A puzzle with no box. Re-shaping the "edge"

I haven't done a puzzle in years but some how a friend convinced me it would be a good way to spend a Tuesday evening. We put on some music, unwrapped the box, spread the pieces about the table and started looking for edge pieces. This was a different kind of puzzle though. First off it was a 750 piecer (more than an evenings worth) and it had no box. I mean it came in a box, but the picture on the box had nothing to do with the puzzle.

I'm as tired of "out of the box"-isms as anyone so I'll do my best to skirt them. But it's possible the label industry execs have been staring at the box to long. Maybe it's time to do the hard work and figure our for ourselves what lies inside those edge pieces. It's a whole new inference to being "on the edge" the edge creates the boundaries by which the rest of the pieces fall into play.

Are you an edge, do you define the structure by which other pieces fit, or are you waiting for the edge to be defined to see where you fit it? If your still looking at the box your working on the wrong puzzle. Sorry.

OK that was an excessive amount of analogy. We are now in an industry full entrepreneurial artists who a piecing there own stuff together and are less concerned with fitting into a puzzle that's being dismantled and put back in its box and headed for the shelf.

j.