Take a trip down the rabbit hole and join Alice in Plasticland

take-a-trip-down-the-rabbit-hole-and-join-alice-in-plasticland<p>Our February calendar features Sales Rep Mary as the 19 year old Alice returning to wonderland, the realm that resembles the nightmares she had as a child. The film, <i>Alice In Wonderland</i> (2010), while bizarre, was a visual treat. Alice in Plasticland however, plays host not to opium-abusing cats, cranium-enhanced queens, and mentally unstable hat makers, but over-sized plastic bottles, sprayers, and pumps.<br /> So, how did I do it? I can’t wait to tell you. To complete this project, I had to channel my diorama-making skills that I perfected in the third grade.</p> <p><b>Making Plasticland </b><br /> I wandered out into the warehouse and grabbed a large piece of cardboard and stole a box cutter from the warehouse desk. I walked down the aisles and filled a box with random containers and closures. I went out to the creepy area behind the warehouse (where our doberman is chained) and found a few sticks and some rocks. I ran to the store and bought a bag of potting soil and peat moss. I grabbed a bunch of white paper out of the printer and fired up my glue gun. Thirty minutes later … voila!</p> <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jHXrTwKMwXg/Ttfi-uUi0GI/AAAAAAAAAYU/2X9pcrEfFfc/s1600/plasticland.jpg><img src=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jHXrTwKMwXg/Ttfi-uUi0GI/AAAAAAAAAYU/2X9pcrEfFfc/s320/plasticland.jpg alt= width=208 height=320 border=0 /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Plasticland created from plastic and dirt.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>I had to play a bit with lighting and camera angle to get it just right, but there you have it … in it’s pre-photoshopped state.</p> <p><b>Finding Alice</b><br /> This wasn’t hard at all actually. Sales Rep Mary looks a lot like Mia Wasikowski (the actress that played Alice). Well, that is until Mary got a Brazilian keratin treatment and dyed her hair red.<b> </b></p> <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h3Uo55jkFjo/Ttfqq_1iNHI/AAAAAAAAAYc/8eHk1jeMUpg/s1600/maryandmia.jpg><img src=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h3Uo55jkFjo/Ttfqq_1iNHI/AAAAAAAAAYc/8eHk1jeMUpg/s1600/maryandmia.jpg alt= border=0 /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mia Wasikowski and Mary … not a bad resemblance, eh?</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><b>Putting it all together</b><br /> I put in a sky, brushed in some mist, put Mary’s face on Mia’s body and put her in my diorama of Plasticland.</p> <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center> <tbody> <tr> <td><a href=https://www.containerandpackaging.com/wallpaper/2012/1600x1200_aliceinplasticland.jpg><img src=https://www.containerandpackaging.com/wallpaper/2012/1600x1200_aliceinplasticland.jpg alt= width=400 height=300 border=0 /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Click the image, allow to load, right click and select “Set as Wallpaper”</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Stay tuned to the CPS Blog for explanations on how I did the other calendar images.</p> <p>Visit <a href=https://www.containerandpackaging.com/wallpaper>www.containerandpackaging.com/wallpaper</a> to see ALL 12 of this year’s calendar images as well as images from 2011, 2010, and 2009.</p>