Screened Tees and Eating Babies

I really like this. It's a design for a child's screen print tee. I'm not entirely sure why. It makes me laugh, and it has a certain sadness to it at the same time. The monster is all alone and its snowing, not to mention he's wanted!
Screen tee's have become really popular. In most cases they make people walking billboards.
My old manager in chicago runs a website for offensive t-shirts that he finds so hilarious. I still can't get myself to laugh or understand this one...

One of his other favorites is...

Regardless of what message is displayed, screen tees give a lot of exposure to whatever it sports.
What would you do if you saw someone in a t-shirt that said "I eat babies"?
I saw a man at O'hare airport once, and his tshirt had a superman symbol that had been made to resemble a wheelchair handicapped symbol. My friend I was with got really offended by it.
This kind of extreme slightly twisted humor should probably be avoided in campaigns... never a good idea to offend your audience. But the people wearing the t's are just trying to spread their opinion and/or humor. And what the heck, we have that whole freedom of speech bit right?

Creativity in Cooking

Living in a townhouse this year, without a campus meal plan, I have begun to cook many of my meals. However, I have a very interesting selection of items in my fridge, freezer and cupboard. From this I've found I have to be very creative to make a good meal, even more creativity to make it appetizing.
I am impressed with chefs who can creative an unconventional dish. I once had a pasta dish containing only long macaroni noodles, olive oil, feta cheese and cinnamon. The combination was revolutionary. And I am a little proud of myself for choosing it as my entree.
I also looooove to watch the food channel's network challenges for extreme cakes, as well as Ace Of Cakes. I cannot believe the concepts they come up with. It is really hard to believe that its a cake at all. Take a look at this one, it won a wedding cake competition and $10,000. My favorite is when they have to represent disney characters. AMAZING

Watch your dogs! I'll watch ur dogs here!

So tailgating (or excuse me, boulevard-ing) today before the UTEP game, I was overwhelmed with the amount of people who brought dogs. What do they do with them before the game? With parking being such a huge issue I doubt they drove them home quickly. And I saw most dogs out and about up until people were heading over to the stadium. Do people only tailgate then so they can bring their dog home? I guess its not that big of a deal to only tailgate, that's what I did today.
I think it would be a profitable and helpful business to start a doggie daycare at the football games. Like how Ikea has childcare right at the entrance. Except u would pay maybe $20 to leave your dog. Why not?
We yell out like ball park hotdog men, "Watch your dogs! I'll watch ur dogs here!"

Calendars and Calculators

I've always been annoyed with our country's calendar. Why does the week start on a Sunday when it is considered part of the weekend? In Spanish countries, they have got this all straightened out and start the week on Monday.
Also, why do calendars and Calculators reverse the rows of their numbers? On calculators the number one starts in the bottom left corner. But on phones it is in the upper left. I don't understand a reason for this.
Any help?

Drive through and get your Dragon Bag

So sitting late night in the Creative Studio, I have become very hungry. And I've finally determined my craving to be chinese food. And it occurs to me... why is there not yet a drive through late night Chinese Food business? The closest we've come is Panda Express with making it a quick chinese meal... but I've never heard of a chinese drive through. And why not? We can get hamburgers, mexican, italian, pizza, coffee, fried chicken, alcohol, icecream and more through drive throughs... why not yet chinese!!? It could not be much more difficult, especially with how Panda Express has been able to make it such a quick yet very delicious process.

I think I'll go into business. Would you like to be my partner or investor? Someday soon we can be on The Big Idea being glorified for our entrepreneurship. think about it....

Intertextual Title

I hope that some find my blog title to be intertextual. I named it after the movie Batteries Not Included. Did your cranium make that vertical intertextual process?




Of course the general phrase of, "batteries not included" applies as well. I just felt the urge to clarify that I'm not being left out, so don't feel sorry for me! The idea is that although this blog is an idea blog where my thoughts go SPLAT on the web-page like a bug to a windshield on the highway, I myself do not come with the insights described. I ended up sloganizing my own blog title.

I remember watching Batteries Not Included when I was very young. Only scenes come to mind now. But I very vividly remember a man trying desperately to tile a floor, and something/someone always messed up his work. I think of this scenario whenever I've almost finished with a project and something trips me up.

Dot Draw

When I was around the age of a kindergardener, my favorite pass time is what I liked to call dot-drawing. I would take a piece of paper, close my eyes, and stab dots wherever my pencil would land. Then I would connect the dots (eyes open of course) and form from that shape whatever I could. I remember one in particular was a large man reaching up and over to scratch the upper part of his back. It think thats pretty clever. I don't think today I would come up with that concept, and run with it none the less. Of course there were also birds and witches and all the sort. But it was so neat to develop a random blob shape and see what could emerge from it.
This reminds me of the amount of unsuppressed creativity children have as we talked about in class.