Deja vu

Two years ago, David and I collaborated (he drew/painted and I supplied the words) on a children's book that we submitted for a contest in Japan. Whoever won would get their book published; amazing right? Of course we didn't win, but being able to work with David was pretty sweet. He's really one of the most talented and amazing artists/friends I'm honoured to have known and worked with. Naks. These are a few of the paintings from the book.

The book was about two siblings who went to the beach and wanted to take the beach home with them, so they decide to collect each thing they find and put it in a pail. Then they look into the pail and see how sad the starfish, fish, turtle, and jellyfish are because they've been taken out of the ocean. In the end the kids decide to put them back into the water.
David was part of the marine biological society in school so he specifically wanted to draw the stuff he'd seen underwater. I had no problem with that because some of the most magical things I've seen have also been underwater.

So imagine my surprise when the guy in the Dukoral commercial (who gets a sudden attack of traveler's diarrhea while swimming in the ocean) looked a lot like David's drawings!

Coincidence, yes?