invertednegatives

Melisse. ✡️ Human since 1991. I'm not perfect but I actually exist. 🇺🇸

[dodgeandburnt]

[dailygilmores]

GILMORE GIRLS

4.21 | Last Week Fights, This Week Tights

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[1liv]

IN THE GREY (2026)

[janniksins]

corners of copenhagen (winter edition)

[power-chords]

[portalibis]

Isis presumably with Serapis, 1stC BC-1stC AD, British Museum

[obsessedbyneon]

Florida postcard

[importantpics]

[a-book-of-creatures]

The dreaded shuttle cock

[todaysdocument]

16" Barbette Carriage

Record Group 338: Records of U.S. Army Operational, Tactical, and Support Organizations (World War II and Thereafter)Series: Photographs Related to the Watertown ArsenalFile Unit: [Box 3] 

Original Caption: WATERTOWN ARSENAL. 16" BARBETTE CARRIAGE. DRILLING for traversing roller bearings. Photo June 6, 1921 W.A. 6261 

Three men work drills on the round carriage for a very large gun in Watertown, MA.

[frostedmagnolias]

Woman’s Gown

c. 1780

Gros de Tours, silk thread embroidery

Italian Workshop

Pitti Palace

[segamascott]

[flipchild]

[kotaku]

The End, by Alister Lockhart.

[walkinchicken]

Bruh, if you don’t think that having historically significant events well documented from multiple perspectives is a good thing, then idk what the hell u doin.

[purplebloodedmajesty]

Besides, like, that is literally a Giant Monster Rampaging Through The Town. What the fuck is the everyday person gonna do other than Tweet/Instagram/Post about it going “It’s the apocalypse you guys! Eyyyy lmao #apocalypse #deathrising #nofilter”?

[nbkatara]

#like come on your cellphone may not defeat the beast#but it can gain you like 50000 followers before the skies start raining blood so#who’s the REAL winner here? (via @purplebloodedmajesty)

[songofsunset]

And heck, even if your own death is inevitable getting information out could help save other people, even if it can’t save you. ‘Here are 20 livestreams of the giant tentacle monster including how it moves and attacks, how can we beat it?’ is way more useful than ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’

[steppsful]

reblogging for this perfection: ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’ 

[safetytank]

Point #1 on this here article talks about Robert Landsburg, a photographer who realized he wouldn’t survive the eruption of Mt St. Helens (too close to outrun the ash cloud) and used his own body to shield & preserve the photos and recordings he’d been taking during the explosion

these surviving photographs are still CRAZY VALUABLE to this day for the rest of the volcanologist community, since actual recordings of an in-process eruption are so dang rare

on-site documentation of any major disaster is gonna be VITALLY IMPORTANT to the people who are tryna figure out how to prevent that shit

tl;dr have your phone out, make your death-by-kaiju worthwhile to the scientific community

[my-dailydreams]

[dodgeandburnt]

The judge in this serial podcast said something like, “it’s so interesting you were such a positive influence on all these other people’s lives, but not your wife. But we see that a lot with domestic violence.”

[myspace]

16 years ago, the cast of 'Jersey Shore' gave Michael Cera a make over