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epocalypse aka Eric T Pato is a 20.4 year old boy, has been a member since November 4, 2006, has scored 1303 submissions, giving an average score of 3.12.

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Nov 25 '06 by epocalypse

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Is this really that similar?

about Rorschach Hits the Disco

Okay, so I'm relatively new to threadless, but not to art. Months ago, before I was aware of threadless, I did a series of Faux-Rorshach inkblot designs inspired by the gnarls barkley crazy music video (one of my favorites). I even won a poster design contest for Gnarls Barkley, which i entered at the urging of my friends. Now fast forward six months. I join threadless, and after a couple of designs, i decide to reimagine my Ink Blot designs (to out of several, only one has gone up so far) into tee shirts, because they had done well in my other galleries. I put it up, and every other person starts bringing up this design, Rorschach Hits the Disco. someone finally gave me a link to it, and i have to say i love the design, i hope they reprint it, because i'd love to own it. But besides being symmetrical, and using a play on Rorschachs, I don't actually think they are that similar, because mine is a grayscale design that aims to masquerade as a real rorshach, and Rorschach hits the Disco does not. am i wrong?

here are my two designs:

Test8-4M - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

and a larger resolution of the ink blot here: TESTA23: B4M-8Y-3P0C4LYP5E

and the other design

alacyt on Nov 25 '06 at 4:03pm

No it's not that similar. People here just like to say things like that to make themselves feel superior.

tracerbullet on Nov 25 '06 at 4:06pm

i feel superior to alacyt right now.

see?

epocalypse on Nov 25 '06 at 4:15pm

sure ^_^

thanks

epocalypse on Nov 25 '06 at 4:51pm

other opinions would be great too

travis76 on Nov 25 '06 at 4:59pm

it's not a new concept. gnarls barkley didn't invent it, spires didn't and neither did you.
unfortunately people here like to treat any vaguely similar concept like it's a ripoff.
.....even though nylon and photography were invented by two different people at around the same time in different parts of the world.

epocalypse on Nov 25 '06 at 5:27pm

thanks, i realize completely that it is not a new concept. but i hope to use it in new and somewhat exprezzive ways

epocalypse on Nov 25 '06 at 5:49pm

i did not notice that i accidently used z's in the last post :/

jwalsh on Nov 25 '06 at 5:57pm

no dont even worry about it. people think if a concept has been done on threadless it is totally original and anything similar has copied it. its totally silly, don't listen to it. i cant tell you how many times people posted on my threads i ripped off a design i hadnt ever seen before....

ignore it! good luck :D

epocalypse on Nov 25 '06 at 6:08pm

thanks jwalsh ^_^

epocalypse on Nov 25 '06 at 8:02pm

please another thoughtg or two.

epocalypse on Nov 25 '06 at 8:56pm

no more shade a thought

epocalypse on Nov 27 '06 at 10:33am

please a bit more od an opinion?

tiphaine on Nov 27 '06 at 10:42am

ok, since i was (i think) the first one to bring it up i'll explain. the point i was making was not that it was a ripoff, it was that i didn't think pursuing/reworking a rorschach design was the best use of your time since there had already been a rorschach design printed and, in my experience, threadless avoids printing shirts that fill a niche that's already being filled by an existing shirt. i appear to be in the minority with this opinion, though, and those other folks have been printed a lot more than i have, so maybe you should listen to them instead.

bananaphone on Nov 27 '06 at 10:47am

dude it's bs, why do you need another thought or two. My thought? stop being so needy of everyones opinion.

epocalypse on Nov 27 '06 at 11:06am

i like people's opinions but fine.

epocalypse on Nov 27 '06 at 11:07am

i like peoples opinions, but fine

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