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Notes:
1. Written and animated on March 31st, 2021
2. This one should probably have some ambient street sounds in the background
3. But I do not have the ability to record them
nostalgia
Pictures
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Notes:
1. Written/made on 19th March, 2021
2. The pictures were taken by my parents
3. In the 80s
4. And contain me, my sister, and both my brothers
5. At various different ages
6. The music is Shock Value by Vowl Sounds
7. From their wonderful album Message Recieved
8. Which I really love
9. You should buy it
10. Or at least listen to it
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On May 3rd, 2003, I got a digital camera as a present from my parents. I was 24, living at home, and in the middle of doing my degree. We had two cats, and were soon to get a third.
Like everyone else with their first digital camera, I immediately spent the next month taking pictures of all the incredibly mundane things you were never really allowed to take pictures of before. Bookshelves and bathrooms and carpets and curtains. Desktops, cupboards, TV screens. Cats. So many cats.
Then I forgot all about ever taking them, and never looked at any of them again until now.
So here are nearly a thousand pictures of Essex, England, in May 2003. Almost all of them are extremely boring. A significant proportion of them are either of myself or my cats. 99% of them are in 640*480 format. 23% of them are extremely blurry.
Essex, England, May 2003
3rd May, 2003
5th May, 2003
7th May, 2003
8th May, 2003 (afternoon)
8th May, 2003 (evening)
9th May, 2003
10th May, 2003
11th May, 2003
14th May, 2003
15th May, 2003 (afternoon)
15th May, 2003 (evening)
16th May, 2003 (afternoon)
16th May, 2003 (evening)
17th May, 2003 (afternoon)
17th May, 2003 (evening)
18th May, 2003
19th May, 2003
24th May, 2003
25th May, 2003
26th May, 2003
27th May, 2003
28th May, 2003
30th May, 2003
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Notes:
1. I took these photos in May 2003
2. And made this website on March 12th and 13th, 2021
3. And I was going to write an essay explicating all the things I like about these pictures
4. But then I did not
5. Because it’s better just to look
6. At the past
7. Captured here in aspic
8. For the rest of known time
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Notes:
1. Written and made on February 22nd, 2021
2. But unfortunately I didn’t notice until I was editing it together that I’d messed up with the shadows on the desk near the end
3. So now I’m mildly annoyed at ruining things
4. Even more than I usually ruin things
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We used our old teeth as dice
kept score on sloughed skin
And the board on which we played
we marked out on the ground
in freshly spilt blood
barely diluted by our tears
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Notes:
1. Written on 26th March, 2019
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