{"id":60,"date":"2005-07-19T23:26:26","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-10-07T21:21:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T11:21:12","slug":"vitrunicycling-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/07\/19\/vitrunicycling-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitrunicycling Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

I am a unicyclist, and I was designing a new unicycling t-shirt; I needed a logo.<\/p>\n

A brilliant idea occurred to me. Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man<\/a> is an anatomical diagram showing the proportions of the human body; you are probably familiar with the diagram, even if you don’t recognise its name.<\/p>\n

All I needed to do was remove the centre two legs, replace it with a unicycle, and there’s your logo. Vitruvian Man trying to ride a unicycle, legs akimbo, arms waving backwards and forwards for balance.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have very powerful image editing tools back then, and my attempts to draw a unicycle, front on, were totally unsuccessful. Either I could make the drawing unrecognisable as a unicycle, or I could make the perspective so out-of-whack that it looked awful.<\/p>\n

I gave up on being able to implement my idea, and I posted my idea to a public forum in the hope someone more skilled at graphical design than me, somewhere in the world, could carry it off.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward eighteen months. A small unicycling tournament is held in Sydney, and a team from Canberra drive up to take us on.<\/p>\n

To my horror, they are wearing t-shirts with my<\/em> logo! When I challenge them on it, they are confused; they got the idea from some loser on the Internet who hadn’t been able to carry it off, so they had had a go, with far more success.<\/p>\n

When I donated my idea up to the world, I didn’t think it would be taken up by my enemies, to mock me! <\/p>\n

Not only did those brutes win the tournament, but they did so with my own shirt<\/em> on their backs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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