Essex, England, 2003

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:01 pm

https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:02 pm

several thousand more pictures to come

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:06 pm

I forgot to make a cartoon today cause I was doing this

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:31 pm

Excellent.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:31 pm

Essex, England, 2003 is quite an ominous title somewhere.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:32 pm

And also somehow

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:37 pm

yes. "essex, 2003" for some reason sounded wrong, too, yet i could not tell you why

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:37 pm

the mysteries of words and sounds

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:00 am

dng wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:37 pm yes. "essex, 2003" for some reason sounded wrong, too, yet i could not tell you why

I think it's because it sounds a bit too close to something like "LOS ANGELES, NOVEMBER 2019", which would be entirely the wrong tone

Also this is marvelous, and I like how the very first photo appears to be of a crow looking at a plate

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:09 am

Yes. Although I think it might just be a blackbird unfortunately

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:09 am

The worst possible crow

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:12 am

Also imagine a futuristic blade runner esque essex

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:12 am

It is impossible

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:15 am

Also I seem to still be experiencing the approval problem with posts that everyone else had. Sorry about this

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:18 am

Yes. Shite. I don't understand. Maybe it wears off when you've made enough

Post by **endar** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:20 am

i reckon 5 posts

if not i will cast a spell

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:20 am

To defeat the spam approval system, you must spam beyond its limits

Post by **endar** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:25 am

when i first joined yilez immediately made me an admin and i still had to approve my own posts

for a while

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:26 am

excellent.

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:27 am

anyway, in the forum permissions bit, i found a list of "managed users" or something, and it only listed twig, deadcat and the duchess, so maybe candy darling's free now

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:29 am

Lovely stuff, Davuss! Cat photos are bets photos!

I got my first digital camera in '98 (a Kodak, I think it was), and it more or less became the camera that everyone on my course used, because the art college hadn't got any of their own at that point!

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 4:08 am

Ironic, since Kodak was late to the digital camera game because they were just "a fad" and nothing could displace their billions invested in film and development.

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:21 pm

Very troo!

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 1:10 pm

I genuinely had no idea digital cameras even existed in the 90s

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 1:12 pm

In the second series of the wire (which was also probably 2003), there's a bit where the guys at the docks are stealing and selling digital cameras, and they have to spend ten minutes of the episode explaining what digital cameras were and how they worked, because they were so futuristic no one watching would have had any idea what they were, but I never watched the wire until about 2012 or something, by which time they really needed a whole section explaining how film cameras worked and what they were

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:46 pm

Some more days:

https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... afternoon/
https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... 3-evening/
https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... afternoon/
https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... 3-evening/

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:51 pm

They are essentially identical to all the previous days

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:52 pm

I wonder whether there will be any evidence of me leaving the house at all at any point

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 3:28 pm

https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... afternoon/
https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... 3-evening/

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 3:34 pm

https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... -may-2003/
https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... -may-2003/
https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... -may-2003/

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 4:02 pm

dng wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:52 pm I wonder whether there will be any evidence of me leaving the house at all at any point

i finally leave the house on the 25th may, to go to my grandparents garden, which was two doors away

https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... -may-2003/

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 4:22 pm

and the rest of may

https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... -may-2003/
https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... -may-2003/
https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... -may-2007/ (this one contains a cat that isn't one of ours at all, lounging around in our garen as if it owns the place)
https://accumulationofthings.com/2003/2 ... -may-2003/ (and this one contains a solitary page of teletext)

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 4:39 pm

These photos are diong something to my brane. I think it's a combination of not being able to process these images being 17/18 years old, when most of them look like they could've been taken yesterday, and the fact that your hice/gardron/area look eerily like locales where two of my mates grew up, thus I keep experiencing a: "Haven't I been there?" vibe!

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 4:41 pm

dng wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 1:10 pm I genuinely had no idea digital cameras even existed in the 90s

And colour televisions, too! :p

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:36 pm

blombluss wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 4:39 pm These photos are diong something to my brane. I think it's a combination of not being able to process these images being 17/18 years old, when most of them look like they could've been taken yesterday, and the fact that your hice/gardron/area look eerily like locales where two of my mates grew up, thus I keep experiencing a: "Haven't I been there?" vibe!

Excellent. Also yes I think they just cut and pasted these sorts of housing estates across the whole country in the 70s. There's an estate where some of my friends lived on the other side of essex about ten years ago, and not only was their house the exact same layout as this, but the whole estate had the exact same three trees planted everywhere that we have round here too (a cherry blossom type tree, a tree that has purple leaves, some sort of fir tree).

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:36 pm

If it was a computer game you'd complain about lazy asset re use

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:37 pm

Also if these were taken yesterday the only difference would have been that they were 3000 pixels wide instead of 600. And I wouldn't have needed a mirror for the selfies

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:38 pm

ALso I have dediced to end this here, and rename it Essex, England, May 2003, so that I don't have to cope with the confusion of June, where half the photos aren't even in essex, but in brighton (the essex of the south)

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:48 pm

What is the Essex of the North and West? North - Cheshire? West - NOT APPLICABLE

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:49 pm

dng wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:37 pm Also if these were taken yesterday the only difference would have been that they were 3000 pixels wide instead of 600. And I wouldn't have needed a mirror for the selfies

Only East German spies need 3000 pixels wide.

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:50 pm

Blackpool, Hull

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:50 pm

There is no central essex

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:52 pm

OBLIVION PIT = Central Essex!

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 2:48 am

I thought it was Wessex, Sussex, and ??? Nossex?

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:27 pm

Nossex is located in my trou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:30 pm

Fancy being Prince Edward. You're the Earl of a place that doesn't exist. As well as the Earl of potatoes.

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:31 pm

He does get to lord it over all the characters in Thomas Hardy's books, though.

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 4:38 pm

Thanks to his giant robo-dino monster squadron.

I'm not a regular reader of Thomas Hardy's oeuvre!

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 4:48 pm

I had to read Tess of the D'Urbervilles for my English A-level. I didn't enjoy it.

Post by **vom** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:14 pm

I thought maybe I'd read it at some point but after consulting Wikipedia I think it was Jude the Obscure that I'm thinking of. Either way I think I found it quite hard work