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Shame Boy posted:Oh man I used one of those as a very young kid at a science museum and never saw one since then so I always thought I imagined it until right now, it's such a weird idea They're still all over Chicago
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Coins, SNES/N64/Gamecube stuff. One for the cool precious metals and historical value, the other because I'm a stereotypical nostalgic idiot and who doesn't like a good self-wank once and awhile
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Oct 17, 2021 14:49
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Shame Boy posted:Oh man I used one of those as a very young kid at a science museum and never saw one since then so I always thought I imagined it until right now, it's such a weird idea
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Oct 17, 2021 22:53
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Slugworth posted:Staple of Chicago attractions. They smell so incredible. Kind of bumming myself out that I'll probably never see/smell one again. Chicago still exists and the zoo is free
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Oct 17, 2021 23:03
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Imagined posted:The zoo in my city still maintains and even updates these old Mold-A-Rama machines, and I've tried to collect every mold they put out. That is incredible, I wish I had the forethought to save all the ones I got over the years. Those machines were so cool.
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Oct 17, 2021 23:24
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Slimy Hog posted:They're still all over Chicago I grew up in a suburb of Chicago, and I love those loving things! I think the only one I currently own is from a visit to the Museum of Science and Industry in 2004, but I would like to have more of them. As others have pointed out, the smell is unique and unforgettable.
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Oct 17, 2021 23:34
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Y'all are making me jealous with the injection mold machine. The only thing I've ever seen that comes close is the old emboss a penny for 51c machines and that's nowhere near as cool. Also I've decided gently caress it and gonna start with letterpress blocks more seriously. Rounded all mine up and put them in a small box on my desk for now.  My rule is going to be to only buy designs that make me go holy poo poo that's awesome, though I may have hosed that up already pending auction results. At least I'll have something to look for in antique malls if I ever hit one up again.
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Oct 18, 2021 00:25
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Gutter Phoenix posted:As others have pointed out, the smell is unique and unforgettable. Probably why I still remember it despite being like 5 years old when I used one, that smell is burned into my memory forever 
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Oct 18, 2021 01:02
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Turbinosamente posted:Y'all are making me jealous with the injection mold machine. The only thing I've ever seen that comes close is the old emboss a penny for 51c machines and that's nowhere near as cool. That's really cool! And inspired me to finally get off my rear end and start on my next linocut, so double thanks for posting it 
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Oct 18, 2021 03:16
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Trabant posted:That's really cool! And inspired me to finally get off my rear end and start on my next linocut, so double thanks for posting it You're welcome! I just like tiny artwork myself, don't do any printmaking. Though I'm sure one day I'll get the bright idea to ink one of these up and try to use it like a normal stamp.
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Oct 18, 2021 03:44
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Slimy Hog posted:Chicago still exists and the zoo is free
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Turbinosamente posted:You're welcome! I just like tiny artwork myself, don't do any printmaking. Though I'm sure one day I'll get the bright idea to ink one of these up and try to use it like a normal stamp. Oh I absolutely couldn't resist, but that's from someone who already has the inks/brayer/etc. Just don't underestimate the amount of pressure you'll need to achieve a decent print. The good news is that it can be achieved by hand and a spoon (e.g.), although I admit I say that having only lino experience.
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Oct 18, 2021 05:29
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I have a small but tasteful collection of books of myth and folklore. It's always the section I go to at a used book store. Most of it is on this shelf: For the most part, I've arranged it by region, left-to-right starting the international date line and moving east. Some of my favorites: Folklore of American Weather   Every page of this little book has a fascinating nugget or two on it. I love the specificity of the topic and the quick breezy style. Myths of the Norsemen   Published in 1908, this was in shockingly good condition. I don't know anything about bookbinding, but this still has pages that haven't been separated. I'm a bit torn about it, because I'm always interested in different renderings of Norse mythology, but I can't really read it without cutting the pages, and I have no idea how to do that. I still love having found this one. Mongolian Folktales   Not quite as quirky as the last two, I just love the illustrations in here, which are all actually paper cut art done by a Mongolian artist. Beautiful stuff. Collecting myths and folklore is fun because of the variety of ways people attempt to reconcile with source texts/oral traditions in a modern written format. The same set of stories can be interpreted extremely differently by two different editors/retellers. It's also great to see different folkloric stories rendered by widely-separated cultures, like when a story from Sweden is told very similarly to one from Japan, just with slight aesthetic differences. Really fun.
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Trabant posted:Oh I absolutely couldn't resist, but that's from someone who already has the inks/brayer/etc. Just don't underestimate the amount of pressure you'll need to achieve a decent print. The good news is that it can be achieved by hand and a spoon (e.g.), although I admit I say that having only lino experience. I do actually have a brayer, hand burnishing tool, my lovely lino cuts from high school/college, and a tube of speedball whatever ink from then that's probably shot by now... I just also collect way too many crafting/art hobbies and have way too many supplies. Right now I'm doing collages, cross stitches, and practicing bass guitar, because I can do it in front of a computer. Got loads of others that are messy or smelly crafts that need to be done in the basement, like anything with enamel paints. Reading up a bit on letterpress stuff it appears the ideal is just enough pressure to transfer the ink without embossing the paper at all as too much force can ruin the dies. No idea how well you could achieve that by hand and not smear it or something.
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Okay, finally had an opportunity to take some pictures. My major hobby is roleplaying games, so I collect a lot of books for that. Stuff on the white shelf is double-shelved, with other books I don’t reference nearly as much behind the first selection. I mostly game master, so my books are all close to my desk for me to reference and use while prepping for sessions.   But since I actually use those books for an active hobby, going by that other thread in this subforum that’s not a collection. After some thinking, my largest collection is probably the year or so in undergrad I went a little adhd/depressive crazy and tried to collect all the PS2 games I could possibly be interested in, so mostly RPGs or games with female protagonists. A lot of these have never been played. I bought Mana Khemia 2 without ever touching Mana Khemia 1.   I have some other stuff hanging around, like coins that are unusually shiny or cool (I live in Canada so there’s a good chance of any given quarter being some new art thing).
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Oct 19, 2021 02:40
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Tickets. I actually was about to give up doing it but I met a friend who also did and it made me decide to keep going.
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Oct 19, 2021 03:39
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Rick posted:Tickets. I actually was about to give up doing it but I met a friend who also did and it made me decide to keep going. Concerts, parking or speeding?
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Oct 19, 2021 09:38
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Minolta camera straps. I'd say cameras but I use all of my cameras, and if I don't I sell them. But the Minolta straps are definitely a collection.
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Oct 19, 2021 11:27
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:Concerts, parking or speeding? Concerts/movies. Parking tickets seem to spontaneously degrade in weeks.
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Oct 19, 2021 18:12
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Rick posted:Concerts/movies. Parking tickets seem to spontaneously degrade in weeks. I was hoping you’d say you collected tech support tickets.
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Oct 20, 2021 15:42
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I collect miniature arcade machines:  Yes, they are playable. No, I don't play any of them
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Oct 22, 2021 20:17
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flavor.flv posted:Yes, they are playable. No, I don't play any of them Ok sure but come on, really, what’s your punching machine high score?
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Oct 22, 2021 20:49
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Okay, fine. Sound on, cause this thing rules https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r1eahvdBtU1udxgdd_720.mp4
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flavor.flv posted:I collect miniature arcade machines: Oh hey I have all of those little ones in the bottom right of your second photo, too!
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Well, you should come talk about it! I just made a thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3982791
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Mister Facetious posted:And I've got a jar filled with two pounds of nickels and dimes because who uses them anymore I collect strange and unusual trading card games (my favorite is the Beyblade one -- it's genuinely novel!), books (approximately half of them have been read), a small amount of cool rocks, and.. so on. Oh, and music. I like to keep an eye out for genres I don't have much or any of. I'm pretty sure my rarest item is a CD release of the 1978 Watership Down movie soundtrack. You can find a few on Amazon right now, but when I got it they were few and far between; the vinyl is far more common. Digitally, I collect art from the internet. I like a wide variety of subjects and styles, and I've considered making a thread in PMF (or looking for a relevant one in PYF). Maybe I'll do that after all! Also, drat you DeviantArt redesign for making it difficult to download pics!  In dumber collections, I also have art supplies that I might maybe use, and a vast array of links that I will definitely read/watch/look at someday  Highly recommend Wikidpad if you are also a link collector who favors desktop. I also put my post drafts and poo poo there, it's really handy. Guacala posted:I collect local mining artifacts. Old rail road spikes, telegraphs, letters, and maps. 
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Ayin posted:Oh, and music. I like to keep an eye out for genres I don't have much or any of. I'm pretty sure my rarest item is a CD release of the 1978 Watership Down movie soundtrack. You can find a few on Amazon right now, but when I got it they were few and far between; the vinyl is far more common. There's a surprising amount of albums that are plentiful on vinyl or cassette but hard to find on CD. Probably the most famous artist I've got is a Roger Daltrey solo album: Under a Raging Moon. Scratch that, I just remembered I have a CD copy of the Wings Back to the Egg because I wanted a physical copy of Wonderful Christmas Time on a modern format and it was the only way to get it as it was thrown on there as a bonus track. If you look on Ebay right now you can find CD copies to both of these albums but they cost as much or more than a brand new CD release owing to the hard to come by factor. There's quite a dead zone in the late 80s and early 90s for slightly less beloved albums, even from wildly popular musicians. Hell it was only in the last year that Brian May realized his solo albums were out of print and got on rereleasing them both physically and digitally. Lots of untapped stuff out there to explore is what I'm getting at.
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I’ll add some pictures later but I just collect boring stuff and nothing weird: board games, whiskey, and comics. My wife used to have a bunch of weird collecting hobbies and I’ll see if I can find pictures of those. She used to have dozens of ceramic cows and squirrels that were just unnerving. The cows were like the previous moments of creepy cow figurines.
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Where I work was a cigar factory 100 years ago. So I buy and display memoribila from that company in my office. Things like business letters holiday cards ane such. I'm not endorcing smoking, I'm preserving history. Also vintage tv shows on reel 32mm, 90s rock band autographs and sports cards. joebuddah fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Oct 27, 2021 |
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I'm poor and don't have space so I only collect dumb poo poo in videogames. But to be honest I don't think there's anything in real life I'd be a collector of if I could, it's not really part of my mindset I do like to read about other people's collections, though. I might not get what drive people to do it but I find somewhat zen to read people talking about their collections like uh, this entire thread.
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falz posted:7 pages and I'd hoped some cool sneakerhead would've emerged by now. i collect sneakers. i regret displaying them like this because it's not like i've got a massive wardrobe the size of 12 rooms where 'shoes' has a section. as it is i'm guessing every girl who has seen it searches for the switch that spins them around to reveal severed heads or whatever. still it's my hobby and this thread is about collecting poo poo so here it is i guess. the towers are just under 6' tall. 
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Marching Powder, Disney + has a show called the world according to Jeff Goldblum, they send him places to discover new things and one of the first episodes is the world of sneaker collecting.
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Marching Powder posted:i collect sneakers. i regret displaying them like this because it's not like i've got a massive wardrobe the size of 12 rooms where 'shoes' has a section. as it is i'm guessing every girl who has seen it searches for the switch that spins them around to reveal severed heads or whatever. still it's my hobby and this thread is about collecting poo poo so here it is i guess. the towers are just under 6' tall. I don’t know anything about sneakers, rare/valuable/vintage or not, but I like the way you displayed them.
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learnincurve posted:Marching Powder, Disney + has a show called the world according to Jeff Goldblum, they send him places to discover new things and one of the first episodes is the world of sneaker collecting. i don't know if i want to know what jeff goldblum thinks about me and people like me but it sounds rad as hell so i might just track this down JnnyThndrs posted:I don’t know anything about sneakers, rare/valuable/vintage or not, but I like the way you displayed them. thanks, dawg.
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Marching Powder posted:i don't know if i want to know what jeff goldblum thinks about me and people like me but it sounds rad as hell so i might just track this down It’s kinda goofy but fun, worth watching
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Oh it’s super wholesome, like he’s a madman, but he’s genuinely interested in all these new things they get him to do and see.
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Vaporwave cassettes! Yes I do listen to them. Thats a lotta money right there lol
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AEMINAL posted:Vaporwave cassettes! Yes I do listen to them. As someone who has a proper hi-fi stack with a really nice casette deck in it, I have to look down my nose and sneer at people who buy modern stuff on casette, what with it just being ferric tape with no dolby. Also as someone who has a proper hi-fi stack with a really nice casette deck in it in tyool 2021, I've already self-owned so darn hard that nothing else actually matters. (Cool tapes  )
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Shame Boy posted:As someone who has a proper hi-fi stack with a really nice casette deck in it, I have to look down my nose and sneer at people who buy modern stuff on casette, what with it just being ferric tape with no dolby. can't believe you didnt mention my jazz cup chode.
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AEMINAL posted:can't believe you didnt mention my jazz cup chode. It seemed like too obvious a bait 
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