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Just pretend you're watching the most boring nature show.
I have a big soft spot for old electronics, specifically tv's. I actually own over a dozen old CRT tv's ranging from 1961 to the early 2000's. Anything from the 1980's and earlier I especially love. It sounds ironic then for me to say I really enjoy photographing the smashed up ones I find in the woods. But I do for whatever reason. Maybe for symbolic reasons, maybe I just like how out of place they look. Maybe it speaks for vulnerability to see something that's supposed to be nowhere near moisture out in the elements like this? Or maybe I just like junk and its as simple as that.
Anyway, I was wandering around this field, a very eerie dead place. Nothing was growing the center except a few dwarfed birch trees. The field was surrounded by birches actually. Odd since you rarely see one birch in my area, let alone a whole forest of them. The rocks in certain parts were actually discolored and I wondered if I was walking around some undiscovered Superfund site or something. As I went further in I started to see various debris that'd been dumped there. It was mostly the usual, carpeting, mattresses, tires. I was hoping to find something substantial to photograph like old machinery or an abandoned car, but was happy enough to find this tv. Oddly most of what was there was at least 20 years old, possibly 30. So I'm guessing this stuff was all left here in the 90's or so.
I have a big soft spot for old electronics, specifically tv's. I actually own over a dozen old CRT tv's ranging from 1961 to the early 2000's. Anything from the 1980's and earlier I especially love. It sounds ironic then for me to say I really enjoy photographing the smashed up ones I find in the woods. But I do for whatever reason. Maybe for symbolic reasons, maybe I just like how out of place they look. Maybe it speaks for vulnerability to see something that's supposed to be nowhere near moisture out in the elements like this? Or maybe I just like junk and its as simple as that.
Anyway, I was wandering around this field, a very eerie dead place. Nothing was growing the center except a few dwarfed birch trees. The field was surrounded by birches actually. Odd since you rarely see one birch in my area, let alone a whole forest of them. The rocks in certain parts were actually discolored and I wondered if I was walking around some undiscovered Superfund site or something. As I went further in I started to see various debris that'd been dumped there. It was mostly the usual, carpeting, mattresses, tires. I was hoping to find something substantial to photograph like old machinery or an abandoned car, but was happy enough to find this tv. Oddly most of what was there was at least 20 years old, possibly 30. So I'm guessing this stuff was all left here in the 90's or so.
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For some reason, probably pertaining to the fact that I recently started playing 'Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon', this inspired me to commission a piece involving Sorbet designing some high-tech gadget styled after an old TV set like this one that's able to project things that are displayed on it, or capture things inside it or something. I dunno. *shrug*
this thing gives nostalgia, a feeling of sympathy for something that we dearly enjoyed and finds the end of its life like this. I personally feel a need to save these things. I love old radios particularly hand held radios from the 80's and earlier. Their shapes, colors materials and designed that went on them. It differs from what we have today in more than technology and age. electronics today are slim, slick, very minimalistic and quite sterile and simply too disposable.
That's a cool shot man. It immediately reminded me of Adventure time episode with the zombies and a TV my brother had that was from the 60's
That's a cool shot man. It immediately reminded me of Adventure time episode with the zombies and a TV my brother had that was from the 60's
I agree with you there. We used to have 2 mid-80's tv sets. One in the basement and one in my parents' room. And I fondly remember watching movies and playing games on them(and messing around the tint and color knobs). Later on when the speaker started going on the basement one my father actually wired up an old car speaker to it to get it to work. And I gotta agree with you, I love the amount of effort and imagination put into old tv's. I've got an old floor model from the mid 70's that looks like it belongs on the set of star wars. I've also got two others that look like pieces of furniture. same on modern ones. They're essentially black rectangles.
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its a shame these sets end up like this- but the way you captured it makes for a great photo!
i'm quite fond of older TVs, and i own ten ranging in date from 1964 to 1986. Most of them 70's sets, and are in good shape.
keep up the good work with your photos, i'd love to see more!
i'm quite fond of older TVs, and i own ten ranging in date from 1964 to 1986. Most of them 70's sets, and are in good shape.
keep up the good work with your photos, i'd love to see more!
That's awesome! The cabinate models are some of the coolest, but I don't have any room for owning even one (still living with my parents...)
But yeah, store bought stuff being different is something that people seem to not care about much nowadays, and it's a real shame.
Give me something unique, but outdated anyday over the cheap, carbon copy stuff they sell now- (phones and computers aside)
I'd love to see photos of your TVs if you ever feel like taking some!
But yeah, store bought stuff being different is something that people seem to not care about much nowadays, and it's a real shame.
Give me something unique, but outdated anyday over the cheap, carbon copy stuff they sell now- (phones and computers aside)
I'd love to see photos of your TVs if you ever feel like taking some!
Same here. I love those typese specifically because they were designed to essentially be a piece of furniture, kinda like radios in the 30's and 40's. Considering how big and heavy large tv's were at the time I'm guessing too that it was impractical to have them on a stand of any sort, especially since many of them predate the days when most Americans had vcr's. They came in so many different styles too. I got one designed in a sort of carved wood cabinet designed with a colonial look in mind, and another that looks like it was taken straight from the set of Star Wars! Lol, they're pretty well buried in all the junk we have, but I'll try and get some pictures. I got lucky with my parents. Not only are they tolerant but we have a big basement!
And yeah, of all the flat screens we have now, they're really nothing special. I don't see any flat screens ever becoming collectors models like the old fishbowls or the portable brightly colored tv's of the 1960's. I really wish I was into photography as a kid as much as I am now. I would have liked to have some pictures of the tv's on display in electronics stores in the 1990's and early 2000's, because there really was a huge variety. And even then they all had their own design cues, maybe not as impressive as 60's, 70's, or 80's tv's, but still interesting.
And yeah, of all the flat screens we have now, they're really nothing special. I don't see any flat screens ever becoming collectors models like the old fishbowls or the portable brightly colored tv's of the 1960's. I really wish I was into photography as a kid as much as I am now. I would have liked to have some pictures of the tv's on display in electronics stores in the 1990's and early 2000's, because there really was a huge variety. And even then they all had their own design cues, maybe not as impressive as 60's, 70's, or 80's tv's, but still interesting.
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