February 18, 2007
Humanoid everything
It has recently been weighing on my mind how annoying companies’ use of humanoid things is becoming. Everything imaginable has been given a human face or shape. If it’s an animal, one can rest assured that it’s been put on its hind legs (even if it has none) and given a smile. Every time I go for the box of cookies, I have to look at this dorky looking cookie sitting on its side, staring back at me with the cheesiest grin that makes me feel sick for eating it. Many will argue I simply resent the fun since I never had a childhood, but I don’t see how it can’t get annoying after a while.
I thought I’d get into the game and make something humanoid. The first thing that came to my mind was a toilet; how tempting it would be to give it some eyes and turn the bowl into a big gaping smile. But then I realized that had been done already. I had difficulty coming up with anything that had not been done before, so I ended up making a humanoid human face.




