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FICTIONAL PRODUCTS

Gift Shop

November 18, 2010

826 National, an organization that develops creative writing centers for young people, recently opened a storefront in Washington DC called the Museum of Unnatural History.

Graphic designer Oliver Munday designed several products for a storefront for the nonprofit, and they’re quite awesome.

Thanks to the Murketing Tumblr for the find.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Fridge

November 15, 2010

In 2004, a 19-year-old named Mark Zuckerberg designed and launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room. This was Zuckerberg’s refrigerator.

Actually, it’s Zuckerberg’s 2004 refrigerator as portrayed by David Fincher in The Social Network.
What you’ll see in the film is a ton of Ivy League undergrads guzzling Mountain Dew and Red Bull, wearing GAP sweaters, and discussing [...]

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Sunset Sarsaparilla

November 12, 2010

In the post-apocalyptic American wasteland of 2280, the options for quenching one’s thirst are essentially limited to three beverages: purified water, radioactive water, and Nuka-cola (also radioactive).
In certain regions of the southwest, however, the bleak and brutal existence of wastelanders is marginally brightened by an alternative soda called Sunset Sarsaparilla.   Although known to [...]

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Sipping on the Slusho!verse

October 29, 2010

The next time you clasp your hands against your skull as the result of an excruciating brain freeze brought on by downing an ice-cold Slusho! too quickly, take comfort in the knowledge that the euphoric effects of the “Deep Sea Ingredient” will soon kick in to mitigate your suffering.
The Deep Sea Ingredient is, of course, [...]

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Heinz is Pure

October 15, 2010

Filmmaker and close friend, D. M. Pelley, informed me in 2007 that he was creating a short for the Heinz Top This TV Challenge, a contest in which the public was invited to submit their own homemade Heinz Ketchup commercials for a grand prize of $57,000 to the winning entry. I was amused to [...]

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Natape: A Serious Drink. Probably.

October 13, 2010

For those following NBC’s new series, The Event:  Did the 2.23 second shot (yes, I timed it) of this bottle of scotch strike you as odd?   Michael Buchanan shares this bottle with Sean Walker, describing it as “a serious drink”, and “very rare stuff”.
Hmm.  Anyone wanna start placing bets on the future significance of [...]

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2011 Mediocrity

October 4, 2010

“This car is an exact replica of a car”
- Marilyn Reiter, Senior VP of Worldwide Product Development, Mediocrity Motor Company

The anticipation is at room temperature for the 2011 Mediocrity to hit the evenly-paved streets this month. With options such as ”Windshield” and “Hubcap”, and a palette of colors that includes “Medium Crumb” and “Stale Biscuit”, [...]

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Let’s Do Lunch

September 8, 2010

Have you been shirking your networking duties at conventions? Don’t risk the shame of returning home light on business cards. Pad your rolodex with some of Fro Reza’s creations from his Day Jobs set – an 11 x 17 print with cut-out ready business cards from employees of imaginary corporations.
Here’s a small sample:

For [...]

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ACCESS GRANTED

September 1, 2010

I can clearly remember a subtle wave of disappointment washing over me after I unboxed and booted up my Coleco Adam circa 1987. Where were all the high-tech bleeps that announced each function? Why did blocks of text just show up on the screen all at once when I loaded a file, as [...]

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Netscope

August 28, 2010

Netscope – when you need an instant dossier on the victim of your next serial murder, accept no substitutes.

It’s odd.  You’d think that Dexter would never touch a real product or use a real service on the show, because there are few companies that would take kindly to being a psychopathic killer’s “____ of choice”.   [...]

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The Form of The Destructor – Now with Caffeine!

August 26, 2010

When the physical manifestation of Gozer the Gozerian (aka Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, Gozer the Traveler,  and Lord of the Sebouillia) occurs, it’s a devastating blow to any realm unfortunate enough to be the host for this malevolent deity. Although The Ghostbusters happened to vanquish the extradimensional threat within minutes of its arrival, [...]

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