Thursday, February 19, 2009

Pac Man style



I found this frightened ghost on the side of an old paper towel dispenser in a hipster coffee shop.

While it very well may be the result of a quick sketch, it does indeed resemble a ghost from Pac Man or Ms. Pac Man after you eat a power pellet and the ghosts turn blue and run away.

The empty eyes and the pointed, squiggled mouth suggest confusion, fear, or even panic. Add to this the apparent haste in finishing this drawing and we can almost feel the nervousness...

Was our artist afraid of something? Maybe he was on a first date. Maybe this first date was accompanied by a nervous stomach. Mix coffee in with that hot bed and you are surely headed to a mess.

Maybe he is married to his first date now, or perhaps they split ways ages ago, having completely forgotten about his sad, nervous ghost. Now it is rediscovered and written about by some idiot with apparently too much time on his hands!

1 comment:

  1. OR, perhaps he was drawing exactly what he was doing (at the time)--dropping a power pellet.

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