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Potatokind and mankind’s paths have been intertwined for millennia. Through history, besides their delicious and nutritious qualities, potatoes have been used as effective weapons against predators and enemies, and have even helped us unwind at the end of a long day, when the only thing we want to do is to play a little potato-ball or perhaps get a rolling potato massage.

As depicted in 2001: A Space Oddyssey (remember the giant black rectangular potato monolith), potatoes played an instrumental role in the origin of civilization. Were it not for these magnificent tubers we would still be living as pets and fodder for dinosaurs*. Perhaps some would think that we are being too bold in saying that potato stamps were the first form of graphic communication, perhaps that’s debatable. But what no one can deny is the insurmountable debt humanity owes to the spud kingdom.

As part of our opportunistic retro-inventions series, the image above shows the potato print system with a carved stamp depicting a funky dancing LED that uses glow in the dark ink, not out of place at all in prehistorical, post-apocalyptic or Halloween party scenarios, among others.

*Hyperbole added for dramatic effect only. Zazaziza is a firm follower of the theory of evolution.

Scenario: Subject A and subject B are wearing t-shirts, the Goodbye t-shirt combo, to be precise. For some reason outside the scope of this weblog, subject A has to leave, leave for good, you know.

Okay, subject A and subject B are acquaintances of some kind, so, as humans often do, they decide to give each other a sappy, dramatic goodbye hug. Subject A gets on the steam train, or some other romantic-sounding means of transportation, leaving subject B lonely and real sad.

All of a sudden, subject B notices that the glowing image on subject A’s t-shirt appears to be glowing on his boring t-shirt now! (they both have been drinking, it’s late at night and it’s dark, mind you.) What could this possibly mean? Can it be a good omen? subject B wonders, while the copied image on his chest slowly fades until it becomes just a memory. Somehow, subject B’s sadness increases tenfold.

Well, it’s obvious that right from the start subject B knew what the Goodbye t-shirt combo does, so he can’t possibly be surprised, can he? Apparently, the t-shirts act as sadness amplifiers of some kind. Maybe subject B is into that sort of thing, we don’t know.

What about subject A? She is staring at her stupid battery-powered glowing t-shirt as the steam boat she’s in cruises along the river. Alas! the t-shirt doesn’t look one bit as fun as it did when she wore it for the first time. Freakin’ sadness amplifiers! they really work!

Thanks a lot Catalina y Mario (subjects A and B)

From the Zazaziza dusty archives we have managed to unearth an old Kazumba t-shirts video; it shows a mysterious hand holding different ultraviolet and white light-emitting devices that wildly excite paths of photoluminescent molecules along their way!!! Okay, no amount of exclamation signs will make this one look exciting, but here it is anyway for documentation purposes.