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Rad idea for a thread. I'll be back with some photots my Dad took while SCUBA diving of an octopus attacking someone, when I get the chance.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I end this post with another all-too-common find in the archives: the Wonderful Creep Shot It's important journalism, man!
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Mar 1, 2015 06:15
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So, can I post Cool Mum Pics here also?
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Mar 14, 2015 14:24
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This is a self portrait of my mother, shot about 1970 as an eighteen year old. I knew my mother was a little bit into photography; my whole life she's been cracking out the SLR (or, more recently, DSLR) and forcing her family members to pose awkwardly at Christmas time, during birthdays, at tourist attractions, etc. Apparently, before this descent into family documentation, she took rad pictures of awesome and interesting things. For example, Sydney school life in the very late 1960s.  As a young woman, she used to travel. Apparently, while she was there, she'd take the sorts of sick Kodachrome deadpan landscape shots that would make her son kinda jealous 40 years later. Here's a few shots of Fiji.   This, I assume, is a typical gentleman of the early 70s toting his new Fijian-bought cassette recorders. Those certainly were the days...  Her travels weren't only to tropical Pacific nations, though. She also used to enjoy road trips. I believe in these photos, she was on the way to Coffs Harbour when she encountered a flooded highway. I can only assume that's Elvis standing on the right of the first photo.    This is just the first few, from a box overflowing with Kodachrome slides. I'm a little bit excited to keep digging through them.
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Mar 17, 2015 07:48
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spookygonk posted:Just googled "Hitachi TRQ-222" and that's one chunky cassette recorder (the two parts on the back are detachable speakers). That's rad! I can only assume he was planning on getting two tapes going in tandem for some some quadraphonic stereo goodness.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:43
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Pham Nuwen posted:I figured he'd put a tape in one and wire it into the other to make copies. And so a cassette piracy empire was born.
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Mar 18, 2015 23:38
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So, my mother. In case you forgot her, here's a photo of her posing near a disabled man. On the last day of school, students in Year 12 celebrate the infamous 'muck up day' where they dress up and play pranks around the school. This was no different in the late 60s...   (Yessss... look at those Kodachrome colours....) ...although apparently my mother's cohort set fire to the school? Or is that steam?  Anyway, they made a helluva mess.  Anyway, our story continues back in Fiji. Everything looks gloriously tropical, and my mother takes charming abstract poolside shots.    The locals put on demonstrations for gawking, camera-toting tourists...   Meanwhile, all of the tourists strut around in their hideous 70s fashion disaster outfits, trying to look beautiful.  (Nice Speedos!)   And weirdly, here's a bonus shot from Fiji of the most bronzed Aussie ever, dressed as a British naval officer, and his girlfriend as a flamenco dancer.  Time to depart Fiji now, where I leave you with two images that pretty much sum up the Australian experience:   And that's that for my second installment... still have one final batch of slides to dig through.
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Mar 30, 2015 08:56
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Both these latest additions to this thread are totally rad. Best thread in Dorkroom!
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Aug 25, 2015 06:10
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Sorry bro, these belong in a new thread - Coolest Dad Pics.
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My grandfather evidently shared my interest in great kitsch roadside attractions. Here's the Big Pineapple circa 1975.
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