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Nice idea... I like this one and I have ideas for it. My fear is though, that I have too much to do right now. Damn life kickin' my butt.

Mmmmmm. Sure to be some fab stuff.

I'm not cultured enough for this. :/

Anyone got a list?

Fun!

Anyone going to dare to attempt The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living?

School of Athens is one of my favorite paintings. I was thinking a modern school setting with "renaissance kids" and their crazy antics. Then again I don't know that I want to draw 30 characters...

I'm thinking "American Gothic".
Same pose but with depressed looking teenagers with black hair. Maybe there's an American flag in the background, and a "support our troops" ribbon stuck to the girl's shirt.

tgentry wrote:Nice. Sounds like a fun one. I foresee a lot of American Gothics.

lol. I wrote my post before seeing this.

Yeah, it's probably going to get done a lot.

Oh man, I've finally found the perfect derby for my "Great Wave" design! Glad I didn't Kawaii it up and sub last week!

Hope Draxxx does a "Gates of Hell." Because, well, it'd be freakin' awesome.

Actually, I'm kind of liking the idea of the gates of hell myself. Put a little sign on the front that says, "Caution: Hot". A mail box filled with AOL CD's. Have dog hunched over in the corner looking like The Thinker.

Yeah, I'll do that.

rglee129 wrote:Oh man, I've finally found the perfect derby for my "Great Wave" design! Glad I didn't Kawaii it up and sub last week!

Oh, yeah, I have the great wave too!

also, I need to halftone the shading, but I think the idea is there.

If you're doing American Gothic, why not try and see if it's already been done? I'd guess a hundred goth teen American Gothic designs on shirts already out there. Pity there's no celebrity impersonations (NOT) or someone could do a Twilight version of American Gothic...shudder.

Well, somebody had been saying he/she wanted to see designs that were more artistic.

My first thought was Whistler's Mother. Of course, I think the official title is something like "A study in gray and black". Also, not sure it's worth the work it would take to do.

Hmmm. Text.

This could be potentially cool. A reimagined art contest.... I already have two ideas to work on. Neither with cute animals.

I have a meta-question about thumbnails/details for submissions.

Are thumbs required to be crops of the design? Or can they present elements of the design in a way that is more appropriate for the smaller format/resolution of thumbnails?

As an example, for this submission to the previous derby:
So many 3s


I had suggested a thumb that looked like this:


Whether or not that would be a good thumb, would it be an allowed thumb?

I think it should be, because a thumbnail scaled to 100x100 is too small to do justice to a design that takes advantage of the whole 16"x20" design space. Re-scaling destroys detail to the point that some elements are just blobs, and a crop can fail to "tell the story" in a design.

E.g., rescale:


The actual thumbnail submitted, a crop:


IMO, a thumb is really just an advert to get people to click through to see the entire design, which they would then vote on. Presumably thumbs that were entirely deceitful would damage the chances of the design garnering a vote.

But I'm just an newbie. What do other people think? And is Woot willing to make a ruling on this, or should we just try to develop a communal "understanding" about thumbnails/details?

sasham62 wrote:Well, somebody had been saying he/she wanted to see designs that were more artistic.

My first thought was Whistler's Mother. Of course, I think the official title is something like "A study in gray and black". Also, not sure it's worth the work it would take to do.

I think it's Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother Of course, that makes it difficult for the voters, as they've never seen your mother. ;^)

pi3832 wrote:I have a meta-question about thumbnails/details for submissions.

Are thumbs required to be crops of the design? Or can they present elements of the design in a way that is more appropriate for the smaller format/resolution of thumbnails?

As an example, for this submission to the previous derby:
So many 3s


I had suggested a thumb that looked like this:


Whether or not that would be a good thumb, would it be an allowed thumb?

I think it should be, because a thumbnail scaled to 100x100 is too small to do justice to a design that takes advantage of the whole 16"x20" design space. Re-scaling destroys detail to the point that some elements are just blobs, and a crop can fail to "tell the story" in a design.

E.g., rescale:


The actual thumbnail submitted, a crop:


IMO, a thumb is really just an advert to get people to click through to see the entire design, which they would then vote on. Presumably thumbs that were entirely deceitful would damage the chances of the design garnering a vote.

But I'm just an newbie. What do other people think? And is Woot willing to make a ruling on this, or should we just try to develop a communal "understanding" about thumbnails/details?

They rejected more than one design for the detail image not matching the actual design.

I was thinking Nude Descending A Stair Case



Thoughts? Comments?

I'm trying to think of a clever way to incorporate the ubiquitous "untitled" artworks...

perhaps a blank white t-shirt?

Random titles that come to mind:

• The Thinker
  
• The Scream
  
• Mona Lisa
  
• Venus de Milo
  
• The Last Supper
  
• This is not a pipe
  

• The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
  
• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
  
• (pretty much anything by Dalí is title gold)
  
• The Creation of Man
  
• The Separation of Light from the Darkness
  
• The Triumph of Truth
  
• Moon-Woman Cuts the Circle
  

• The Dot and the Line
  
• The Seven Samurai (don't you dare kawaii)
  
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  
• Blade Runner
  

• Much Ado About Nothing
  
• The Catcher in the Rye
  
• The Raven (oh, wait, that's been done)
  
• The Scarlet Letter
  
• Kind of Blue
  
• Night on Bald Mountain
  
• The Magic Flute
  

Someone should do a shirt with an elephant and tie it into The Persistance of Memory... ehhh? EH?!?

Ok, I'm out.

Clever, Jesse'! Someone has to do that. Maybe with some kind of a grudge involved.

Out of all that crap I posted, "Kind of Blue" intrigues me.

Maybe someone smoking a cigarette, staring into the distance, and the smoke curls into the shape of his/her melancholy/regretful thoughts....

The smoke, presumably, should have blues tones to it, too.

(I can never create such a thing. Anyone want the idea? Go for it.)

pi3832 wrote:Pushing the bounds of "Famous Art":

Just for clarification, does the name of the entry have to be exactly the name of the art piece we're re-imagining, or can it contain the name of the art piece, with an added word or two to better describe the re-imagining?

There will be some fantastic ones coming out of this - I can tell already!!! I'm excited!

Yeah, if anyone has a list of good ones or has other suggestions, I'm all ears. I'm trying to find some good ones, but I have the nagging suspicion that my research is full of holes.

Anybody know if The girl who fell from the sky by heidi w. durrow is a famous enough book to use?

bellarific wrote:Anybody know if The girl who fell from the sky by heidi w. durrow is a famous enough book to use?

In my brain, it seems like the title only needs to be really, really famous if knowing that title is necessary to "get" the design.

If the design can stand on it's own, I'd presume the level of fame is not as important.

But what the hell do I know?

bellarific wrote:Yeah, if anyone has a list of good ones or has other suggestions, I'm all ears. I'm trying to find some good ones, but I have the nagging suspicion that my research is full of holes.

Anybody know if The girl who fell from the sky by heidi w. durrow is a famous enough book to use?

I'm not sure famous books are allowed (we did that one) - methinks that the woot overlords want works of art (i.e. paintings, sculpture/statue, installation art) unless that particular literary title has a famous cover art to go with it?

Here's a first draft of my idea for "Persistence of Memory."



Kind of has an alternate pun of "solid state memory."

It's still really crude. Think it's worth pursuing?

JesseBYAH wrote:Someone should do a shirt with an elephant and tie it into The Persistance of Memory... ehhh? EH?!?

Ok, I'm out.

I actually have a really good vision for this one :D

Paging Ms. Boots....

bellarific wrote:Yeah, if anyone has a list of good ones or has other suggestions, I'm all ears. I'm trying to find some good ones, but I have the nagging suspicion that my research is full of holes.

Anybody know if The girl who fell from the sky by heidi w. durrow is a famous enough book to use?

I feel like any art that isn't "art" would probably be a no-go. I certainly agree that literature, film, music, etc can be art, but I simply don't think that's what is being looked for.

As for me, I find this a pretty ironic theme for this week.

"world nom-ination" seems pretty famous now.

no1 wrote:"world nom-ination" seems pretty famous now.

That was reinterpreted two weeks ago. But man, I cant wait to see if they re-interpret another "title" this week!

hmmmm, my tops would be:

Magritte's Son of man
Skoglunds's Revenge of the Goldfish
Motley's Nightlife
Dali's Persistence of Memory
And Miro's The Birth of the World

Would be interesting to see an interpretation of Mondrian.

I think this version probably wears better:



I'll need to clean up the ratios, though. I think the first one is too long and narrow.