Not The Actual Events - Physical Edition variations

[implanted_microchip]

Because of @sheepdean's post about expired makeup I went and opened my second one. Wish i hadn't, but ah well. Exact same set aside from my Burning Bright card which is the lamest one (standard black and white, no 3D colors, no blocked out text) instead of the red and black the other came with. All cards are black and white except for the red and blue She's Gone Away and the purple credits card. Really wanted a green or blue card. It also seemed way dirtier than the first for whatever reason. Might be open to trading with somebody else's set that has the blue Branches_Bones or the green Dear World if they're interested since I planned on framing all of the cards together but it'd look pretty shitty having almost all of them being identical anyway.

[vivisection13]

Ordered 2 and received 2 different sets. ��������

[SuperNINtendo Chalmers]

Got mine today, love it, thank you Trent-an! I don't feel like getting that shit all over my fingers again at the moment, but I gots purple, couple b&ws, green & blue I think? Great experience, all you NINnies on a preservation kick are missing out on a dirty good time! You know, you could just buy a black envelope and seal it in plastic...

[Disassociative]

Mine showed up - going to get same frames to store them in tomorrow or something. I'll open it and take pictures if there's any variance from what's been shared so far.

[GulDukat]

I honestly don't get keeping it sealed. The contents inside are meant to be seen and experienced. If you're going to try to preserve anything, at least take the contents out and get them framed so you can enjoy them. I like the sticker and the envelope, but it's definitely not as cool as the contents inside it.

Nah. I want my copy in mint condition. Sealed, forever.

[Jon]

So, you mention "goo". That is what I got sort of. While many received dust, mine is cakey clumps that need to be scraped off. When opening the envelope, the cards needed to be pryed out. lots of cakey debris inside. Looks like craters in the envelope from fluid drops on the dust. At first I attributed it to being in hot, humid Florida, then I saw the fluid marks.

Was it clumpy like this:

[[parasite]]

Was it clumpy like this:

that looks awesome!!



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[Jon]

that looks awesome!!

It's from the archive that @xolotl put together. There's a few other ones on there that are nice and clumpy.

[imail724]

Apart from custom framing, does anyone know if they make some kind of frame that could hold all 6 of these in individual panels? Something like this I guess but with the right number of panels and the correct dimensions?

What do you people who plan on framing plan on doing? Really not looking to clutter my already overcrowded wallspace with 6 more frames.

[eversonpoe]

put mine in 8x10" float frames and they look great. haven't gotten them up on the wall yet but i will post a picture as soon as i do.

these are what i got. cheap but effective and perfect for the prints.

[Jon]

put mine in 8x10" float frames and they look great. haven't gotten them up on the wall yet but i will post a picture as soon as i do.

these are what i got. cheap but effective and perfect for the prints.

I was looking at those exact ones in-store and wondering how they'd work. Thanks for the heads up.

[Ryan]

Here you go, bitches:

[Ryan]

More, bitches:

[Ryan]

The rest, bitches:

[InvitingmeAway]

Love this package, pretty interesting idea and it makes a great addition to the overall album experience. I m especially love how She's Gone Away has the lyrics from Reptile within it.

[Ryan]

Love this package, pretty interesting idea and it makes a great addition to the overall album experience. I m especially love how She's Gone Away has the lyrics from Reptile within it.

Perhaps it symbolises the bitch he was talking about in Reptile died?

[tony.parente]

I hated the idea of individual frames for the cards as it was intended to be viewed as one piece, so I went to hobby lobby (I know) and picked up one of those double glass frames and a large piece of semi transparent paper and threw this together. I'm happy enough with the result, and I was able to get some dirt smudged on the paper.

[Ryan]

I hated the idea of individual frames for the cards as it was intended to be viewed as one piece, so I went to hobby lobby (I know) and picked up one of those double glass frames and a large piece of semi transparent paper and threw this together. I'm happy enough with the result, and I was able to get some dirt smudged on the paper.

Not The Actual Way To Frame

[eversonpoe]

I was looking at those exact ones in-store and wondering how they'd work. Thanks for the heads up.

well, i'd say they work GREAT!

[kraw]

well, i'd say they work GREAT!

Love this!


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[tony.parente]

well, i'd say they work GREAT!

DON'T YOU FACEPALM ME.

I just didn't like the idea of having 6 different frames for this thing, plus I couldn't think of a place for all of them.

[sick among the pure]

well, i'd say they work GREAT!

They look awesome in floating frames. I just wish it was a set of 7, I don't know which card I would want to put the acetate print over.

[Ryan]

don't you facepalm me.

I just didn't like the idea of having 6 different frames for this thing, plus i couldn't think of a place for all of them.

Stop making excuses and re frame them or we smack you!

[Jon]

DON'T YOU FACEPALM ME.

I just didn't like the idea of having 6 different frames for this thing, plus I couldn't think of a place for all of them.

At least buy a second one? I got your back, bro:

[Ryan]

@Conan The Barbarian @Space Suicide @ManBurning Would you live with me?

[myrdd79]

Put my x-ray part into a customised lightbox. Still not sure how to display other parts though:

[HurtinMinorKey]

I think I'm going to use the cards, water, the gunk, and acrylic paint on a canvas to see if I can make something cool. Do people think the cards will bleed their color if I wet them?

Perhaps I'm being foolish. But what the hell, I might as well.

[bwary]

I wish I had one of those crime lab computers that does pattern matching so I could find out what part of the TDS cover artwork the Dear World background is! I'm pretty sure it's part of the TDS cover/back cover (vs. a similar rehash). I've looked and looked at the zoomed in close ups from Rob's re-photographing (available here), but I'm not able to definitively match the markers. Maybe someone else will spot it.

Interesting thought. I had the understanding that "She's Gone Away" was the only track based on another.

I might not be from the TDS artwork, it might just be photograph of gauze. Or perhaps gauze from a different Russell Mills artwork (I think some of the work from Cargo in the Blood might have incorporated gauze)

@paul_guyet I'm definitely not inferring that Dear World is a track based on, or in direct reference to, a previous one such as the She's Gone Away/Reptile connection. @GentlemanLoser The similarity between the closeups Rob gave us of Wound, Mill's piece used for the cover of TDS, and that used in printing the Dear World sheet, are way too remarkable to be anything else, in my opinion. Although the single area of Wound that is zoomed in on for Dear World may not match up with the quickly available photographs of Rob's, this certainly does not eliminate that the image in Dear World is not, in fact, a zoomed in area of Wound. If we had the entire piece to look at in that kind of quality, maybe more of us would notice the exact area quicker. Who knows, maybe we'll quickly see it in @kraw 's remastered artwork for the Definitive Edition.

[ManBurning]

@Conan The Barbarian @Space Suicide @ManBurning Would you live with me?

Love to! Always wanted to live in Australia! get me away from this shitty weather... I think I have the worst weather out of everyone mentioned here, lol.

[EndlessLoveless]

I finally opened mine this morn. Very cool. Black credits card, no logo or halo, 3D burning bright, medium dust. Blue branches/bones dark she's gone away. Everything else is white ish paper with black letters. Played album while I opened. Wish I had the nin and halo designation. But, glad I finally opened.

Edit- it was very spur of the moment. I was just going to leave it sealed but i thought, why the fuck am I holding this? I would never sell it. Might as well do with it what TR intended.