







Talking like a zombie is a lot more complicated than you think, so if you want to fine tune your zombie language skills, I recommend, the Zombie Lexicon guides. From nouns to propositions, and other random stuff, you'll be covered for that zombie walk later tonight.
I just found out from a friend of mine after watching Dinner for Schmucks with Steve Carell, is that there really are world beard and mustache championships. Teams from Canada, the US, and Europe compete with categories for best mustache, best beard, there is a freestyle category, it is crazy what people can do with their beards...I have yet to see the bearded lady though. The first national US beard championships happened in June earlier this year in Oregon. Sad I missed it, but I'm sure there will be more to come from this. hahahaha. World Beard and Mustache Championships.
So I did end up sticking with Orbit Gum for my product project. My best friend helped me come up with a name as long as ideas. Since sugarfree gum contains sugar alcohol, if eaten in excess, this can cause diarrhea. Sadly, I've tested this and it proves true. So I've renamed my product MoreShit! A sort of half rhyme with Orbit, and it now (in my fantasy world at least) comes in Laxamint. Which by the way, in my search about different things for Orbit, I've found that laxative gum already does exist, so my product will have a spot on the market. Heh heh.
My bestie also gave me the idea of a sort of Bertie Bott's every flavor theme, which I think is another great idea considering Orbit gum has every unnecessary flavor out there possible.
After I finished my product, I wanted to see how it fit back into the world! I went to the liquor store by my house, asked to place it on the shelf, I did, and photographed it. Oh, my bastard child from Orbit fits so well into the gum social scene.
Some technical stuff if I must, I created it in illustrator, I found an Orbit box template off the internet (thank God for the internet) and I just used the box outline. I pretty much started from scratch. except for the ying yangish "O" logo in Orbit. That I used Live Trace and recolored it. I created a signature in high school in illustrator, but that's about all the work I've done in Illustrator. So this project I shall say was a bit of a learning experience. A good one mind that, and I tried keeping it simple for myself. Anyways, hope you find some humor from it, and enjoy. :)
"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." Woody Allen.
So a good friend of mine gave me a quote to cheer up.

I did not want to wake up this morning, I just slept and slept til about 9 am. I couldn't sleep anymore, but I still did not feel like doing anything. Well I got up, had a bowl of ice cream for breakfast, haha, then got ready. I needed someone. So I called up my lover, headed over there and chilled for a few hours, and I feel really good. I do. That doesn't take away the massive amount of work I now have left to do, but I feel like doing it now instead of laying around all depressed like earlier this week.

The current project I'm working on right now is called "Rebel Re-Label," it is basically where we take an ad or product, re-interpret it, and relabel it. In my thought, spitting back out our regurgitated ad and feeding it to the masses. I'm leaning toward doing Orbit Gum for some reason. In my research for the product, I've stumbled across some cool websites.
One of them is Coloribus, which is an advertisement archive. It's dangerous because I could spend hours looking through intriguing ads rather than working on my actual project. Yet it's cool seeing some of the creative things people do and put back into the world.

Another site I came across was SmartAssRadio (10 Worst Orbit Flavors), where they talked about the 500 (literally) different flavors of Orbit Gum. That was my humor for the day, hehe.
So I'm still in the process of coming up with a hopefully clever title and motto for the new Orbit and it's flavors.
Larry is such a Hot Head!
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