{"id":123,"date":"2016-02-08T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toadphoto.wirkbetrieb.de\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2017-08-09T19:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T17:55:37","slug":"past-imperfect-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.oqepo.de\/?page_id=123","title":{"rendered":"past imperfect – description"},"content":{"rendered":"

memories are as true as photographs<\/em><\/p>\n

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some years ago i came across a vending machine for bubble gums, a red box hanging forlorn on a wall of an empty house in a forsaken town on the brink of destruction, meant to be torn down completely for strip mining.<\/p>\n

it\u2019s been the first sample i\u2019ve seen since my childhood days, when those promising, colourful devices meant instant joy or – more often – frustration.
\nit\u2019s only now that i notice how yucky my booty usually had been and how many scars frustrated kids, bad wheather and just plain vandalism had inflicted on those machines.<\/p>\n

in past imperfect<\/em> i try to make the current view match my memories to the result of two different views combined in one picture struggling for attention.<\/p>\n

over the years i found quite a few of those machines along my well-trodden photo-hunting routes. But one by one they come down eventually, even outside the strip mining territory. so i got some visual history logs showing the up and downs of those machine’s lifes – and some final states.<\/p>\n

technical details<\/h3>\n

all pictures are available as gallery prints (acryl\/photo\/aludibond) including a hanging system. please contact<\/a><\/em> me.<\/p>\n

sizes vary according to the number of slots, height 112 cm, width 84 cm (2 slots), 120 cm (3 slots), 155 cm (4 slots).<\/p>\n

trivia<\/h3>\n

as a fact that contributes to the mystery of childhood those machines represent for me there is apparently quite a bit of secrecy involved with them because you would never meet the maintenance personnel. The machines must be serviced during the night because i find them replenished and sometimes even freshly painted every now and then. And even as they always produce a sign on their fronts to note an address and a phone number of the acclaimed owner, i never reached anyone by phone and there is never somebody located at the stated address with the specified name. in several cases there wasn’t even a building or a postbox at the given address.
\nif you would like to get more information on Kaugummiautomaten<\/em> here are some good articles on them<\/p>\n