One of the best marketed products in history is sea monkeys. The instruction booklet that came with your little plastic tank depicted sea monkey dads playing catch with their sea monkey sons and sea monkey families enjoying picturesque picnics in their sea monkey park. The crowned cartoons were having such a blast you couldn’t wait to hang out with them too. They were “a true MIRACLE of nature” in “SUSPENDED ANIMATION!” and “real TIME-TRAVELERS” ready for their “journey into the FUTURE!”
Eventually you had a stagnant tank of tiny floating particles and eventually you poured them down the sink, but what stuck with you was the pamphlet version of sea monkeys in their fun sea monkey world. That’s some good marketing. And that’s what I remixed in this sea monkey landscape I just found in my old files. For a contact printing project in my college photography class, I combined my TRUE sea monkey friends with everyday objects to give them another sea monkey world of PURE FUN and AMAZEMENT! Haha good times…
