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ooooooh

yay for old school vampires!

Vlaaah!

At first look I thought it was a pregnant dinosaur.

Nice graphics.
Also: nightmare season!
TGINotSparkly

This has the look of an old timey movie poster, which is perfect 'cause I'm thinking of the silent German film version of Nosferatu from 1922. This captures that feeling quite well. Now that's old school vampire for ya.

Here's my take on the shirt.



I really enjoyed this one. Not much to explain other than it's a neat vampire shirt but it's still cool.

Now THAT'S a Halloween shirt!

I would totally buy this shirt if I did not already have a bazillion t-shirts. This design is fabulous.

at first i thought it was a cornucopia... nope.

ViperEagle wrote:At first look I thought it was a pregnant dinosaur.

Me too- what I first saw was a friendly looking brontosaurus with a quill and inkwell poking out of its back. It took a while to find the vampire.

ViperEagle wrote:At first look I thought it was a pregnant dinosaur.

Argh! Now I can't unsee!

I can't unsee the brontosaurus giving the middle finger.

tedwow wrote:I would totally buy this shirt if I did not already have a bazillion t-shirts. This design is fabulous.

My girlfriend got a Bazillion this summer and I love it !

Great shirt today !

Sigh, darn you, shirt woot! I have a rule, a rule that keeps me from buying five hundred shirts: "if it has foxes or vampires, it's an automatic buy"...."and sometimes cats"...."and teacher references...or books...books are great, too"

How did he get so tall?

Glad it starts up at the neck otherwise it'd look like your stomach.

'First Sucker' is especially appropriate in this case!

thinkspring wrote:'First Sucker' is especially appropriate in this case!

Meaning ?

So when it says "The Vampyr," what it really means is "The thematic ripoff of the Harry Potter 7 cover," right?
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=harry+potter+deathly+hallows+book+art&hl=en&biw=1152&bih=651&tbm=isch&tbnid=kIbkHzZQ3oSdTM:&imgrefurl=http://www.mydigitallife.info/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-book-covers/&docid=r62T7wLebXlS5M&imgurl=http://www.mydigitallife.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-harrows-high.jpg&w=1725&h=648&ei=UENkUNPBFJHirAe_uIDIDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=77&vpy=187&dur=282&hovh=73&hovw=195&tx=206&ty=58&sig=111756072464681630148&page=1&tbnh=69&tbnw=184&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:70

jmbunkin wrote:Meaning ?

Seriously? That is a vampire, correct?

This is what a vampire should look like. The overbearing terror, the slight bit of camp, it's fantastic.

I could have said "fangtastic", but I DIDN'T.

ViperEagle wrote:At first look I thought it was a pregnant dinosaur.

Which means it is now TWO KINDS of awesome.

Don't wear this shirt: to the premiere of Twilight Breaking Dawn: Part 2.

Seriously, just don't do it.

aeneasvt wrote:So when it says "The Vampyr," what it really means is "The thematic ripoff of the Harry Potter 7 cover," right

Dude. *Dude*. This is obviously a homage to the first vampire in the movies, Count Orlok in Murnau's "Nosferatu", and his iconic shadow-profile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu

http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/images/issue/420/nosferatu_420.jpg
http://moviebuzzers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/nosferatu2.png
http://www.shadowlocked.com/images/stories/LISTS/zerotwilightvampires/001_Nosferatu_1922.jpg
http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/08_03/1922/13442/l_13442_348e918a.jpg
http://www.dking-gallery.com/pix/BUF/BUF_Nosferatu.jpg

...I bought one. I hope it arrives before Halloween ¬_¬

thinkspring wrote:'First Sucker' is especially appropriate in this case!

haha I love the pun =)

ViperEagle wrote:At first look I thought it was a pregnant dinosaur.

I thought the same - looked like either a dinosaur or a koi.

Classic vampire + Despicable Me = NosferaGru

Yay! The Halloween shirts are back!

w4ffles wrote:I can't unsee the brontosaurus giving the middle finger.

...you beat me to it!

Quite the brilliant idea and execution. Love it!

Red sky at night, vampire's delight.

(^vv^)

orangepaisley1 wrote:at first i thought it was a cornucopia... nope.

A CORNUCOPIA OF BLOOD!!! MUAAAHAHAHAHAAAH!!!!!

tedwow wrote:I would totally buy this shirt if I did not already have a bazillion t-shirts. This design is fabulous.

I see you have estimated a bazillion to be somewhere between 3 and 9.

thinkspring wrote:Seriously? That is a vampire, correct?

OK,OK it went right over my head and yes I feel like a fool!I may have to stay off woot for a few weeks until Wooters forget my folly.

ViperEagle wrote:At first look I thought it was a pregnant dinosaur.

And I thought it was a giant goldfish.

This may be the perfect shirt -- it's good for Halloween, Thanksgiving, fish fans, dinosaur fans, pregnant finger-flipping dinosaur fans...what else do we see?

I admit, I too didn't see the image at first glance, but when I did I was impressed. Nicely done classic vampire action.

aeneasvt wrote:So when it says "The Vampyr," what it really means is "The thematic ripoff of the Harry Potter 7 cover," right?
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=harry+potter+deathly+hallows+book+art&hl=en&biw=1152&bih=651&tbm=isch&tbnid=kIbkHzZQ3oSdTM:&imgrefurl=http://www.mydigitallife.info/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-book-covers/&docid=r62T7wLebXlS5M&imgurl=http://www.mydigitallife.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-harrows-high.jpg&w=1725&h=648&ei=UENkUNPBFJHirAe_uIDIDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=77&vpy=187&dur=282&hovh=73&hovw=195&tx=206&ty=58&sig=111756072464681630148&page=1&tbnh=69&tbnw=184&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:70

I personally don't think this shirt rips off HP in any way, shape, or form. But if it did, you could look at it in better lighting and have it be a bit of a tribute to HP then since HP is amazing. You know, instead of jumping to conclusions and assuming it's a rip-off instead of something nice. lol

"It was already dark when the townspeople gathered at the town hall to discuss the vampire. He'd been wreaking havoc on their small community for quite some time, and it was only getting worse. In just the past month alone, he'd bitten nearly 18 people and tried to bite upwards of 60 more. He had to be stopped, but how? That's what the mayor wanted to talk about."

Love the shirt but I really thought the townspeople were going to call in the Dog Whisperer given the write-up's emphasis on how many people "the Vampyr" had bitten. Vampyr- stupid name for a dog anyway.

'So when it says "The Vampyr," what it really means is "The thematic ripoff of the Harry Potter 7 cover," right?'

Lots of different covers for that book. Can't be the one with the creepy hand reaching out of a cape cause creepy hands coming out of over-sized capes have been around for a very, very long time and certainly predate HP. I would say it is more a homage to the classic 1922 movie Nosferatu with its iconic image of the shadow with those creepy hands going up the staircase. There are probably earlier examples too. So it is both HP book designer and this T-shirt designer that borrow from Nosferatu. Be inspired by the best is what I always suggest.

But great design for Halloween. Love how the hands don't jump right out at you immediately. At first glance I thought the fingers were one of the bats but then a second later my eye recognized the vampyre. Dracula does not own Halloween. There is always room for the German classics too!

Meh, this shirt just sucks the life out of me.

;-)

I want to get one just to frame it. True art. Too good for a T-Shirt.