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Phaelia "Shift Happens" Contest and Community Spotlight

Published on September 2, 2008 by Phaelia
Artwork, Community, Tree-Shirts
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"Shift Happens" Tree-Shirt Design Contest

sample_shirtTo shamelessly steal borrow ideas from a certain ursine friend of considerable girth, I’d like to hold a contest for a new Tree-Shirt design to be added to the Resto4Life Tree Shirts store.

The skinny:

  • Inspired by the name of our guild in beta, the theme of the contest is SHIFT HAPPENS. The shirt design should include this phrase. The graphic can be one of your choosing. Ideally, it should be something partially Resto-related.
  • To reduce the possibility of problems with copyright infringement, designs should not make use of the model viewer.
  • Designs with fewer colors (simpler, less gradiated designs) appear to print better than those with greater color depth.
  • Readers will have the chance to select their favorite of the submitted designs (hopefully, there will be more than one).
  • The winner will receive a complimentary copy of the shirt they’ve designed in exchange for giving me permission to resell the design (and I recognize that you’re doing me a tremendous favor by doing so).
  • The deadline for shirt submissions is September 24 which, not coincidentally, is also my birthday. ^_^

Additional (technical) requirements:

  • Design should be 3000 x 3000 pixels at 400 DPI.
  • Design should be submitted in transparent PNG format. You can e-mail your submission to me at . If file size is an issue, I can give you temporary access to an FTP server.
  • Due to restrictions of the printing process, I will have to smooth out any rough edges and fill in any small gaps by placing a second layer of color behind the design. Just something to keep in mind!

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Another round of best of the best blog posts that I’ve found

  • The 3.0 Patch – Cat Build Edition from Kalon of ThinkTank
    Kalon plays with a possible build for kitty cats in Wrath with an eye toward the elimination of powershifting as a DPS tool.
  • Addressing Druid Tanking in WotLK from Runycat of Unbearably HoT
    Runy rants about the troubles faced by Ferals in Wrath of the Lich King, analyzing at length the comments made by Ghostcrawler regarding changes to Bear itemization and mitigation.
  • Character’s Theme Song from Tigerfeet Secret Agent Cat
    It shouldn’t take a leap (or Feral Charge) of intuition to guess what theme song Tigerfeet chose for herself.
  • Debuffs Made Easy: Blizzard’s Way Out from Natarumah of Twisted Faith
    Natarumah comments on the change to buff and debuff stacking and changes to mana regeneration affecting Shadow Priests.
  • Epic Flight Form Questline: A Guide from Aurik of /hug
    A highly detailed, beautifully illustrated guide to completing what is, in my opinion, one of the best questlines in the game. Hats off to Aurik for doing it justice!
  • Ferals and the Restoration Tree from Tigerfeet of Secret Agent Cat
    Tigerfeet discusses the Feral-oriented talents within the Restoration tree, including Furor, Naturalist, Natural Shapeshifter, and Master Shapeshifter.
  • Keybinding Guide from Horns of YAOWN
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  • Tree of Life History Lesson from Keredria of Tree of Life
    Get schooled by Keredria on the myths surrounding the "Tree of Life" in various world cultures.

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Just one new Druidy place to read and subscribe to this week:

  • Glyph of Thorns
    Arianthorn of Moonglade (EU) plays a Balance Druid with a bad case of altitis. Plenty of Beta commentary … not that I’m into that sort of thing …

Wordle Cloud

Wordle is a free, Java-based service that creates keyword-density clouds of a blog’s most recent posts. You can see my Wordle cloud below:

wordle

The words "change" and "Northrend" make prominent appearances, probably because of the recent Wrath of the Lich King posts. Spirit, +Healing, Aura, Tree, and Life are also unsurprising. I was a little abashed to see the word "want" featured so prominently, though! And I’m not sure how the word "melee" snuck in there. ^_^

I shared this service with Runycat last week. Here were her immediate thoughts:

[13:50] Phaelia: try this out
[13:50] Phaelia: http://wordle.net/create
[13:50] Phaelia: it’s fun!!
[13:51] Runycat: what is it?
[13:51] Phaelia: it makes a word cloud from your most recent posts
[13:51] Runycat: I hope mine says BONER BONER BONER
[13:51] Phaelia: LOL

Thanks to Anna of Too Many Annas for originally sharing this fun site!

New Tree-Shirt: Restoration Cloud

488691_3080750_huge wordle_shirt Using the Wordle service, I created a set of Tree-Shirts featuring words commonly associated with Restoration Druids. These are only available in black but come in a variety of styles for both men and women. Prices range from $15.90 to $23.90. 

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  • Gravatar Runycat

    P.S. Mine didn’t end up saying that, which was amazingly disappointing. I think “dong” might have shown up somewhere, but there wasn’t a huge “Boner”, much to my dismay.

    Runycats last blog post..Bare Preview: Beta Build 8885 Talent Release

    4:40 pm on 9/2/08
  • Gravatar Tiagantar

    Wow! Wordle cloud! Why doesn’t it say Lifebloom like a kagillion times in there? Would be more accurate!

    6:41 pm on 9/2/08
  • Gravatar Natarumah

    Thanks for the mentions, Phae! ^_^

    I am glad some people liked what I wrote, which really took the edge off actually starting off my blog. It’s a bit over two weeks old, so I am still fussing about it like a newborn child. :)

    That Wordle Cloud looks awesome. I do fear however that wordpress.com does not actually support it. Fortunately, the category cloud looks a lot like it, when I feel like playing pretend. :)

    Greetz!

    Natarumahs last blog post..Emerging from the Shadows – Reborn!

    2:00 am on 9/3/08
  • Gravatar Thalosar

    Improved +Healing Can change life
    want Tree spirit aura

    Wordle Cloud is fun :)

    It is funny to see that the same words are big. Aura & aura

    4:06 am on 9/3/08
  • Gravatar Phaelia

    @Runycat: I noticed an excess of “Force” in your Wordle cloud. Too much Star Wars IMO.

    @Tiagantar: Haha, well I don’t think I talk about Lifebloom as much as I could. Clearly I need a few posts that just spam it!

    @Nataurmah: I think it looks really great. WordPress.com should support a Wordle cloud — all you have to do is supply it a link to your RSS feed. You can screenshot it and then host it somewhere to share if you want to. :-)

    @Thalosar: Oh, I didn’t even notice those. Very cool!

    11:56 am on 9/3/08
  • Gravatar Tesh

    Phae, my reading comprehension is obviously lacking tonight. Did you have a set date for when you want those designs?

    Teshs last blog post..The Old World of Warcraft

    1:20 am on 9/4/08
  • Gravatar Tesh

    Yup, I was just blind. *shuffles off to do some sketches*

    Teshs last blog post..The Old World of Warcraft

    11:16 am on 9/4/08
  • Gravatar Phaelia

    @Tesh: Great! Sorry that the deadline wasn’t more obvious. I’ll try to put together a banner or something for the sidebar that makes it more clear!

    11:15 am on 9/5/08
  • Gravatar Tesh

    Phae, I’m toying with some ideas, but they could get pretty detailed. I’m thinking of making vector art to handle it, for the sake of printing, but what is the threshold for detail? In other words, can I get away with hatching for shading, or would that be too small for the print process to be happy? Thanks!

    Teshs last blog post..The Old World of Warcraft

    2:52 pm on 9/5/08
  • Gravatar Phaelia

    @Tesh: I’m not familiar with Vector images printing, though it’s supposedly the preferred method according to Spreadshirt. Here are a couple of articles related to the technique:

    • How do I create a vector design that will meet all the requirements for a plot printing (Flex / Flock) format?
    • What are the most common errors when submitting a vector design?

    Let me know if this doesn’t answer your questions and I can relay them to Spreadshirt directly. :-)

    11:35 pm on 9/5/08
  • Gravatar Tesh

    Perfect, Phaelia! Thanks, that answers my question. Now, to go and create what I have in mind…

    Teshs last blog post..The Old World of Warcraft

    3:24 pm on 9/6/08
  • Gravatar Phaelia

    @Tesh: Oooo … I can’t wait to see. :-) Thanks, Tesh!

    5:09 pm on 9/8/08
  • Gravatar Riverwish

    How do I submit my design? Want me to E-mail it? If so can I have the addy please? ^^

    6:37 pm on 9/19/08
  • Gravatar Hiu

    hai i am interested in submitting a design for the resto4life tshirt contest. How do i submit the design to you? :)

    3:32 am on 9/23/08
  • Gravatar Phaelia

    @Riverwish and Hiu: Sorry about that – I’ve added my e-mail address above!

    11:37 am on 9/23/08
  • Gravatar Hiu

    haha thanks!

    1:42 pm on 9/23/08

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