#early color TV

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Black & white TV was just beginning to become popular when CBS put a model of a color television on public view opposite the 42nd St. Library, November 13, 1950. The contraption was a b&w set with an external adapter and a color converter added to it.

Photo: Harry Harris for the AP

[tls123]

BUDDY DADDIES  —  episode eight

[citylighten]

Pietro and Rosaria's tastes actually merge together pretty well

[acidicwerewolf]

Any tv shows/movie made after 2010-ish is the worst. The color grading is just wrong, too much CGI, not enough practical effects, why do most of the actors look like that, where is the flair, the camp??? I'm not even a film buff or anything like that, I just watch a lot of older-ish movies, but it's so weird to see the, imo for the worst, change!!!

[aeaeaexxzd]

1990's Kiki Suarez throw blanket featured on Sabrina the Teenage Witch

[whipped-bean]

Some more recent UB Funkeys stuff! those first two are some reimagined designs for the Henchmen! And the last one is a more humanoid version of Rom! My style has drastically improved since my last post of these guys, I'm still haunted by those human designs I tried to do, blegh

[cyarsk5230]

coutureicons

May 31, 2021

[grapeszn]

just remembered being 18 and having an embarrassing crush on this actress. it was feb 2020. pandemic had just begun. lockdown was imminent. and for some reason in the midst of all this my brain decides to hyperfixate on this girl that looks like she jumped straight out of the 80s

[anmolsmsblog]

Lukzer Engineered Wooden Center Table with Wheels Open Storage Organizer (CT-003/White) DIY (Do It Yourself) (80 x 40 x 30 Cm)

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[mayonneise]

wow. the color grading in this show fucking sucks

[lifehacksthatwork]

Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023

Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!

Sejda - Free online PDF editor.

Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and it'll give you recipe ideas.

Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.

Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. I'd recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.

TOS/DR - Terms of service, didn't read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.

OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but can't for the life of you remember the actual word.

My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. You'll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. It's genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.

[alientitty]

i remember when one of my coworkers years ago was like "i can't believe people saying paw patrol is copaganda? it's for little kids!" like yeah that's why it's extra terrible...

[heybrine]

Lux Contempo Pack

Heey everyone!

This month pack is here! I am sorry for the delay, I tried to finish this before last weekend but unfortunately I couldn't and my first nephew was born this saturday so I spent some time with him!

Anyway this time I wanted to make something different from what I have been creating latelly, so I decided to make a modern / contemporary set. And this lovelly living room came out!

As always I try to bring some warm wood colors and also some pop of color here and there!

I wanted this to be as customizable as possible so I made most of the pieces separated and modular, so you can create your own TV panel. The wall panelling has slots so you can place the shelves if you wish aswell as TV slot.

I made some really comfy sofa, loveseat, armchair and also a accent chair. And completed the look with a rug (it has 4 different designs) and a few items to decorate your sims living room.

I was inspired by a few different designs in pinterest, here's a few: inspo 1, inspo 2, inspo 3.

I hope you enjoy this too! Have a nice day 😊

You can always see more info on my patreon here!

If you wish, you can become a member and get early acess 😊 --- Public release on the 18th of December 2024

[waffled0g]

Everyone gets “The 90s” look wrong and I hate it

Couple years ago I saw these two board games at the store back to back. Well, not saw them per se, but ya know. Spied them out of the corner of my eye. And for a moment without reading the text, I couldn’t tell you which was which decade at first. Funny. Either they were in a rush to get these out the door or they wanted their throwback trivia game boxes to look uniform. I didn’t think too much of it.

Only, from then on I started seeing it MORE. Every time someone markets a 90s or 80s throwback...

Goddammit they’re identical! What??! How did we let this happen? As a 90s survivor and a designer, this drives me up a wall.

Look, I know I’m late to the party to complain about “the 90s look” when we’re just starting to get sick of the Y2K nostalgia train. But c’mon, the 90s were not The 80s: Part Two™ 

Trust me when I say that we weren’t all wearing neon trapezoids up until the year 2000. The 90s look being peddled is so specific to the tail end of the 80s and an early early part of the 90s - a part of the 90s when it wouldn’t stop being the 80s. This is Memphis design being conflated with the wrong decade.

Keep reading for a long ass graphic design history lesson and pictures of old soda and fast food.

Specifically, the look is Memphis Milano, self-named by the Italian design house Memphis Group. Starting in the early to mid 80s, they made all sorts of furniture, fabrics and sculptures that were like a Piet Mondrian grid painting under heavy radiation. Their whole deal was defying the standards of existing industrial design up to that point on purpose. Chairs had weird arches, bookcases would be in strange alien colors, unusual materials like plastic or elastic were used in place of metal or wood, that sorta thing.

Memphis quickly became the signature look for the decade. You can tell something’s influenced by Memphis design from it’s telltale trademarks:

Clashing, neon colors.

Use of diametric shapes.

Contrasting patterns like zebra print stripes, confetti squiggles and checkerboards.

It wasn’t long before Memphis Milano-inspired design was everywhere in 80s pop culture:

It was a special time, yes.

I was a kindergartener at the tail end of the 80s, so I knew Memphis mostly through the lens of kids media. Toys, clothes, games, tv shows used it like candy colored catnip. Cable channel Nickelodeon more or less adopted the Memphis aesthetic as their signature in-house style and practically built a monument to it at a Florida theme park:

I think this is why folks mistake what decade Memphis is representative of - 90s staples like Nick, Saved By The Bell, Fresh Prince - they all stayed around much longer than the design trend’s expiration date. 

Couple that notion with the fact that companies are slow followers to design trends. Something gets popular and they want to get on the bandwagon? Gotta wait for the ink to dry, gotta wait for the production molds to be made. It would take a few years for them to completely work Memphis outta their system.

Now, this is not to say Memphis is bad! Personally I’m a fan of the aesthetic, if my neon-drenched artwork wasn’t a tip-off already. But it is a trend, and trends never last forever.

So what took the Memphis Milano look down for good? This part’s up for debate, but I personally think it had something to do with this dude:

It’s that grunge music from Seattle that’s so popular with the kids these days dontchaknow.

Once Smells Like Teen Spirit hit in 1991, the Nirvana tone drove the rest of the decade. Clean geometry became weathered, grainy and organic. Bright neon pastels became more bold. Bubblegum pop music sounded fake and manufactured. Attitude and apathy was authentic. Whatever.

Things got grungy. Things got grimy. Olestra was invented.

I think the best way to visualize this transition is how Cherry Coke entered the decade and how it left it:

1992 Memphis on the left, 1998 grunge junkie on the right. Fitting that the 90s would end with a design that looked like Darth Maul’s lungs.

Okay, so what should 90s retro design look like?

Continue on to PART TWO! Spoilers: No VHS filters or vaporwave needed, but maybe bring an antacid.

[scottguy]

The early days of electronic video and photo images were already standard technology in the 1960s. Albeit, at much lower resolutions.

Not everything was invented in the last 20 years. Everything was just HUGE, but it worked.

I remember when they promised "you will be able to see the blades of grass on a sports field with HD TV!" , but it seemed to take forever to actually arrive. Still nothing and just CRTs (cathode ray tube TVs and monitors) in the early 2000s.

"Colorful happenings happen more colorfully on General Electric cameras." (1967)

[the-rogue-mockingjay]

Maybe I'm just sleep deprived but there's something so sweet and intimate and achingly human about saying things like "I remember those"

Like today I'm on vacation and I brought a silver cross earring to wear, the only one left of a pair my late great-grandmother gave me when I was about seven years old, and when I pointed the earring out to my mom, she thought about it for a second and said "yeah, I remember those now"

My great-grandmother is gone and for all intents and purposes so is her house and many of her worldly belongings, but in this moment I remember her and she lives on in me, in this last precious gift, this tiny little earring that beat the odds and has never been lost in the 12 or so years I've owned it