Threadless T-Shirts - 99 Luftballons

99 Luftballons

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arzie13
on Jan 30 '06

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Average score:

3.10 out of 5

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2,453 people

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832 days ago

Comments:

109 comments

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steven218 on Jan 30 '06

brilliant

stingerstyler on Jan 30 '06

haha, that's a lot!

inFamoUsEmpirE on Jan 30 '06

Because im too lazy to count, ill ask.
Is there precisely 99?

funkie fresh on Jan 30 '06

i love that song!

Zalo on Jan 30 '06

from far away it looks like a blood spatter on a contagious disease... nice

hellodisko on Jan 30 '06

yayyyy :]]] i love the goldfinger remake
lovely job $5

scoutti on Jan 30 '06

red on sky blue - nice.

phones on Jan 30 '06

awesome song.

That pic on the left makes him look like he's got 99 chickenpox sores.

_lilac_wine_ on Jan 30 '06

this one is a winner!!

spamantha on Jan 30 '06

Neat!

coxiesara on Jan 30 '06

I love the song. I also like that from far away, at first glance, it sorta looks like blood or ketchup but then when you get up close, hahaha, they're just balloons you silly. $5 and now you've put me in the mood to listen to that song.

kittie on Jan 30 '06

GREAT... $5 for me!!

grayehound on Jan 30 '06

So sayeth Shimala. And it was so.

Nice how they make a pattern from a distance and have meaning up close. I'm afraid what other 80's songs are going to be raided now, tho...

Nice work, Ross!

kenny poptart on Jan 30 '06

this is beautiful...yay for balloons.

La_lena on Jan 30 '06

YEAH!!!!!! i love this song and would so buy 3 shirts!!

Doc Gratis on Jan 30 '06

5!
There really is 99 right.. its hard to cout with the overlap and the small ness of the image on here (I got 90-95 on two counts)

arzie13 on Jan 30 '06

yep 99 of em, I promise. The image quality is a bit funky though, ill post a zoom after work. Each balloon is different.

Sorry bout getting the song stuck in your head.

Mr. Monkey on Jan 30 '06

This sjit is tight man.
From a distance it looks like splatters of blood - CRAZY!

5$

groundcontrol on Jan 30 '06

Ha-ha! Sweet.

splendiferous on Jan 30 '06

ahhh i love the goldfinger cover.. nice.

sweetmonkeytuesday on Jan 30 '06

OMG I NEED THIS SHIRT O______O

$$$$555555

i'll cry if this doesn't get printed.

blueorca84 on Jan 30 '06

beautiful job! i love that song!! $5

inayellowsub on Jan 30 '06

YAYYYYY.

Rock Deputy on Jan 30 '06

I really like this one, but the balloons do kinda look like blood... would it be less genuine if the balloons were a different colour?

glad to see you're submitting again.

plans on Jan 30 '06

it looks kind of like bloodsplatters, but i think i kind of like that.

bitta2sweet on Jan 30 '06

"would it be less genuine if the balloons were a different colour?"

Uh, YES. They have to be red or it has no point.

Ava Adore on Jan 30 '06

haha cool

acidicfizz on Jan 30 '06

floating in the summer sky..

$5, mos def.

squeegebeckenheim on Jan 30 '06

print it! print it! print it! $5!

srebro on Jan 30 '06

very original, i love the song and the design!

girl.guide.gone.bad on Jan 30 '06

oh i love it.

rememberjanuary on Jan 30 '06

Make the balloon ties more defined, right now it just looks like red dots if you're far away, you can't see the ties at all. The color scheme is nice, but maybe vary the shade of red between ballons, lighter red for ones far away, possibly?

Great concept though.

meggles on Jan 30 '06

love this

bonnie_luvs_shirts on Jan 30 '06

99 red balloons....

It's great, but from far away, the balloons look like splatters of blood. You need to thicken and darken the balloon strings.

Otherwise, awesome job! $4

Terry Citizen on Jan 30 '06

Great job.

Too bad it will look like a nasty disease or blood splatter from a distance.

Maybe thicken strings as ^^^^ said or have a few bigger balloons in the foreground. Love the concept and execution so far though. 4$

fiddlywink46 on Jan 30 '06

aaawesome song.
nice deisgn, too.

hannahq on Jan 30 '06

I NEED it.
$5

I like that the balloons look like blood splatter from a distance. Up close it's like a pleasant surprise/relief. ;)

teeshirts218 on Jan 30 '06

I LOVE THAT SONG

sketch3030 on Jan 30 '06

they'll look like red sperm-ies from afar.

jett on Jan 30 '06

actually, bitta2sweet, the original German song wasn't about red balloons at all! just balloons.

the "red" was added to the English version just for an extra syllable. so it wouldn't be less genuine, although i guess i can see where you're coming from -- spoon-fed Anglaphones wouldn't "get" it. that being said, the German version of that song is amazing, wheras the English "translation" loses a lot and is patronizingly stupid.

rant over -- the design's pretty dang cool.

lovegod on Jan 30 '06

The more I think about it, the more I like it. I don't think I'd wear it, though, cos it does look rather infectious from a distance.

smhgolfucf on Jan 30 '06

I love the song! The original and the remake!! Gotta love the shirt too!! It a 5 from me!

eightlivesleft on Jan 30 '06

I love that song! Please print this, Threadless!

arzie13 on Jan 30 '06

bigger
http://static.flickr.com/39/93359990_63680a007b_o.jpg

and yeah, the strings probably do need a little thickening up.

eskimokiss on Jan 31 '06

Love that song.
Nena was a hottie
Agree with Rock, glad to see you back and submitting.

Ferasu on Jan 31 '06

love it

adam antium on Jan 31 '06

A nice song by Nena, another great design by you!
...

colorguardhobbit on Jan 31 '06

any chance that the balloon strings could be darker?

swirldrops on Jan 31 '06

Cool!

flamante on Jan 31 '06

so cool

Jackie20o8 on Jan 31 '06

That is the coolest thing ever

xxheart on Jan 31 '06

is it supposed to look like blood?

littlelibertine on Jan 31 '06

really like this, & the song!

asher27 on Jan 31 '06

99 red balloons go by!

the version covered by bjork and the sugarcubes is pretty awesome... you should check it out...

$5

lovepotamus on Jan 31 '06

i love this shirt! this is awesome

steve_swartz on Feb 01 '06

mmmm.....

bad color thinking (not white! and why light blue? as it works so well in so many other colors) (perfect design for threadless to pick and do their magic to).

bad presentation, too. whatever that little weiner thing is in the bottom right of the design, it makes the shirt look less interesting that it would otherwise.

still, a great idea. even if it's random, the balloons are placed well. thanks.

gerpander on Feb 01 '06

So East-German, JA!

Unicornsareawesomex on Feb 01 '06

<3333
$5555555555.

Naive Amoeba on Feb 01 '06

Absolutely effin' brilliant. I'd buy this! 5$

kernspalt on Feb 01 '06

germany is sick of the song...
after all these years, well, the shirt is nice

LaBing on Feb 01 '06

Did anyone see that episode of Scrubs? where Zach Braff keeps having visions of being in a big room with tons of red balloons and his girlfriend and her parents, I think, while this song plays? That was SOOOOOO funny!

thadanny on Feb 01 '06

I think this is simply an idea like the squid threadless shirt.
To me this is unoriginal.

jayman22 on Feb 01 '06

is there really 99? i don't feel like counting but i sure hope there is.

Augusta-Grace on Feb 01 '06

love love love love it
$5
i'd buy it

jar_bombadillo on Feb 01 '06

really great! $5

phantomless on Feb 01 '06

You rock, Ross.
I absolutely love it.
I think I will sing the song everytime I wear it.

yep_me2 on Feb 01 '06

oh SHOOT!!
i lost count
1, 2, 3, 4...
love the song, love the shirt
$5

xXxISISxXx on Feb 01 '06

i'd so buy. i'm hoping you know the real meaning behind the german song by nina, not the american remake...

staffell on Feb 02 '06

why isn't ross's name in pink?

arzie13 on Feb 02 '06

-that scrubs episode kinda gave me the idea, love the scrubs
-yeah 99 of em. fo real.
-the real meaning, post war Germany and 99 air balloons getting shot at and the country in ruins after the war and captain kirk... here is a side by side comparison

http://www.inthe80s.com/redger3.shtml

they definitely pepped it up in the english version
-only pink in the blog forums

mezo on Feb 02 '06

The Ross is back & you're gonna be in trouble....

cvoltaire84 on Feb 02 '06

THE OTHER DAY I WENT TO EAT AND I GOT A BALLOON AND WHEN I WAS OPENING THE DOOR FOR MY GIRLFRIEND IT SLIPPED OUT OF MY HAND AND FLEW AWAY. I'M STILL A LITTLE RECKED.

courtleigh on Feb 02 '06

if there really are 99 balloons i want this shirt !!!! $5

nslesinger on Feb 02 '06

love that song!! 5$!!

canadarocks on Feb 02 '06

i think i like it

KillerTofu30 on Feb 02 '06

Absolutely yes

$5

atrocityexhibits on Feb 02 '06

hell yeah. 5 dollahs

IheartFIEND on Feb 02 '06

i would buy this shirt just to rep the song alone....but the design is spectuacular anyhow

yoshi andrian on Feb 02 '06

it reminds me to cranberries "Wake Up And Smell The Coffee" cover album..

Mrs. Owl on Feb 02 '06

Hurry, hurry, super scurry. Call the printers up in a hurry.
Loved this song back in day and this shirt is pretty cool too.

timjimkim on Feb 02 '06

you know what is sad? I was first introduced to this song by playing the grand theft auto vice city video game. But nevertheless, a great song...good idea, but I think the balloons look a little like bloodsplatters on the picture with the guy pulling the rope, which kinda freaks me out. It looks like he's straining so hard blood is actually coming out of his pores and soaking his shirt, but then again, i haven't slept for a while...

alyssssssssssa on Feb 03 '06

simple and plain that actually works...

3LJ on Feb 03 '06

i likem altho oddly not on the light blue, part of me actually wants it on a red shirt :-/ just an idea, either way, 5$

AYE! Sea Turtles on Feb 04 '06

Oh goodness!
If there are really 99 red balloons you've won me over!
$5

of_a_lifetime on Feb 04 '06

it's hard to see the strings which sort of annoys me. are there really 99 red balloons on this shirt? Nice idea.

BanjoTheBandit on Feb 04 '06

i really like this

xdistainedx on Feb 04 '06

i wouldn't buy it.
only because from a distance it'd look like paint spots; not balloons.
make them easier to see; maybe?

inafets113 on Feb 04 '06

i love this shirt just because of the scrubs episode

ryrythepanda on Feb 04 '06

i love it. its amazing. $ 5

wendy lady on Feb 04 '06

ooooooooo i really like it and i'd so buy it.

twniehaus on Feb 04 '06

you should get 99 comments, thatd be neat.

CheesecakeBree on Feb 04 '06

I don't see why everyone thinks is is so great, but maybe it's because I don't know the song reference. =/

That's not to say it isn't well done... because it is. But just not an original enough of an idea (in my opinion) that I'd want to buy it and wear it.

PolkaDotsandSodaPop on Feb 04 '06

you and I in a little toy shop buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got...
how much money do we got?
$5?
yes I think so

hombreyoda on Feb 05 '06

$5!!!!

cement_shoes on Feb 05 '06

the balloon strings aren't dark enough, and maybe that's the point, but i think they need to be darker. i still like it though.

lalanguiles on Feb 05 '06

awesome, best design in a long time. simple and effective. always the best way. $5

euri602 on Feb 05 '06

To quote a friend's e-mail after I sent her a picture of this shirt
"AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy Crap! HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you should be soooo incredibly happy you were not there when i saw that shirt!!!!!!!!!! holy crap!!!!!!!!!! poor my family, they all yelled at me to stop screaming "HOLY CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!" ok. i'm kinda done freaking out now. i shall go sit in a corner and weep for finding one other person on earth as cool as me (namely arzie13). :D "
I think she really wants it : D

mikwu on Feb 05 '06

love it.

DrunkenStyle on Feb 05 '06

That's such an 80's song. I remember Homer singing that in The Simpsons. $4