So, the other day, this phrase just popped into my head: May the Fourth be with you Mike Tyson. Yeah, I know, sounds completely daft. It was around May the 4th, obviously, and I guess I’d seen something about Mike Tyson on the telly. My brain just decided to smash those two things together. And once it was in there, I couldn’t shake it. I thought, “Right, I gotta do something with this. This is too stupid to ignore.”
How This Whole Mess Started
It wasn’t like I had a grand plan. Most of my little projects start this way – a random thought, a silly idea, and then I just have to see it through. It’s like an itch I gotta scratch. So, “May the Fourth be with you Mike Tyson”… What does that even look like? A Jedi Tyson? Tyson giving Star Wars advice? The possibilities were hilariously endless.
I figured, the best way to get this out of my system was to try and make some kind of image. Something quick and dirty. I’m no artist, mind you, not by a long shot. But I know my way around a few simple tools online, the kind of stuff anyone can use.
Getting My Hands Dirty
First thing, I needed source material. So, I went hunting:
- A decent picture of Mike Tyson. Needed that iconic face, maybe the tattoo.
- Some Star Wars bits. A Jedi robe, a lightsaber, maybe a spacey background.
I fired up my trusty old computer, which groans a bit these days but still gets the job done. I wasn’t aiming for Hollywood special effects here. Just something to get a laugh. I found this really basic online image editor – you know the type, drag and drop, cut and paste. Nothing fancy at all. Perfect for a hack like me.
Let me tell you, the first few attempts were a disaster. A complete train wreck. Trying to stick Mike Tyson’s head onto a Jedi body without it looking like a ransom note cut-out was harder than I figured. The proportions were all wrong, colors clashed. It looked like something my cat would cough up.
I almost gave up, thought, “Maybe this idea is just too dumb even for me.” But then I remembered the phrase, “May the Fourth be with you Mike Tyson,” and it just made me chuckle again. So, I kept fiddling.
I tried a few different approaches. One idea was Tyson holding a lightsaber, but he looked more like he was about to club someone with it rather than do any fancy Jedi moves. Then I thought about making him say the line, maybe with a lisp, you know? “May the Fourth be with you.” But getting that across in a still image is tricky without it looking too cluttered.
The… Uh… Masterpiece?
After a bit more messing around, probably more time than I should admit, I landed on something. It wasn’t perfect, not by a long shot. But it had that weird energy I was going for. It was Mike, looking a bit bewildered, in some kind of vague Jedi-ish outfit. I even managed to slap a very poorly drawn lightsaber into his hand. It’s the kind of picture that makes you tilt your head and go, “Huh?”
The final thing, if you can call it that, is just this one image. It’s probably not going to break the internet. But for me, it was the process, you know? Taking that ridiculous phrase, “May the Fourth be with you Mike Tyson,” and actually trying to make something, anything, out of it. It’s a bit rough around the edges, a lot rough actually, but it makes me smile. And that’s the point, right?
So yeah, that was my little adventure. Just a silly idea, a bit of mucking about, and a result that’s more funny than good. But hey, sometimes those are the best kinds of practices. Keeps the brain from going stale, I reckon.
