Over the weekend, my girlfriend Lauren and Makena (her 3 year old daughter) were decorating the sidewalk outside of my house with chalk. Spiders, fish, rainclouds, tacos… Even “crime scene” style body outlines! I had to join in.
Ever since high school, I’ve had a tendency to draw the Slayer logo everywhere. It started with notebook sketches, and somehow continued even into my professional life. I’ve definitely come out of client meetings with a big ol’ SLAYER logo along the side of my notes.
Anyway, it’s only natural that I needed to draw a huge SLAYER on the sidewalk right outside of my house so that the whole neighborhood could enjoy it.
Makena loves to help, so she finished off the ‘R’ and helped me make the letters a bit thicker. I realized that this was a fantastic photo opportunity, so…
Edit: This image has spread across the web like wildfire. I’ve seen it pop up on Reddit several times, and it seems to have become a meme (“slayer kid”, “there is hope”). While I’m not aware of a foolproof way to track the how far the image has spread (especially on Facebook) I’d like to do a follow up post on my observations.
pmstr
*cue Angel of Death*
Thanks for starting my day with a smile Makena!
The Metalluminati
This is about to go viral…
John
Thanks for tweeting it! It made it’s way over to 9gag (http://9gag.com/gag/5055307), and has blown up on Facebook!
Aric
Starting her off right!!! I love it.
sprech.sucht
Hi, I found a song on SLAYER-kids. You’ll maybe like it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pu0dl56-Wcc
It’s in german but I try to translate it.
Have fun!
Heavy Metal Kid
You play as fast as wind
Yet no one knows your band
But you know you have talent
Your mommy is begging
But you go on headbanging
You love mom she’s your purveyor
But even mor you love SLAYEEEEER!!!!
Heavy Metal Kid
The hair waves in the wind
You don’t want to study
You want to have a tattoo
Best would be some fire
Mom’s health does expire
And anyway you’re a yes sayer
To buddys beer and SLAYEEEEER!!!!
alexandar serbia
2,796 people like this, 461 shares so far… Epic image dude, cheerz
Chris
Congrats! I thought this was amazing the first time I saw it on fb on a crummy Monday morning…made my day. Now I see it everywhere! I have the same annoying problem actually, I have to draw the SLAYER logo on everything!
JOSE
haha. saw this a while ago. its my fb avi for about a wk now. people freak out and think i have a kid these days. super cool man. i draw the slayer logo evrywhere. SLAYER RULZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yuuup
you can always drag the slayer image to images.google.com’s search field then google will search the web for similar images..
http://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZitai3hOHqCFyHlMnMWkVm5qScBaWgJo2bKj1qAlWdxZhKA6RsziSoRCwMTlnjFuxrmYqdbXsneDN-usJwSPcYPAE4mGDFfBcEiBVZ1IziDIrfjyNfclVvp3RoI_1xO9cyzVegJ1ODoOqGeYNjdy50ZId-ImWOo7K2xGLPoQOhVCKu9woMSBJ1Ihh9q-KdKgxT2Z78jNy9wkqllzYDJwQEpkFYOJOr-F7OE-MDuq6LC7ecesnmb-IBflsxjNOS6VV_1CxCMynuFTJW60eQ3ptmwi0ROfQ12UWOOpzasV92HcxU92Jah1sZgWaGlP21XQNRFQejDI5Lpb81jKXJHKkPWofTiFeQUEM2TU1RBlacwuVgRJG4HK576Xz_1V_1y7eqZHsNE0VBFalYnsQpsqklo03XMsReOKTu3L0iySiZ8gVbWvF8JFaLl7cCehynxm9iTqYEF0JN9oo2m9MZzhqirHral-BiguB90glwKEPyvWUw0GflGWwVP0_1mXdG0EpHK0TtqFCy5W4jl8UX9TAR4RhSK7pFnXLOhGQTgou1zykwN-s20xubsPFZumjRTeitJ1J1ak-lEtGu7Q4jvnqAqCpwLS9cLltXHq8zjH3QTHko5ahOiyXHlsLef-VfIAvCOtnDirbQBFGW-f4UEOV7c1VoTLR7gWOuTuvzY26RS1UsMYDSY5bdYD379UOTShTmDKOJBbP04D-5tR1OuWz2Jw28AohAycuTUAS-12J5j0s6JbAKj3PY3onPH_1tqKMgh_1n-BzOgcQ8JB6_1NBQ18ad2s5cwKhk_1zHLp-GPqOQ3FbGFEhFA4EAVO0KueJg7lyiqSACZHg_1zf-oL8LOHAEIV1Niv4z5lE0AFru5OPYTQGOM7C9j7kmYw914ttBIaMdl9TYJqL4zAws4TI5Rz8_1y4fI0jU0dGl4FIBuWWBQUMV78ixI4p8-hJV7_12qgaNy6zMwMbQRf2YMYiLsu5dpgEnDw5GCy6CRhdM_1PfYrEDxV9mYpTbYvnsLl1L0B9b0yHJ26sIWR-nEFAYB8N3iaC45gwn_1xCJzOJm1Ui1vC4N5cS7EgvN0s1rBtFU4JuaN0VF5NxhjSzTp6vMTYlnMrIkvtjGHb00ilmK6lTLUyzX5fqPPZfewZuA4qiMSj5GUXpoIfrWUVMrRxXdmdJHL09aHlteAfDWAMzfgJ2tDkaUQg8dc3cdtJTFl-utLi0gz47vcPOw7wiksIxmNvKSon2Fw_1rm-rFht8dnb1i17uTnRiAbBzxFOcTEd3zF01q9wi8XAqoH5qIXBUz_19arbYU9FLXwWV7kwchKbdlfpF4Z6qhOfOfZA87vqAU&btnG=Search&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&sa=N&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1270&bih=369
John
Thanks for the attribution Google! My site is buried on page 2, haha. Pretty awesome how much that spread around though.