When I finish a big acting or writing project, I have this massive crash, like the world’s worst hangover combined with a profound sense of emptiness and loss. I understand that this is really common for creative people, but understanding that doesn’t make it any easier for me to accept it. I AM SUPERMAN, GODDAMMIT! I CAN DO ANYTHING!
Um, except that I can’t.
I’ve felt this ickyness for the last couple of days, and though I know it will eventually pass (it always does), it’s incredibly difficult for me to give myself permission to take a fuck off day or two, when I already feel like what I do isn’t real work anyway, and people I know are getting laid off left and right.
Anyway, in an effort to balance out teh emo, please enjoy this picture I drew while I was on the phone with Andrew yesterday:
“Unlike the boring experience of taking notes in a text editor on the computer, using an actual pen and actual paper presented the opportunity to draw an actual unicorn, with a star for an eye, a wheel instead of back legs, riding on the leading edge of a rainbow.
AWESOME.
It’s blurry, because it’s just a stupid crappy camphone shot, but I think that’s part of its charm.”
I thought it was riding the front edge of a rainbow, but a consensus is emerging that it’s actually farting a rainbow. I can accept either one of these interpretations. The important thing is, I have a unicorn with a star for an eye and wheels for legs.
ETA: See, this is why I love the Internets. Reader B says “I loved your unicorn phone doodle and was moved to draw this…”
Well, here’s somehing you might get a little kick out of (unless you’ve already seen or heard about it): You’re referenced in Fable 2 on the Xbox 360! I’ve just started playing it (managed to avoid reviewing it so I can play it “for real” now that it’s out) and after a few hours I picked up a “Crushed Will Wheat Potion”. Well, I thought it was funny :).
Well, here’s somehing you might get a little kick out of (unless you’ve already seen or heard about it): You’re referenced in Fable 2 on the Xbox 360! I’ve just started playing it (managed to avoid reviewing it so I can play it “for real” now that it’s out) and after a few hours I picked up a “Crushed Will Wheat Potion”. Well, I thought it was funny :).
I wish my husband farted rainbows.
Haha, I actually thought the rainbow was a jumping motion cloud. Hopsy the Jumping Wheelchair Unicorn.
hehe to me that looks like a dog with a party hat jumping off a cloud. 😀
A Unicorn chaser is a Unicorn chaser…
That is awesome!
It’s true that actually writing stuff out – or doodling in this case – is rewarding in such a different way!
All I have to ask is, where is Robocop, and why isn’t he farting rainbows as well.
Speaking of Unicorns. Here’s a youtube video I had found in passing, and it’s really funny.
and for more unicorn fun
At first I didn’t know what to think, but it’s too weird to look away. Just thought I would share.
I love Unicorns, even named my cat Unicorn. People always look at me weird when I tell them. Anyway, I don’t think it’s farting a rainbow, if it was a rainbow fart, or rainfart, the rainbow would have to be at the tail end of the Unicorn, this looks like it is at the end of the spine of the Unicorn. Just putting it all in perspective. Enjoy Charlie the Unicorn.
I immediately assumed “farting a rainbow” when I saw the picture. This was prior to actually reading the post.
Besides, “farting a rainbow” is so much less twee than “riding a rainbow”.
The unicorn on wheels reminds me of that episode of the Dog Whisperer with the dog that had no front legs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDJOzSwhr8k
That’s awesome. My phone doodles are usually abstract semi-geometric line things.
Just two things.
1) Criminal Minds last week, full of awesome! You creeped me out, and that’s hard for the former Wesley to do. Kudos on the bad guy!!
2) The rainbow/unicorn photo reminds me of something I hears on another tv show. “I assume next time you’ll tell me that there’s such thing as unicorns and they sh*t rainbows.” Don’t ask why your drawing reminded me of that.
Glad to see this back. Too bad I didn’t realize earlier, when it was “really” back.
Your post made me think of this quote: “Well, I made the duck blue because I’d never seen a blue duck before and I wanted to see one.”
But, in a good way. 😛
It’s Paul Stanley, a rainbow, and a unicorn, hooked to a chariot. As a mashup. You’ve managed to render the dreams of so many young girls in 1978, in one image! 😉
My immediate reaction: that needs to be a T-shirt. No jazzing it up, no fixing lines or coloring. Just straight up doodley goodness. Awesome. 🙂
More symbolically, I think the unicorn is being stabbed in the back by the rainbow. A little ROYGBV-attack, if you will.
yeah – gotta say i was in the fart camp when i first saw it. although that may have something to do with the fact that the dogs tricked my husband and i both into feeding them last night (so they got two portions) and it’s been stank-o-rama around here for reals.
also, totally unrelated. i was driving home from burbank last night on the 405 right around where the getty is and this giant police helicopter was shining its light on the side of the hill there where it’s all dark and next thing you know i see this white car appear in the spot light and it tumbles end over end down the hill and then tumble tumble lands right side up directly onto the slow lane of the north bound side of the 405. and then a police cruiser comes speeding by at like 150 mph and then i was too far away to see what else happened.
like i said, totally unrelated to farts, rainbows, unicorns, dogs, wheels, or stars but…
i dunno. it just needed to be said.
It’s…beautiful, a true work of art, just the kind of thing I draw in calculus when my instructor is going on about hyperbolic functions and what not.
Uhm…
*is glad she wasnt the only one that though more along the lines of ‘farting rainbows’*
So shouldn’t it be a unicorn with wheels-for-legs farting a rainbow AND a cloud? Otherwise, where did that cloud come from?
Am I taking things too literally again? I need to stop that (or so I’m told!)
Start over: That’s cute Wil!
*smiles*
It’s like the long lost Harry Potter character. We finally have the totally p/c set & this character can stomp out Cornelius Fudge
I feel that feeling you are having when I get back from a vacation. Profound sense of loss and uselessness – like I am now currently doing something really mundane and stupid after being on such a grand adventure.
If only I had all the money in the world, I would just travel for months and months like they used to in the olden days.
You know…I would totally love to be your unicorn for Halloween. Wouldn’t that be an amazing costume?
Dali would be proud.
So would Magritte.
It’s definately farting the rainbow, and the rainbow is so cool it’s legs are turning into a Harley-Davidson from sheer morphic coolness.
To battle the Comedown Ennui, I heartily recommend “On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Part Two”. Point-and-Click adventure fun, with turn-based initiative-driven combat. From Penny-Arcade. Therefore, made of condensed, liquidised Hawesome. Go on. You’ve earned it.
Saw this on digg yesterday:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87258185@N00/2945623741/in/set-72157603724213121/
Robocop and Unicorn kick ass!
I may be way behind on this (very likely) but I haven’t seen anyone here talking about this. Check it out! http://www.neighborhoodies.com/rickroll-tee-p-413.html Does this count as RickRolling people as you walk down the street?
I felt that profound sense of loss after giving birth the first time- the pregnancy was over, and there was this emptyness inside. It didn’t make sense as I could look over and see the baby, but I still felt like something was missing inside me.
It felt really good a few years later to find someone else who had that same experience. 🙂
Reminds me of the funk that Conan Doyle described Sherlock Holmes going into between cases. He shot up cocaine to get through it, though. Your uni-chariot with rainbow exhaust is definitely a healthier alternative! Stars for eyes? Maybe his high-beams are on!
As a partial followup to akreventlov’s comment, I give you unicorn and robocop FTW!
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Robocop_and_Unicorn_kick_butt_PIC
Nothing to do with the blog post at all…but someone I follow on Twitter just put their list of who they think would make a good Dr Who seeing as Tennant is standing down. You were in his list. How about it?
OMG because Unicorns:
1. Are Awesome. (obviously)
2. WIN. (Duh!)
3. They fart MAGIC. (where else would the rainbow come from but magic?)
Thanks : )
I thought he was leaving a rainbow in his wake on those speedy little wheels, the way the Delorean left flames in its path on Back to the Future.
erm…what’s a pen?
Put me into the “rainbow fart” camp as well. Well, technically I thought it was crapping a rainbow, but it’s the same basic idea 🙂
I’m thinking the rainbow got caught around the unicorn’s axle.
Reminds me of a Charlie the Unicorn weirdass animation bit on You Tube my 9yr. old heard about at school and tracked down to watch. Two other unicorns lead Charlie to a cave and steal his kidney. Looks like this time they got his back legs.
I’m curious to see the unicorn using a walker with tennis balls on the post bottoms.
Amazingly, this isn’t up at boingboing yet. It could follow the swinging baby.
When you experience the crash periods after the creative highs are over, it’s important to do things for yourself that are nurturing and uplifting. In the process of creating, you are giving of yourself, your ideas, time and emotions. You give until you are emotionally and creatively bankrupt. You have to make a deposit so that you don’t feel so “empty”.
Just a few suggestions – take Anne somewhere on an overnight – it doesn’t have to be far from home, just different scenery and no distractions. Take a long, nourishing walk in an area that is beautiful and feeds your soul. Prepare a special and satisfying meal and share it with friends. Have a family game night that is light-hearted and fun. And laugh. Laughter really is the best medicine and is one of the most effective “deposits” for your bank. Feel better soon.
i’ll also go with “farting”
is its name Gary?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87258185@N00/2945572425/in/set-72157603724213121/
Robocop for president! Thats too funny.
oops someone already posted it *facepalm*
it looks to me like the unicorn is dragging the rainbow along behind it. That made me smile.
Then I scrolled down and saw the unicorn hooked up tot he oxygen, and that made me miss my grandma.
My gram was awesome, even when she was old and on the O2. She made great lasagna, but she didn’t fart rainbows. She also wasn’t a unicorn.
I am glad to know I’m not the only one who feels sort of icky and blah after finishing an intense creative project.
Have you seen this print on Etsy, the artist’s interpretation of where rainbows come from (unicorn vomit, natch)?
http://tinyurl.com/6xl8yv