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I seem to be a hobby fiend lately.
Aug. 7th, 2011 04:19 pmI... just put a shirt in this week's Woot derby. http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=55725
It opens Friday, and shirts put in on Sunday don't tend to win in any case and it's not general interest enough, but I LEARNED TO USE THREE GRAPHICS PROGRAMS AND MADE ART AND PUT IT WHERE PEOPLE COULD VOTE ON IT on three days notice because I just had a cool idea.
The Derby theme is "Everyday 8-Bit." It was attracting a lot of Dilbert-ish designs about men in white shirts and ties. I don't know many people (other than me) who routinely dress like that, and by definition most of them don't wear teeshirts about 8-bit art. Who does wear those teeshirts? Geeks. And hipsters. And knitters. And hipster geek knitters.
And I'm a hipster geek knitter and it's given me great training in pounding meaning out of a very very small pixel grid. So I made an 8-bit hipster geek knitter shirt design and now I am very proud. I made this!
As a delightfully geeky detail, I'd like to point out that I did this design at 20dpi (dots per inch) and then scaled it up to the required print quality. The whole thing is, in its core form, only 171 pixels wide. It would fit in four LJ icons. None of this pseudo 8-bit. My design would fit on my Apple ][e screen with elbow room.
ETA: My promotional banner, so now I've learned how to use free modern software to make an animated image for the first time in over a decade. Yes, yes, I'll try to use my power for good.
It opens Friday, and shirts put in on Sunday don't tend to win in any case and it's not general interest enough, but I LEARNED TO USE THREE GRAPHICS PROGRAMS AND MADE ART AND PUT IT WHERE PEOPLE COULD VOTE ON IT on three days notice because I just had a cool idea.
The Derby theme is "Everyday 8-Bit." It was attracting a lot of Dilbert-ish designs about men in white shirts and ties. I don't know many people (other than me) who routinely dress like that, and by definition most of them don't wear teeshirts about 8-bit art. Who does wear those teeshirts? Geeks. And hipsters. And knitters. And hipster geek knitters.
And I'm a hipster geek knitter and it's given me great training in pounding meaning out of a very very small pixel grid. So I made an 8-bit hipster geek knitter shirt design and now I am very proud. I made this!
As a delightfully geeky detail, I'd like to point out that I did this design at 20dpi (dots per inch) and then scaled it up to the required print quality. The whole thing is, in its core form, only 171 pixels wide. It would fit in four LJ icons. None of this pseudo 8-bit. My design would fit on my Apple ][e screen with elbow room.
ETA: My promotional banner, so now I've learned how to use free modern software to make an animated image for the first time in over a decade. Yes, yes, I'll try to use my power for good.
