Ticket Mosaic
04/23/2008 @ 12:00 am
Once upon a time, train stations in Japan clicked and clattered. It was common to give your ticket to a ticket man who clipped a hole in your paper ticket. While waiting for the next passenger, the ticket man rattled his hole puncher rhythmically. Icoca, Suica, Pasmo and other automated systems have mostly rendered the ticket man obsolete.
But one meticulous person took some of those spent tickets and put together a mosaic. I think I saw these creations somewhere in Osaka–I just can’t remember if it was at Kix, or some other station (I was jet-lagged). A rather creative use of old tickets, I think.
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that in ancient china if you were REALLY fat that meant you were...
omg i feel so bad for a that monkey help it some one plzzzz
Not to quibble, but wouldn’t these be “chad” mosaics?
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:22 pmwhy?..were there any “chad mondai” in Japan when you last voted Mr. Pink..
p.s.
(you did vote didn’t you ?)
rem.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:50 pmBelieve it or not, the mosaics were actually created out of the tickets and not the chad. It’s just my photos aren’t so good.
The black areas of the mosaic are made out of the back of the ticket and the whites pots out of the front and the gray areas from the printed part of the ticket.
The more that I think about it, the more I realize just how much freakin’ work went into this. It does make me wonder if the artist used a computer to figure out what shade of each color had to go where . . .
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:59 pm