Grinning Pumpkin Sticker – Orange Halloween Jack-o’-Lantern

An orange pumpkin with sharply slanted eyes, an angular nose and a wide mischievous grin. A vivid green stem and bold black facial details give this original Halloween sticker a classic jack-o’-lantern look for autumn journals, seasonal decorations and spooky collections.

Sticker details

• One sticker featuring original Cerebroscope Studio artwork
• Synthetic PP with a glossy protective laminate
• Water-resistant
• Printed, laminated and contour-cut in Germany

Available sizes

• Longest side approximately 3 cm (Small)
• Longest side approximately 5 cm (Medium)

For decorating notebooks, journals, laptops and other smooth surfaces.

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From the Cerebroscope archive

Z.O.M.B. LABORATORIES

Comparative Pumpkin Record 075-P

Catalogue designation: Pumpkin 2
Related record: 074-P, Pumpkin 1
Received object: Decorated orange pumpkin
Primary question: How little needs to change before a smiling face looks threatening?

Records sets the second pumpkin beside the first.

Records

This one is plotting something.

Z. Omb

What has it done?

Records

Nothing. Look at it.

Omb looks.

Z. Omb

Slanted eye shapes. Angular nose. Broad mouth.

Records

Exactly. Plotting.

The rind is orange and ribbed.

The green stem remains attached.

The facial features are dark.

As with 074-P, close examination finds no opening through the rind at the decorated regions.

The face is an applied surface design.

Records

Same construction. Worse intentions.

Z. Omb

Different design. Intentions have not been demonstrated.

No eye movement occurs.

No change in the mouth is observed.

The pumpkin remains where Records placed it.

The two faces are photographed from the front.

074-P has rounded, closed-eye-like shapes and a jagged smile.

075-P has sharply inclined eyes, an angular nose and a broad sweeping grin.

Records

The first looks pleased. The second looks pleased about something unfortunate.

Z. Omb

Then we should investigate which features produce that distinction.

Records makes simplified copies of both faces.

Omb covers the mouths.

Records

Still a difference.

Z. Omb

Where?

Records

The eyes. Those inner corners come down toward the middle.

The eye shapes are retained as a candidate cue.

Their effect has not been measured across a group of observers.

The mouths are uncovered.

Then the eyes are concealed.

Records

This grin is less alarming on its own.

Z. Omb

For you, in this comparison.

Records

Put that on a stamp.

Z. Omb

It would save some writing.

The broad grin does not carry precisely the same impression without the eyes above it.

Records adds:

Expression depends on the combination, not merely the presence of a smile.

The angular nose separates the eyes from the mouth.

A small tooth-like interruption breaks the mouth’s upper edge.

Records

Actual tooth?

Z. Omb

A shape in the design.

Records

We established that yesterday.

Z. Omb

And should preserve the distinction in the second record.

No dental structure is present at the decorated mouth.

No feeding apparatus is inferred.

The face describes a character through marks on a fruit.

Omb places one tracing over the other.

The pumpkins differ in outline and proportions, so the complete photographs cannot isolate a single cause.

Records

We cannot blame everything on the eyebrows.

Z. Omb

There are no separate eyebrows drawn here. The eye shapes can suggest their angle.

Records

Implied eyebrows.

Z. Omb

A useful design question.

For a later comparison, they propose keeping the pumpkin outline and mouth fixed while changing only the inclination of the eyes.

That study is not carried out during intake.

The current result remains an informal observer response.

Records steps back.

Both pumpkins now face the room.

Records

The first welcomes visitors. The second knows where the spare key is.

Z. Omb

Neither has demonstrated knowledge of a key.

Records

You have understood the distinction, though.

Z. Omb

Yes. One reads as cheerful to you; the other as mischievous or threatening.

Omb records those terms.

There is no need to make the pumpkin move to make its design worth studying.

CURRENT RECORD

Object: Decorated orange pumpkin
Ribbed rind and attached green stem: Present
Dark facial design: Applied to the surface
Carved openings: Not observed at examined regions
Sharply slanted eye shapes: Present
Angular nose: Present
Broad curved grin: Present
Central tooth-like detail: Part of the design
Biological teeth or functional eyes: Not demonstrated
Expression differs from 074-P: Reported by Records
Eye inclination contributes to that impression: Supported by informal comparison
Mouth alone produces the same impression: Not in Records’ comparison
Universal interpretation: Not established
Hostile intent: Not demonstrated
Independent behaviour: None observed
Anomaly: None demonstrated
Research priority: Combined facial cues and controlled design comparisons

Records adds:

LOOKS AS THOUGH IT HAS A PLAN.
PLAN NOT RECOVERED.

Z. Omb

There is no evidence that a plan existed.

Records adds:

EXCELLENT COMMITMENT TO THE LOOK.