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Braille Playboy by Ami Kealoha

Brailleplayboy

Although its funding was cut off for a time in 1985, issues of Playboy printed in braille have been published by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped since 1970. No, it doesn't include the pictures (reinforcing the old joke about reading the magazine for the articles), but it still might be the world's only government-sponsored conceptual art project.

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This entry posted on 03 April 2006 at 9:47 AM
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