Man, what happened in the 1970’s? From an issue of Pop Sci, instructions on how to build your own 12-sided meditation chamber, where you can zone the fug out on “photolages.” WHY CAN’T MAGAZINES BE LIKE THIS ANYMORE?

For the design of the Meditator, I’ve gone to the ancient Greeks and borrowed one of the polyhedrons they first visualized— the 12-sided dodecahedron, each face of which is a perfect pentagon. The Pythagoreans called it the “atomic building block of the Universe.”

Although the structure is simple to build, the secret of its effectiveness lies in the preparation of those graphics inside. You create them from pictures cut from popular magazines-pictures of any subjects you wish, but pictures to which you have a strong response. The random assemblage of such pictures is a technique I developed some years ago and which Look magazine christened “pholage”—a word coined from “photo” and “collage” (an art work pasted up from scraps)….

I think you’ll be surprised by the new perspectives you’ll get toward the world about you, and your own part in it. I’ll soon be taking the Meditator with me (knocked down, it fits into a station wagon or sedan) on a college lecture tour as part of my demonstration of design technique. Teachers who have had an advance look at the - Meditator feel that—with changeable panels—it could be utilized in schools as a teaching environment.

Modern Mechanix (via Boing Boing).