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pram posted:

ive been looking for this forever:

it was a cartoon, and they were in a shopping mall that was operated by some kind of AI computer. the mall would let people in, but never out, and it was growing larger the more people it trapped.

a specific scene i remember is them going to the mall operations/board room and its just a bunch of robot mannequins sitting around a table who attack the protagonists

def from the 80s, and maybe from the UK
I don't think anyone suggested this as an answer - I bet it's Widget (the World Watcher), presumably the episode titled "Maller Crawlers", which I vaguely remember too. 1991 is close enough.

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

Hey, general question for folks looking for ads, what makes you want to rewatch old advertising?

Reading back through the last few pages to see if I could help anyone before making my own request about an ad, I figured it had been a few years since my last look and found a (mediocre) version in two searches this time (I left a note to myself in February 2016 saying "still nothing", the youtube video is from September 2016).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfWw0VeMgKg

In my case, it was the whistling tune in the background. For some reason that stuck with me, it was like 30 seconds of peaceful happiness. Turns out the version I've been whistling all these years has slowly drifted from the original tune, so the real one in the ad is a bit disappointing. The only reason I had a chance of finding it is because some guy wrote an unusually-detailed piece about it at the time - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/advertising-jumping-naked-off-a-cliff-edge-that-will-do-nicely-89855.html so thanks to him I suppose.

One day I'd like to track down an "old" (Shockwave probably) multiplayer tank game, except I almost certainly already have the answer... in a handwritten teenage diary with levels of angst that would be fatal to an adult. And some other things are declared as "lost" (e.g. an episode of The Baskervilles), so no point wasting time on them when they'll turn up in that Lost Media wiki if they're found.

Edit: I've played that youtube video a few times now and, having gotten over the tune's wrongess, somehow the bit I like the most is the "cinema style" crackle/buzz that's overlaid on the audio of this version :confused: Stupid nostalgia

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That's pretty crazy - it's not like it was only shown in 2015 and then lost forever, it was on TV again a few months ago! (e.g. https://www.irontontribune.com/2019/12/10/before-the-league-airs-wednesday-on-spectrum-1/)

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Prism Mirror Lens posted:

Something that one of you nerds might have: on the darkBASIC demo disk there was a demo called "dreams of a nebula cat" with some midi music. Would like to see that again if anyone still has the disk from 20 years ago.

I have this - give me some time to dig out my copy.

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Prism Mirror Lens posted:

Something that one of you nerds might have: on the darkBASIC demo disk there was a demo called "dreams of a nebula cat" with some midi music. Would like to see that again if anyone still has the disk from 20 years ago.

Does this direct link work? https://archive.org/download/darkba...ebula%20cat.EXE

Otherwise just download the whole thing and find the folder yourself https://archive.org/details/darkbasic-pcactive

It complains about a missing d3drm.dll when I tried to run it on Windows 10 just now, so good luck actually getting it working (and there's no source code for that one)

Just to be clear, this is freeware included with a retail demo, it's not "files".


Oh man, I found my old darkbasic folder. Real tempted to setup a VM and see what I made.

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Podcasts themselves are crazy. I spent ages trying to track down an episode of one published maybe five years ago for an interview it contained, but the series had ended and then vanished in a website redesign, and I eventually found a tweet from the host saying they didn't have their own copies. Another great-but-ended local podcast disappeared when the creators couldn't renew their domain name (at least that one was in the Wayback Machine). Though sure, a lot don't have any real lasting value - that first one was about pop culture and stayed relevant for maybe a week at a time, and then there's all the podcasts that are just bad.

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Rats Tossbag posted:

There's an early album by John Elliot (the hereafter) called 'parade', which I downloaded for free from his website about 10 years ago. I have been completely unable to find it anywhere since; it's not on youtube or Spotify or even available to buy anywhere. It's on the website with lyrics and everything, but I can't get access to it.

Good news. This was the old link he provided to download it - http://edge.virbcdn.com/_f/files/cc/FileItem-81242-parade.zip - which I'm sure you found but it currently 404s. But change to match how the hosting website is currently organised, and...

http://media.virbcdn.com/files/cc/FileItem-81242-parade.zip

Edit: fixed the new link, should actually work now

From the readme in that zip file:

quote:

This album was recorded from August 2003 until January 2004, when it was independently released and distributed. It is now out of print, and freely distributed from http://thehereafterishere.com/albums/

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What a crazy ad. I bet they obtained the footage by... asking for a copy from the government's press agency


Looong shot but I've got a earworm I can only remember the rhythm of, and I don't even have a mic to record that. I think it's a rhyme or tongue twister or something? I don't think there's a tune. In syllables it's something like, a fast but constant pace, where double fits two beats into it...

Double double one double one one double
Double double one - double one

Alternate version in case I say those weirdly...
carrot turnip peas lettuce milk pear apple
orange parsnip grape - mango bean

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I found my "rhyme" and it's too late to pretend I never asked, so here it is. I think the real answer is a combination of the clip below and some other ancient jingle or "fuzzy wuzzy was a bear" kind of thing, but now I've heard the proper song there's no hope of finding whatever else I was thinking of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiB4dMwDFtg&t=48s

(I didn't even find it in a cool way, I just eventually remembered more after having "dubba-dubba-dub etc" stuck in my head for ages)

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Firebelly posted:

I had a gray cat toy that had suction cups on the hands and it was supposed to attach to your back window. Lost it in the 90s.

Like the Garfield ones?
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87936/great-garfield-car-window-toy-craze

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DJDadJoke posted:

I'd settle for a DVD at this point...

Am I missing something? Because there's a load of DVDs on ebay for a few bucks. Admittedly they're all titled "The Deadly Mr. Frost" but it's got to be the same film.

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frankee posted:

sounds like Goldfish Bowl by Robert Heinliem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish_Bowl

kalamaf, if that sounds right you can find a list of publications here: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?46526

Perhaps one of the many editions of The Menace from Earth, which included a time travel story with a character called Diktor? (By His Bootstraps)

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Just getting the obvious out of the way, it's not Tiberian Sun, right? Plenty of dark terrain and harvestable minerals and misery, though I don't think any of it was blue in the first games.

I also had a bit of a look for that Day of Liberty song. I couldn't find a mention of it anywhere, although one of people who worked on the original album was Randall Poster, a rather busy music supervisor, so it's not impossible he picked it for something he worked on - maybe skim through the list and see if anything stands out? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692922/

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Brolander posted:

Old napster era video called Blunt Rolling With Marcus. he rolled with Garcia Vegas.

Long shot from a youtube search, is it this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMMgTjpql1s

DerekSmartymans posted:

Short story where Sherlock Holmes calls into extra racist dialogue with Watson about the ancestry of a potentially regular client. At the end as the man storms out Sherlock says he walks like a homosexual.

It’s not as bad as it sounds. It is very racist. As far as I remember it didn’t actually use any slurs besides old (1890s) names for mixed-race black folk such as mulato etc.
Since I'm posting, I'm going to say this can't be an original story (written by Arthur Conan Doyle), both from the likelihood of him talking about someone walking like a homosexual, and from a quick Ctrl+F of my ebook copy. No idea what it is, just what it probably isn't. Things do get described as 'queer' a lot, though...

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I'd never heard the song so I just looked it up and not only have I totally heard it before, part of it (the... verses? that end with 'the way') is one of the random tunes I hum to myself without ever really thinking about it.

:cheers:

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Literally A Person posted:

Forums user Uvar is total bad rear end. He found me info I was looking for for years. Total TOTAL bad rear end. THANK YOU AGAIN FORUMS USER UVAR!!!!11!!!

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Slothful Bong posted:

just thought of one.

Back in the weebl days, they would occasionally have these little “interlude” animations between main releases.

One was a little cute character, I think with bows on their head, white character on a dark blue(?) background, bouncing. Super chill. It had some music that inspired a bit of my own work.

I think there may have been text saying something like “new episodes coming soon!”

I went looking for those interludes a while back, wanted to see just how much of the original’s influence ended up in my tracks, but I didn’t have any luck finding anything but the normal shorts.

Iirc, this would’ve been 2003-2005, not much later as my songs were from late 2005-2006.

Either of these maybe? You might need to use an older computer or browser (internet explorer) for them to show
https://web.archive.org/web/20050608032651/http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/intermission/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070212052856/http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Intermission+2/

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G-III posted:

Right now I'm looking for any working copy of Misery Brothers (2005)

If you're willing to spend money, for some reason there are about a dozen copies available from Australian ebay sellers, all for <$10 (albeit the "Y2K" version, which seems to be a few minutes shorter, but the bits they cut out are probably all the uncensored clips that people have actually bothered to upload on the internet). There's also this insane page.


HappyKitty posted:

This one is a bit of a reverse white whale, in a sense, where I already know the name of the thing I'm looking for, but have no clue how to find out more about it.

There's a band I rather like called Big Sur (not the one from Lansing, Michigan, but an older one from the UK, not "The Big Sur", just "Big Sur")...
Someone else has already posted some links but here are some more that might be helpful:
Their old official site: obviously long gone, but more complete copies from 2001, 2006
It's still kind of painful to navigate those, but check out biography, another biography, some songs you might not have, their other early releases
A nice old-fashioned fan site that's still online: http://www.angelfire.com/band/bigsur/
Their myspace site: https://myspace.com/bigsurband (and the archived version, which mentions they split in mid-2006 and has other handy stuff)

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Zealander posted:

I'm trying to find Laments puzzle box... I want the one that works

:spooky:


The White Dragon posted:

i wouldn't call it a white whale but lately i've been trying to find this creepypasta story about some hugely hungry lady who got stuck in an elevator with her daughter while going to see a doctor and then ate the daughter because she was hungry. it was told from the perspective of a paramedic or some guy who worked at the hospital or something? anyway it was an obvious bullshit story to anyone with a lick of logic but made your hair stand on end anyway

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1ngmrk/hunger/

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Armchair Calvinist posted:

I'm looking for an old racist diagram/drawn picture of a dude changing the side of the street he's walking on because there's a black person approaching. I wanna find it so I can make the person approaching a cop and the dude changing sides black :hmmyes:

This one?

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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:

There was a science show on PBS in the early 80s that I would watch with my very sweet departed grandfather, and it was hosted by an elderly British man with floofy red/grey hair and I believe he was in a wheelchair. He would explain things from his oak-panelled study in his home and I believe his wife(?) was alongside him not in a nursing context, but because she was also a scientist. It wasn't a kid's show but an adult boring PBS show about a dude explaining cool things. He did a segment on metabolism or something where he kept referring to food intake calories as 'foodstuffs' and I thought it was the goofiest thing ever. Any help would be appreciated!

I wonder if you are at least partly thinking of Connections with James Burke? It's like 50-50 for what you're describing.

DoomLazer posted:

1) Saw a foreign movie in a "film appreciation 101" class. A miner fakes an accident where he claims to have lost his ability to speak in an explosion, but hasn't. Through out the investigation and trial he remains silent. At the end of the film he cut's out his own tongue to avoid incriminating himself in the future.
Looks like it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_Revenge

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DoomLazer posted:

Thank you; this is exactly it. Can I ask how you found it or did you just know? I've googled several times trying to find it.

edit: fixed BBcode tags

https://www.google.com/search?q=foreign+film+miner+mute, fifth entry down for me is a link to "Argentine Cinema: From Noir to Neo-Noir" on Google Books with the excerpt "It tells the story of two men who attempt to scam an international mining company by faking a mining accident that would leave one of the conspirators mute and ..." so I opened that and looked what movie it was describing. (After trying several other searches and ruling out a bunch of other movies, for some reason I assumed it was a chinese film so that was a dead end)

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Sounds like what I remember of https://qntm.org/ra though maybe it wasn't finished when I read it because that spoiler doesn't seem familiar. But hey, just in case.

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Kenzo posted:

There was this old flash animation from probably 18 years ago that I think was called "wheel shark". It was an 8-bit styled animation where a shark on wheels traveled in the right direction of the screen while this catchy 8 bit music played.

Close with the name, it looks like it was "shark with wheel" e.g. https://dagobah.net/flash/shark_with_wheel.swf


Jinh posted:

hell, i just recorded me whistling the pretty synth stuff. It starts with the chorus, moving to part of a verse. at 25 seconds in is the bridge section, this darker part that sounds really urgent and tense compared to the lighter rest of the song, and during it the drums get really loud until it all calms down again into the pretty stuff again for the outro, like waking from a nightmare.

Long shot on the soundtrack since I'm already posting, your whistling made me think of Intermission by Blur.

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One question comes to mind, how did he listen to them? Did the typical Norwegian home have something that could play these tapes (weird answering machines or perhaps some Teddy Ruxpin knockoff), did they use an adapter to fit in a normal tape player, ...? Though unless that really narrows it down I don't know that I'd have any suggestions that didn't get mentioned in the Techmoan video.

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A video from TikTok or Vine or something, of a russian comparing teabag brands. Two teabags wear out after a few cups. Another brand fills cup after cup after cup, then a large canister, then a bathtub. The video ends with ominous music playing as he carries the teabag towards a lake.

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Thank you. That must have been where I saw it last time because I already liked the tweet :cripes: but with no context or description, no wonder I couldn't find it normally.

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Avian Pneumonia posted:

Has anyone mentioned 90s CCS mailorder catalogs? There are a few scans of a handful of covers online and sometimes you can see one on ebay but i'd love nothing more than to glip through a ccs from 1997.

The format sucks and it's not the highest resolution but here's one:http://skateboardnostalgia.blogspot.com/2015/11/ccs-summer-1997-catalog.html

Some other years I found while looking: ~1988, Fall 1992 (and another brand from 1994), ~1995, Summer 1996, and partial scans from 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994

There's also a lot of covers here, but unfortunately the rest of the pages didn't get archived and the website died about five years ago.

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Jenny Agutter posted:

A good quality copy of the short animated film My Love (2006) by Aleksandr Petrov. I can’t find a good copy for sale anywhere

Everything in my post is probably less helpful than five minutes chat with someone living in Russia, but... What's "good quality"? Despite being filmed on an IMAX camera (says Wikipedia) it looks like it was only commercially released on DVD, so the physical product probably won't be much better than the 720p rips on youtube and mail.ru. https://blu-ray-shop.com.ua/mulytfilymi-aleksandra-petrova-korova-son-smeshnogo-cheloveka-rusalka-moya-lyubovy-dvd maybe if you're determined, they show a price in dollars and apparently ship internationally (if it's actually in stock). ("Фильмы Александра Петрова PAL DVD", like you I couldn't find the original release anywhere)

On the other hand the artbook looks amazing - e.g. https://baxmyp-ka.livejournal.com/20323.html - 1 (of 1000?) copies is on Abe Books for $200, again assuming it's actually available.

A few photos from some exhibition https://vk.com/albums-16380468 just because.

I spent way too long looking at info about that movie instead of mopping my floors.

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unbuttonedclone posted:

French language film my buddy got from Netflix DVD 10 years ago. It was several groups of cyclists riding up and down a mountain. One group was trying to smuggle cocaine. It was a comedy. Can't find it for the life of me.

Up and Down / Parpaillon? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105100/

quote:

Inspired by Alfred Jarry's short story, "The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race", Moullet's film depicts a series of loosely structured comic sketches focusing on the absurd lengths his cyclists go to while competing in a tournament along the Col du Parpaillon pass.

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dangerburrd posted:

I still haven’t found the full version online but this was “all about the spotting deer” by Michael deforge

url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206220540/http://whatthingsdo.com:80/comic/spotting-deer/]https://web.archive.org/web/20170206220540/http://whatthingsdo.com:80/comic/spotting-deer/[[url]https://web.archive.org/web/20170206220540/http://whatthingsdo.com:80/comic/spotting-deer/[/url]

Edit: oh god I just wanted to get rid of the ellipsis in the URL

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GutBomb posted:

Hey guys, I've been helped before here in this thread so hopefully someone here knows something about this kind of stuff. I am looking for high resolution (doesn't have to be nuts, but higher resolution than this) versions of these Czechoslovakian posters from the 60s. I have a high enough resolution one of the Orange one, but I still can't find the others. I've attempted AI based upscaling to make them clearer so I could do a reverse image search on google but didn't get any results aside from the orange one.

I believe they are from Czechoslovakia in the 1960s.



Here's the orange one if this helps ring any bells.


These will need cropping slightly, they're from museums or store pages and have rulers/scales next to them. I'm too lazy to rehost them somewhere else and polite enough not to hotlink so you get a load of URLs. Ed: well, I did hotlink, but they're not embedded.
#1: http://sbirky.moravska-galerie.cz/images/diela/MG./51/CZE_MG.GD_16129/CZE_MG.GD_16129.jpeg from http://sbirky.moravska-galerie.cz/dielo/CZE:MG.GD_16129
#1 alternate: http://sbirky.moravska-galerie.cz/images/diela/MG./65/CZE_MG.GD_27457/CZE_MG.GD_27457.jpeg (from http://sbirky.moravska-galerie.cz/dielo/CZE:MG.GD_27457)
Slightly larger version of #2 (590x776): https://web.archive.org/web/20010815061938/http://poster.s.cz:80/big/845.jpg (from an older version of, I think, http://posters.nce.buttobi.net/czech1.htm)
#3: https://web.archive.org/web/20010815062234/http://poster.s.cz/big/846.jpg (ditto)

No luck on #4. I had a look for other copies of 2 & 3 on the gallery website but couldn't see them there. There's plenty of vaguely-similar stuff available though, e.g. http://sbirky.moravska-galerie.cz/katalog?search=+&work_type=grafick%C3%BD+design&has_image=1&year-range=1955%2C1970&page=4

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GutBomb posted:

Holy poo poo thank you. How did you find these? Do you speak some sort of Czech/Slovak language? I spent hours looking for these over the weekend and only found a crappier version of #2.

Nope, I used to work on research requests at the local museum so I've had a bunch of practice - luckily the requests here don't usually involve reading actual books or scanning microfilm archives because as fun as it was I haven't really got the time for that anymore.

Reverse image search of your example brought me to the poster shop which had small previews of two of them and context/translations of their content. Did some searches based on the captions (hoping to find an archive of Czechoslovakia's Department of Propaganda and Agitation) and found other probably-older copies of the store with the same captions, one of which had broken image links, so tried that in the Wayback Machine and discovered its previews were larger; pure luck there but it worked out. As for the other one, that popped up easily in Yandex - which has an unusually good image search, and I wouldn't be surprised if it surfaces international content more often than Google does - which led me to that Czech gallery/musem/whatever. The fourth poster, I have no idea what the topic or text is, reverse-searching brings up endless children's drawings, and I don't know anything about the artistic style to narrow it down, so I gave up quickly on that one.

Yandex and Bing image search are handy because you can selectively search for parts of a submitted image, you don't have to crop before you submit it. If Google has that feature I've never noticed it. For instance, if this link lasts, you should be able to spot your Brno poster as the fourth result.

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Those unique rings sound absolutely like a Discovery Channel store product. No luck finding any evidence of them though.

Gutter Phoenix posted:

Anyway, if anyone happens to come across any more People of Praise texts, please share. I will continue my search...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190128160311/https://peopleofpraise.org/thevine/ has a bunch of direct links to newsletters; I haven't checked how many are available but if you go to https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.peopleofpraise.org/* and filter by "application/pdf" it looks like a decent amount got saved. Using the latter link is a complete list but downloading each one will take longer so it's more annoying. I doubt there'll be anything interesting but hey.


dirty shrimp money posted:

Does anyone have a copy of Awful Fantasy 3? Was thinking about that when I read that Taco died but the hack patch thing is no longer hosted on the front page.

Delving into the Internet Archive yet again: https://web.archive.org/web/20170725191448/http://magic.samods.org/awfulfantasy1_3.zip seems to work, I get a zip file with no malware warnings and sensible contents. I haven't tried to run it though.

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FilthyImp posted:

Sounds like one of those Mysteries of the Unknown books

http://twoheadedthingies.blogspot.com/2013/10/monster-monster.html has pictures of the Monster edition but there's nothing matching the image descriptions. The knight fighting the worm on page 10 is pretty hardcore though.

Edit: this is not Mysteries of the Unknown, that's a different series! My mistake.

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I don't know if I owned any or just read the library ones constantly but those Usborne books were so good. Aliens/UFOs and ghosts were much cooler than creatures, though my personal favourite was time anomalies, like the Moberly-Jourdain thing or the Philadelphia Experiment. I'm sure I still have a couple of supernatural books in the attic boxes but I don't think any I held onto were illustrated.

kupachek posted:

That is one of the books I was going to check for Biff, I have the whole set, I just can't find it in the book stacks at the moment.
I also had a few smaller form ones covering the same type of stuff, but I'm pretty sure my ex took some of them when we parted because she loved rereading those stories to get herself all spooked up.
I really need to get my library more organized.

I'm afraid it doesn't even mention Mothman, or any of the others in the series that I checked. (https://archive.org/details/mysteriouscreatu00time) But don't let that stop you from tidying up!

https://everydayislikewednesday.blogspot.com/search/label/mothman has a lot of pictures of Mothman illustrations, and actually says where they came from, though none of them seem that relevant. There's another image he doesn't include that is decent, two people visible in a car with Mothman alongside, but that's easy to find with image search and nobody gives the source so it doesn't help much.

No luck figuring out what the other creature is meant to be. Oh well.

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Have you ruled out other stuff by the same artist? He made a series of murals that sound vaguely similar: Los Angeles (Circa 1870, Circa 1910, Circa 1960 and After 2000) (Even if it's not, I hadn't come across him before and glad I have, his work is fascinating.)

There's also Robert Crumb's "A short history of America", but that's a series of illustrations from a person's perspective, not up high.

A side benefit of this thread is that, after a bunch of searches for this kind of thing, sonic animations, widower romances, etc., my search history must be constantly worthless for targeted advertising. Take that, Google!

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Oh, it's a standalone thing? Here's a list someone put together of picture books about the passage of time in "urban landscapes", several with scans/photos: http://www.playingbythebook.net/2012/05/21/urban-landscapes-picture-books-about-changes-over-time/

I'm posting from a different device and apparently I had this as a saved draft comment in this thread a month ago :iiam:

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This feels like a request that will either be solved immediately or never.

The song "Airport" by The Motors came up in a spotify mix. As far as I know I've never heard it before, and it's not particularly entertaining. But it sounds REALLY familiar. I think part of the melody is reminding me of the intro music to some (British?) TV show. Or maybe just some other tune or bit of soundtrack music. It's throughout the song, but the first 30 seconds or so has a repeat or two of the part in question without singing.


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Edit: dammit, the neurons finally fired seconds after I clicked post. Ship to Shore theme, not really that similar but it's definitely what I was thinking of.

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My Lovely Horse posted:

was genuinely just about to click it when my girlfriend came in and said she was going to make cocoa and if I wanted some and I think I should postpone the video

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Grillparzer posted:

The “Lost in Appleton” webcomic that I used to read around 2003. There’s no trace of any images anywhere on the web. I think one of the SA’s front page editors, Corin Tucker’s Stalker made them.
I remember it being pretty hilarious.

Some of the strips are preserved, if you change the date some work (and some don't) https://web.archive.org/web/20030603223651/http://www.landecay.com/lostinappleton/, https://web.archive.org/web/20030404084629/http://www.landecay.com/lostinappleton/archive.php?date=2003-01-04, etc.

There's not an easy way to retrieve all the working ones, though. This URL shows all the files saved for that address, and you can filter for PNGs ("image/png" otherwise you get redirects), but it's a pain to view them from that interface.

Edit: and, tbh from the ones I did look at, you might want to just treasure the memories, either I'm unlucky or it hasn't held up that well.

uvar fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Jan 10, 2021

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