#zoom 1999

[tokuvivor]

Let’s spook this joint up!

Huey tells a Halloween story at the library to a group of children.

Based on the Zoom play “The Three Witches” (Season 6).

[yorufi]

[sleeplesssmoll]

[visjules]

Thinking about what ‘99 would’ve done to this scene

[grrl-beetle]

Nike Air Zoom Drive

[jessiesjaded]

Everyone come get a pikelet 😇💗

[rwpohl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_valJRJ5m_U

[colors927]

Subaru Elcapa Concept, 1995. Presented the 31st Tokyo Motor Show, a city car prototype with a hybrid drivetrain based on an 800cc 4 cylinder engine driving all 4 wheels. It sank without trace

[agentleem]

The latest warframe update just made me realize how hilarious a lot of the worldbuilding for Deimos sounds. To count:

-it is the moon that holds the one power source for your main tool in the game

-it is completely infected by the cyborg disease that turns you into a flesh monster. To the point it has boils and organs

-one of the only safe spots is the home of a family consisting of members of a superhuman race that ran the most oppressive empire possible

-the family are all sticking out of giant flesh flowers and act like a sitcom about the least functional family possibly

-one member of the family helps organize a small guerilla warfare group that regularly sabotages the remnants of a cult that briefly took over the solar system (through what’s essentially future discord/zoom)

-another member bought a series of vents on a space evangelist’s slave colony on Venus so the homeless kids living there don’t have to worry about being evicted from there so they can continue setting up street races

-deep below the surface, the boyfriend of the family’s distant patriarch who discovered a parallel dimension that warps space was snoozing for millennia.

-said boyfriend is currently helping organizing a lab manned by talking animals made to safely send the patriarch to 1999 in order to distract an eldritch entity from the realm he discovered and fight off said entity as he sends his minions to tear the lab apart

-the only person who knows about this lab is a robot servant based off the boyfriend, who has a human skull embedded in him and a split personality that speaks through cracks on his back made to look like a face

-this planet lets you get mechs (with human skulls in the cockpits)

-during the event where a different member of the superhuman overlord race usurped an army of a vengeful robot race to take over the solar system, they completely avoided this moon like the plague (which is technically is)

-upon finding the lab you are given a book of spells

[natsumipocket]

Kodak DC240i ZOOM Digital Camera (1999)

[frostmain]

WF1999 Subway

since I posted this over on the reddit I'll slap it down here too so you all can be haunted just as much as I am about this now

So, this is about to be a post nobody asked for or really wanted but I think I need to share my insanity anyways. I noticed forever ago while playing the 1999 section of Whispers in the Walls that the logos on the Höllvania subway trains reminded me a lot of the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) logo - taking the in game train references from the artist here -

zooming in you can clearly see a little red logo with the Höllvanian text, and when placed next to the TTC's logo there is a striking resemblance.

So that's all well and good, maybe it's a little nod to a close-by to the studio transit system... but this rabbit hole goes deeper. The train model is very specifically a T1, which you can read about in depth here, but the bare bones of it is that this train was developed in Ontario and assembled in Thunder Bay... and only ever used in the Toronto subway system. On top of that, the train was fully put into service in 1999. Interesting!

Now you may be asking me, "How are you so sure that's a T1? Don't all subway trains look pretty similar?" Well. Take a look at this comparison image to the front of the Höllvania train, the T1, and some other subway trains from the same time period around the world and tell me what you think.

And for the last bit here, some looks at the Höllvanian train's concept art next to some side views of a T1 for closer comparison.

In conclusion: Höllvania may not be in Canada, or even remotely close to real-world Toronto… but their subway cars absolutely are. This is absolutely going to make trying to place Höllvania into a region in the real world even more of an absolute nightmare, enjoy!

[thisisrealy2kok]

Kodak DC240i Zoom (1999)

[kbs-and-fds]

Yo, Welcome to my photography blog!

This is a photography project with a focus on older digital cameras sold before the mid 2000s. I've been working with these sorts of cameras since 2022, which grew from my interest in retro computers that I have had since 2020 or so. Here, I'll introduce you to my cameras, my computer rig, and try to convince you that this is a cool hobby.

General Q & A:

Whats in the name? - Kb refers to Kilobyte, all of the photos I take with these cameras only take up a little over 100 Kilobytes of digital storage per photo. FD refers to the physical media the photos are stored in, currently one camera uses floppy disks (FD), the other two use compact flash (CF) and smart media (SM) cards. unfortunately, their shortened forms do not rhyme and so they do not matter.

What can I expect from this blog? - amateur photography using old cameras, I guess. I'll say some nonsense below each photo but you're free to ignore it. I don't plan on reblogging anything here, so don't expect that. I am the star of this blog. me me me. I tend towards finding weird buildings/architecture, "liminal spaces", sunsets, and generally trying to see how well I can make a photo look like a blender render in a Kane pixels video. don't expect any consistency, though. the medium will remain the same but the vibes will absolutely fluctuate with my mood. I'll try and tag things correctly if it's off putting.

Are you a cool person? - I tend to be! I don't want this place to be alienating for anybody but assholes who don't deserve to see the stuff I do. being a tumblr blog, I follow a lot of the standard stuff. jerks are not welcome and I'm not gonna give you the pleasure of an argument if you do turn your head round these parts.

who are you? - trans pan girl. takes pictures. listens to Femtanyl. much unlike Peter Parker.

My Cameras

Mavica FD-7

released in 1997, this was the second of Sony's "Digital Mavica" line of cameras. it records photos of around 50Kbs in size to a standard 3 1/2" floppy disk. it has some standard features like a manual focus wheel, 10x optical zoom, and exposure control. I haven't found a strict source but I believe this camera is less than one megapixel. I actually have a few different Mavica cameras (a fd-71/75/83/85/87 and a cd-1000) but they aren't different from the fd-7 enough to justify being used often. I'll make note on individual posts if I use 'em at all.

Kodak DC220

released in 1999, with a quality of exactly one megapixel the DC 220 is a weird little thing. it has custom software, connects to a computer via com ports with a transfer speed of ~11,000 bit/s. (roughly 30-60 seconds per photo in my experience) you can add custom text to your photos in the cameras built in software, and attach custom audio to each photo. it is a pain in the butt to get working, but it's quirks make it worth the frustration.

Olympus E-10

made in 2000 with a quality of a whopping four megapixels, the Olympus E-10 is the newest addition to my collection, and possibly the nicest camera I'll ever own. it's a fixed lens DSLR camera capable of 4x zoom, you can easily adjust the aperture and exposure on the fly, it's photos tend to be a whole 100kb in size (1/10th of a megabyte!) and to be entirely honest I have no idea how to use it. but I will eventually!

My Computer

I try to use all era-appropriate tech to transfer photos and do any edits, this is the computer I do all that processing on! its a Dell Optiplex gx1- the daddy of pretty much any computer used in public schools (Chromebooks don't count) It's got a Pentium 3 CPU clocking at 500MHz, 512mb ram, running windows ME. it has all the original Kodak DC220 software installed, and I can't really access the Kodak's photos any other way. I've also got a few other weird bits attached to it -an HP sketch pro cad tablet and an external data cartridge SCSI device. both work, but I don't really bother to use them, they just look neat.

that's about it. have a good one! thanks for reading this all, if you did.

[easternmind]

Visual narratives in Japanese game packaging: before and after.

Ramen: Ore no Ryouri - Argent, 1999 Bento: Hanjuku Eiyuu 4: 7-Nin no Hanjuku Eiyuu - Square Enix, 2005 Kincho: Ka 2 Rettsugō Hawai - Zoom, 2003 Shashin: Cardcaptor Sakura: Tomoyo no Video Daisakusen - SEGA, 2000 Eirian: UFO: A Day in the Life - Love-de-Lic, 1999

[siishaa]

Since i've been obsessed with Reverse 1999 lately, here's a list of Reverse 1999 character and their Animal version (or sona). Also the quality sucks because i can't really zoom it

Regulus

Sotheby

X

Zima

Tennant

Matilda

Sonetto

Pavia

Lilya

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