When Ken and I first stared down at our completed chainsaw panda illustration we knew exactly what we had accomplished. Some artists spend their entire lifetime trying to come up with a masterpiece so perfect and so beautiful, and they never come close. But we had done it. We had created something that nothing else will ever top, because it is visual artistic perfection. It IS the very definition of art. We felt like the way God must feel when he's drawing pandas with chainsaws for arms..
We knew that this angelic piece would become ridiculously popular. People would no longer remember what the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel looked like. A Campbell's soup can would go back to just being food. They'd stop viewing "Chocolate Rain" on Youtube. And everyone would continue to not care about Yoko Ono. And who could blame them? Everything else that had been done in the past was now obsolete. You've got a panda bear with chainsaws instead of arms in front of you, why look at anything else ever again?
Well, with anything that is popular comes imitation. Some chump trying to make a buck of your genius. We anticipated this. Having first graders finger painting it during art time is okay I suppose. But when we typed in "Chainsaw panda" into google yesterday it was quite a different story. (Take that poster up above for instance, we didn't make it!) You see, one of the first links that popped up on google read "Chainsaw panda tee at Zazzle.com!" What are the odds that someone else had come up with a chainsaw panda on their own? So I give it a click, and sure enough, there's our masterpiece scrawled across a AQUA (yes, you read that.) t-shirt for $25. When I regained consciousness, I called up the company and shouted as many curse words and racial slurs as I could remember. Not surprisingly that did the trick. The now sobbing man on the other end of the line explained to me that users could submit any artwork they wanted and they'd sell it through the site. He immediately removed the shirt and provided me with the culprit's email: camalex@gmail.com
Now, we could have went off on this guy like it was our job (Wait a sec...). But, we thought it would be much funnier if YOU did it instead. Get creative! Don't be afraid to let it all out. And when you're done forward it to us so we can have a good laugh too. Have fun!
-Eric Pause ¶ 3:48 PM
