Chapstick Frankenstein



When first looking around my dorm room, I am presented with many different interesting things that stand out to me. For example, I have a tiny succulent magnet that I am quite the fan of. I also have a light up sign that says “you go girl”. I mean who wouldn’t find that sick as heck. But after some intense ispy around my room, something stood out to me: my chapstick. My chapstick can be identified with the following traits:

  • Pink exterior with dark pink roses and polka dots

  • Black lettering depicting the product description as well as the brand

  • The writing and design isn't directly prints on the tube but rather onto a paper surrounding the tube

  • Said paper is peeling off from the bottom corner

  • It's about 4.5 inches

  • It smells amazing and is a lip scrub

To customize it to “make it my own” I scooped out the chapstick that was in the tube, which was surprisingly sticky, and inserted part of a burts bees chapstick I had laying around whose original container was chewed on by my dog. From the outside it looked like rose Sephora chapstick but then Boom, you opened it and got blasted in the face with a strong medicinal smell. If I were to sell these I’d market them as something along the lines of “don’t judge a book by its cover”. Now say hypothetically I decided to actually try to sell my little Frankenstein creation, not getting sued would be the real challenge. My argument would be that of Ferguson’s where everything is a copy of everything and I was simply recycling the two chapsticks into one. In my argument I would cite how Steve Jobs took the two finger touch idea from earlier developers and Bob Dylan's music was anything but original. Does my argument sound familiar to you? Weird.

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