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Blank Within a Blank – My Desktop

August 30, 2010

Randy Ludacer (BoxVox.net) has been documenting packages that utilize the Droste effect for years – including the recursive effect’s namesake, Droste Cocoa.

He’s been able to find a wealth of examples so far, and I hope that his collection of Droste effect packages continues to grow.
On a related note, I recently played around with LogMeIn, a [...]

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Eat. Spit. Be Happy.

May 13, 2010

In the “About” section of this site I inform readers that this is a blog for those of us interested in matters of great import, such as the brand of sunflower seeds preferred by imaginary FBI Agent Fox Mulder. For a while, I’ve felt like a fraud, as this crucial topic has not yet [...]

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A Spectre is Haunting the Grocery Store

April 25, 2010

The morning after I posted my original entry on a hyper-meta Coca-Cola can, I saw these new 7.5 ouncers in the supermarket:

I love the way that these little Cokes refer to earlier versions of themselves. It’s a fascinating mix of brand narcissism and packaging nostalgia – as if the Coke is longing for a [...]

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Coke… it’s the real thing

April 18, 2010

Witness a can of Coca-Cola as it passes through various stages of being:
Stage One: The can exists in physical reality.

Stage Two: The can becomes a power up for the 1988 32-bit arcade game, Bad Dudes.

Stage Three: The can becomes a power up for the 1990 8-bit NES version of the 32-bit arcade game, Bad [...]

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Blonde Horses

April 10, 2010

As a film geek in my twenties, I did what almost every film geek does during this formative decade – I wrote spec screenplays. In each of them, I found a way to work in a reference to a brand of cigarettes called Blonde Horse. The smokes were never relevant to any of [...]

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We’re Watching You, Perello

March 27, 2010

Ever late to the must-see TV party, I just started watching Mad Men.  Within the first handful of episodes I spotted a rare case of accidental fictional product placement.

Mad Men prop master Gay Perello is widely lauded for his faithfulness to props grounded in the reality of the early 60’s.  Although centered around the Machiavellian [...]

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