Post Your Cozy Covid Workplace

From: graphitone16 Apr 2020 15:51
To: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ) 13 of 101
I've done something similar, my home work space is in a different room to my gaming PC setup, which is nice. Also got some old kit from work, some monitors and a PC that would otherwise have gone to the scrapper. So the kids have got a PC to mess around with for Minecraft and some animation software they like playing with. 

Still can't upload a pic. :/ Tried 3 different devices and two different browsers. I blame Manthorp. 

Got the image uploading - I ended up reducing to ~200kb, the original was only 2MB. Hmm. I still blame Manthorp.
EDITED: 16 Apr 2020 20:35 by GRAPHITONE
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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)16 Apr 2020 16:33
To: ANT_THOMAS 14 of 101
Beer -- it's not just for breakfast any more!
From: koswix17 Apr 2020 13:34
To: ALL15 of 101
Before lockdown started and after. Been using the spare room to store important things from the garage while I was rebuilding that bugger. Had to do a bit of a tidy to find the desk, and then run some ethernet cable so I could actually have a reliably internet connection in here.

I've since changed one monitor (need to find the allen keys so I can adjust the heights), and got a new chair. Much nicer than being in my actual office, although the heating at this end of the house is shit :((
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From: milko17 Apr 2020 13:41
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 16 of 101
I built this desk and shelf a couple of months ago, it's solid oak kitchen worktop and then some legs and brackets from Ikea. Not much depth room available so it's very wide. The keyboard goes away to be replaced by a laptop in times of actual working, but I'm furloughed at the moment. I really really need to something about the wiring though. And find a place to put my exciting Oculus Quest headset that arrived yesterday.
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From: milko17 Apr 2020 13:45
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) Peter (BOUGHTONP) 17 of 101
show us yours!  (hug)
From: Lucy (X3N0PH0N)17 Apr 2020 14:01
To: milko 18 of 101
I have no means of taking a photograph :(
From: ANT_THOMAS17 Apr 2020 14:19
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) 19 of 101
Sketch it please.
Also, really?
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)17 Apr 2020 14:32
To: koswix 20 of 101
Holy fucking shit, Batman.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)17 Apr 2020 14:33
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) 21 of 101
You ain't gotta phone?
From: Lucy (X3N0PH0N)17 Apr 2020 14:38
To: ANT_THOMAS 22 of 101
Yeah, no phone or camera. I guess I could try holding my laptop over my head. Let's do it!
From: Lucy (X3N0PH0N)17 Apr 2020 14:38
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 23 of 101
Yeah, no phone.
From: Lucy (X3N0PH0N)17 Apr 2020 14:53
To: milko 24 of 101
Ok, here you go, in glorious 640x480, blurry cos I had to hold the laptop in the air and unreasonably close cos I'm backed into a corner!
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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)17 Apr 2020 15:02
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) 25 of 101
 :-(

Until the lockdown I've barely used my phone, probably averaging 3-4 actual phone calls a year, checked email a few times, checked some web development stuffs a few times...

Anyhoo here's a few more shots of my current workplace.

The blue raku jug is a treasured gift from my old pottery master, er Ceramic Artist David Cohen, who died a coupla years ago. We stayed in touch over the years, he sent me a couple of his books. I think I last saw him in person ~2003, when he and his wife Frances graciously hosted Mrs.D and I in their home for most of a week.

https://vimeo.com/220532240
EDITED: 17 Apr 2020 15:04 by DSMITHHFX
From: Lucy (X3N0PH0N)17 Apr 2020 15:05
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 26 of 101
I love your chair <3
From: koswix17 Apr 2020 15:52
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 27 of 101
Keep in mind that that was at the start of lockdown and I've a) been working in here daily for 4 weeks and b) I'm terrible at keeping things tidy  (fail)
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From: graphitone17 Apr 2020 15:59
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) 28 of 101
You're gonna have to go back to basics. 

A daguerreotype of your work space please. 
 
Quote: From the daguerrotype wiki
 
"To make the image, a daguerrotypist would polish a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish, treat it with fumes that made its surface light sensitive, expose it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; make the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; remove its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment, rinse and dry it, then seal the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure".

/Everyone's/ got that equipment lying around the house. Surely?
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)17 Apr 2020 16:22
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) 29 of 101
Chair has a history: It was originally my bosses chair, she got it from her father who ran a lumber supply store Piercey's and later became a big-time developer.

Leather upholstery stuffed with horsehair, still has the original casters and they even roll (how many plastic shite chairs can claim that?).

I reckon it might be 1920s-30s vintage judging by the style.
From: milko17 Apr 2020 16:24
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) 30 of 101
Thanks Xen. That looks more or less identical to what I remember 10(?) years ago, except the keyboard is smaller and potentially looks less full of ash? But surely not!
From: koswix17 Apr 2020 16:34
To: graphitone 31 of 101
If anyone just happens to have that stuff lying around it'd be Xen.
From: ANT_THOMAS17 Apr 2020 17:04
To: graphitone 32 of 101
I don't have daguerrotype materials, but I have recently started playing with cyanotype.