Re: Pure Imagination

Calm the heck down everyone. It's a poem, and a person above provided a link saying the poem is by Roald Dahl. So it is.

Beautiful!

Trippy, pretty sweet

j5 wrote:Great work as always, Rasabi!

I don't know if my track record, warrants the word "always", but thanks just the same, j5!

lisonallie wrote:Calm the heck down everyone. It's a poem, and a person above provided a link saying the poem is by Roald Dahl. So it is.

That's how it works? So, I can write that my cat poops rainbows, and it'd be true because it was on the Internet? Everything you find on the Internet isn't true. Someone posted that Dahl wrote the lyrics, and someone else copied it. Watch the movie. They were written by Anthony Newley. They were written as a song. And Dahl hated the movie.

I don't think you could of made a dumber comment.
congratulations

curli76 wrote:That's how it works? So, I can write that my cat poops rainbows, and it'd be true because it was on the Internet? Everything you find on the Internet isn't true. Someone posted that Dahl wrote the lyrics, and someone else copied it. Watch the movie. They were written by Anthony Newley. They were written as a song. And Dahl hated the movie.

Oh, and for record, Marilyn Manson is not the kid from Wonder Years, you won't win a free trip to Disney World by forwarding an e-mail from Bill Gates, and you're never going to get any money from the Nigerian government.

And with that, I'm on vacation, and this isn't worth the trouble. Believe what you want to believe, but you're wrong, and there's obviously nothing I can say to change anyone's mind.

thanks..

But one final thing. Look at this.
It's the songbook for Willy Wonka (the movie). It clearly states the music AND lyrics are by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.

http://www.amazon.com/Willy-Chocolate-Factory-Guitar-Songbook/dp/0634031538

Re: The Conqueror Worm

I always thought it was one of his better ones.

leprechaungirl wrote:I love Beowulf and this cracks me up but I have to know... Does anyone else see Beast Boy from Teen Titans? Because that face just keeps screaming "Beast Boy" right at me.

I can see it and if we replce the arm he could be cyborg.

flemtone wrote:VERY well done! I'm a C&H junkie from the time Watterson's work first appeared as a strip, and this is one of the all-time best. Really, who else would construct the rhyme: "As speedily my end approaches,
I bid a final "buenas noches"? It's, like, art, man!

*snaps fingers, adjusts beret*

Seriously, this poem and the accompanying artwork from the first C&H anthology showed what Watterson could do when not on deadline for a daily strip. There are a few artists on this site who, I think, have the same potential. I'd put Apelad in that small group for his 'Laugh-out-loud Cats' strip alone.

Thanks for finding this poem and introducing it to others, for working a great shirt design from it, and for reminding me that it's time to re-read the 'Complete C&H'.

GMV

thanks, and Calvin and Hobbes should be mandatory reading.

Re: Hollow Men

One of my fav poems...+1

From part of Maya Angelou's poem Phenomenal Woman:

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

This is my first time submitting an entry and I think didn't post it exactly right but if you like it vote for me please!

Re: Phenomenal Woman

Wonderful design. Simple geometric shapes, rearranged in a fashion to have a deeper meaning than each individual shape. Kind of like a woman herself, the things that seem simple to some come together to make a bigger, complex picture. I like it. Lots~

The conjoined movie/song reference I get looking at this picture is:

"The neverending stor-rrrrrrr-yyyyyy! Whoa-oh -oh whoa-oh-oh whoa-oh-oh!" :P

Re: Pure Imagination

It may not be what the artist had in mind, but the poem that I think of seeing this is by Emily rose budinson (if preview is any indication, her name is going to be edited, but you can probably figure out who I mean):
"There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away..."
One of my favorites. I'd have liked to see some tees designed specifically for that poem (if only I had artistic talent I'd attempt one myself), but this gives the same general idea and is also beautiful.

Re: the raven and the fox

I'm so sad this has slipped =( I really want to get it! Really very nice work ^_^

Re: Hollow Men

Can someone post the poem for this one, or the name of the author of it? I have not heard of it before now but this artwork is making me very curious to read it.

Radscoolian wrote:Thanks for all the kind words! I'm glad you all like it.
I was hesitant to do this design, and in fact worked on my other entry instead, but I thought I'd give it a go.

Naw, this is simply fabulous. It's outstanding on its own, but the long-standing antipathy towards "Nevermore" adds another layer of awesomeness on top. Overall, it's just wonderful.

cattieloves wrote:I love the idea, but it's just not very well made.

That's fair. This is just for fun and critiques; I never expect to even come close to winning. All I have is a two inch laptop touch pad and I've never studied digital art. But I'm glad you like the idea.

Re: Fire and Ice - Robert Frost

Dig the fire and ice look. I'm a big Mortal Kombat fan. Scorpion and SubZero! Fire and Ice! I'd buy it!

Re: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

buying this if it wins. It really must. I'm not even a particular fan of bunnies, but seriously ITS CHEEKS Oh My Fruitful Garden SQUEEEE <33333333333

Re: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

such chubby cheeks x3!!!

werewolfskippy wrote:Dream Within A Dream
Edgar Allen Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

As much as a shirt would be great... I want a PRINT of this one... if it doesn't win please contact me! This belongs in my church office

Re: Tell Tale

Regardless of the derby, can I order one?

Re: Little Miss Muffet

Eh, I know she's supposed to be frightened but somehow her expression seems...off? My wonderful childhood has also led me to envision this particular poem in shades of other colors, like blue not pink. Nice attempt though.

Re: That is not dead which can eternal lie...

Definitely a shirt I would buy! Loving the colors and the fun design <3

Re: The Writer

Wow, this is just amazing. Colors are fantastic, the drawing is inspiring and I'm lovin' the textures as well.

When can I buy this!

brankitteh wrote:Can someone post the poem for this one, or the name of the author of it? I have not heard of it before now but this artwork is making me very curious to read it.

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8453753-The_Hollow_Men-by-T_S__Eliot

The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot

I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.


II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer-

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom


III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.


IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.


V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Re: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

cheers j5 and lisonallie!

Re: planet earth vintage

Sorry, but this is completely out of theme. It'll get rejected.

Re: A Little Victory - 'To a mouse'

My favorite poem (even if it is a bit too true at times).

Great execution on this. Fantastic line weights. GMV

Re: Dream Within A Dream

I haven't been purchasing from shirt.woot for a little while now, but this one is so good that I may have to change that. Great job.

Re: Fire and Ice - Robert Frost

Amazing work!

bassanimation wrote:You know that I have to have this...right? I have to have it!!! +10000!

Me Too!

Re: planet earth vintage

that looks like a henna tat on someones skin

Re: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I needs this in my lucky1988 collection! and woot while you're listening also on a hoodie thank ya ;)

Re: H. Dumpty

He was put together backwards :O

Re: Williams Red Wheelbarrow


This is my first derby entry. I created it because the poem amused me and I thought it would be fun. Hope you enjoy my first simple attempt to capture the image of Willam Carlos William's The Red Wheelbarrow:

So much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

Please vote and comment kindly.