Profile for bsweber - Raid71/C.Thornley mentioned on the front page of Yahoo:

bsweber aka Brett Weber is a 29.31 year old boy, has been a member since January 27, 2007, has scored 19,978 submissions, giving an average score of 2.54, helping 573 designs get printed.

URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9750135@N05/

Oct 13 '11 by bsweber
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Raid71/C.Thornley mentioned on the front page of Yahoo:

Anyone else see this article?

shirtflirt on Oct 13 '11 at 8:44pm

damn, i hope he's ok.

raid71 has been a favorite designer of mine since i came here

bsweber on Oct 13 '11 at 8:50pm

Yeah, I really hope the best for him and his family. Really talented dude.

On the plus side, seems like both sides handled the similarity issue with a lot of class.

Bio-bot 9000 on Oct 13 '11 at 8:57pm

An incredibly simple concept, a man known to millions, and 6 billion people = bound to happen sooner or later.

All the best to both artists. May they continue to create art.

lunchboxbrain on Oct 13 '11 at 9:28pm

I don't know Jonathan Mak but I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Chris T. (aka Raid71) on a few occasions and not only is he a stellar artist, but he's also a genuinely nice guy. It's not surprising that he took the high road here - a good lesson for all of us who may have been nicked in the past.

SteveOramA on Oct 13 '11 at 9:35pm

yup, just read the article and then i came here.
looks like it was originally from the ny times as well.

at least he's getting credit where credit is due.
i think good job on both parts.

the czar on Oct 13 '11 at 11:19pm

Oh man I hope Raid is doing okay, I did not know this. My best to him and his family

agrimony on Oct 13 '11 at 11:45pm

seems like what always happens on threadless now occuring on a global scale.

2 people coincidentally coming to the same design conclusion i mean

ISABOA on Oct 13 '11 at 11:48pm

:(

raid

I hope he ok

Adhesive Hippo on Oct 13 '11 at 11:59pm

Am I reading over something important? Why are we saying "I hope he's ok?" No one got in a car wreck, there were just two similar ideas.

[+duracell-] on Oct 14 '11 at 12:02am

seriously ..i saw it on yahoo too but i didnt think he died or anything

the czar on Oct 14 '11 at 12:03am

The article states that Raid has a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

[+duracell-] on Oct 14 '11 at 12:04am

oh, missed that part
i hope hes ok

Adhesive Hippo on Oct 14 '11 at 12:05am

Ah I didn't catch that, major bummer. Hopefully he can fight it off.

Bramish on Oct 14 '11 at 2:40am

Man I hope Raid's ok - he's a good guy and a mega-talented one

FRICKINAWESOME on Oct 14 '11 at 3:18am

Dude, I was wondering what happened to Chris aka Raid. Hope he pulls through, crazy what happened with the tribute similarities. But on the plus side, at least Chris's design didn't have to go through the displeasure of being uploaded onto Asthon Kutcher's personal blog.

ivejustquitsmoking on Oct 14 '11 at 5:42am

sounds like a mess

hope the kid copes up and best of health to raid

fc gravy on Oct 14 '11 at 9:52am

i was thinking about blogging about this too. i thought, why does chris thornley sound so familiar and then i 'clicked' rly quickly. i hope that kid's ok and raid71 pulls through.

Haragos on Oct 14 '11 at 11:10am

Ideas interlap all the time. I've done it multiple times on designs. My kongalism, I later found out, was a simple concept to another designer on here, though the execution is different.

I did a dr. doom/charlie brown that was done a few years ago by another artist. That one sucked cause I thought it was clever lol.

I've taken inspiration of some of my minimalist guys from other artists deconstruction of the human figure and some poses and etc.

ginetteginette on Oct 14 '11 at 11:15am

Any time you play off pop-culture there's a good chance someone has had a similar idea.

Sad about his health though. Wonder if it would be nice of us to send him some home-made 'thinking about you' cards?

Tonteau on Oct 14 '11 at 11:19am

You can follow Chris on twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/Raid71

He's a top bloke, I collabed with him and won and he gave me half the money, even though he did all the good stuff. Just gone through some pretty heavy cancer treatment, but he's amazingly upbeat about it all.

Copyright bullshit is pretty meaningless when it comes down to it.

GET WELL SOON CHRIS!

agrimony on Oct 14 '11 at 11:30am

Copyright bullshit is pretty meaningless when it comes down to it.

well put

Raid71 on Oct 14 '11 at 12:56pm

Thank you for all your kind words, hopefully I'll be up and running around and shall be inflicting some silly designs on you all soon!

Your right thank god I didn't get chosen by Asthon Kutcher

:)