It might seem unlikely, but once upon a time the cereal you tiredly shove into your face every morning came out of a gun. But it was a very special kind of gun: a puffing gun.
There is iron in cereal. That’s good! But it looks pretty gross. Here’s how to find it: soak a cup of cereal in a Ziploc bag with water, mix it up and then rub a magnet over the bag. You’ll see the metallic iron trailing the magnet. You eat that! More »
A lot of people would agree that breakfast is perhaps the most important meal of the day. I agree and I never miss it if I have a choice. But if the mascots on the cereal boxes had a change of face and were changed to look like the ones below, then I wouldn’t hesitate to skip it.
Not because I want to, but because I don’t think I can stomach it.
These realistic renderings were done by graphic designer and illustrator Guillermo Fajardo who wanted to do something different with something that’s so well-known.
I’ve always wondered what if the characters from our favorite cereal boxes were actual real life moving and dramatic creatures…This project is based on a personal point of view, taking all my child memories and turning them into a new sarcastic and adult vision, remaking all the cereal gang.
Tony the Tiger, Cap’n Crunch, Count Chocula and Trix Rabbit never looked this realistic–or this mean, scary, and creepy.
What do you think?
[via Incredible Things]