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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Give that rainforest chic. I bought way too many electric desktop fountains in the 90s.
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this image from a 24000 piece puzzle is at least a few of them merged together: Incidentally, Karenpuzzles on youtube just finished putting it together, and showed off the completed thing in someone's studio.It is ginormous https://twitter.com/karenpuzzles/status/1424762317212839938?s=20
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Pastry of the Year posted:I bought way too many electric desktop fountains in the 90s. the “leisure suit Larry” Spencer’s Gifts kind or the “corporate zen” Bed Bath & Beyond kind?
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Ok Comboomer posted:the “leisure suit Larry” Spencer’s Gifts kind or the “corporate zen” Bed Bath & Beyond kind? I don't know which one is less embarrassing, but corporate zen. One was very similar to this:  That poo poo you aptly described as corporate zen was absolute catnip for me as a teenager and I could not tell you why.
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Aug 13, 2021 14:32
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It's the perfect mix of 80s hifi design and 90s environmentalism
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm guessing the revival was more because they figured out how to make more colors by using gasses other than neon. 
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Pastry of the Year posted:I don't know which one is less embarrassing, but corporate zen. One was very similar to this: because you were vaguely unhappy, unsatisfied, and stressed by society/the human condition and you sought relief of the soul in the only way that marketers told you that you could—the day spa playing Buddha Bar remixes of Enya and Moby tracks. but since you couldn’t afford that you were going to bring the experience home for $24.99.
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Ok Comboomer posted:because you were vaguely unhappy, unsatisfied, and stressed by society/the human condition and you sought relief of the soul in the only way that marketers told you that you could—the day spa playing Buddha Bar remixes of Enya and Moby tracks. Whoa there big slender, that's $43.48 in 2021 bux.
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It’s also a prerequisite to have that and that stupid little box of sand with the rake at every franchise spa to this day.
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dialhforhero posted:It’s also a prerequisite to have that and that stupid little box of sand with the rake at every franchise spa to this day. look man, you're just like Paul Allen thinking about technology in his $50 million Japanese garden compound in a full-page spread for WIRED magazine when you bust out your Brookstone(R) desktop zen sand garden. You'll be meditating up which hot dot-com stocks to put your Blockbuster paycheck into, while you install the latest updates for Windows 95. Can't wait for Win98 to drop, right? Start Me Up!(tm). As you listen to your wall-mounted CD player with tasteful clear glass display door ($250, sharper-image.com) spin Putamayo Presents: South Asian Woman Song (Putamayo World Music, 1996. $15, borders.com) in your Seattle apartment, you'll receive the divine wisdom courtesy of the badly veneered 3" x 10" particleboard box filled with ultrafine sand, collection of small stones, and tiny balsa rake. Make surprisingly fun patterns to your heart's content until you inevitably 1) get a bunch of hair and dust and crap in the sand, making it gross 2) knock the whole thing on the floor
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I feel like some of that stuff was an outgrowth of executive desk toys from the 80's.
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Ok Comboomer posted:As you listen to your wall-mounted CD player with tasteful clear glass display door Don't you dare mock this pinnacle of design 
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e: ^^^Ok Comboomer posted:look man, you're just like Paul Allen thinking about technology in his $50 million Japanese garden compound in a full-page spread for WIRED magazine when you bust out your Brookstone(R) desktop zen sand garden. You'll be meditating up which hot dot-com stocks to put your Blockbuster paycheck into, while you install the latest updates for Windows 95. Can't wait for Win98 to drop, right? Start Me Up!(tm). As you listen to your wall-mounted CD player with tasteful clear glass display door ($250, sharper-image.com) spin Putamayo Presents: South Asian Woman Song (Putamayo World Music, 1996. $15, borders.com) in your Seattle apartment, you'll receive the divine wisdom courtesy of the badly veneered 3" x 10" particleboard box filled with ultrafine sand, collection of small stones, and tiny balsa rake. Make surprisingly fun patterns to your heart's content until you inevitably 1) get a bunch of hair and dust and crap in the sand, making it gross 2) knock the whole thing on the floor I can't believe they kept that CD player for almost the whole run of Nip/Tuck. I kept expecting them to replace it but it was so iconic after a while.
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I can guarantee you it was nowhere near $250 when it was new. I think I'm on my fourth or fifth now, I keep selling them, but I just can't help myself from buying them when a cheap one pops up.
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doctorfrog posted:I feel like some of that stuff was an outgrowth of executive desk toys from the 80's. It was like assault weapons in the late 70s. The intended market is no longer buying so they had to create a new market to unload all this faulty merchandise.
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https://cari.institute/aesthetics A friend in discord posted this site when I stole that design aesthetics alignment chart and this site rules so loving much. Obviously it isnt only about 90s aesthetics but all of them are there and goddamn its amazing to me how much I adore Utopian Scholastic yet despise its older brother Frasurbane.     Also For some reason Zen X just does not work for me, just the brownest poo poo. remusclaw has a new favorite as of 22:18 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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I’m on a Doctor Who kick at the moment, and the classic era series was cancelled in 1989. The Paul McGann 8th Doctor movie happened in 1995 and we thought it meant a possible reboot, but that didn’t happen until 2005. So let’s talk about 1993… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCeMIQpFBc A Children in Need (annual UK charity telethon) reunited the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Doctors, along with a ton of the companions (including 1st Doctor’s granddaughter Susan) and took them on a little overlapping time romp. In 3D. What makes it weird? They’re doing a crossover with soap opera Eastenders. And this is kinda sorta canon as one of the Who novels talks about a “bad dream” he had once where he was chased around a soap opera. This is somehow a terrible episode of Doctor Who, while also being a brilliant part of Doctor Who history, and it’s just so bizarre it is peak 90s.
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There was also a rumor of Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor. Someone saw it at a Con! I totally heard about it! Turned out to be for another charity, Comic Relief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM Thanks to the internet we can watch it whenever we want. Thing is, its only slightly sillier than Doctor Who was in its later years.
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I always thought the Paul McGann thing was one of thosr weird scifi tvmovies Fox kept putting out periodically, like White Dwarf. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0114926/
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remusclaw posted:https://cari.institute/aesthetics Imagine a hospital in Memphis-Milano https://cari.institute/aesthetics/memphis-milano I've seen it. It was also the worst hospital in town.
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 This picture gave me a violently strong memory of thinking it was cool to cover my arm in tiny stamp “tattoos” that would immediately smear everywhere. I also used kool-aid to color my hair. No, I won’t be using the app for my order today; just a large number five with sweet sour sauce and a coke please.
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I was always disappointed when I saw markers like that. Usually when they diverge from the typical crayola markings, it’s because they had some extra gimmick. I always thought those stamp markers would be scented, but what i was expecting was Mr. Sketch brand scented markers. 
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had to press down absolutely perfectly for those things to work right
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I was an anxiety ridden mess as a kid and needed things to be as even as possible in all respects. I had a set of these but refused to use them because there were not all shapes in all colors. WHAT IF I WANT A RED EXCLIMATION POINT?!
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mlnhd posted:I was always disappointed when I saw markers like that. Usually when they diverge from the typical crayola markings, it’s because they had some extra gimmick. Mr. Sketch was always my ideal for a marker.
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mlnhd posted:I was always disappointed when I saw markers like that. Usually when they diverge from the typical crayola markings, it’s because they had some extra gimmick. My set came in this red plastic suitcase. Seems like everything came in suitcases:  I had a vinyl case sort of like that, I remember the plastic trays. But more importantly my great-grandma knitted a case with plastic canvas.
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Guy Axlerod posted:My set came in this red plastic suitcase. Seems like everything came in suitcases: I had one of those for these little matchbox-like airplanes (really high quality die-cast metal, they were nice). It unbottoned to flatten out into the map of an airport, and part could be re-buttoned differently to become a control tower.
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I love the super saturated late 90s look. Takes me straight back to primary school. Blasting colours and faces completely devoid of lines. I remember the first time I saw a photo of Shirley Manson that wasn’t completely blown out I didn’t recognise her as the same person.
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mlnhd posted:I was always disappointed when I saw markers like that. Usually when they diverge from the typical crayola markings, it’s because they had some extra gimmick. I think these taught all the little kids in the early 90s (and maybe earlier idk) to sniff every marker they came across. Then the universe had to course correct so you started running into markers with nasty odorants in the late 90s.
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Creature posted:I love the super saturated late 90s look. Takes me straight back to primary school. Blasting colours and faces completely devoid of lines. Every era has its own toxic beauty standards, but I legitimately ugly as a teen if a photo showed my face to have any kind of detail in the late 90s as it made my face "too busy".
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The Moon Monster posted:I think these taught all the little kids in the early 90s (and maybe earlier idk) to sniff every marker they came across. Then the universe had to course correct so you started running into markers with nasty odorants in the late 90s. Wait - markers don't just naturally smell like death??
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browsing One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age and loving how many edgy young things made entire, elaborate websites about themselves and their interests, and capped them off with splash pages that said "gently caress you, don't read this, go away" just crackling late 90s surly-rear end energy
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Pastry of the Year posted:browsing One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age and loving how many edgy young things made entire, elaborate websites about themselves and their interests, and capped them off with splash pages that said "gently caress you, don't read this, go away" 
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Pastry of the Year posted:browsing One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age and loving how many edgy young things made entire, elaborate websites about themselves and their interests, and capped them off with splash pages that said "gently caress you, don't read this, go away" If you've not played Hypnospace Outlaw, you should. It's literally 90's Internet: The Game.
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Aqua did the theme song for a 90s romcom where Gwyneth Paltrow is British again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls0WfopgR9k
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Parkingtigers posted:I’m on a Doctor Who kick at the moment 
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Pastry of the Year posted:browsing One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age and loving how many edgy young things made entire, elaborate websites about themselves and their interests, and capped them off with splash pages that said "gently caress you, don't read this, go away" Gotta get that hit counter cred.
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