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Re: Cheese Pyramid

Brilliant!!!

Re: BEEthoven

Amazing!

Re: BEEthoven V2 Resub

Still more amazing :D

nessa204 wrote:They made a statue of this??!? I thought it was just a photograph...

Yes it is a famous photograph but there is now a HUGE statue of it in San Diego. And I mean HUGE!

Re: Trojan Cat

Hectic wrote:I don't know...I mean the Trojans took the horse into the city of Troy because they LIKED horses. Something tells me Trojan mice WOULDN'T LIKE a cat. On the other hand maybe it's just me over-thinking things. It's still cute nonetheless.

unless... the Trojan mice have toxoplasmosis.

Re: Foxy Kiss

I was hoping for someone to do this moment! Very cool

Re: Going Down With the Ship!

adorable!

annkingwriter wrote:I was a child in those times and remember sit-ins in my small Southern town.  Very brave people broke the color line.  I remember White Only water fountains and public restrooms. We have come a long way in my lifetime, but we have not come far enough. 
 Vote for this shirt if you believe that wearing a hoodie is not a crime.

and yes, you really caught the style of the times with its cool cats

Maybe they'll print it ON a hoodie! Perfect!

tenaciousleesha wrote:I didn't expect this.

No one does! Lol

Re: Declaration of Indie-Penguins

Would buy a few of these! Penguins are the mascot at my sons school and they'd love this!!

Re: Going Down With the Ship!

Amazing! I love it :D

Re: WWI

Awesome shirt too bad the majority of the woot voters have the artistic tastes of 12 year old girls who think anime is the end all of design.

Re: Independence

Poor John Hancock just doesn't get a break in this derby, does he? :P

Bunjamin Franklin ?


Z-z-z-z-t-t

Re: Kitty Hawk

This is simply adorable! I see tons of women's and children's shirts in its future. I'd buy one!

Re: 8 Nov 1895 - Roentgen Discovers X-Rays

Kinda looks like Pammy Panda from the Shirt Tales.....minus the pink top.

jbarrplum wrote:If you had ever been to Hiroshima, which you obviously haven't, you would realize that this design is in very poor taste. I recommend that you go to Hiroshima, tour the museum there, and talk to several people who survived (yes, there were some) and then rethink this design. And yes, I have been to Hiroshima several times. Nothing cute or funny about it.

I was trying to play with the codename and with the fact that the baby penguin looks like an upside downl bomb. Maybe my mistake a to associate it with Hiroshima. My apologies to anyone that thinks this is offensive. It was never my intention. I would never do that.

My initial design was going to be without the radioactive logo and I was going to name it "What we should've sent". Like trying to say we should've sent "love" (in a cute form) instead of a destructive bomb. Maybe I tried to attached it to history to literally. Once again, I'm sorry if it offended anyone.

nickolis wrote:Luckily, if you feel that the entry is not within the thematic rules of the derby, Woot has provided an outlet for your concerns. It is a little red button, called "Tattle on this."

They can make the decision and we will see where the pick-up sticks (first brought to the United States in 1936 from Hungary, Oh My Fruitful Garden, history) lay.

And the description for that wonderful button you describe is -
"If you spot a derby entry that appears to have been borrowed / creatively acquired / shamelessly stolen from some other source, you can report it to your friendly derby-meisters by going to the offending derby's entry page (by clicking on the design image) and clicking the red "TATTLE ON THIS" button in the upper right corner. When tattling, don't forget to provide specific examples or links to the original work."
I interpreted that as that feature should only be used in the case of reporting an unoriginal work. Am I wrong? Care to enlighten me and say that I grossly misunderstood that paragraph? Teach me wise one, for you apparently have all the answers nickolis.

Re: Semper Fido

I'm honestly surprised this hasn't been done before, but you've done a great job with it. The rectangular design was a little jarring at first, but I've grown to like it. Really hope it prints!

bluejester wrote:I guess the other thing that bothers me is that I feel like I'm seeing 7 or 8 colors here. I thought the rules were 6?

Light green
Dark green
Light blue
Dark blue
White
Light Brown
Dark Brown
Black? (This might just be use of shirt color.)

It could just be half-tone stuff that I don't quite have as good a grasp on as I would like. Not trying to be a jerk here or display possible ignorance, I just feel like I'm seeeing too many colors.

I would never expect Ramy to use more than six colors. Woot is a serious stickler for that particular rule, and Ramy is far too experienced to jeopardize an entry on such a technicality.

As for the whole perspective issue, I see it as sort of moot. Both Ramy and Midge offered good explanations. What bothers me more are the turtle's legs (or lack thereof). I guess he could be sitting cross-legged or have them drawn up, but given how long his arms are (and how people normally perch upon stools), his little nub legs are too distracting for me. Otherwise, it's cute.

aerc712 wrote:And the description for that wonderful button you describe is -
"If you spot a derby entry that appears to have been borrowed / creatively acquired / shamelessly stolen from some other source, you can report it to your friendly derby-meisters by going to the offending derby's entry page (by clicking on the design image) and clicking the red "TATTLE ON THIS" button in the upper right corner. When tattling, don't forget to provide specific examples or links to the original work."
I interpreted that as that feature should only be used in the case of reporting an unoriginal work. Am I wrong? Care to enlighten me and say that I grossly misunderstood that paragraph? Teach me wise one, for you apparently have all the answers nickolis.

I think the general purpose for the "Tattle" button is for reporting unoriginal work, since that's the biggest liability to woot. I think people use it to try and argue why they think shirts should be rejected too, though I don't know how successful they are.

With this design, I think woot's probably already evaluated it and determined it meets the derby criteria, simply because there have been at least two, and maybe more, 'waves' of rejections since Friday. The rules for this week's derby are very loose. If it depicts an event before 1970 and it is "famous" enough that is included in wikipedia, it meets the minimum criteria for the derby. Yes, it's not something I would expect my kids to learn in history class, but it is "famous history" for the purposes of this derby.

Personally, I think it is funny, and I voted for it, since my husband is a big Trekkie.

Jae87 wrote:Pikachu's not just a mouse, his pokedex entry is "Pikachu - The Mouse Pokemon - blahblahblah..."

Same as those before, I'm not complaining, just letting you know. I would still love this shirt, and Pikachu looks adorable as a cat XD

Pikachu is probably a pika, a small lagomorph (same order that contains rabbit and hares)

This isn't my source, but I figured since someone may look it up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pika

PixelPants wrote:Very clever and so well executed portrait of the Empawrer.

"Empawrer" ... YES.

Re: Peace

Brilliant lighting! And for those that didn't notice, I love how the smoke from the peace pipe makes a word. Take a look, you'll see it. :D

dreadwood wrote:Haha! I love this. Excellent idea and the way you drew the owl is great.

Thanks

nevmigi wrote:I will buy this.

I would love to see it printed but 9 votes isn't gonna do it :/

Re: Chicken Caesar

So clever!!! GMV!

ramyb wrote:The design is, in fact, 6 colors- that's why I have a halftone closeup on the side

As for pulling the design, I have no interest in changing a design when I like it as-is. I have made edits to submissions in the past when I felt they were necessary, but I happen to like this design in its original form. Adding an easel leg there simply looks like an odd appendage on the stool to me, and I prefer the design without it. As for the turtle's legs, they wrap over the edge of the stool- I'm not sure where else they should be. I understand not everyone likes the execution, but it happens to have turned out pretty much the way I want it to.

I'll take your word for it on the half-tone close up, because I'm working off a very old crv monitor on my end, so thing don't always show up as well as they might on other people's monitors.

As far as the style choice on the legs, while I can see what you are getting at in so far as the perspective shot goes, I feel like Chumpmagic is right, for whatever reason, my eyes expect there to be a leg there. However, the perspective still feels off on the turtle and his reach to the easel.

Again, thanks though for clearing up the color issue.

Re: BEEthoven V2 Resub

A four-armed maestro, even better than the real thing! :^)

I like the color scheme on it - good call going with the different shades of green. Good luck!

Re: Remember Remember...

Woo 200 votes! Huge thanks to everyone who's voted and commented! You're the best!

moosepod wrote:Pikachu is probably a pika, a small lagomorph (same order that contains rabbit and hares)

This isn't my source, but I figured since someone may look it up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pika

He IS a Pika. That was bad translation into English back int he mid 1990s. No one in NoA knew what a Pika was and they just called him a mouse. In Japan and officially now in the USA, he is a Pika.

Re: The Amazing Ben Franklin

This is truly amazing and clever! GMV

Re: Trojan Cat

Make me smile! Great work!

Re: Going Down With the Ship!

Another walmazan instant classic! Great work!

Re: Pip-squeak

Fantastic color work!

Re: Electric Eel

Such joyful exuberance. Love the character!

Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=62240]Dave

Hahaha, that's some awesome character design work

Re: Issac NEWTon

the thin border should probably go. otherwise, it's an adorable concept

Re: Flapper

love the 20's, love the concept, love the design

i am buying this shirt if it prints.