Make Mine Shoebox

February 4, 2005 11:35 AM

Have you ever wondered about the exciting world of greeting cards? With this recently unearthed educational film, you too can capture a glimpse of the glamourous world of manufactured expressions! via Waxy's Links
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood (19 comments total)

"Input/Outcrap" = My new favorite phrase to use at work! ;)
posted by miss lynnster at 11:52 AM on February 4, 2005

the little details were great (i particularly liked the 40% banana slide), but it seems like an inside job, i.e. something funny to show the company at the Shoebox department holiday party (which is the only reason something like this would get made), so so-so. i was hoping for a disgruntled writer. the funny was lost somewhere in the middle.

personally, i don't use prewritten greeting cards for birthdays, valentine's day, anniversary, etc, but i admit i do use them for baby showers, weddings, etc, so i can't throw any stones myself. it is a rather weird concept: when you care enough to send the very best of someone else's sentiments.
posted by mrgrimm at 11:54 AM on February 4, 2005

Ah, greeting cards. Anyone else sell them for prizes from that company that advertised in the comic books? I did, and I sold enough to get an inflatable boat. But I lost one of the oars so most of the time I just spun around in the surf like a doofus.
posted by jonmc at 12:18 PM on February 4, 2005

I think this animation works on so many levels for practically any creative field. Though I guess the audience demo is purely creatives, as it keeps slamming business. Wait, did I say.. demo!?! Help! I've been CORRUPTED! AHHHhh!

*sellout*
posted by cavalier at 12:20 PM on February 4, 2005

Direct link
(for the QT plugin impaired)
posted by darkness at 12:22 PM on February 4, 2005

jonmc: sweet nostalgia.
posted by cloeburner at 12:35 PM on February 4, 2005

Heh, nice link. I've got a friend in town who's struggling to make a living creating handmade greeting cards of the anti-Hallmark variety, though not exactly succeeding. I should forward her the link to invigorate her hatred of corporate/manufactured sentimentality.

What would terrible-poet-turned-terrible-greeting-card writer Maya Angelou say?
posted by dhoyt at 12:37 PM on February 4, 2005

jonmc, that was an excellent short story.
posted by scratch at 12:52 PM on February 4, 2005

1. This is funny.
B. Cat Birthday
posted by uncleozzy at 12:53 PM on February 4, 2005

Beautiful! I loved the drunk falling off the sofa (much funnier than it sounds).
posted by Scoo at 12:55 PM on February 4, 2005

Metafilter: The Other Social Lubricant.

I enjoyed this quite a bit.

(mrgrimm: definitely an inside job... pause the video on the first placard and you can see who did it and why)
posted by Ynoxas at 1:09 PM on February 4, 2005

I found it entertaining, but it seems to me to be viral marketing from Hallmark for it's Shoebox line of cards.
posted by wsg at 3:20 PM on February 4, 2005

I mean "its."
posted by wsg at 3:22 PM on February 4, 2005

Ynoxas, i think not...
look again, the title cars says "should you see fit to punish anyone for this short, my name is brian gordon." the guy who made it is called chris harding. gordon's probably the division head and/or the person for whose birthday party this short was made.
posted by Silky Slim at 3:40 PM on February 4, 2005

i mean "title card".
posted by Silky Slim at 3:40 PM on February 4, 2005

"most americans are functionally illiterate" it's so true.
posted by Arch Stanton at 3:49 PM on February 4, 2005

That was officially a "fricken riot."
posted by Joey Michaels at 4:05 PM on February 4, 2005

my favorite was the satisfied customer wetting herself with glee.
posted by Silky Slim at 4:12 PM on February 4, 2005

I started laughing out loud at the advances in software bit. That was delightful, thank you!

ERROR...
ERROR...
DAISY, DAISY...
posted by FYKshun at 5:43 PM on February 4, 2005