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“Thanks killerorca & endangeredomega.”
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a day ago
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“I had to edjumacate myself on the reference, but the splendid art drew me right in anyway. Yay, Robbie!”
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posted in
Dark Side of Oz Listening Party
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2 days ago
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“The perfect gym shirt. Congrats on another fine print, W!”
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posted in
The Race
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11 days ago
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“@Narfcake, right! Shirt.Woot has a "no similar shirts" rule for a reason, it protects the rights to creative work and keeps artists happy. Every site and every artist should do the same. Avoid problems before they happen.”
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Derby 121 Rip-offs at teeturtle
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14 days ago
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“Yeah... I agree with MJ but part of the response to fishbiscuit was handled badly. I can't blame Ramy for being indignant about this rolling snowball of accusations and countering some of them with other coincidental designs. In fb5's case it's possible he isn't too familiar with Celebrate Mediocrity, I know it mostly from TeeFury and other non-Woot sites. It's fair to say Ramy may not have been familiar with it as much as fb5 wasn't familiar with Ramy's coffee molecule shirt - I'm sure that was the point he was getting at - but regardless of all that the fact is the teeturtle shirt is uncomfortably similar to one of her best known designs and it's simply not right to sell it. Ramy, I think in that case the best thing is to accept that it's an unfortunate coincidence and take the shirt down so as not to step on another artist's toes. It's not an admission of wrongdoing, it's just the right thing to do. If you'd complained to fishbiscuit about the coffee molecule design you would have been in the right there and the same would have been expected of her. So let's please keep a level head, as hard as it is.
Just like MJ said, there are way too many other examples of 'stolen' designs here that are as coincidental and irrelevant as the ones that Ramy posted back in his response. Odysseyroc didn't steal Bring Back Pluto, Ramy didn't steal Dr. Hoo. Versions of the onion bully existed before Walmazan drew his (although this seems to have been forgotten). These are puns and memes that are so common as to almost be owned be no-one. As artists we should do our best to respect each others' ownership and feelings when similar designs get made, but we all have to accept that when we go to the pop culture/meme pool too often, the results end up looking pretty samey. People, this is inevitable.
The worst thing you can say about Ramy is this: Ramy is Shirt.Woot's most popular designer because he is the most mass-market. He tackles popular things in a very straightforward way every week. Cuteness. Meme. Pop-culture reference. Geek culture. Arty tree / bird / books / dragon... It's a sometimes lazy recipe for massive success and he does it very well, but because it might be lacking a unique artistic vision or point of view it bumps into a hundred other artists' work in a way that, over time, can add up into something that looks suspicious. Ramy, I'm sorry if that comes across as insulting - I'm certainly generalizing - but I think it's better off being out in the open because that's what causes these accusations. I'd love to see you be a little more original and express a personal point of view more often, but there's nothing inherently unethical about how you work. You have great drive and artistic skill, and do get unfairly treated. The most important thing is that on rare occasions like this when a design is too similar because another artists' work inspired it (something we all do to an extent) or it just happens to be too close for comfort and has upset someone - then it's best to handle it as considerately as possible. It's a two way street. I hope fishbiscuit and Ramy can talk privately too. It's easy for things to be expressed badly in a public arena.”
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Derby 121 Rip-offs at teeturtle
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14 days ago
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“Sweet, thanks for that video L3g3ndQ. @sleekhare, I reworked the text so that it's exploding from the supernova. This would probably have been a better way to go: 
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posted in
Derby Entry 62529
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17 days ago
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“And it was so good they needed a new name for it, and they called it Art Nouveau Nouveau. Or Après-Moderne Art Nouveau. And sometimes just L'Art Nouveau babyin'.”
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posted in
Mort-vivant
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17 days ago
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“Lovely color choices! At first I thought the design was a little unbalanced on the shirt, but that space around Pluto helps emphasize that extra joke so that's actually pretty clever. :^)”
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posted in
Derby Entry 62603
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18 days ago
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“Thanks omar. I put a lot of work into the explosion! I think I may have been too in love with the concept and idea behind this one and not communicated it very effectively. I like it, but maybe it's a bit impenetrable. Ah well. :^)”
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posted in
Derby Entry 62529
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19 days ago
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“@Josephus, that looks really great!
Here's my supernova entry: 
As Carl Sagan said, "The earth and every living thing are made of star stuff.". These equations are the formulae for the nuclear fusion of the elements that, from the death of stars, led to life on our planet. Hello universe. :^)”
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posted in
Derby #249: Astronomy
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19 days ago
