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Yourhero
Yourhero aka Matt is 27.6 years old, has been a member since November 7, 2005, has scored 1,177 submissions, giving an average score of 2.51, helping 25 designs get printed.
There isn't a ton of buzz about this design, but there seems to be one dedicated to raving about how amazing this shirt is. Would someone mind explaining it's appeal to me, as I just don't see it?

And yes, I know it comes with a headband, which makes even less sense to me. I would just like to know why this is so well received.

Bramish
   Bramish on Oct 23 '07 at 10:31am
I have no strong feelings either way about it.
Stevethegreat
Stevethegreat on Oct 23 '07 at 10:39am
some things are things that people like and some things are things that people don't like and most of the time these things are not the same things for different people.
Simpletinrobot
Simpletinrobot on Oct 23 '07 at 10:43am
Yeah, I don't get it either, wearing the headband while wearing the shirt is the only cool aspect I can pick out of this design, but I don't blame the design, I blame me for not getting it.
Yourhero
Yourhero on Oct 23 '07 at 10:49am
@stevethegreat: I love that explanation. That should be the new standard when people bitch about designs, right along with the cactus.
stopper111
stopper111 on Oct 23 '07 at 1:28pm
i can only speak for myself but....... i like this design enough to spend $25 on it because its graphic is so large, for one. it is rare to see a print on a typical t-shirt taking up that much space (less other selects). i also really enjoy its simplicity, owing to the single color used, as if it were a ink drawing on a canvas. whats more, even though it is so large, it manages to not be loud or obnoxious, which is even further exemplified through the drawing's facial expression: so simply at ease, peaceful. i enjoy this shirt even more because it generates in me a nostalgia of a past musical era (the lennon resemblance mainly, of course, but the headband in and of itself as well).



...guess thats it. i could care-a-less if it came with a headband or not. Seems i'm the only one in that boat, but seriously, who wears headbands if you're not working out playing tennis?
upso
upso on Oct 23 '07 at 3:30pm
i wear headbands 24-7
sonmi
   sonmi on Oct 23 '07 at 3:40pm
if you don't like it, then you just accept you don't like it. i don't think anything should have to be explained for you to like something.



this is just a great graphic. i think i like-like it
Framble
Framble on Oct 23 '07 at 5:31pm
I like it because it's big, the picture is on the front and the back and it comes with a headband! At first I looked at it and I thought "meh..." but the more I thought about it the more I loved it. I can't wait for it to arrive.
viralVISUAL
   viralVISUAL on Oct 23 '07 at 5:40pm
Big prints are my weakness. Plus the design is simple and clean and kinda quirky. I like that about it. Headband's just a bonus.
Sir_Minimus
Sir_Minimus on Oct 23 '07 at 6:11pm
it reminds me of Richie 'the baumer' Tenenbaum from The Royal Tenembaums
cloud_is_to_character
cloud_is_to_character on Oct 23 '07 at 11:20pm
i dont know. i love it though. for some reason.
killthebig3
killthebig3 on Oct 24 '07 at 5:47am
i can't get this one out of my head - there are rough scribbles of this all over my school notes from yesterday, and i just woke up from a dream where these sold out instantly, and i took great measures to find one for myself.



just like stopper said - the big, simple print, the nostalgia for that time period... i love it.
Dan in The 518
Dan in The 518 on Oct 24 '07 at 11:17am
I'm getting it for my brother since he has hair just like that. That's the appeal for me.
2 days later
geewally
geewally on Oct 26 '07 at 11:52pm
I think it's got this neo-hippie vibe that seems to be trendy now.
Robsoul
   Robsoul on Oct 27 '07 at 12:15am
reminds me of work by Barry McGee or Andy Davis, all good stuff.

31 days later
Yourhero
Yourhero on Nov 27 '07 at 11:22am
@Sonmi: That's a rather stark way of thikning. I never said I didn't like it, but I was wondering if perhaps there was some hidden meaning that I was overlooking.



I think it is terribly pretentious (which seems to be the cool way to be on this site lately "if you don't get it, then I won't tell you) to say that people do not deserve explanations of things that they dislike. I think the beauty of this site is fighting for a print you love, convincing the masses of a beauty that perhaps only you can see.



Not every print is a winner, but I think that proper explanations, such as the very courteous ones given in this blog (save yours) could sway the minds of people who might pass by a print that they just don't get, or maybe haven't given enough thought to.
Yourhero
Yourhero on Nov 27 '07 at 11:23am
*edit*

"thinking"



sorry.
2 days later
robearto
robearto on Nov 29 '07 at 7:20pm
there's nothing to get really, its just a badass design...and...yea
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