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Contemplating the monkey

July 28, 2008 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

I can’t stop thinking about the process that led to a ceramic monkey trash can arriving on the shelves at Target. I mean, let’s take another look at this thing:

Shopping: you're doing it wrong.

Someone designed that. (“What is missing from my monkey trash can? YES. A banana. That’s it. My work here is done.”) And furthermore, someone else approved the design (“Why yes, this is good, there are Americans who will pay money for this.”) and sent it off to a manufacturing division somewhere. And someone in the manufacturing division said, “Plastics will not do justice to this objet dâ

Absurdity, Life

Comments

  1. sln says

    July 28, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Oh my! The collection is called “Do Your Room”. Weird.

    Reply
  2. Scott Janssens says

    July 28, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    Someone put a plant in the monkey’s head and you’re questioning the design esthetics?!

    Reply

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