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Scare away the midnight munchies, or make your refrigerator too adorable to resist, with Fridge Monster Stickers. Inspired by Japanese Kawaii monsters, the reusable vinyl fridge stickers come in eye, tongue, and fang shape for maximum cuteness.
[available at Curiosite]
If your artisanal Hawaiian pink salt just isn’t eccentric enough, there’s now Salt Made From Tears. Brought to us by Hoxton Street Monster Supplies in London, the flavored salts are derived from various tear-inducing emotions and events, such as sneezing and chopping onions — or, so they say.
And as an added bonus, their resident coven of witches will add a curse to your salt. I went with Tears of Sorrow, cursed with “General Torment” — just to help make my next meat loaf extra depressing.
[link, via Laughing Squid]
Cereal monsters, unlike the classic horror film characters that they’re based on, are anything but scary. And instead of classic films, the mascots with adorably punny names were relegated to shilling for General Mills during Saturday morning cartoon commercials.
But what some may not realize, is that there has been five monster-themed cereals, spanning over four decades. Some were successful, and remain in cereal aisles to this day, and some were Fruit Brute. Foodiggity investigates the backstory behind each monster cereal, why Franken Berry and Count Chocula rule, Boo Berry’s unexplainable success as a blue food item, and the failure of two oft-forgotten additions to the line-up.
Continue reading “Cereal Monsters: The Good, The Bad and The Mummy”
Frankenberry by Michael Burnett, is part of the It’s Alive Project. Eighty artists were given the opportunity to re-imagine a life-size Boris Karloff as Frankenstein bust, with certified-awesome results. Proceeds from sales of the ‘Frankensteins’ will go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Each of the 80 artists have been asked to recreate the monster in their own vision, style and hand. You will be amazed and frightened by what can happen when these talented artists unleash their creative monsters on this unique and terrifying project. See creations from some of the top local artists as well as a few Professional Monster Makers from across the country.
Now we just need some Lon Chaney Jr. busts, so Fruit Brute can finally get some love.
[link, via Laughing Squid]
In what appears to be an unfortunately abandoned project, Kreepsville Industries commissioned art for a coffee table book, featuring creepy cereal mascots and grotesque breakfast options. When completed the book was to have over 70 pieces from some of the best illustrators in the business.