Heleen de Vaan:Fifty Barcodes are worth more than Fifty Euros

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

This all arrived in a little chocolate box designed as a fifty euro note.  The message is inspiring, and thoughtful.  Let me think about it for a second. 

Da Da, I think I would take the fifty euros any day over fifty barcodes.  Fifty shades of grey might be a bit more difficult to pass by.

Thank you Heleen

[Heleen de Vaan]

Thank you for blogging, Dean, I 'm happy the treasures arrived safely.
Nothing special regarding the butterflies, they happened to fly by and I seduced them to enter the box to be also sent to you and they seem to not regret this journey.

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

On June 26, 1974, at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, a single pack of chewing gum became the first retail product sold with the help of a barcode & scanner.  We butter celebrate this next year.

Not sure what the Butter flies are doing with the barcodes.  Heleen will hopefully give us an insight.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

a TREE barcode! and butterflies :-)

...and a few color codes, too! Very valuable indeed!

[Richard Canard]

03.07.16 Dare Dean aka, ...well,  I guess that I am so far out of touch & "old school" that I thought fifty black & white barcodes sorta looked like fifty shades of grey..but I also can now see (thanks to Ms. de Vaan) that the industry is beginning to be  more inventive & playful with the process....is that butterfly item some sort of bar code ???? Somewhere around here  I should have an old  copy of my first  awareness  & reference to the barcode (l976...I remember because that was a bicentennial year)...when & if I can find a copy, I 'll relay a copy along (with still yet another" LOL butter item"). I am a great admirer of the many things you have done with the barcode.  Meanwhile, (& I'm so sorry to trouble you ) but could you please send verification of your address my way ?????. Many thanx. Richard C.