This comment on a heated springleap message board got me thinking…
next month im gonna submit a totally auto traced design, yes it?ll be my original pencil sketch but im gonna auto-trace that mother to death, i?ll auto-trace like a man possesed, i?ll auto-trace my auto-traced design,i?m even going to call it ?Auto-traced?
i want you all to critique that submission, i garantee all of you i will flatten most of the ?originally pain staikingly designed? submissions, why?
because its about the finished product not how you got their, this is a god damn t-shirt design competition site not an illustration technique competition, if half of you put the Auto-trace swear word in your pocket concentrated more on the objective i?d actually see better designs, most of you are acting like true South Africans sabotaging each other to the point where some one bows out deflated and frustrated, out of the competition and we loose a valuable designer like Integral. King C must be on his way out too with constant abuse.
You people piss me off, your part of the reason this country wont fly ahead of the rest of the world, we sit back and argue the hell out of subjects that dont matter and leave the important stuff behind, your curses and insults fly around cyberspace like cotton wool daggers. Fight back with your designs, prove your point with a submission.
As for leaving the site because it?s got a negative vibe, you big yellow coward, thats the same as emigration, you stay you fix it, you die trying. This site is South African and i will stay i will change the vibe, i will make it the greatest design community their ever was, i will eclipse threadless and any other, i will be the best, we will be the best, join me, im SOUTH AFRICAN
and i?ll auto-trace if i want!
7 responses so far ↓
1 Brandon Tancott // Jun 21, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Jees this guy is passionate, to the point of obsession…just a bit scary. But no matter how much I feel he may have over dramatized it he has a very valid point. So what if the guy Auto Traces, I do… doesn’t make him any less of a designer, actually probably makes him better for it. It is after all as he points out a commercial industry, if you don’t like it go paint in oils on some mountain top
Hes got my backing in supporting SA!!!!
2 Wogan May // Jun 23, 2008 at 9:26 am
If you want to fly off the handle, using spell-check is very important. There’s a difference between a passionate argument and a noobish spam thread, the latter of which describes this guy’s post better.
He does have a point, though. South Africans are more apt to complain about the situation than try to make it better. I think it might be ol’ Ghandi’s “non-violent protest” methodology still hanging around. If these aren’t the times for active protesting, I don’t know what is.
~ Wogan
3 DustyRich // Jun 26, 2008 at 10:12 am
Thankyou for your oh so experianced view on my “noobish spam thread” Mr May, i have no idea what language your speaking, i realsie the post is not completely grammatically correct but your missing the point because again your first paragraph of your post is focused on the wrong issue, however you do pull it back with your second.
I want you and people like you to know somthing,Its got nothing to do with the Auto-Tracing or any design element but its a result of the problem, its not about the spell checks or the noobish way in which things are done, when it comes to this country when it comes to anything you believe in, with your heart, your blood and your soul its about the passion. Your right when you say that a Ghandi’ism style of protest prevails in these time.
When Zimbabwians die for their vote, Tibetans die for their independence, foreighners die for a safe place to live.
Our goverment turns a blind eye to a Zimbabwian meltdown, the olympic games sh*t all over the tibetan monks, our very own people slaughter and cremate fellow human beings for accents and origins and You check my spelling and how “noobish my spam thread is”
You Mr May are part of the problem, open your eyes and do somthing dont critique my post’s dont crituque this post, critique the world you live in, yes i’m passionate yes im obssesed its our country, you can be apart of it or complain as its burt to the ground.
If your such an experianced internet proffesional scroll up (thats the middle mouse button/or the bar on the right/or on your key board ) read Eric’s Question again:
DO YOU SUPPORT SOUTH AFRICA?
,not do you support the blogging skills of one DustyRich?
Now do us true South Africans a favour and give your support to the right cause. South Africa till i die.
(ps: i left a spelling mistake or two for you)
4 Chris M // Jun 29, 2008 at 10:55 pm
I get so annoyed sometimes when South Africans don’t support South African initiatives!
5 Wogan May // Jun 30, 2008 at 6:59 am
I r teh grammer natzi! LOLZ
What annoys me more are people that attempt to present three totally irrelevant arguments in one poorly-constructed paragraph. Maybe I’m the only one who feels that way about it?
To answer the question in Eric’s post title, yes, I support South Africa. I’m just not always in support of certain South Africans, their initiatives (those H.I.Victory ads tick me off) and their arguments.
~ Wogan
6 DustyRich // Jul 1, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I’d like to meet you one day Mr May and continue our little debate, i’ll look for you on the english lecture circuit, thanks for your views.
7 ILove // Sep 12, 2008 at 12:15 am
On the whole springleap thing, I’ve joined in because I believe in what springleap is all about: getting south africans to design and produce stuff that is “proudly south african.” Why people get so competitive about a t-shirt no one knows but the site will grow and more valuable key players will join, so the critique given has more weight. I think there should be a grading system, where designers are placed or ranked on springleap so that a no 1 designer knows when to take critique seriously (example coming from no 2 or not, coming from no 10000000).
Just a thought, but the main reason I will keep with springleap is because it offers a springboard to get people’s opinions about my work and I get a chance to see what the rest of SA is up to.
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