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Re: Inspired by Deep Blue Death Squad
This was way underrated its first Derby, looks like it is being underrated again. I really want this to print!
Re: deception
By far my favorite shirt from the Woodcuts Derby. It has such a great unique look.
Re: off with his scoop!
please win! so many awesome details here!
Re: Inspired by ABLAZE
The use of color is just awesome in this shirt. It has my vote again.
Re: The Nerdiest Place on Earth!
Come on people... it has a ferrous wheel!!!!!
Re: Inspired By The Dandy Lion
I must own this shirt. I play on a co-ed softball league, and our team is yellow. Someone suggested being the dandy-lions, and then I saw this shirt!!!! If this wins, I am so buying one for everyone on my team!
Re: Sacrifice
The face reminds me of The Guy from Disturbed's face...Safe link to URL of said Photo of Disturbed's Guy.
i really hope it wins! i've voted for this design before i really really want one
Re: Buy puppies, not kitties
awesome shirt, would definitely buy it
Re: The Red Barron's First Flight
Get into the fog...get into the fog... I SO want this shirt!
Re: BUNDITO!
Haha, thank you guys. I didn't expect a one color design to get much attention in the double-take. So this is great to see. :^)
Re: playful foxes
Ok so the fox on the bottom right, he's really concentrating with his tongue out and everything. He looks like he's trying to take a you-know. Is that what he's doing? Because if so, eww for dirty leaves afterward. lol.
I want this sooooo bad!!!
Oh, I adore this shirt...so much childhood goodness...such awesome use of color...come on, be the little shirt that could... Patrickspens, I don't know how you evoke so much emotion with just a few lines and brush strokes...but I thank you.
I can't believe the cuteness of this. I want one so bad.
This design is so badass. I'm glad it's in the fog. Hopefully it goes to print!
Re: Wooden Wonder - The Main Attraction
Re: Mirai
This is the first time I've ever voted for a shirt I already have. But hey, voted. And yes, I will buy another one if it prints.
Re: Raisins Ruin Everything
The more I think about this, the more I'm convinced that raisins are the reason for all of the world's problems.
Bundito was in the fog last time, and I was flabbergasted on each of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings that his mug did not adorn the home page. I was muy sad. Now it's like he's just holding back for a photo finish. Right?
buzatron wrote:FIRSTIES!!!! hellz yeah i want this!
if this doesn't make it, i'm going to single-handedly cause the zombie apocolypse!
vorteks wrote:This is the first time I've ever voted for a shirt I already have. But hey, voted. And yes, I will buy another one if it prints.
despite shirt.woots are awesome quality, it is amazing how quickly it one can wear out a shirt when it is this awesome. :D
annkingwriter wrote:no, not crow, but raven because of the roughness of the feathers, but still, gmv. We have both in my neighborhood, best neighbors ever.
The hooked beak suggests of a bird of prey and the silhouette does resemble an eagle (with shorter wings), but the eye changes everything.
Please take the time to support these awesome shirt that didn't make in in their respective derbies. Yes, I only ask you to do so because I HAVE to have these to add to my ridiculously sized tshirt collection. Thank you in advance for your votes, and if not- then your time.
Re: Lost in Nightmares
MAN do I want this shirt. I wish it had won the derby it was in.
mrwednesday wrote:As bass said, Travis explained that the HM's were assigned first. Some time after that as a spur of the moment thing, they decided to do a special print run. They didn't think it was fair to eliminate it from the double take because it was not given a full print run. It was a special side print and therefore not eligible for the reckoning. I really don't see any problem with woot's inclusion of the design in the double take and a certainly don't see anything wrong with bass keeping it in the running. She went above and beyond with this design which is really commendable.
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ISO30 wrote:The hooked beak suggests of a bird of prey and the silhouette does resemble an eagle (with shorter wings), but the eye changes everything.
you think that red spot is an eye? i hope that isn't the case because it's in a very weird position...unless you're talking about something else.
Re: Sky in a Jar
WIN. I will be highly disappointed if this doesn't print. The shirt tells a great story and visually appealing.
Re: The Path
I, too, really liked this one the first time around. Sadly, doesn't look like its going to make it into print this time either
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Re: Fallen Royalty
This shirt is genious! My husband and I are huge dog fans and would LOVE to have this shirt in print. I hope it wins! Good luck. My dog will eat your cat any day! Tammy
I joined woot explicitly to get this shirt when I first saw it in the derby - need to get it voted up!
thatrobert wrote: Congratulations on winning a Best Loser Award! This is not SPAM. Winning a BLA does NOT mean this shirt won't print -- I'm hoping it does. Your one and only gift is this crappy little badge in your shirt thread. Enjoy. Let's live our lives plastic elated, so wildly medicated, counting down till the charade's all over.
Thanks for the badge, Robert! Also thank you everyone for coming back to support this design. I sure appreciate all the nice comments on this image, as I worked hard to make it something special. Glad you enjoyed it! :D
Re: Frozen Pizza
Love this lil guy!
Thank you so much for returning to support this design, everyone. Im super happy it was able to fulfill it's purpose earlier in the year, and that is all I can ask for. ^_^
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I'm guessing this guy is not from the PTC.
Poor CE.
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Poor CE.
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Why not just play the p*ss out of it and let it get its provenance naturally??
The owner who commissioned this is a total moron. The luthier who did it should never be trusted with guitars again.
Moron is a bit strong IMO, but to each their own...if someone wants one beat up that's their decision. I remember a certain goldtop that went to get "checked" by PTC and turned out pretty cool looking. I like the idea of letting it happen naturally, but so many people are so cautious that it may never happen.
This went around the web a while back. Whoever asked him to do this, your nuts beyond words. The next time you want to ruin a piece of art, just send it to me and I'll put it to better use. BTW, making a new gutiar a "relic" doesn't make you a better gutiar player or the guitar any better. I believe the kids called these people "posers"
Actually, this is quite tame compared to the actual rant that went through my head. I cleaned it up for the sake of the Forum's PG rating.
It is true that people get to do whatever they want to the material objects that they own. However, at what point doe is become a crime against humanity to destroy something just for the sake of destroying it?
I am fully aware that beauty (and value) are in the eye of the beholder. But a sculpture made from feces and destroying a fine musical instrument are in the same incomprehensible category for me.
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I really dislike the whole relic thing. Even my '65 SG Special, that was played hard for 47 years, looks nothing like these fake relics.
Truthfully, most older guitars don't look anything like these poser guitars.
Destroy? The guitar isn't in pieces and unplayable. There are plenty of people think a worn '50something strat or Les Paul is the most beautiful thing in the world. Plenty of forum guys who think Frankie's Casper is the coolest PRS standard out there. If you want to argue that it's phony - I'll give you that. If someone had that guitar for 20 years and it ended up that way naturally, we'd have half the people complaining the guitar has been abused(mostly because it's a PRS) and the other half saying "all it the name of rock n roll!" This guy happened to want it done artificially. I wouldn't do it, but I'm not gonna call this a crime of humanity or the guy himself, a moron. If we were talking about a video of some random person that was smashing a guitar to pieces just for the sake of doing it, that's a different story.
I'll play devil's advocate (and from the response, the guitar owner is the devil himself )
I personally don't like relic'd guitars at all, and wouldn't buy one, much less comission one or worse do one myself. Having said that, I think that some of the guys who do it really are artistic about it. Don't know for sure, but I've always assumed that it got started because of the crazy costs of vintage LPs. They're rare, they are really nice instruments, and rock history was made on them. So I can see where somebody would want to take a modern LP and give it the historical once-over, sort of channeling the vibe of the originals. Of course it's an aeathetic thing, and doesn't have anything to do with how it sounds, but I could say that about much of what goes into a modern high end new guitar. Why pay more for flame or quilt if it doesn't make the guitar sound any better?
The only problem that I have with the posted video (and presumably the guy who commisioned the work) is that there isn't much of an argument for artistry that can be made in what he's doing. But then again, who am I to say?? I do know that I've seen relic'd LPs that represent a ton of work and what appears to me to be taste and artistry. I can appreciate that, even if I don't personally dig the end result. I can't even begin to imagine the motivation for doing this on a CE, but then again, my imagination isn't all that great.
So...I'll give you my take really fast-their capital...their guitar...they can do what they want. I am not a fan of what they did to that CE.
Some relic jobs look ehhhh...others look amazing. I would have no problem playing a good relic. There is definitely a level of artistry involved in accurately reproducing the aging process.
Personally I thought the way Todd did his goldtop DGT and then sent it around to everyone was an absolutely killer idea on letting everyone in the community have a chance at playing a DGT while at the same time "relicing" during the process and adding mojo...the fact that BaM went down in the middle of its travels and he was able to get it back in his hands is an awesome story.
To each their own...if you want to play a relic real or a repro go for it...if not...pass and do it yourself! (Which by the way is kind of hard now considering how available the PTC guys make themselves!)
Some of the reliced esquires and tele's I have seen have almost sucked me in on more than one occasion.
I have several well loved, well-played, 10+ year old guitars that don't look destroyed. They don't look like case candy, but they don't look like any reliced guitar I've ever seen.
I have played my same guitar for almost twenty years while wearing on occasion: studded armbands, studded belts, a .30 cal. bullet belt, armbands with 3" galvanized nails, rhinestone shirts, Bedazzeled jeweled everything, full skateboard pads, and once a full wedding gown complete with diamond applique, and I barely have ANY scratches on the upper arm area!
How this is supposed to look like real wear is beyond my comprehension.
I know that some of you don't agree, but what they did to that guitar was a crime. But I did, and do still, acknowledge that is their guitar to do with what they want. It just rubs me the wrong way.
Then there is the notion of the forgery itself. The guitar is now a lie. The guy who owns it (unless he 'fesses up to everyone he shows it to) is a liar.
Fake provenance. Impressed. NOT. Disgusted. Yes.
Wow. I've seen this vid a couple of times before but it never fails to bring tears to my eyes.
Have to be honest and say I don't really get the whole relic thing.
It's nice when you know the wear is from years of hard use (Rory Gallagher Strat) but when it's faked it never looks right.
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Don't get me wrong Les...that video makes me cringe...I think he completely defaced that guitar...
Todd's goldtop is a completely different story.... I think that guitar is cool as **** (sorry Todd if it bothers you I'm focusing on your axe...but like I said...it's cool as ****!!!!)
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No problem.....I've been sitting on the fence reading this thread. I'm assuming here, BUT I have a feeling that those that are dead set or feel this guitar was ruined are the first mamby/pamby's that are ready to jump off a bridge when their prized piece of collectable art gets a nick in it..... I've played NUMEROUS vintage Goltops and I owned a 57 for about 4 months until I found out it was a stolen guitar I wasted all my summer lawnmowing money on as a kid. I asked Shawn and the PTC guys to IMHO make an already good guitar great. I knew it would be a project they would be into as it wasn't anything that they'd done before. Not only does it LOOK like my old 57, it FEELS and plays like a Vintage guitar. The finish is the real thing....and all the tweaks Skitch,Miles and the Evil Genius did are amazing. I say to each his own and if you don't have something nice to say....keep it shut!
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Wow...I had seen this before and I feel the same about it now. IMO that was horrible. If you own the guitar, you can do what you want to it, but whew...I would not be willing to do this to a guitar I didn't pay for much less one I did. I love a naturally relic'd guitar, but I am not much for a forced relic-ing of them.
I also like stuff others do not...so to each his own.
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Guthrie took the loss in each of his last three starts. Over that stretch, he sports a 6.89 ERA. The Indians selected Guthrie in the first round of the 2002 First-Year Player Draft. In seven career outings (five starts) against his former club, Guthrie is 3-2 with a 5.45 ERA.
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• Kansas City's Billy Butler extended his hitting streak to eight games with an eighth-inning double on Tuesday.
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I still don't like the black bars. Hopefully the whole game isn't crammed down alleyways and small areas too.
You can definitely see the Naughty Dog inspiration in the pacing and actions of the characters.
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Looks this good and it's just the tip of the iceberg. And they don't have a very large team. It was like 93 people the last time I seen anything mentioned about their staff.
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I wish people would get this right once and for all, everything is CGI however the cut scenes are not FMV.
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Colin Moriarty over at IGN has his doubts, I think this reveal has made me less excited for the game. Gonna wait for more info.Trophy-licious!
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From the IGN impressions I'm a little worried too. Not about how the game will run, more about how it will play. They say it's looking too much like an average third person shooter.... I really hope this doesn't end up being just an average shooter. It looks incredibly pretty, that is clear, but hopefully it has more to offer.
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Kinda agree with IGN. The graphics and setting look great, but the gunplay wasn't anything special. Running down alleyways and hiding behind cover to fire at baddies started getting old last-generation. Hopefully they show up more varied gameplay later.
02-18-2014 #42
The video looks absolutely amazing. This is next gen.
I wouldn't be surprised to see either a delay of this game or issues at launch that will require patches. They are breaking new ground with this and showing a glimpse of the capabilities of the new console. May be a rough start but very exciting stuff and things to look forward to.
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I just did something involuntary and sticky.
This game just looks visually amazing, I just hope the rest of the parts in this game will be really good too.
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Graphically it is looking very nice. Textures on the buildings look quite sharp, character models look very artistic and the transition between cut scene and gameplay segment is handled well.
The disappointment on the gameplay front stems from the fact that many people, including the ign guy, were expecting something fully unique not done before based on the historical setting of this game. Instead the hands on time ign got with it gave them the been there done that vibe of a third person shooter, though they only had 10 minutes with it. It would be fair to take a wait and see approach before jumping to any conclusions about the gameplay. When more gameplay vids are released in the coming months, it would give a better idea where this game is heading. I'm sure they'll have lots more of this game to show at E3.
Overall i'm still hyped about this game and hopeful that it will turn out great in the end.
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I'll be sorely disappointed if this is JUST a cover shooter. I don't care for seamless transitions between CG and gameplay if I'm basically playing The Last Of Uncharted. Best be believing that Diablo 2 could easily satiate my gaming needs if it was all I had to play so it'll take more than flashy graphics to make me part with my €€€.
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People are calling this a Gears clone. Lol.
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"Economists," Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson famously quipped, "have correctly predicted nine of the last five recessions." Impossible as it is to forecast the timing or depth of the next downturn, executives enjoying today's upbeat economy should also be preparing for the recession that will inevitably follow. Many weren't ready for the last one; by our reckoning, nearly 40 percent of leading US industrial companies toppled from the first quartile in their sectors during the 2000–01 recession, and a third of leading US banks met the same fate. At the same time, 15 percent of companies that had not been industry leaders prior to the last recession vaulted into those positions during it.
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Top-quartile companies are better prepared.
Whatever the position the companies had within their sectors before the downturn, many that emerged from it as leaders expanded their businesses during the recession, both organically (through internal investment) and through inorganic activities such as M&A, alliances, and joint ventures. And although the leaders increased their asset bases through capital expenditures or acquisitions at the same pace as less successful companies did before the recession, the focus of their growth was different: the more successful companies spent less on M&A, on average, and focused more on organic growth. In 1999, for example, leading companies had, on average, capital expenditures that were 8 percent higher and growth through M&A that was 13 percent lower than their less successful counterparts did. During the recession itself, however, better performers leapfrogged the competition by continuing to invest and to grow inorganically: in 2000, companies that emerged in the top quartile spent 15 percent more on capital expenditures and conducted 7 percent more M&A—possibly buying cheaper assets from distressed sellers. In addition, they were able to pay their suppliers faster, probably in an effort to negotiate lower prices and better service.
Arguably, winning companies leveraged the benefits of balance sheet flexibility that they had achieved before the recession. At industrial companies that ultimately emerged as sector leaders, for example, the average net debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio before the recession was roughly half that of their less successful competitors. What's more, the postrecession leaders also held more cash on their balance sheets prior to the recession than those that weathered it less successfully.
Starbucks was one company that used such tactics to good effect in holding on to its leader status before and after the recession. In 1996 it had a D/E ratio of 8 percent, compared with an average of 14 percent for the restaurant sector, and managers consistently reduced the company's leverage every year until 1999.3 3. The D/E ratios of the companies in this analysis were not adjusted for the capitalized value of operating leases and retirement liabilities. Although such adjustments do affect the absolute degree of leverage, they do not significantly affect the relative ranking of companies. That year the D/E ratio of Starbucks dropped to only 2 percent, as the industry average hit a high of 31 percent. Managers achieved this target by expanding the proportion of licensed outlets from 7 percent in 1998 to 13 percent in 1999 and 23 percent in 2000. Licensing and international expansion through alliances allowed Starbucks to accelerate its growth during the recession (Exhibit 2). Currently, alliances contribute 14 percent of the company's revenues but account for 39 percent of its profits.
Starbucks accelerated its growth during the recession in part by increasing the number of licensed and owned locations.
Executives can build flexibility into a company's balance sheet by reducing the capital intensity of the business model, for example, or by resisting the urge to use additional debt to finance dividend growth or share buybacks. In our study, as profits grew during the expansion, the companies that emerged as winners refrained from increasing their dividends: their dividend payout ratio gradually decreased from a peak of 40 percent in 1995 to 32 percent in 1999. Then they cut dividend payouts aggressively at the first signs of the recession, reducing the payout ratio to 28 percent in 2000. In contrast, before the recession their less successful counterparts kept dividend payouts roughly stable—at 35 percent in 1995 and 33 percent in 1999—and even increased them to an average of 38 percent in 2000 as the recession began.
Many companies that emerged from the last recession as industry leaders also focused on reducing costs without damaging the long-term health of their businesses. Although selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) costs are typically difficult to cut in the short term, winning companies did so by making their overhead costs and operations more flexible before the recession. Consequently, they could redeploy their funds, assets, and personnel as conditions changed. When the recession began, they quickly adjusted their SG&A to the new environment, cutting these costs even further, to a level 3 percent below that of their less successful rivals,4 4. Normalized for revenue. in spite of having comparable starting levels.
The US cataloger and retailer Talbots, for example, increased the flexibility of its workforce in the years before the recession, adding part-time workers during the growth period of the 1990s at almost double the pace at which it added salaried workers. From 1998 to 2000, the company's hourly and part-time workforce grew by 14 and 16 percent a year, respectively, the salaried staff by only 9 percent. Then, as the recession took hold in 2000 and 2001, Talbots also radically shifted its advertising mix away from TV and catalog operations and toward focused activities targeting customer groups with the highest sales potential. Although this strategy somewhat reduced the company's ratio of advertising expenses to revenues (from 5.5 percent of revenues in 2000 to 4.3 percent in 2001), Talbots maintained advertising levels far above the sector in general: its ratio of advertising expenses to revenues was 120 percent higher than the sector average in 2000 and 80 percent higher than it in 2001. Such measures helped Talbots emerge from the recession as a leader in its sector, though it entered the recession as a challenger.
In contrast, less successful companies cut their R&D and advertising more deeply, putting them at a disadvantage for tapping the opportunities these expenditures might create. Before the recession, their productivity per employee was lower than that of the leaders, and so they had to lay off more employees during the downturn, perhaps damaging their ability to attract and retain talent in the future.
Companies that emerged from the recession as industry leaders generally had more diversified product offerings and a greater geographic presence before, during, and after the recession than did their less successful counterparts. This pattern was particularly true of companies that led their industries before the recession and retained this status after it: their sales were roughly twice as diversified by segment as those of companies that ceased to be leaders. By geography, the difference was smaller, but leaders that retained their status were about 20 percent more diverse in this respect.
In addition, successful companies proactively managed their customer and product portfolios before the recession. Consider the US telecommunications company Verizon, which coupled an expanding customer base with increasing average revenues per user to offset falling call prices. Average revenues per user fell throughout the industry as per-minute revenues dropped by nearly 20 percent annually from 2000 to 2003 (Exhibit 3). By altering its service mix toward broadband and value-added services, Verizon maintained its winning status through the recession.
To offset falling call prices, Verizon combined an expanding customer base with increasing average revenues per user.
Consider also the experience of Starbucks, which drove up sales during the late 1990s by boosting both prices and traffic; its comparable-store sales growth increased by 5 percent in 1997 and 1998 and by 7 percent in 1999. When the recession struck, Starbucks avoided massive discounts, instead adding innovative value-added services (including Wi-Fi Internet access in its stores), the Starbucks Card, and improved customer service. As a result, in 2002 the company again posted comparable-store sales growth of 6 percent, achieved through traffic growth of over 8 percent.
If past is prologue, managers and boards won't forecast with any precision the timing of the next recession. But they should be asking themselves today whether they are building the financial, operating, and product flexibility to make the most of the next downturn.
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