Thursday, September 16, 2010

Yeti Infusion in the Zeitgeist

As you've seen in over a thousand posts on this blog, artists and creators the world over are always trying to depict yeti visually.

The people LOVE the yeti.

The love is so great and yetis are so popular that references to the Abominable Snowman have even permeated into other areas of the Zeitgeist.

People attach the yeti's name to something else to make it more popular. They even attach yeti's feet.

CASES-IN-POINT:

Yeti is the name of a cooler:



Yeti is the name of a band:



Yeti is the name of a microphone - (previously blogged about):



Yeti is the name of a bicycle:



Yeti is the name of an automobile - (previously blogged about):



Yeti's legs are the fashion accessory of the year, thanks largely to Chanel's line - (previously blogged about):


Related Links:
1) Recent article road-testing them.
2) Loren Coleman has a great post on Cryptomundo collecting together all the yeti boots love out there right now.

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AND WHAT ELSE?

  • Yeti is the name of an open source project to provide YUI testing from the command line.

  • Yeti is an adjective. It is defined as something which "once you witness it, it may change your life, and you'll have a better understanding of what's going on. You gotta see it to believe it." (source)

  • A "Yeti Gaiter" is established industry jargon for a garment worn over the shoe and lower pant leg which forms "a waterproof seal around the rand of the boot turning them in to mountain wellies." (source)

  • Yeti Crab is the name of a newly discovered species of animal.

  • According to Urban Dictionary, it's the term for a bad skier, marijuana buds that have many trichomes, a female one doesn't like and wishes to insult, and something really dope (like a hard to find hip hop song).
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