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November 08, 2009 |
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July 19, 1985!!!!!
FOUND by Ed
in my attic
I bought my house in 2001 and hadn't looked into the attic since then. But this year, to check the insulation, I grabbed a ladder and took a peek. My attic is one of those that is accessible only through a hatch in the ceiling, and you really can't use it to hang out in or store stuff. But there, sitting atop the fiber insulation, I found a plastic bag that contained the ancient computer-generated picture you're looking at, and several others like it. I have no idea who these people or why their pictures were stashed in the attic, away from prying eyes. A secret lover? A painful memory? I may never know.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Dane County Fair, Madison, Wisconsin!
"The mission of Space-Pix is to provide high quality digital portraits, quickly and at a reasonable price."
Looks like it's actually dated July 19th, 1905.
I remember computer 'graphics' like that. I tthought it was sooooo futuristic.
Night: did you google that or remember it?
A fly's eye view, or life through the screen door.
Standard dot-matrix printout of a photo. Not computer generated. I think the poster is reading a wee bit too much into this. It's just a printout of a photo. Maybe they housed an alien named Alf, too.
Time capsule. I found children's signatures on a ceiling beam in my garage. Found out later that there used to be a jungle gym in the garage over twenty years ago and all the neighborhood kids used to play in there. I think these are previous tenants saying hello.
Look how far we've come.
I saw what Christriatric saw: looks like it's dated 1905. Along with the Finder's "ancient" remark it made me LOL. Ancient, indeed.
The glasses! Maybe this is the Mom or Aunt of Owl-glasses girl in the Fun Lunch! Find.
Those glasses made me STOP and look both ways before proceeding into the intersection.
I had to step back a few feet from the monitor to get a better focus on this picture! He's looking at the camera (oh, how his eyes follow you around the room!), while she's gazing adoringly up at him. I find that very cute.
So ... are "Space Pix" taken OF aliens or BY aliens?? That's my only question
They're taken from space. Satellite imagery. (ovcoarse!)
When you say aliens, are you talking little green men or little green cards?
I am told by those who know that the pindot matrix printer was a godsend to those who sold needlepoint canvas printedwithyourphoto by mail. Although why you would want to needlepoint a photo is beyond me. But put it out there and someone will buy it. You don't believe me? Check Etsy, and its companion (or perhaps I mean "evil twin") website Regretsy.
Go down the the registry of deeds and see who owned your house in 1985. This is those people, and or they would know.
I see everyone's beaten me to the "Space Pix?! That shit looks blurry as hell!" observation, so fuck it.
See GoKart Mozart? That's why you HAVE to check Found daily. Multiple times a day, in fact. You might want to be sitting AT your computer at midnight central time each and every night and maybe you can be the first commenter.
Oh my, Orinoco. I'd heard of Etsy before, but I hadn't heard of Regretsy.. Hilarity ensues! Thanks for the much needed laugh on this dismal Monday.
I wonder when this was submitted. Let's arbitrarily say 2007. I can't imagine buying a house in 2001 and NEVER looking in the attic for 6 years! The basement and the attic would be thoroughly explored within moments of closing and getting the keys.
@Pygmys: I know, right? I would have checked it out before closing. What if there were dead bodies up there? *shutter*
@Pygmys and @Night: I wrote that I hadn't looked up there *since* I bought the house in 2001. Of course I checked the attic during a pre-purchase home inspection, and possibly again when I had the house re-roofed that same year. Other than that, there was no reason to go up there. It's not usable space. It's all dusty fiber-fill insulation and nothing else. Except the pictures, which remained undiscovered until I found them in May 2009.
Also, for those too young to know, Space Pix was one of those booths you used to see at fairs where they'd take your picture with a "revolutionary" digital camera and print out your picture on paper or on a t-shirt. You could also see it on a TV monitor. It seems primitive now, but it was soooo futuristic back in the day. Or at least it was supposed to be.
1985!!! 'Twas but yesterday.
I still have my dot matrix printer (along with the rest of my Amstrad PCW512) in the cupboard under the stairs. Unfortunately all the ink ribbons will have dried up by now.
Has anyone seen Paranormal Activity? Because, damn.
OHMYWORD I swear that looks like my mother.