Comments on: Announcing the Grand Text Auto Alan Turing Memorial T-Shirt Design Competition — Enter Now!

By: alex

alex — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:11:13 +0000

Another one. http://www.cafepress.com/gtaeliza

By: scott

scott — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:30:01 +0000

Awesome! Now we have some competition. I’m going to be in the outback in Southwest Australia for the next couple of days to document the behavior of feral kangaroos for a cell phone video art project, but I’ll log back in on Sunday. Based on a sampling of user and driver feedback and my own sense of what will look good on my body, I’ll choose the winner, and the autographed photo of Nick Montfort, copy of Second Person, and brand new T-shirt will be the property of one lucky GTxA T-shirt designer. We’ll close off the submissions at midnight Pacific time tomorrow.

By: Louis Dargin

Louis Dargin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:02:30 +0000

Here is my t-shirt: http://www.cafepress.com/ldargin

I hope the phrase “Grand Turing” is apparent in it.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:22:52 +0000

Never commented here before, but I follow the blog, and jump at chances not to do real work for an afternoon. So: http://www.cafepress.com/gtam I don't know if it comes out on the shirt. More a tribute than real design, I suppose. So at least enjoy the original: http://knox-web.com/a/gta-blk.png (sources: Michael Mates, Andrew Stern: facade; Noah Wardrip-Fruin: screen; Nick Montfort: Book and Volume; Mary Flanagan: theHouse; Scott Rettberg: The Unknown. some of which are 'et al' of course.)

By: nick

nick — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:17:07 +0000

I don’t think Scott meant to bag on the existing entries. He probably just wanted to encourge other people to participate, which I was I was trying to do with my recent post.

By: scrabblelover99

scrabblelover99 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:20:47 +0000

if I win, I will make my logo look better, with real scrabble tiles.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:40:36 +0000

Sean, apologies, man. I wasn’t trying to say that your design was lame, just to suggest that we need more shirts to give the thing a sense of magnitude.

By: sean

sean — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:25:08 +0000

if we don’t get more entries the t-shirts might turn out to be like, well, kind of lame

hey, my submission wasn’t lame

By: Grand Text Auto » Dress Scott Rettberg

Grand Text Auto » Dress Scott Rettberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:25:00 +0000

[...] y nick @ 1:24 am Scott needs a t-shirt, pronto! If you don’t end up entering his contest [...]

By: scott

scott — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:02:16 +0000

I know it’s totally uncool to enter a contest I myself announced, like publishing my own poetry or something (wait, actually, I totally do that) but I was getting concerned if we don’t get more entries the t-shirts might turn out to be like, well, kind of lame, and that’s just not my thing in t-shirt-wearing. I think that somebody out there can do better than this in the next two days, but to spur competition, here’s a GTA design based on the output of two site visualization tools, tagcrowd and HTML graph.

Here’s a shirt: http://www.cafepress.com/grandtextauto

By: noah

noah — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:19:12 +0000

U. Sam, that’s an interesting design, but I’m concerned that it offers no guarantee that the colors won’t run. Isn’t such labeling standard?

By: U. Sam

U. Sam — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:16:00 +0000

There better not be a copyright problem with this T-shirt.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:00:26 +0000

Geez — I wonder if Cafepress thought it was a violation of Scrabble or that video game where you drive around and beat up prostitutes on the street? Or us? I mean, you can have my permission to use the term “Grand Text Auto” in any context you’d like. You could name a breakfast cereal after it for all I care, a novel, sex toys, whatever. Where will the madness end?

By: nick

nick — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:50:29 +0000

If I had announced the contest, I would have required copyright violations.

By: sean

sean — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:03:58 +0000

My idea is a pretty obvious one, but if anyone finds it fun, I'll be happy to put a higher-res image up on Café Press (assuming they don't delete it for some kind of perceived copyright violation). Here's the image

By: scrabblelover99

scrabblelover99 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:30:59 +0000

bastards at cafepress censored my tshirt design!!! I uploaded it to customink.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:19:29 +0000

Erik, my colleagues might correct me on this but in my view designing a t-shirt is in itself a form of interaction.

By: scrabblelover99

scrabblelover99 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:34:58 +0000

Here ya go.

http://www.cafepress.com/scrabblelover99

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:33:53 +0000

Excellent, excellent idea. Does it have to be interactive? :)

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:29:53 +0000

Great idea, people. If I were braver, and more creative, I’d try to see if you could guess whether I was a t-shirt designer or not….

Quick answer? I’m not. But I’ll certainly buy one when someone passes your Turing test.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:59:39 +0000

And I'll throw in a free copy of Second Person for the winner as well. (I was sent two copies by mistake, and I've been meaning to figure out what to do with it. :-)