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[TRigga 007]

AREA!! (bet you uk people were thinking pub :smt019 )

This weekend i am going to charge up the digi camera and take some pictures of my local area and host them somewhere and post them in this topic, im sure it would be a great for the members to see what type of area's we all live in, and not some glossy holiday brouchure style pictures that are mocked up to look good when in fact they are building sites :smt027

So whip out your camera and start snapping pics of your local area (maybe some examples of game shops in your local areas too) go on its luvverly sunny whether make the most of it :smt040

[Paulo]

Ah i would of had better pictures but right now this is all i came up with today... The places im most at...

A picture from out of my window...

Http://paulo2002.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/window.jpg

A picuture of my college drive.... i spend too much time here!

Http://paulo2002.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/drive.jpg

A crappy picture of my college...

Http://paulo2002.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/college.jpg

Ill google a couple of pics later tho or maybe monday on the way to college if i remember ill take some more.

[AntiPasta]

lol I remember, we had a chat about this on the IRC ages ago and I made some pics for Johnny which I never sent... but they have some use now :smt040

My digicam didnt have enough juice left to make more than 1 pic so I'll see if I can post some more tomorrow.

To start, here's a pic from my neighbourhood taken from a plane:
http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/area/air.jpg

Here's a pic I just took from my window:
http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/area/street.jpg

Our house (with "comfortable" Mazda 626):
http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/area/house.jpg

Finally some pics I didnt take myself, first one is from near the center of town:
http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/area/town.gif

And then another one from further away:
http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/area/breukelen.jpg

[Yakumo]

Anti, looks like you live in a very nice area. Lucky you :smt023

I went out to the shops today so I decided to take a few snaps of the local area for this thred :smt023

My bedroom window view
http://www.gamingpics.servehttp.com/Ass-window2.jpg

Entertainment room (Games, TV, PC etc) window view
http://www.gamingpics.servehttp.com/Ass-window.jpg

My home from the back
http://www.gamingpics.servehttp.com/Ass-home.JPG

Five minutes from my house on foot is the main shopping area for the small town (village) that I live in. Take a look.

http://www.gamingpics.servehttp.com/Ass-shops-far.JPG

OK, it doesn't look much but here's what you can see when you get there.

You Me Town (Massive 2 floor shopping center)
http://www.gamingpics.servehttp.com/Ass-youme.JPG

Toys R US
http://www.gamingpics.servehttp.com/Ass-toysrus.JPG

The now famous Hard Off
http://www.gamingpics.servehttp.com/Ass-hardoff.JPG

My local hang out, Sega World
http://www.gamingpics.servehttp.com/Ass-sega.JPG

A very rare photo of actual insides of a Japanese Game Center. THese places don't allow photos to be taken at all. I took loads today because the only staff there this morning were all women :smt023 Still had to do an under cover operation though :smt043
http://www.gamingpics.servehttp.com/Ass-sega-in.JPG

There will be more photos of inside Sega World but you'll have to wait for the feature on my site before you can see them.

Also near my home are a few old style Japanese houses.
http://www.gamingpics.servehttp.com/Ass-old.JPG

Yakumo

[SilverBolt]

Hmmm nice pics everybody, think i'll go and charge up my cam and see if i can take some pics today :smt040

[Greatsaintlouis]

Everyone lives in some really neat looking areas. Paulo, your college looks really nice, and Anti, I must say if all of the Netherlands look like your area, then I'm moving there! Yakumo's stomping ground looked for a while like it could be a city in Anerica until the Japanese signs started being visible. I guess I expected more tall buildings tho.. maybe it's on account of all the movies and such being set in big places like Tokyo or Kyouto.. :smt043

I'll drag the trusty POS Palm camera to school with me tomorrow, get some shots of my locale. :smt023

[Paulo]

I love pics of japan when its not in a big city... lol

Also the way they make most of their cars looks so small and xtra chubby!

:smt043

Cool pics everyone.

[Paulo]

Some other pics....

Small pic of my college... Its on the same park as the next few pics...
http://www.laswap.camden.sch.uk/%20curriculum_pics/lasaintunion_a.jpg

Hampstead heath is about 2mins from my house but its huge...! (800 acres)
My house is somewhere on the bottom left of that pic.
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~jld1/walks/hampheat.jpg

I walk by that running track everyday tog et to college.
http://krusty.rantspace.org/photos/hh6.jpg

None of the pics were taken by me!

[TRigga 007]

ok then people i was slightly hung over yesterday after a very long night on saturday where i didnt actually sleep at all, so most of yesterday was spent sleeping :smt015

I will get up early tomorrow and take some pictures :smt023

[SilverBolt]

Okay, i managed to make some pics before my camera batteries died.

My place i live on the ninth floor:

http://meterkast.adsl.utwente.nl/~martijn/collectie/place.jpg

The view from my windows:

http://meterkast.adsl.utwente.nl/~martijn/collectie/place1.jpg

A gameshop about 10 minutes away from me bye train:

http://meterkast.adsl.utwente.nl/~martijn/collectie/place2.jpg

Hope you like em :smt040

My local gameshop only 2 minutes from my front door:

http://meterkast.adsl.utwente.nl/~martijn/collectie/place3.jpg

A bit of the inside of may local game store:

http://meterkast.adsl.utwente.nl/~martijn/collectie/place4.jpg

[Greatsaintlouis]

Hey! Whoever works there should be fired for stacking up the XBox games in the N64 section!

[madhatter256]

lol I just noticed that.

[Greatsaintlouis]

I had class most of today, so I wasn't able to get out and about town, but I got a few pics of the college and where I live.

This is the printmaking lab at Southern Oregon University, located in scenic Ashland, Oregon. This is where the majority of my time at school is spent working on projects - I put in 4.5 hours today screwing up what had been a nice print run... :smt011
http://www.sou.edu/~stlouisc/Locale/Printlab.jpg

This is the Marion Ady art building in the art complex at the school, it is where my printmaking class is, and where I'll be spending the majority of the rest of my time at college.
http://www.sou.edu/~stlouisc/Locale/MAdy.jpg

And here are the apartments, or as my roommate calls them, Felony Inn. This isn't nessicarily a BAD place, but it's low rent housing, so we get all sorts of crackpots, people I that swear have to be convicted rapists, and folks who aren't altogether there. That and college students. A little dumpy, but not a bad place to live.
http://www.sou.edu/~stlouisc/Locale/Felonyinn.jpg

Yes, my room is right on the highway. For the most part, this isn't too bad, but the bane of my existance are the assholes that like to pretend they are street racers with their souped up import cars with the goddamn noisy muffelers on them. If there wasn't the screen on my window, I'd keep a stack of rocks ready to lob out at those bastards and see if I couldn't crack a windshield or two. Nothing better than a guy in a Honda Civic going roaring by at 2am in the morning...
http://www.sou.edu/~stlouisc/Locale/room.jpg

This is the view from the kitchen window (the one to the right of my room in the previous pic) looking across the road. A bit depressing, waking up every morning and looking from my apartment over to those nice townhouses..
http://www.sou.edu/~stlouisc/Locale/Townhouses.jpg

And this is our godawful swimming pool. I forgot to mention that our managers are complete idiots that worry more about working other jobs than taking care of the property they are supposed to be in charge of. As a result, we get stuff like this. Nobody believes me about the Fishmen.
http://www.sou.edu/~stlouisc/Locale/Pool.jpg

Tomorrow, I'll try to get some shots of downtown, it's really beautiful there. I live on what you could call the dumpy end of town, if there is such a thing in this place.

[madhatter256]

You can get rid of those fishmen by just whipping them Richard Belmont style. :smt040

[AntiPasta]

lol, for some reason GSLs place reminds me of the kid's new place in Karate Kid :smt043

[kstyle25]

don't fall in that water GSL or your lifebar will slowly go down!!! :smt040

[Johnny]

I'll try to get some pics of my neighbourhood and game stores this weekend. :smt023

Rio is awesome :prayer:

[Paulo]

Rio is awesome :prayer:

= dangerous! :prayer: for your lifes... :smt043

Nah im joking. Its well lovely and so warm and so "i wanna be lazy and sit here all day" there...

[Tachikoma]

Bear in mind, most of these were taken in a moving vehicle, except the ones inside of buildings!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/bedroomview.jpg

View from my computer room/spare bedroom. VERY "Coronation Street" (only brits may get this)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/workrun.jpg

The inspiring view to work

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/workwindow.jpg

The view from my desk in work, shame I dont spend a lot of time there! (the desk that is)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/roads.jpg

The drive back is slightly better looking!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/church.jpg

Funky church on the way home

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/roads1.jpg

Welcome to the many identical roads of Cardiff!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/architecture1.jpg

Some of the houses around here are nice!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/bus.jpg

Learn Welsh with adverts on the Cardiff Buses

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.a_ravenhill/house.jpg

My humble abode, its bigger than it looks!

[jollyrogerdev]

That's what I see out of one of my windows...

http://jollyrogerdev.ath.cx/images/home.jpg

[Paulo]

jollyrogerdev where you from?

[AntiPasta]

Went biking yesterday evening so I figured I might as well take a few pics:
(most were taken while riding a bicycle so they're a bit blurry)

Some more of my village:
http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/area/nearby.jpg

The beloved dumpster where I found my MegaCD, PP1292 and loads of my PC spare parts:
http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/area/dumpster.jpg

Breukelen's "famous" Chinese-style motel, with a traditional windmill in the front:
http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/area/motel1.jpg

Some fields out of town, beyond lies the black market, source of all things dodgy, perverted and/or CD-i related:
http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/area/polder1.jpg

Finally, one I particularly like, took it a few months ago when I got lost in the middle of nowhere but happened to have my cam on me :smt043 :
http://home.tiscali.nl/~antipasta/area/amstel.jpg

[Paulo]

Some fields out of town, beyond lies the black market, source of all things dodgy, perverted and/or CD-i related:


Sounds like the place to be!

[jollyrogerdev]

I am originally from Italy, but now I live in Toronto, Canada.

[Yceman]

I wish I had a camera to take some pictures from where I live. Unfortunately I only have a cell phone's camera that can only take small blurry pictures

I specially liked AntiPasta's and jollyrogerdev's pictures.

[WolverineDK]

i am sorry i do not have any digital camera to take pictures of my city (village 10.000 citizen)

but i have found some pictures of the city i am living in.

here is a picture of the building i am in and living in (i am living in a apartment)

http://www.quest-net.org/ec/images/photos/stationsby.jpg

and here is a map of the city

http://www.tandregulering.dk/web-grafik/avedoere%20stationsby.gif

and here is the city photographed from the air

http://www.avedoere-beboer.dk/showpage.asp?masterContent={948F23C6-A60E-4977-B322-92491ED54B7E}

[AntiPasta]

Some fields out of town, beyond lies the black market, source of all things dodgy, perverted and/or CD-i related:


Sounds like the place to be!

Wait until you see all the women with moustaches and the (very) dodgy pr0n dvd's :Hangman:

[Paulo]

Sounds like the place to be!

Wait until you see all the women with moustaches and the (very) dodgy pr0n dvd's :Hangman:

I stand corrected :prayer:

[abionic]

san francisco as seen from my deck:

http://www.tasteslikeburning.org/gallery/albums/album31/pix4_042.jpg

also a QTVR of the same view:

http://www.37h3r.net/~ben/QTVR/deck.mov

[madhatter256]

Some fields out of town, beyond lies the black market, source of all things dodgy, perverted and/or CD-i related:


Sounds like the place to be!

Wait until you see all the women with moustaches and the (very) dodgy pr0n dvd's :Hangman:

Porn is porn. Well so as long as its legal in USA and VHS quality and doesn't contain shemales, etc, etc, and etc..

[Paulo]

san francisco as seen from my deck:

Thats a nice view!!!

[abionic]

Thats a nice view!!!

with good binoculars or a telescope, i can see all the way to the oakland laney flea market, home of untold treasures!


:snipe:

[wiseguy]

I live in the same village as antipasta,but i don't have a digitall cam so i can't take pictures of my place :smt011 . But perhaps i can borrow antipasta's cam.

[ShadowofBob]

I'll try to get some pictures up of Palo Alto later. Not really much to look at here...kinda dull actually, unless you have a car and can go elsewhere in the Bay Area.

GSL, Where in Ashland is the dumpy end? I go there for at least a week each year with my family for the Shakespeare festival. It's a pretty cool place to hang around. Biking there around Mt. Ashland is awesome. Are there any good gamestores near the downtown area?