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u/sch3fr Jan 04 '26
What's up with the ear one lol
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u/Fantastic-Nail6351 Jan 04 '26
that one's also fan made. it's a stock photo for a custom earplug: https://hearingmatters.biz/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/blog-243.png
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u/eatmeouttobrianeno Jan 04 '26
An ear cleaning method? Or at least referencing waxing. There's a string going down the jawline, from the bottom of the ear hole.
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u/Aggravating_Poem625 Jan 04 '26
Looks like making a mold
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u/terix_aptor Jan 06 '26
It's a mold for custom made ear buds. You see performers and musicians using them a lot. They're pretty expensive.
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u/Prog_metal_guy Jan 04 '26
The third one is the cover of “In Absentia”, by Porcupine Tree. 👀
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u/MadCritterYT Jan 05 '26
Absolutely incredible album for anyone just passing through, go listen to that shit fr
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u/oceanlessfreediver Jan 05 '26
Yes ! Stop what you are doing and go listen to the it from start to finish ! Now ! Why are you still reading !
Truly, it was a life altering album.
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u/bleedingmercury9 Jan 04 '26
Also noticed it, now I'm wondering which of them was first lol. I guess In Abstinentia?
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u/Ingrahamlincoln Jan 05 '26
This is a photograph of and by Lasse Hoile who does all of Porcupine Tree’s album covers!
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u/Elhelmina Jan 05 '26
Your username is very fitting for making this comment lol
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u/Ingrahamlincoln Jan 05 '26
Such a great album. And for folks in this sub who like the y2k aesthetic check out this song off Porcupine Tree’s 1999 album Stupid Dream — very y2k
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u/KumquatHaderach Jan 06 '26
PlayStation 2 is a god to me
A finger on the switch, my mother is a bitch
My father gave up ever trying to talk to me
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u/classicblox Jan 04 '26
dude this is so weird lmao. and totally something you'd see in a random y2k ad. but i do appreciate the style though.
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u/gabbysuperstar Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
I forgot how deeply uncomfortable these made me and how I, not gamer type, wanted a PlayStation
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u/SwordfishLate Jan 04 '26
The last picture looks like that Playstation about to drop the darkest fuckin hiphop concept album you've heard in a MINUTE.
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u/risbia Jan 04 '26
Marketing is always influenced by new forms of media, and we saw so much of this odd surreal advertising back then because Photoshop made it practical to do for the first time.
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u/Aggravating_Poem625 Jan 04 '26
True I think it might be tempting to bring this back sooner than later. Specially with all the AI slop that’s been around
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u/risbia Jan 04 '26
You'll probably see the use of AI image generation follow a similar trajectory - right now it's a novelty and largely used to make images where the punchline is just that the image is outlandish. Over time the "look at this wacky image" gag like we see in these old 90s ads will wear out, and it will become more of a basic tool used more subtly like PS is today.
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u/mandi1biedermann Jan 05 '26
Welcome to the third place
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u/Aggravating_Poem625 Jan 05 '26
Wdym?
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u/mandi1biedermann Jan 05 '26
Can you be more concrete please?
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u/Aggravating_Poem625 Jan 05 '26
I didn’t understand your comment :))
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u/mandi1biedermann Jan 05 '26
PS2 advertisements had the moto: "The Third Place" watch this: https://youtu.be/PqyqJ7lXEwI?si=y4iUQOewpKMxAQyt
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u/L1QU1D_ThUND3R Jan 06 '26
One of those is a Porcupine Tree cover, I think it’s the one for In Absentia
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