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rule no. 3

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Jul 07 '08
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mike bautista

About my design

by mike bautista
my design is inspired by Lomography's Golden Rule no. 3:

"Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it."



what i love about Lomography is that it's not just about taking pictures, but capturing moments, anytime and anywhere. the pictures taken evokes memories, but displays them as if still in a dream. i tried to convey that.



no specialty inks would be required.

8 colors on silver gray.

this is my first design here at threadless. hope you like it.
xiv
   xiv on Jul 07 '08
nice first submission.
kcollantes
   kcollantes on Jul 07 '08
great jorb!

five dollops
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 07 '08
thank you!
Chipmnk
Chipmnk on Jul 07 '08
Pretty nice sub.
goldensara
goldensara on Jul 07 '08
i love the concept. :)
greatscott09
greatscott09 on Jul 07 '08
this is the best shirt i've seen so far, it's just my taste! great job man!
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 07 '08
thank you for the kind words.

anything i could do to make it better?
Killdoomkid
Killdoomkid on Jul 07 '08
I can't stress enough how much I enjoy this shirt. I would wear this and give a shirt to all my friends to wear all the time simply because I love looking at it! :D Great concept.
Barker1
Barker1 on Jul 07 '08
sweet shirt mike send me one when you get rich off this stuff :)
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 07 '08
thank you. thank you.
FRICKINAWESOME
   FRICKINAWESOME on Jul 07 '08
Nice lil scene you've got here. I like all the different kinds of life going on here.
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 07 '08
thanks FA.

i'm just hoping the design doesn't fall under "played out", as some people say with the cameras for heads theme. if i learned anything from this, it's to work and submit stuff right when i think about it, and not after finding out there are people with similar ideas as mine in the world. i'm just glad i didn't go with my "shoot from the hip" idea.
dinojaysfasho
dinojaysfasho on Jul 08 '08
woot go baby go this is dope
roadkill3d
   roadkill3d on Jul 08 '08
Very nice...
Mukas shirts
Mukas shirts on Jul 08 '08
The only camera head i dont like is the one getting out of the taxi and that is the one my eye is drawn to due to the yellow color
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 08 '08
do you know what's wrong with it exactly?

is it the way it's drawn or you just don't like that camera.

it's a colorsplash.
Mukas shirts
Mukas shirts on Jul 08 '08
I think i feel like while the other cameras are simply cameras that one kind of looks like it has a face and eye... i think that it is inadvertant it just bothers my eye but not enough to give you a low score
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 08 '08
thanks for the input. was the problem the way i drew it or just that the camera has a strange, misleading look. i'll try and make it more like the camera. he's facing the taxi but i can see what you mean.

the colorsplash was an interesting looking camera. i just wanted to add it in somewhere. is what you see as an eye the thing sticking out on it's side?
mitchinton
mitchinton on Jul 08 '08
VICIOUS!!!!!!!



thats meh bro!
C Kid
   C Kid on Jul 08 '08
Nice job!
Mukas shirts
Mukas shirts on Jul 08 '08
it looks like he is looking back at me. The thing sticking out being the nose. the square on the back being the eye and and "U" shaped thing on the lower part being the mouth... Don't worry tho i dont think anyone else is seeing what i am seeing
majose
majose on Jul 08 '08
boring!
Rean.Lu
Rean.Lu on Jul 08 '08
very nice, but a bit scattered.. needs a better focus point than the cab maybe?



i just read your comment and maybe the scattered look is what you were going for? perhaps i was too quick to judge... the more i look at it and study it the more i like it... i was leaning towards a 3 but this gets a 5
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 09 '08
to Mukas shirts,

when you said you saw a face i just tried to see it too. i just wanted to see if my guess was the same as yours. looks like it was. i don't really worry about it. i just smiled when i saw it and gave myself a little victory when i found out i was right.



to majose,

i hope you further explain. i'd like to know.



to Rean.Lu,

it wasn't so much that i was going for a scattered look, but just not going for any specific focus. you can pick anyone to be the main character (i picked the diana, just because it's my favorite, hence the middle spot). yours, i'm guessing, is the cab? the design was supposed to be more of just a shot of a city street. a day in the life. but maybe i should've had an actual central focus. it might've been easier to view that way.



thanks to you and everyone for the input.
helloNINTENDO
helloNINTENDO on Jul 09 '08
nukkaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome!
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 09 '08
thaaaaaaaank you!
fat pigeon
   fat pigeon on Jul 09 '08
Interesting.
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 09 '08
i'm glad you think it's interesting.

i hope you mean in a good way.
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 10 '08
3 down

4 to go.
i B i S
i B i S on Jul 10 '08
how sur-real, i see story lines emanating....
thedarrien
thedarrien on Jul 10 '08
I love how you did the brickwork, and the guy breakdancing is hilarious!
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 11 '08
thanks out to both of you.

i'm glad you like the brickwork. i was worrying about that when through the working stages. i'm not good at harmonizing randomness.
greatscott09
greatscott09 on Jul 11 '08
hey majose, ur mom was boring
olie!
   olie! on Jul 11 '08
remarkable first sub. great job!
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 12 '08
thank you for that. it means a lot.
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 12 '08
i'm glad i went with that then. there was a bit more color in the working stages.
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 13 '08
one more day.
Moby Peterson
Moby Peterson on Jul 13 '08
i think it's a little hard to tell what some of those heads are. i can tell the diana is a diana, but the others are not so obvious.
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 13 '08
lomolito

pop 9

diana

holga

fisheye no. 2

fisheye

colorsplash

lomo smena symbol ref



you could have a little mini-game and cross the lines to the matching words or something.



thanks. when i get more comfortable with Illustrator i'm gonna try and experiment with thinner lines so i could work in some more details.
jmayle
jmayle on Jul 13 '08
3
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 14 '08
woohoo!
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jul 14 '08
1.86!

almost reached my 2 goal.

thanks for playing everyone. till next time.
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mgill52
mgill52 on Oct 08 '09
mike, you need to sub more
mike bautista
mike bautista on Oct 09 '09
Wow, thanks Matt! My blog filters are off and I just noticed this. I forgot how feel-good these comments are.
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Japboy
Japboy on Jan 11 '10
Wow, kewl. I like it so much, how come it's not yet printed.
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