Future corporations

Created atFebruary 28, 2008
Created byTimo Vuorensola
DeadlineMarch 15, 2008: 3 months over
Shots given 92
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Description

Iron Sky is set in the near future – 2018, to be exact. A lot of things have changed here on Earth, but mainly everything stays the same on the outside – just like ten years ago compared to present day.

Being a fiction film, one of the things we can’t use in Iron Sky is real corporations and corporate logoes (unless, of course, they give us millions and buy an intrusive product placement, preferably company tagline installed into the dialogue).

This task is all about making up new corporations. Here’s how it works: make up a believeable name for a corporation. It can be a corporation of *any* kind, just as long as it’s big, and add a short description along with the corporation name you came up with, like what type of a company this would be.

And don’t forget: it can be comedic, but preferably it’s more than just changing one letter to another or making up a dirty word – be creative.

Ps. If you feel graphically creative as well, you may add the company logo to the description (a rough sketch will do), but we have another task coming right after this one focused on creating the logoes for the companies.

Off you go, show me what you got!


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Timo-Heikki Mäkelä June 28, 2008 20:24 Flag this shot

Moon Cheese Corp.

This one may be pretty thick irony, but I guess that'll just make it better... :)

This rapidly growing corporation is producing and marketing a specialty cheese, labelled Moon Cheese, worldwide. Their marketing tells it's the "_original_ Moon cheese", of course. It's a frequent target of jokes, because nobody really believes the Moon would be made of cheese, except for the kids, whose legs are often being pulled by telling them "There are men on the Moon collecting the Moon cheese, and they bring it back to the Earth for sale." Sometimes the jokes even go so far, that they tell those men on the Moon are "Nazis who fly there and back with their UFOs". But no one really knows where the cheese comes from, because the Moon Cheese corp is a huge and mysterious corporation. And who could care less. It's just delicious, and that's all that matters to anyone.

Of course, this would be a double joke in the movie. While being a target of joking, the Moon Cheese corp would actually BE a Moon nazi managed cover organisation selling REAL Moon cheese... The Nazis would be frequently transporting the cheese all over the world from their Moon base for funding and to cover their operations. No one would ever know. For except the viewers, who see the backrooms of the company, where the Moon nazis are occationally playing cards or whatever...

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Hetu July 02, 2008 18:16 FLAG

Very good!!!

Lynn Kirkconnell July 01, 2008 06:24 FLAG

What a cool use of an old classic joke!!
Don't forget, the Moon Cheese should be wrapped in glow-in-the-dark green paper or the old fashioned
wax coating.

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Jack Malinowski June 23, 2008 14:45 Flag this shot

S.I.S. Corp.

Summit Insured Security Corporation...

'Keeping the world from blowing it's top.'

Turning the Volcanoes that frighten you and your family into safe, attractive energy plants powering your home and keeping this from happening.

BOOOOOM!

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Lynn Kirkconnell July 01, 2008 06:33 FLAG

Dang! Good one.
I presume you've read up a bit on geothermal power?

http://tinyurl.com/4a85bm

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P.M. Bradshaw May 23, 2008 17:04 Flag this shot

Future corporations

Hemocorp.
Feeling down? Get a complete blood transfusion while you wait, in under 1 hour!
Our Deluxe Hemo-Flush rids your body of environmental toxins and 97 percent of cholesterol!
Enjoy that triple bacon cheese burger with no guilt! Hemocorp is on its way!
Lunch hour appointments available.
Most major health insurers accepted.
$75 co-pay waived for first time customers!

New-U
Looking older than you'd like?
A wrinkle too many?
Like a firmer buttocks or tighter face?
Not as smart as you want to be?
Tired of the regular Plastic-Surgery-While-You-Wait stores?
It's time you got a whole New-U !

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Matthew Howard May 24, 2008 18:07 FLAG

Haha! I love the idea of Hemocorp - it's just in that sort of direction that things could go - If you have the money you can lead an unhealthy life guilt free! I wonder if there's a dark side to it? (along the lines of Soylent Green etc.)

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Aleksey I. Buluy June 24, 2008 19:22 Flag this shot

SkyLadder Corp.

"We'll build for your business a ladder of success..."

An space-industry corporation what's primary role is delivery of any commercial cargo at Earth's orbit and orbital construction works.

Christoph Lakner June 04, 2008 14:29 Flag this shot

Assaultvehicle

here is an interessting idea vor a new sort of assaultvehicle

http://www.jibjab.com/view/158971

the design has potential, i think!

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Atte Joutsen June 04, 2008 20:02 FLAG

"I built it because I could" :D

Anyway, the idea is not now. Here's John Deere's walking tractor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmwGwrX28KE

Even something more elegant, Boston Dynamics' robotic dog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bExqhhWRI
That video is at the same time scary and cool.

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Alan Harrison June 05, 2008 04:26 Flag this shot

Valhalla Media Group

A series of mergers and takeovers of various news and entertainment corporations around 2010 resulted in the formation of the Valhalla Media Group. They are all-pervasive and have interests in every aspect of mass entertainment and information distribution.

The choice of name is intended to throw some suspicion about their involvement with the Nazi invaders.

Micro World Motors

A scientist in southern California was attempting to extract the salt from salt water in order to solve the world's growing need for potable water. In his many different methods, all successful, his main goal was to discover a way to do it using the least amount of energy. A surprising event occurred when experimenting with micro-waves. His thought was, the vibration of micro-waves would literally "shake" the salt from the water molecules. Instead, the vibration caused the sodium molecules to create a massive amount of friction. Basically, salt water caught on fire.

The idea becomes incredibly popular and the Government funds a massive expedition into creating an engine that would run on salt water. By 2013, the first generation of Salt-Water Engines were put into vehicles. This technology revolutionizes the energy industry. The man who discovered the process and had a significant hand in creating the engine forms the company, Micro World Motors (MWM). MWM develops engines for all types of vehicles. With the advancing shorelines across the southeastern U.S., as well as the entire west coast, the company becomes a conglomerate super power virtually overnight; General Motors folds in with the company and there are no competitors left in the field of Transportation on American soil.

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Luca Oleastri June 03, 2008 18:07 Flag this shot

ATMOSPHERE, OPENEND, YOURSELF

Company: Atmosphere (see logo)
Mission: sell a special and expansive system of air conditioning for homes totally airtighted (because pollution). Customers can choose from different kinds of air, bottled directly by Atmosphere Company in gas cylinders, coming from different places pollution-free on Earth, such as North and South Poles or Tibet mountains.

Company: Openend (see logo)
Mission: using the same mind probe technology used by ESP Police (see my post named ESP Police in the Future: 2018 task) they control the fidelity of the managers for worldwide big companies.

Company: Yoursef (see logo)
Mission: the motto of the company is "wear your second skin". Yourself use a new technology able to delete old tattoos from human skin and/or print new ones (naturally in full color) in only one session.

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Uneeda, psuedohelp, blue shoe, Toughguy and Sons

Uneeda, a food company that makes stuff you "just need." Their main competitor "Gottahave" is facing bankruptcy.

psuedohelp, an internet-based self-help company that gives advice over the phone from a call centers in the "developing world". Some psychologists and local astrologers are out of a job because of them.

Blue Shoe, a "carbon footprint" company that sells bio-fuels. They'd have gas stations, perhaps even phone booths.

Toughguy and Sons, a transport company that has huge trucks which carry everything from milk bottles to things you buy on eBay.

Multisec, a Franco-Chinese umbrella company who's umbrellas burst into flames when the Space Invaders enter the atmosphere.

Samuli Holopainen May 28, 2008 18:00 Flag this shot

Short names appearing.

Just hinting names that could appear somewhere:

Patricks Stew Art Gallery
Captain Dirts Shipyard
Scottish Steering
Vulgar Stock
U Sura?
Vet McCoy
Williams Sharper
Mc Duo Hans

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Hope Bryant May 29, 2008 03:30 FLAG

*chuckles* So many funny thoughts pop to mind. ;)

Others:
Kodiac
Sullis Marketing
Orange Suites
Sunny-side Retirement Home

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