Wednesday, 21 August 2019

A look at my Environment AKA collections surround my sleep


Having collected Spiderman comics for a large part of my life I get gifted many Spiderman figures, this one was a Christmas present and is over 60" tall.
I have kept this small part of my skateboard collection in Invercargill, The two end skateboards were decks I lusted after as a teenage but was unable to afford (these are reissues).

I have downsized my vinyl collection to contain mainly my 80's Goth style albums, I have everything that The Cure has released on mainstream labels and even a few bootleg live recordings. I have collected these since 1987 and continue to add to now.

Again more action figures that have been given to me from friends and family.

This is my Linux GPU workstation that has been training AI Gan models for my project again flanked in action figures.

I have loads of The Cure merchandise on my walls.

I got this giant marketing poster from Play It Again in 2004.

When I was about 7 years old my Father got this tablecloth framed as a duck hunter there was not many prints in the 80's. I got this off him about 6 months before his death and it reminds me of all the fun hunting trips that I was afforded as a youngster in Southland (even for a townie)

My DVD collection maybe shrinking but it contains many fond memories spent at my Grandparents in Centre Bush watching early sci-fi with my Uncle Jason who is only 2 years older than me. We would watch Space 1999, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Sapphire And Steel, The Avengers and many more of the now named Pop Culture TV Series. Online streaming services have really removed the usefulness of a physical collection and the quality of playback has increased to the point that DVD is more like VHS on a 4K screen.

The CD collection is also shrinking as a media that has failed, I have a mechless head-unit in my car and it streams via bluetooth from my phone. This remainder are all the disks that aren't scratched to death.

VHS music videos that don't exist in any other format

This is my Raspberry Pi 4 sitting atop a cassette deck.

A crazy 80's robot on my Xbox One S an Ork Stompa that I built and painted looms behind.

Outlaw for the Atari 2600 is from the late 80's and barely used, we played Pacman more than this game.

This 3k expansion for a Commodore Vic 20 is just about the coolest thing ever ( A digital watch has at least 16k of ram)

I have been growing an Art based library from Rotary Club book sales over the last few years.

The last pair of Doctor Marten's that I own as I leave Invercargill at the end of the year. My new policy is to purchase Solovair boots and leave Doc's as an Invercargill thing. Solovair are the original manufacturers of Doctor Martens in the UK.

More CD's and a collector edition of the Ang Lee The Hulk movie.

Warhammer 40k and David Gemmell books are pretty easy reading, not that I have time for casual reading just now.

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