Monday, February 8, 2010

Famous Feet: Why Not a Foot?

The best ideas often come from the most random of thought processes. Granted, so can the worst... but let's choose to ignore that for now.

I've always enjoyed me a good pun. In fact, a good play on words is by far my favorite type of humor. A couple of years ago I was at the Sussex Queen Diner with my best friend and we started playing a word-play game. The object of the game? Turn  celebrities names into foot-related-puns (sounds dumb... and it is, but bear with me).

For example:

  • Feety Scent (50 Cent)
  • Feet Wentz (Pete Wentz)
  • Rivers Cuomtoe (Rivers Cuomo)
  • Paul Bunion (Hehe!)
  • Barsock Toebama (The nation's first foot president!)
  • Shoe Jackman (Hugh Jackman)
  • Sock of Love with Brett Ankles (it might be a stretch, but so can a sock!)
  • Elvis Costelltoe (You get the idea)
...Yeah. So anyway, the next obvious progression in taking this joke entirely too far was having me design these characters. I only ended up finishing about 3 or 4, but this idea certainly seems like a shoe-in (hehe) for potential blog posts and designs of the future. Oh, and also, please feel free to play along; come up with some celebrity, foot-related puns and let me know in the comment section... I might just make it come alive if it's funny enough!

Without further adieu, I present to you the first Famous Feet, my boys, Feety Scent & Feet Wentz:



2 comments:

canullaspr said...

rob...haha..this definitely made me chuckle...famous feet, why not a foot..haha I love the 50 cent one because it has the bling and everything :-).

rbaranoff said...

Haha, thanks so much! I'm glad you got a chuckle out of it -- honestly, that's the idea of this little project.

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