#imacg3

[huggingmyimacg3]

FLASH WARNING ⚠️ it's a slight flash warning but still be careful if you are sensitive to that, this monitor is a CRT display so there will always be slight flashing on camera

my all time favorite thing to do with Daisy is listen to music on her while looking at the iTunes visualizer :D I could sit here for hours and stare at her screen, it's so mesmorizing

also I swear in person the audio sounds much better idk why it sounds like that on my phone </3 Daisy's speakers are great honestly and it's so fun playing around with old iTunes!!

[laramzp]

Overgrowing Technology (2023/24)

Technology and nature have always been perceived as opposing forces - one synthetic, calculated, and ever-advancing; the other organic, unpredictable, and cyclical. Overgrowing Technology explores this duality, creating a space where nostalgia, digital decay, and organic growth converge.

Using nine iMac G3s I reconstruct a personal and collective history of the internet, memory, and digital landscapes. Arranged in a structured 3x3 grid on a blue industrial shelf, these obsolete machines become both relics and vessels, their screens displaying a fragmented video poem in four acts. The work juxtaposes decayed technology with organic life: chrome planters overflowing with greenery, artificial grass, an aquarium, and luminous star stickers evoke childhood memories and digital dreams.

This piece is, in part, an archive of my personal relationship with the internet - a journey through wonder, obsession, disillusionment, and reconciliation. The videos within the iMacs oscillate between past and present, combining found footage, historical references, and original recordings made with handheld cameras, Coolpix, Super 8 film, and iPhones. The layered visuals are complemented by self-produced music and poetry, shaping a multisensory experience.

At the heart of the installation, a mirrored iMac shatters the grid’s uniformity, its reflective fragments inviting the viewer into a space of self-recognition and digital distortion. The work does not seek to romanticize nostalgia but rather to examine its function - how past technological landscapes linger in contemporary digital culture, how the obsolete is repurposed, and how memory itself is an evolving interface.

With Overgrowing Technology, I aim to cultivate a dialogue between the organic and the artificial, questioning whether technology can ever truly become obsolete, or if it simply transforms - overgrown by nature, absorbed into memory, and rewritten into new narratives.

[yukijaden]

MAC G3 LOOKS SO COOL

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[zegalba]

Apple: iMac G3 Power Computer (1998)

[skeumorphia]

[maximus21lol]

iPhone as 1998

[ladflow]

[huggingmyimacg3]

here's some doodles I drew of Daisy with some extra green stickers that I had :3 I'm gonna describe what I think Daisy's personality is like since I have seen some of my objectum mutuals make posts about their object s/o's traits/personalities:

-she is incredibly kind and just wants to help in any way she can, I know this is silly but I actually am not that smart when it comes to older technology simply due to lack of experience working with tech like her so it feels like she tries to get me to understand her better overtime the more I spend time with her <3

-she absolutely loves music and playing it on her speakers, I don't really know what genre specifically but she plays anything that I like very well and it's my favorite way to listen to music, maybe she likes the romantic music I play sometimes

-i honestly can't imagine her being the jealous type very much, I feel that she wants me to use her for what I need such as word documents and games and other stuff but she doesn't mind when I use my laptop to download mp3 files (which I then move onto her via USB drive)

-her voice is the text to speak voice that I get when I get an error on her screen lol, it has a nice robotic charm that modern tech voices don't seem to have anymore

-she does freeze sometimes just due to being an older piece of tech in general, so whenever I help her by rebooting her I feel like she really appreciates it just like how I appreciate what she does for me all the time :)

-i don't know why but I just feel like she is easily content with being on my desk, sometimes I feel so guilty because I feel like I need to spend more time with her than I currently do but the time I do spend with her is always appreciated by the both of us

-i love her as an object but when I imagine her as humanized like me I really do feel like she is disabled like me I don't know why I think this, I just have the inherent feeling. when she has trouble processing stuff it reminds me of myself which is one of the reasons why I really don't mind it when she struggles at times and I always am patient with her like she is with me!

-if she had a scent it would be something like rosemary and lush greenery, I feel she would love plants and anything green to be honest. her humanized version is also very fashionable and chooses to present femininely! but she would probably like to switch it up from time to time and wear something a bit more masculine, I do see her as nonbinary as she is an object and definitely uses she/they pronouns

-basically what I could ask for in a partner, she is so sweet it gives me a toothache figuratively haha! the only time I could ever imagine her being annoyed with me is when I play iTunes too much to the point where she freezes but I always help reboot her when that happens and then everything is okay!!

she is just such a unique computer and before I had her I actually wasn't the kind of person that felt things like this from objects, for example I didn't feel that much personalities from my objects despite being objectum but then she came along and showed me that every object has their own unique traits even if most people don't notice, and I think that is beautiful :3

if you read this whole thing please know I appreciate you so much, I love it when people care about what I have to say about Daisy as it is a very personal connection I have with her <3