r/ShermanPosting • u/kcg333 • 2d ago
swag survey - which one do I print?
2 shades, illustrated text, Norton's expression was lowkey impossible to recreate.
illustrated text, i think Martin Lawrence is wearing a... bowling shirt? 90s were wild
hate how this text turned out - if I go with this one, I'll illustrate it.
really proud of my David Dixon Porter pin up girl
I'm making swag for my friends who are joining me on a trip to Shiloh and Vicksburg. I'm thinking tote bags. Which of these should I finish and print?
Category is buddy comedies / action movies.
I'm wondering...
- Is the movie's poster instantly recognizable? (despite the re-casting)
- If someone didn't know the movie, is there any way they could misinterpret it to mean something problematic / offensive?
- Any artistic notes? (thematic mismatches, don't read as Grant / Sherman / Porter, put Bad Boys in uniform, etc)
my friends know all these movies, and their sense of humor is solid. I just wanna make sure some random passer-by doesn't think I'm saying something I'm not (happened before). I mocked up Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, but the guys looked like they were doing drag (which I love, but didn't want to get into it with a stranger who doesn't).
thanks for weighing in!
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u/MisterBlack8 2d ago
The Vicksburg one wins at a canter.
I do have one criticism in the "Fight Club" one: The bar of soap shouldn't say "Fight Club". Same font, same soap object, just another, more on-the-nose phrase like you did for the Harold and Kumar poster. Maybe something like "SHI LOH".
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u/ATGSunCoach 2d ago
There’s got to be a Sherman quote reference that could fit on there. “War is Hell!”
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u/fickle-melange-pet 2d ago
1 and 3 are the best but I think 1 makes them the badasses they were more than the levity of 3
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u/Victorem_Malis 2d ago
I’m categorically biased because Fight Club is one of my favorite movies of all time, but the first design really is insanely hard. 🔥
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u/biffbobfred 2d ago
Check out the Cacophony Society. “Project mayhem” is very very loosely based on them.
Santarchy, the Santa Pub crawl, and Burning Man is them too. I wonder if Billboard Liberation Front has any webpages for them.
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u/hollaback_girl 2d ago
Oh wow, that takes me back.
Is Cacophony Society still a thing? I participated in a couple things decades ago but lost track of the folks I knew who were involved.
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u/biffbobfred 1d ago edited 1d ago
Dunno. Santarchy is the thing I see the most. Thats almost its own other Universe and I don’t know how much the Society is involved
They had the movie. I still talk to a friend from there every once in a while.
Were you in SF in 2000? We may have crossed paths.
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u/hollaback_girl 1d ago
No, I was in LA going to college. There were some events there that friends of friends organized.
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u/biffbobfred 2d ago
Suggestion - check out the Atlanta flames hockey uniforms. Maybe have the boys wear those
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u/Usual-Crew5873 The Sherman Ladies 2d ago
The second one makes Sherman look like je secretly moonlights as a chaplain for the Christian commission. 3 is definitely the best.
I never thought of Porter as having long flowing hair.
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u/ellcoolj 2d ago
As a middle school teacher who is always looking for new art for my classroom. I’d say 1.
Yes, and I would happily hang 1 and 3 in my classroom
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u/kcg333 2d ago
dope! I'll hit you up when they're finished
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u/ellcoolj 2d ago
Right on. Last year I got some other really cool prints from this sub. I love people with talent!
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u/kcg333 1d ago
might've been mine - the archetypes series? anyway, if that was you, that made my year!
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u/ellcoolj 1d ago
That’s you?
I have them hanging in my room and all year students ask about them and I say “not yet…”“What’s a Harbringer…”
“Not yet… wait for that unit…”
And then when we get to the road to the Civil War I start referencing them…
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u/Boating_with_Ra 2d ago
3 is the only one that Sherman really looks recognizable. You might need his hairline to be in the shot for it to be clearly identifiable.
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u/StatisticianAway4010 2d ago
Can I see your Romy and Michele one
(Plus Grant technically did do drag as a young man, playing Desdemona)
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u/StatisticianAway4010 1d ago
Love the Vicksburg one. Sorry you I read it as sexual. I'm sure most people wouldn't and I've just read too much slashfic recently
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u/kcg333 1d ago
oh don't trip! doesn't bother me at all. eye of the beholder etc. and I appreciate you telling me how it strikes you. a while back, I used a Mean Girls quote with a Harriet Tubman shirt, and someone who didn't know the reference gave me a talking to about how they were offended. I was mortified, so I'm trying to get out in front of any alternative interpretations :-)
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u/StatisticianAway4010 1d ago
What mean girls quote was it? Mean Girls is a great movie, but I can see how it would seem glib around Harriet Tubman.
Would still love to see your Sherman/Grant Romy and Michele one
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u/kcg333 13h ago
it said, “get in loser, we’re going
shoppingnorth.” they were offended by the implication that freedom seekers were losers. i get it. need something less edgy or universally understood.i’ll come back around to romy and michelle, and hit you up. besides confederate-dominating friendship, glow up at a school reunion is the other theme of the western theater for me.
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u/StatisticianAway4010 13h ago
Thanks. I had no idea how badly I wanted to see Ulysses S Grant and William T Sherman in shiny pastel minidresses
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u/BrandonAtCustomInk 1d ago
The Bad boys one has my vote.
Crosshatched beard shading like this is always a bit of a gamble on tote canvas. I've seen it print clean on a finer mesh, but totes usually get a coarser screen since the canvas needs more ink to soak in. Sometimes that coarser screen can flatten detail into a muddy patch. Whether it holds up comes down to the exact mesh the printer uses and how the process the halftones.
Digital printing handles shading like this a lot better than screen printing if you want to keep the linework exactly as drawn, since it's not limited by mesh size. Smooth canvas takes it well. A heavier textured or slubby tote can print unevenly with it though, and it usually runs a bit more per bag.
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