After the glorious joys of Simone Giertz’s Summer Day on the River jigsaw, the glorious Yetch Studio is back with another glorious jigsaw.
This SOB is a majority edge piece puzzle with 356/538 puzzle pieces. Each one is a random cut, so every version shipped is slightly different (a neat little touch there). Intrigued? So you bloody well should be!
Time to Get With the Ants in Birthday Heist On the Hillside
You can order this on the Yetch site (Edge Piece Birthday Heist), where you can get this as a combo with Summer Day on the River AT THE COST OF ONLY £48.76!!!
No, this isn’t a paid sponsored thing at all.
We just love these geeky things and the ever-awesome Simone Giertz continues to inspire us with her smarts and self-deprecation. Heck, even the Yetch marketing campaign had us swooning (and we detest 99.99999% of all advertising) with the genuine sense of fun and silliness (click below to see what we mean).
Who’d have thought, capitalism, that you can inspire brand loyalty by having a genuinely awesome and cool person heading up a business? Life lessons and all that.
Anyway, away from the intended difficulty and mind-bending nature of these edge jigsaws (as this one is a brain teaser), we have the excellent artwork by Elin Östberg. She does most glorious work such as this.
The best of some geeky worlds, then, in the form of a jigsaw puzzle that tests your brains… and some fantabulous art stuffs. We know you’re tempted, so go forth and get at least one of them.
ADDENDUM ALERT! Move Slow and Build Things
On a final note, Simone Giertz being a heroine of ours, it’s great to see she’s branched out further still into podcasting. It’s called Move Slow and Build things, which she co-hosts with Nayeema Raza (of Smart Girl Dumb Questions).
The first episode explores how the first edge piece jigsaw came to be.
Subsequent episodes have covered Giertz’s recovery from a brain tumour in April 2018 (when she was in her late 20s). She named the tumour Brian, showing off the extent of her excellent sense of humour, the reason being it’s an anagram of brain (🧠). At the time, she stated her morbid sense of humour was what helped her deal with the illness.
It returned again in May 2019, but she’s since fully recovered. But she sports a massive scar on the side of her skull after the operation to remove Brian.
A reminder of her career path. She rose to fame on YouTube as The Queen of Shitty Robots, inventing useless crap for comedic purposes. She combined that with self-deprecating humour.
She then evolved that into inventing useful things, which turned into Yetch Studio, the likes of the jigsaw puzzles, and this awesome looking spool table.
You can only get the spool table in the US, unfortunately, so no go on that one for us. Being British bastards. However, you can keep yourself busy with that jigsaw thing instead. Which we will, indeed, be doing.
