11-24-2004: What's the view from your window?

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Right now. Home or work, the window closest to your computer. Let's have a snapshot of the world (the ILX world, anyway) on this day.

― Hey Jude, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago)

dark.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Dreary and drizzly. A half-full parking lot. A deer grazing on a grassy patch adjoining the parking lot.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.globalhermit.com/ilx/window-nov24.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago)

The side yard is soaked from last night's downpours, bits of emerald grass poking up among drifts of brown, yellow and orange leaves. The remaining leaves on the old hickory tree have gone a uniform yellow-brown that seems sometimes almost gold in the sunlight. Across the street the small brick insurance building seems to be slow on business today, and our neighbor Mr. Hightower's white truck stands sentry in front of the barricade of still-green trees that front his neat white house. The sky is the most amazing blue, the way it always gets on the day after a big storm system, with puffs of white cloud scurrying along in the wind.
A gray squirrel is practicing his Iron Man posturing in the middle of the sidewalk, and the gray and white cat across the street is watching with idle interest. Wind chimes are singing in the breeze.
All in all, a gorgeous day in north Mississippi.

― Hey Jude, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Mark OTM.

A bright yellow sandwich shop as well. It is OK, but charges £1.60 for a bacon sarnie, which is scandalous and taking advantage of the hungover.

― 3underscore (___), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)

A fire escape. It's dark.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)

a bit like this... (sorry there's more interior than exterior, but it's dark just now and that's all i see)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/kenjuggle2/worklook.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago)

no windows in my department. im in the basement.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Ken, you appear to have a doughnut in a snowglobe on your desk. Can this be right?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Is it a new kind of executive toy?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/publications/sabroad2004/photos/whysussex2.jpg
But dark, and not as blurry.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/outside.jpg

dirtyish window, too much flash = I live in a weird industrial alien world

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)

From my 5th floor workspace I can see across in one direction to Manchester and The Pennines faintly in the darkness. From the windows opposite I can see the gasholders on the edge of Warrington, and quite a few miles of Cheshire countryside in front of them. It's too dark now to see much properly, but given good weather and daylight the view is really pretty impressive and has lifted my spirits from the workplace grind on many occasions.

Ken C - was that done in Paint? Lovely effort!

― Bill A, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Yes I meant to add that pic's really impressive, Ken

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago)

thanks! yeah in paint! i'll have the camera proper tomorrow so i'll take a picture to see how well it compares.. that donut thing is actually someone's monitor - it's some crazy shoape with a load of holes on top.. i could have done a better job with that really!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago)

shape

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh i can see that now! Like the back of it with the little ventilation holes.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

yes!! :D

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Drawing freehand with a mouse is like trying to draw using a bar of soap, so it's a commendable effort, Ken.

Is the colourful splodge on top of yr monitor a trinket of some kind? Looks like a miniature rhino attacking a Nemo toy on my screen...I suspect this is incorrect.

― Bill A, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I particularly like the rendering of the screen and the windows of the next block.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago)

oooh you are close! it's actually sitting on top of my boss's monitor (just behind mine).. and it's a hippopotamus and some kind of fish! so pretty much otm!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:13 (twenty years ago)

*insert picture of the dashboard of my car here*

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago)

I have a lovely view of my shitty run-down apartment complex
complete with depressing siding and windows that won't open!

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago)

Sean's photo is beautiful.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Especially if you cut it off just under the car, the red dude might add too much colour?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.jp/tfkyg294/balconyview.jpg

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago)

a field of endless shadows and darkness

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago)

The Mississippi River. No shit.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:42 (twenty years ago)

(pardon the preemptive skeptcism-refuting)

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:43 (twenty years ago)

spooky nitevision cameraphone pic of downstairs courtyard:

http://southsidecallbox.com/images/newyork/outside.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:43 (twenty years ago)

That, or an Interpol 7" sleeve

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:46 (twenty years ago)

three brick office buildings close up, and some suburbia and the darling range in the distance

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:47 (twenty years ago)

A damp 2nd Ave.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:01 (twenty years ago)

here's a more accurate depiction
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/kenjuggle2/Dcp_3446.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)

http://members.aol.com/quincunx01/private/golgotha.jpg

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Thursday, 25 November 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Ken - screw accurate, the Paint version has a lyrical quality that the camera can never replace...but again, your attention to detail is formidable.

― Bill A, Thursday, 25 November 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://static.flickr.com/26/60950339_76a918f5dd.jpg

― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

The Arkansas River.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

an ice skating rink and a courtyard in the downtown mall in Charlottesville, VA

― youn, Monday, 7 November 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/IMG_8149.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

The direct view from my actual desk:

http://www.memorygongs.com/yarraview1.jpg

And the next window along, the roof of the Art Gallery:

http://www.memorygongs.com/art_gallery_roof.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

I love the reflection of the shimmering water in the windows, Trayce.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

an ice skating rink and a courtyard in the downtown mall in Charlottesville, VA

an outdoor rink?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

no. indoor.

― youn, Monday, 7 November 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=14074

― Proger, Friday, 10 June 2011 12:12 (fourteen years ago)

http://secretstations.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/FILE0178.jpg

― Latham Green, Friday, 10 June 2011 12:20 (fourteen years ago)

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