Booger Fling Gallery

Booger Fling.  I didn’t do this piece for any greater reason than that it just came to me one day looking at the Burger King sign and thinking about how much their food sucks.

Here’s the logo that I saw:

You’re just asking for it with a logo that terrible!  Now, I first came up with the idea for this probably ten years ago.  I was messing around in Blender and created the two boogery sandwich patties with hair on them as different meshes.

I made the first design and put it under the type but it didn’t look right.  I don’t have any examples of these early models, as I must have deleted them.

Its pretty easy to sculpt in there in sculpting mode, so I just took a blob and pulled and pushed elements around with the sculpting tools.

Then adding the hair I don’t remember how I did it then as its kind of involved with all the nodes, but its basically comes in as straight hair and you have to comb it and curl it around as needed.

Since boogers in real life have usually distorted hairs on them I decided to twist the hair up using the various hair sculpting tools on there.  I can’t remember if I used a special plugin or not as this sculpture was set aside for probably 10 years.

In Blender its basically just creative node usage and rendering at large scale that creates good imagery.  My problem with this was that after I had it totally rendered and it looked great on the screen, it was not looking right on prints when I ordered sample stickers.

It kept coming up super green, and this didn’t look right on stickers.  Plus, the surface shaders were not set correctly and it was rendering very shiny, so I set some values to make it more matte finish and changed some of the color nodes to make it more yellow and we have the current iteration today.

The other program I relied on for this piece was again my favorite for logos, Inkscape for the type and other elements.  The way they had the blue curved design seemed to not serve a real purpose in the original logo, so I decided to utilize this to be the booger being flung.

I decided to change this blue semicircle and make it go on a fade from light blue to dark blue which brought the booger out of the background and looked more like it was flying.

I originally took photographs of my hand doing a flicking motion, but I no longer have those images and it didn’t work with all the other elements of the design.  Here’s a few quick renders I did of the sculptural elements in this design so you can see they’re actually 3D models and not just a 2D design:

I actually used to choke down this cheap junk they serve at Burger King.  I guess they char broil the substandard meat they use there and it makes it have a burned taste to me, not so appetizing.  The chicken fries almost seem to me like they ground up the leftover chicken parts into a puree’ and then injected into the fries somehow.

I imagine some greasy lady in the back with hairy armpits holding the chicken puree’ bag under her arm squeezing that funk into the chicken fries and chicken patty breading housings.  My dog loves chicken fries though, but I’ve seen him eat other dog’s poop too and enjoy it…

The last time I was there I had a very horrible experience where I bought a chicken sandwich and bit into it.  After a few chews it had this stale taste to it almost like it had been frozen for several months.  I now think the pureed chicken must have hit a cartilage or wing ligament sinew section in the goop they make to inject into this sandwich, so it had a weird extra rubbery stale chewiness to it.

My fries seemed somewhat edible on that visit, so I traveled over to the ketchup dispenser.  I pressed down the black plastic handle on the metal tube containing the ketchup and this flatulent sound resounded from deep within the bellows of this contraption.

I forgot about the sound for a while to try this ketchup on my fries.  It tasted vinegar like, expired and rancid.  I guess no one put a sign on this device that it was out of order. So, after that experience I decided to never go back.

Maybe Booger Fling is just my unconscious telling me that eating boogers is healthier for me than eating Burger King as its always vile.  Even the fries suck there and are quite soggy and under cooked.

So even McDonald’s with their reconstituted potato product with flavor additives to make the dead lump of what used to be a potato before they sucked the life out of it are better than BK’s fries.  At least McD’s fries are crispier and not like a wet noodle made out of mashed potatoes with some grease slapped on it.