I'm a little stuck tonight trying to come up with something to say about this sticker. Which is sad because this sticker has intrigued me since the first time I stumbled across it. I fully admit that it does creep me out a bit every time I see it. With the angry eyes, the pointy teeth and the jagged/ incomplete style, this sticker is out to be a little unsettling. I mean the block of white at the top of the sticker makes me think that the monkey's skull is exposed. But for all that it creeps me out, it certainly makes for a memorable image and one that I find fairly frequently. While I can't say for certain that I've found this one in every neighborhood I've explored so far, I know I've got many exposures from Shadyside, Oakland, Bloomfield, and East Liberty. It's just such an arresting image that I end up stopping to photograph it every time I see it. So I'm sure it will pop up on here again, hopefully with a far more in depth look at it.
I think what's holding me up tonight is the simple fact that I have way too many possible references I can make with this sticker. Searching for an angry monkey or ape head on Google brings up way too many possibilities and gets me no where, it is quite the popular design for stickers out there. And the angry monkey is fairly common motif in movies and tv these days. I mean it was genetically modified angry monkeys that caused the speedy zombie apocalypse in 28 Days Later. 12 Monkeys pretty much revolves around finding out what the monkeys have to do with the apocalyptic future they are trying to prevent. Admittedly the Syfy show has a far angrier monkey logo than the original Bruce Willis movie did. Or if you're more a classic sci-fi movie fan there is the entire Planet of the Apes franchise to choose from. I can even hearken back to the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz if I wanted to. Although the recent remakes of Tin Man with its weird bat-like magic monkey tattoos or Emerald City and its clockwork monkeys probably fit the bill for scary monkeys more than the originals did. There is also the fact that any time someone goes into a lab where "crazy" experiments were taking place or if they're exploring a jungle, an obligatory crazy monkey jump scare will happen at some point. Despite having all of these possible references to go with, I still feel like there is an image or idea that I've got on the tip of my tongue for this. That there is something in some corner of my mind that this sticker reminds me of and I can't quite figure it out. It's mildly infuriating.
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Maggie Ondrey
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