I think you're right, art should totally conform to existing visual and conceptual traditions. I also agree that the source of all creativity is hallucinogens.

I have two things to say

first: not about the shirt: I think many artists are very caught up with creating something either different or new and I think art has to be more than just that even if it is a very important part of it.

second: about the shirt: I'm a little (very) sick of shirts with like a defined character and a scene and stuff.....just because he's ugly and his eyes are odd doesn't mean you're thinking outside the box.

Neat.

Just to clarify (i usually don't respond to any comments unless they really need me to emotionally. the comment's emotion's, not my own) I'm referring to a small group of people at art school. Not everyone at art school. That would kind of make it suck.

take mhore dhrugs

I'm sorry, I forgot that art is objective.

stevethegreat, i'm not sure i understand your comment. are you saying that your problem with the shirt is that he's not thinking outside the box?

is outside the box thinking the new benchmark for creating decent art?

also, who says he's ugly? i myself think he's fantastic.

so many people have so many different tastes. who cares if there's a message, if its 'outside the box', if its visually stunning, etc. if enough people find it appealing enough to vote 5$, BAM! you got a printed shirt. for all the people who are upset about what gets printed around here, go print your own shirts that you think are worthy. there will always be great shirts that go un-noticed and 'mediocre' shirts that get printed. thats the competition

Here's a case of another frat boy majoring in art because he thinks it's easy.







Hey!
Stereotyping IS fun!

robotsteve on Oct 30 '07 at 11:50am
stevethegreat, i'm not sure i understand your comment. are you saying that your problem with the shirt is that he's not thinking outside the box?

is outside the box thinking the new benchmark for creating decent art?

also, who says he's ugly? i myself think he's fantastic.






it's just that every other select seems to be some sort of unconventional character just kinda walkin along whistling dixie and everybody's all "ooooooh this is soooo gooood" which is cool. I'm glad they like it. but I don't. and when I try to say "I don't think I like it because I've seen like six others like it" it's kinda like I'm saying "I don't like good things" which is obviously not what I'm saying. but like I'm under the impression that selects are about doing something really different which is probably wrong I'm always wrong but a simple character isn't really anything different because it's happened so much before and I'm sick of being told I can't dislike something because it's not "pretty" fuck that shit. I like pretty things.

There hasn't been a walkin whistlin dixie Select since A Tall Tale.

lol @ the thought of drugs being essential to create something visually unconventional.

$5

wow, you guys got me responding twice.... anyway, i just had to say that i laughed for about 20 minutes because someone thought that i was a frat boy. keep the good times rolling, guys!

I, like many other people, have something of a love-hate relationship with the select designs. Often they are completely horrible IMHO, but other times they're the best of the bunch. I don't know that this particular design is either, but I like it, and shall wear it. This happens to meet the "odd-as-fuck" requirement I often hold for shirts I wear. Is it great art? Maybe not. Is it the best tee ever? Probably not. Is it fantastically weird? Yes. And that's good enough for me and my $25.

i got it for 10 bucks :)

I have to say thank you for this.

I didn't even give this select a second look. Or even a first one properly.

Becuase of this blog I looked at it and I actually appreciate teh art work. I might even buy it.

So pretty much, thanks.

mickey mouse was a simple character, too.

I like this shirt.

I'm not on mushrooms.

Seriously I think a good amount of people would defend a picture of a turd on here and say that the person bashing it was stereotyping all turds.

I'm not saying that this is a turd, or that it's badly drawn, it's not. But it's kind of an intentionally ugly looking character not doing anything on a t-shirt. I have tons of those doodled in my notebook when I was bored in class in eighth grade that look exactly like this, why don't I have a select? Whenever a person has the opportunity for a select they can put anything they want on it... the person putting it out there must know that it's not everyone's cup of tea, or that it's not many people's cup of tea. But he put it out there because it wouldn't likely get up there any other way.

I love threadless, but the threadless community needs to stop enjoying the smell of their own farts.

This shirt is kinda gross.
creative but yeah

I ate this shirt.

Thinking it was mushrooms.

weirdpoopoobaby on Nov 07 '07 at 9:27pm
I ate this shirt. Thinking it was mushrooms.

lolz. this is one of my favorite shirts