Soccer Word Of The Day: Vuvuzela

Howdy Sport Fans,

Update: I must have been chan­nel­ing same vibe as Paul, the Octo­pus from Ober­hausen Ger­many, when I made this paint­ing, chos­ing red vuvuze­las and opt­ing for a yel­low tweety. The octo­pus appar­ently was pre­dict­ing win­ners of the var­i­ous soc­cer matches and ulti­mately selected Spain in the world cup. Me, I just started a paint­ing in red and yel­low about 3 weeks ago. Any­way, Spain won in OT or some­thing like that.

This Binary Bird paint­ing is because of you.  For weeks Vuvuzela was listed as one of the top 10 trend words on places like Twitter.com, all because the annoy­ing lit­tle horns were omnipresent at the 2010 Foot­ball World Cup in South Africa-or so I have been told. Vuvuzela has been suplanted by LaBron James and assorted Harry Pot­ter char­ac­ters, but by now you’d have to be liv­ing in a cave not to know a) the Soc­cer Cham­pi­onships are going on b) what a vuvuzela is because of a).

Nat­u­rally I fol­lowed the United States team (or at least DH did)  until they fell out of contention.  Today, when I went to pick up my lamp from fel­low artist, JA Jure, she told me all about some Span­ish guy with a lot of hair (Car­les Puyol?) making a spec­tac­u­lar play against the German’s yes­ter­day to advance Spain to the final.  Me I don’t watch so I can’t say for sure. I do not have the sports gene.  How­ever, I do love pop cul­ture and right now Soc­cer is pop and there­fore Binary Birds fair game. 

Back to Vuvuzelas-since it was the word of the day for so long, I, like the rest of the con­nected world had to find out what the heck that was, given that a do not actu­ally watch soc­cer, and of course why every­one was talk­ing about vuvuze­las. Imme­di­ately a Binary Bird image sprang to mind. I have finally fin­ished paint­ing it before the World Cup tour­na­ment ends, so with­out fur­ther ado, I reveal Vuvuze­las.

Vuvuze­las, by Jake Beck­man. A yel­low canary Soc­cer fan rolls a foot­ball against a back­drop of red vuvuzela horns.

The paint­ing fea­tures my trade­mark yel­low tweetie, with a foot­ball, and a back­ground of red vuvuze­las.  The binary across the bot­tom trans­lates as “Vuvuze­las.”   Ini­tially I though about mak­ing the horns assorted col­ors (like red, white and blue ) but it made for a very busy pic­ture. I chose red because I like the color and for no other rea­son.  The fact that Spain’s jer­seys are that color is purely coin­ci­den­tal.  I am sure sev­eral other teams sport that color as well.  As for the tweetie I think he is con­vey­ing, “Hell Yeah!” just fine. 

If you would like to find out more about Vuvuze­las or per­haps buy it, check it out on its page on this web­site.  I hope you like my Foot­ball inspired Binary Bird. 

  Jake

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