What do you collect (other than the obvious...)

giggsy · 2011-02-21T11:20:46+00:00

So, what do you collect? Over the last year or so I've been collecting signed music memorabilia - here are a few of my favourites: The signed pickguard is Pete Best - drummer in the original Beatles from the Hamburg days. The Cribs LP - the top signature is Johnny Marr, ex-The Smiths - he soundtracked my high school years R.E.M. Biffy Clyro Muse Kings of Leon White Stripes Green Day And then my pride and joy frame - The Manic Street Preachers, fully signed The Clash CD cover and Weezer

singemonkey

Aubs1 wrote
singemonkey wrote The two I enjoy using most are my first camera - a Pentax MX (a lovely tiny little SLR) - and the Pentax 67 I bought a few years back. That one's a giant of a camera. And it's beaten to hell.
Wow, that is incredible, the 67. I remember when I started I used the Mamiya RB67, what an awesome medium format camera, and so versatile, but cumbersome if you did not have a Manfrotto HD (Heavy Duty) tripod ....... I think your pic is beautiful.

Hey thanks Aubs. I was amazed at how simple the 67 was to use. Exactly like my little MX just scaled up to ogre size. Basically a giant K1000. Although it also has a removable prism - even though it looks like a trad SLR with a direct viewfinder rather than a top-down - so you don't have to grovel in the dirt to take low to the ground images. One of the joys of being an amateur - same as with guitars - is that there's (a) no restriction to the stuff you do, anything you like, and (b) there's no limit on how clunky and impractical the gear can be ? My 67 is the spiritual twin of my Fender Bassman.

---mario---

MoreCowBell wrote
...mario... wrote until I moved I used to collect and cultivate rare indigenous and african succulents, especially the aloe family.
A man after my own heart! I've been known to do my plant shopping in places as obscure as Leeu-Gamka..! Cape winters are way too soggy for them though (The garden moves indoors for 6 months a year) so I fantasize regularly about buying a piece of the Karoo... ?

Apart from succulents, I can't say no to books... our house is bursting at the seams with them!

Haha, then you have to know I come from Natal, summer, rain..., put them in a hot house, humidity gives them fungal disseases, comes winter, frost and then being in a forestry area you have all kinds of pests breeding in those Australian megaweeds, so its an agonizing exersize throughout the year, but still worth it, I've lost alot of irreplaceble plants during moving aswell, so I called it chill until I've finished studying.
Our house looks like a museum, my mom collects books and both my parents collect special stones and antiques from the wars and old furniture and what not.

Buying a piece of the Karoo wouldn't help much, there's always that one more that just doesn't want to adapt without being looked after like a baby ?

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