The expensive, custom-made “Green Monster” covering over the Boylston Street (Boston) retail store glass façade is long gone, but now souvenir pieces of the material are beginning to surface. One person has supplied a photo of an irregularly-shaped piece of the green stuff, about nine inches square. The material is described as being the thickness and strength of ordinary duct tape, and with a very strong, gray-colored adhesive backing. The green covering was removed from the glass two days before the store opened, and workers carefully carted it off in a large debris box. Souvenir hunters apparently took some of the material before it was taken away.
This piece of the “Green Monster” covering includes a seam, where two pieces of the material overlapped when installed on the glass façade. By the way, the actual Fenway Park Green Monster wall is painted with a custom-mixed color that stadium workers specify as “fence green.”
Here is a scan of the actual material, showing the metallic-like, multi-color finish. The green is slightly brighter in this scan than on the material as it appeared mounted on the Apple store glass. You can see the seam in the material running from top to bottom, where it was mounted in sections on the glass.
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I’ll laugh my ASS off if this stuff ends up on eBay.
I won’t be surprised if it does, but I’ll still laugh…
…it wasn’t really very “carefully carted” away, fyi. it was in the dumpster on Boylston St, for most of the day.
No WAY! That is freakin’ AWESOME! Where can I get some? Is it on Ebay?
I’ll pay any price. I have just the place for it in my Apple shrine: Right next to my wads of Kleenex and toilet paper allegedly used by Steve Jobs.
You wrote: “Here is a scan of the actual material, showing the metallic-like, multi-color finish.”
I should point out that the reason it is multi-coloured is because it was probably printed with a large-scale digital printer, which is not at all uncommon for very small runs or, like in this case, unique objects. [IFO -- I looked closer at the print pattern and it's a strange, mottled, multi-colored print, not the usual dots-type pattern that I'm used to seeing with an ordinary ink-jet. Must be a sophisticated pattern generated by computer to maximize the smoothness of the coverage.]
It is, indeed, friggin’ expensive to digitally print such huge adhesive plastic sheets, but since we’re talking about one façade, you would never benefit from the economies of scale of processes like, say, flexography or rotary press, which would end up being more expensive to use.
Just my designer’s €0,02 ;)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140236969753
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