I know I said that Escher one was going to be submitted for the senior shirt, but as the time neared to submit them, I didn't like it as much as when I had first come up with the concept. This new one is playing off of the fact that the same people, both in the AP level art classes this year, always submit and win the t shirt design vote. I also added Tavares with the red communist hat because this year he joined in with a Warhol design of the class president wearing a communist hat. However, he decided not to submit in order to keep out of trouble and I had to use a version I did without it. The big '07 checked off goes on the back of the shirt.

What really surprises me is what I lost to. Last year's winner was Devin Rochfords. It was a buffalo uside-down over a trampoline. That was it. Everyone thought it was hilarious, including me, in how little it had to do with anything, and he had pretty much no competition. Five or six designs were his and there may have been a couple of others from outside the ring of "usual artists". Anyway, this year the new shirt design was made by Annie Keithline. It was buffalo and a trampoline. This time the upside-down one was bouncing over a wall with our grad year on it and three others with all the other class graduation years on them. I don't mean to sound like a sore loser, but how could I lose to the buffalo? I had gotten only good reactions from people beforehand about mine and this new buffalo idea was already on shaky ground. The first one made no sense, and won because it looked better than all of his others and people got a kick out of it. I was also told that the original drawing was supposed to be a UFO beaming up the buffalo, but it wasn't working out, so he flipped it over and made it a trampoline. Based on this, I am a bit surprised that Annie would have used it again. She does have a lot of artistic talent, so why keep running with someone else's idea, especially when it seems like not too much effort was put into it?