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Obsolete things u miss
I really miss records and record players
last night the kids and i got out the record player and played some very very old 80’s vinyl
they danced and laughed so much..... it was great!!!!
What obsolete things do u miss????
There r so many now... tapes, tape recorders, dictaphones, typewriters cameras with film.... so many that r very cool to still own | |
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Minidiscs. ( Those recordable little thingies that looked a bit like a computer disc).
Vintage muscle cars and old cars from the 70s in general (yeah, they´re still around, but come on, are they really necessary or affordable with these gas prices nowadays? I still love them though).
I still use my record player, though not really often.
Cassettes. Believe or not, sometimes I still listen to old cassettes. Very rarely, but I do. Some of my best music from the past is on tape. Have to transfer it and save it soon.
" I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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Dark rooms.
They were so useful in horror movies. You could have someone developing a photo in a dark room, moving the photo from one solution to another, and slowly something important was coming into focus on the picture--like some crucial evidence. And then that person would get killed for having discovered it.
Oh, and avocado-green rotary phones. I guess they remind me of childhood.
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Telephone booths.
With those big yellow pages hanging from a chain.
Where is Superman going to change now?
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Polaroid cameras
It was fun to watch them develop(e?). You couldn't take a million pictures like you can with digital, but they didn't sit in your camera or computer for forever. I'm firmly planted in denial | |
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Slide carousels and slides - I spent so many hours in art history lectures with the whir of the slide machine and the click of a new image projected onto the lecture room wall. Seeing a silent powerpoint is just not the same.
I hate the digital revolution. The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp. | |
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I still use them ( the last few that are left here). But not to change clothes. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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I have a projector, a movie screen, and about 30 carousels at my house - full of family slides. My parents dumped them on me when they moved out of state.
I wish I knew an easy way to digitize them, so I could get my closet back. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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my ex | |
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My aunt had hundreds of slides of family photos from the '60s and '70s. A few years ago, she found a guy who transferred them all to DVD. Then she gave copies to my siblings and me. It was great. I really love having it. | |
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The packs of cards you'd get with the powdery pink, stale gum.
The smell was The gum was for about 2 minutes.
I didn't get baseball cards, I'd get the other kinds. It's been so long I don't even remember them. I'm firmly planted in denial | |
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I use to collect E.T. cards and they came with that gum. Proud Memaw to Seyhan Olivia Christine ,Zoey Cirilo Jaylee & Ellie Abigail Lillian | |
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The Jukebox | |
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Honestly when he was like this, for those days to come back. Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name | |
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do you or anyone have any old polaroid photos you don't want any more? or exposed or expired polaroid paper?
I need some | |
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There is a designer, Alison Berger, who takes the really old school slides - the glass ones - and makes beautiful lighting fixtures out of them. Maybe you coud contact her and see if she works with paper slides.
http://www.alisonbergergl...elier.html
I love old film projectors, too. There was a great work by Nam June Paik called Zen for Film in one of the exhibitions I toured -- it was unexposed 16mm film running on continuous loop throug an old school projector. Most of the people on my tours hated it -- their faces would squinch up when I would make them look at it and they couldn't wait to walk away because they thought it was "nothing" but it wasn't. It was warm light, and soft sound, and you could see every little speck of dust magnified in the light. I thought it was sort of mesmerizing, and yes, even a bit zenlike. The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp. | |
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Ahh, thanks. There is just something comforting about the click/whir of the slide machine and the memories of seeing all those wonderful works of art through a slide - even the terribly discolored or dirty slides. I also helped the art history professors refile the slides in the slide library. Each slide was like a little flashcard to me. I would quiz myself before I carefully filed them away in the long, narrow drawers. When I went to grad school, the Department of Art History was in the process of making all the professors convert to digital images. It just wasn't the same.
And Kodachrome film, too.
The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp. | |
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when i first started working in an office the ppl i worked for thought it would be fantastic to save space and store all old documents on microfilm....
it was fun using it when no one was around..... first my hands, then other bits that i could squeeze under the camera
i don't know where i put it... but somewhere at home there is a reel of bits of me
omg i was norty back then 2 | |
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Mimeograph machines... the soothing clack-clack and that wonderful, wonderful smell... A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon | |
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I wish i was around when they had records and stuff
does anybody remember that yogurt that came with sprinkles? what's it called? they don't have it anymore.. it was like around the early 2000's lol Watch me talk about Prince - http://www.youtube.com/us...ature=mhee
Tumblr - http://dreamyicecream.tumblr.com/ New coat, huh? That's nice. Did you buy it? Yeah right. | |
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i also miss doing the cross words in news papers..... i can't remember the last time i actually read a news paper!!!!
i wonder if ppl still buy them???? every thing is on the net... except 4 crosswords
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ZombieKitten said:
do you or anyone have any old polaroid photos you don't want any more? or exposed or expired polaroid paper?
I need some Sorry no, I used all mine up! I'm firmly planted in denial | |
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Trust me, any man who wears a spit curl, tights and red manties and riding boots knows a remaining 25¢ booth or two. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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A typewriter
Classic video game consoles
8 track tape players and tapes
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Record players and of course the internet.
99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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So not where I thought your post was going. Or are they called back rooms? It's been a while. [Edited 3/1/11 19:34pm] | |
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The BMW e34 frame (1988-1996)
...when they actually played videos.
[Edited 3/2/11 6:45am] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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does anyone actually miss street directories?????
and... do they still exist?????? | |
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hell yeah!! A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon | |
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