I’m sure you must have had a job (or even two) in your career that was just so unremittingly tedious, and / or badly paid that it now demarcates and defines the outer edge of your professional experience.
When I saw this photoset on Flickr the other day, my first reaction was to shudder at the idea of having a job creating these minute textures that are used to decorate and obfuscate the content of airmail (and other) envelopes.
And yet someone has found them to be attractive and interesting enough to celebrate them in their own right. (Click to enlarge)
This second example is named in honour of Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis group (from the early 1980’s). I’m sure that the group feels honoured by being commemorated by this piece of postal ephemera.
The third example that caught my eye, almost literally, was this vibrant zig-zag masterpiece. I find the little silhouettes of aircraft particularly charming.
Roland Barthes would have had a field day with this collection. I think that you might find it oddly compulsive viewing too.
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mein worst job was whens i worked as pegbar boy at mein first job. i had to holds pegbar still whilst animatr put paper on its and draw animaton. they not have tape that sticks to objetcts in kiev back then.
mein arm would get tired and animatr shout at me. i often wept. after 3 years of this i decide to resign from place. i upgrade to boy who sharpen animatr pencils.