I was tidying up and I came across this.
Sometime in the early 90s Sony put out this advertisement printed on perforated card. It appears to show a shady dealer offering up a Playstation controller. Upon further investigation it turns out that the size of the cardboard perforations is perfect for constructing makeshift filters for what Cannabis smokers would call ‘joints’.
What were they thinking?!?
Note that my copy of the ad is completely unripped.
I’ve fallen in love with this poster. But I can only find it for super ripoff prices. It’s by a Swiss dude (obviously) called Markus Bruggisser.
A couple of things to watch out for.
Thank you @paryshnikov
I don’t know about you, but this looks really bad to me. The presentation is a bloody shambles and the product looks terrible. The glasses look totally foolish:
And isn’t the printer just a bigger more handbaggy looking version of the Zink printers from a couple of years ago?
I did what I suspect a lot of people did. I saw this beautiful Facebook visualisation and went “oooh”. My oooh contained just a couple of things:
But I just read this account by Paul Butler, the intern who made the thing. And all of a sudden it took on a whole new dimension. It gets a little technical in places, but you should read it, you’ll view the whole thing as more than just a pretty picture once you have. Go on read it.
All of a sudden you realise that there isn’t a background map here. Everything you see, including the recognisable shapes of countries is created by connections between people.
And once you’ve read Paul’s piece, click and view the high-resolution version of the map and drink it up.
From the always stunning: If we don’t, rembember me.
Why wasn’t I told?
Have you been conspiring to keep this stuff secret from me?
How much pain would this have saved me over the years?
Probably at least a bit.
Spotted here: http://www.flight001.com/
Not quite as kick-ass as the japanese t-shirt folding stuff from a while back. But useful and practical if you’re a jacket-packer.
