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I like cities, the people in them, and things that go click, clack, and boop. Collector of pinball machines, arcade games, and weird old stuff. US -> Germany immigrant, currently living in Düsseldorf.

Three small enamel pins. One depicts a cartoon wizard dancing in from of an Atari home computer system. The next advertises the Wyse company, a terminal manufacturer. The last shows an old PCSOFT logo which prominently features a 5.25" floppy disk.
A photo of part of a page from Als Fremder in Deutschland (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1982) showing an excerpt from Tülin Emircan's piece 'Entfremdung'. A digitally highlighted line reads "Lieber Fremder in der Fremde als Fremder im eigenen Land", or in English "Better a foreigner in the foreign, than a foreigner in one's own land."
A pair of 8" floppy disks with protective sleeves. One is IBM branded the other 3M. The labels read "RT-11 bootbar" and "MBASIC.COM".
The rusted carriage of a Gabriele 2000 typewriter, hanging from the draw straps nailed to a heavily graffitied brick wall.
A variety of molded ceramic case wall clocks from various German manufacturers of the 60s and 70s. Movements are all quartz. Manufacturers represented are Junghans, Esme, WLH, and Garant. Each has its own color, texture, shape, and glaze variations. Green, brown, orange, and red are dominant in the palette. Blue embossed Dymo plastic labels on the glass covers indicate the time zone each is set to.
A glorious free pile haul of a seafoam green office trolley with chrome accents, and a pair of stackable Castelli DSC 106 chairs upholstered in dark brown.
A manual page showing instructions for the use of a televisions Teletext functions, and details about a SECAM transcoder add on card.
A Loewe portable television set displaying the title screen of the SNES port of Ms Pac Man, in glorious color!
A Loewe black and white television showing playback of a 3D art and music compilation titled X-MIX-3 published by STUD!O K7 of Berlin.
A sticker on the edge of a billboard frame, of a Yu-Gi-Oh trap card featuring a delicious looking glass of beer. Its title is 'Lecker Bierchen' and its description text is 'lecker schmecker'. To the left of the sticker the text 'ACAB' is written in vertical block letters with white paint market.
A snail wedged in the crevice between a yard gate and its frame.
A sticker on a gutter downpipe attached to a brick wall. It portrays a young person with a stack of stickers in their pocket beckoning toward the viewer to follow them. Text around the border reads "Komm, wir geh'n kleben".
A piece of scrap metal with 'DB' written in it in fluorescent orange spray paint, with an arrow indicating right. It is tied with wire to a metal cage wall full of rough stones. Some climbing plants are beginning to grow up the cage grid. The concrete support for the cage wall shows little weathering, but the edge of a spray painted tag in black is visible.
A copy of this tape spooled out on a bike lane in the sun: https://www.discogs.com/release/28162864-Oceán-Pyramida-Snů
An Osram 41900 halogen reflector that has been drilled out to allow an LED replacement bulb to be slotted into it.
A scarf with a design showing the Portland, Oregon downtown skyline with the Tilikum Crossing bridge in foreground.
A beautiful fluffy cat, as voluminous as she is deadly.
A pair of mid-1970s Heco P3302 speakers on a shelf. A salt lamp sits between them, glowing orange. A flip-digit clock, ceramic maneki neko, and stereo receiver sit on the shelf below.
A pair of round pins advertising Space Invaders (1979/1980) and Bally Elvira and the Party Monsters pinball (1989).
A tower-style computer case sits on a weedy section of uneven sidewalk. It is an object with strong early 2000s styling. The Case is silver painted plastic and steel, with a swooping carrying handle on the top. The front panel has mirrored plastic drive bay fillers. A pair of vertical bubble-pillars frames the front controls. The power buttons and ports are low on the front, with a small recessed liquid crystal display to show some information. A blobby window on one side of the case allows one to view the motherboard and other components.
An overgrown railway underpass. A tent is pitched under the shelter of the bridge span. A small brick building is visible just beyond the arch, and the roofs of some industrial buildings are seen in the distance.
A large round clock like one might find in a train station decades ago. It is double sided and hangs from the ceiling on a hollow post. The casing is cast aluminum and hard black plastic. The clock face is white, with black hour and minute hands, and a red second hand. The hour hand ends in a spade shape. The diamond shaped Telenorma logo is large and low on the clock face.
A taxidermy goat in a store window.
A rusty old burn barrel, rendered on the screen of a Game Boy.
Looking up at a television broadcast tower from its base.
Some film cameras in a window, rendered by a Game Boy Camera.
A Solari flip digit clock
A cute three-legged dog flooped on her side waiting for some pats, rendered on a Game Boy display in glorious green and grey at uh... Looks like 158.5x144 resolution.
Eame's inspired rotating garderobe that I'm told was the work of a local manufacturer.
A metal cabinet for automotive diagnostic equipment, that has had the electronics removed and replaced with household appliances.
The blood moon rises over a figure in a field. A dual-compartment kitchen sink fills with fouled water, half-hiding a grim horde of dirtied dishes.
The Rheinturm and Rheinkniebrücke at sunset as a barge passes.