In what started off as a fucking hilarious AIM conversation about Richard Gere, Lemiwinks, and hamsters, the Hamster Calendar seems like a viable product.
A few years ago there was this website that featured dancing hamsters. It was intended as a joke for many, but for a select few, it inspired beyond belief. The inspiration would create an array of dancing hamster related spin-offs including dancing rabbits, dancing goldfishes and would also inspire hamster related goods including little hamster shoes, little hamster boom-boxes, and little hamster cars. Over the years these products would die-off failing to live up to the fame of the dancing hamster website.
As I start off 2006 fresh--with a career, a retirement package, and a growing waistline--I'm thinking BIG! How do I go BIG? With a hamster calendar of course!
The idea for the hamster calendar is to have hamsters dress up as everyday people. A fireman, a doctor, a police officer, a banker, an airplane pilot, a Harley Davidson bike rider, a UPS delivery man...we could even have the hamsters dress up as other animals! For some reason beyond my realm of understanding, people will think it's cute. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson, Brittney Spears circa 2000, dolls with glass eyeballs, a new Mini Cooper...all cute and all sell. The dancing hamster was huge in 2000 and just 6 years later--it's back--but better! Instead of having a dancing hamster on your screen for just a few minutes, you'll have a hamster on your wall for 12-months of the year.
With hamsters going for $5/each and for $3 when bought in quantities over 5, there is relatively low up-front costs and since I'll only be needing the hamsters for a 3-day weekend/photoshoot, I can release the hamsters back into the wild and keep maintenance costs low. Photographing the hamsters will be left to me and the clothing can be purchased at the dollar store for only a few, hmm, dollars. I would estimate total cost of production to be under $25.
If I sold 100 of thesestupid brilliant things, that's well over $2000 in my pocket. Then I could buy more hamsters, breed them, release them into the wild, and let them terrorize the Puget Sound, wait, Washington, or even better, the West Coast, or even better than that, the United States, or better than that, the World, or even better than that, the Universe.
A few years ago there was this website that featured dancing hamsters. It was intended as a joke for many, but for a select few, it inspired beyond belief. The inspiration would create an array of dancing hamster related spin-offs including dancing rabbits, dancing goldfishes and would also inspire hamster related goods including little hamster shoes, little hamster boom-boxes, and little hamster cars. Over the years these products would die-off failing to live up to the fame of the dancing hamster website.
As I start off 2006 fresh--with a career, a retirement package, and a growing waistline--I'm thinking BIG! How do I go BIG? With a hamster calendar of course!
The idea for the hamster calendar is to have hamsters dress up as everyday people. A fireman, a doctor, a police officer, a banker, an airplane pilot, a Harley Davidson bike rider, a UPS delivery man...we could even have the hamsters dress up as other animals! For some reason beyond my realm of understanding, people will think it's cute. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson, Brittney Spears circa 2000, dolls with glass eyeballs, a new Mini Cooper...all cute and all sell. The dancing hamster was huge in 2000 and just 6 years later--it's back--but better! Instead of having a dancing hamster on your screen for just a few minutes, you'll have a hamster on your wall for 12-months of the year.
With hamsters going for $5/each and for $3 when bought in quantities over 5, there is relatively low up-front costs and since I'll only be needing the hamsters for a 3-day weekend/photoshoot, I can release the hamsters back into the wild and keep maintenance costs low. Photographing the hamsters will be left to me and the clothing can be purchased at the dollar store for only a few, hmm, dollars. I would estimate total cost of production to be under $25.
If I sold 100 of these
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I dont know if the hamster calendar is cruelty to animals or cruelty to humans. . . .
You're cute!
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