Sometimes, when you are on sick leave and have spent too much time in your apartment, you amuse yourself by looking up delightful photos of fat cats on the internet.
And sometimes, when it's been a particularly bad week and you're in sweatpants, feeling sorry for yourself, you see a fat cat portrayed as Catzilla morphed into a famous ancient Japanese art print and think: this cat is my spirit animal.
And sometimes, because you stopped drinking coffee and your brain doesn't quite motor the way it should, you then think: This is art. I must buy this and hang it in my house a week before my mother arrives to see if the move overseas has caused her 30 year old daughter to grow up. Because this is a great idea brain, and I respect your whimsicality.
And then, if you too have followed the timeline above, you would find yourself looking up custom canvas art prints on the internet. And that would be your Tuesday afternoon. Good job adult.
But the internet land of custom canvases is a scary place. From amazon touting their cheapo £5.99 canvases to fine art sites making you question whether Catzilla is worth a £50 canvas - it's wild and crazy world out there. Until you snap out of your non-caffeinated daze and remember you work for a magical place that makes decisions for you. And you Yelp it. You Yelp it good.
And sometimes, Birmingham's own Vicky O steers you in the right direction (as she has many times before) and you find yourself at the Orbit Print website, where the prices fall on the lower end - but not so low that it makes you nervous. Then you upload your fat cat masterpiece in a few easy steps, place the order for super reasonable shipping, hear back from customer service within an hour that everything is good to go and voila - a few days later, it arrives.
You unwrap the parcel hesitantly... because good reviews or not, this was a photo from the internet and pretty cheap... so it could look like garbage. But no, today is not the day that you throw your hands up in the air and mentally beat yourself up over another "frivolous internet purchase" that proved to be subpar. The canvas is good quality, the photo looks great, there is no pesky pixelation and it arrived in time for your mother to see how whimsical her daughter has grown up to be.
So then you hang Catzilla in your kitchen. And while you're making bedtime tea one Sunday night, you look up, giggle and remember that the service ninjas at Orbit deserve one heck of a Yelp story.
And so, with tea in hand, beneath the glow of the kitchen light and the protective eyes of Catzilla, you pen said review, so other adventurers of Yelpland may also have the experience of turning fat cats into art.
The End.
(This review is based on a true story.)
(Yes, I really did make an internet meme into art.)
(Yes, it's delightful.)
(High five Orbit.) read more