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Gareth

@gawuffy.co.uk

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Senior Designer with LNER. Design nerd. Posts about trains a lot. Harmless with it though. Often sad. This is my personal account. He/Him 🏳️‍🌈

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · Nov 7

Introduce yourself with
One book 📚
One movie 🎥
One album 💿
One tv show 📺

Cover of "The Lost Continent" by Bill Bryson.

Album cover artwork from "Since I Left You" by The Avalanches.

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 6h

I got a tip off about a graphic design job that I might want to apply for, working for a train operator in York. It worked out alright I guess.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 1d

If you ever find yourself having 12 minutes with nothing to do there is a video explainer (although TL;DR it was changed from Snickers to Marathon when it came to the UK in 1968, nobody really knows why. The rise of global TV broadcasting saw it change back to align for pan-European advertising.) 🤷‍♂️

Why did Marathon change its name to Snickers?

YouTube video by Chris Spargo

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 1d

QUICK AS A FLASH I REPLIED "DON'T BE BLUE, PETER!"

British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 1d

DISCOVERING RAILWAYS (1977)

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance.

Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits.

You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222...

#Wayback1T

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 2d

Anyway thank you for coming to my Ted Talk about how much I enjoy living in the past and how difficult it is to let go of sometimes. Don't forget to like and subscribe.

Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 2d

Also, Michel Gondry's 'Let Forever Be'-esque Christmas ads from 1999 were so damn fine. These were good times. I think 🙃

Gap - That's Holiday "Trees" 11-02-1999

YouTube video by Mike Bise

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 2d

I mean, you'd struggle to convince anyone now that people used to dress like this but the Gap Khaki ads were so good. Plus some bonus pre-Matrix bullet time to blow our 90s minds 🧐

GAP Swing Commercial 1998

YouTube video by 90s Commercials

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 2d

Yes to the old Gap store playlists but also give us back the vibes from those 90s ads you cowards.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

I think we are all in dire need of a brain cleanse so here you go 🥹 www.theverge.com/report/79080...

The quest for every Gap store playlist ever

Gap Playlists is an exercise in data collection and nostalgia.

www.theverge.com

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 2d

This is causing some form of PTSD-inducing flashbacks to when I did this with mine a few months ago. Disc drawer still won't close properly and my neurodivergent mind means that I'll now lose interest and likely never look at it again. It was nice while it lasted.

Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 4d

Happy Birthday! Have a lovely day 🎈

Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 5d

That's brilliant, and you look great wearing it! Enjoy ☺️

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 5d

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

A model of the first level from Mario 64.

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 5d

I mean, there's some mixed metaphors there, but well done.

Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 5d

I haven't, City of York Council leaflet rack, no. But I'll certainly keep an eye out for him.

Photo of two leaflets in a leaflet rack. The first has the headline "Have you seen this bear?" with an illustration of a cartoon bear. The second, next to it contains a photo of a large, husky build man with a beard.

Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 5d

Mean Girls was one of Simon's favourite films. We'd reached the stage in a relationship where you make each other watch your favourite films and just as with every film I watch nowadays I fell asleep in the middle of it. I guess I should make an effort to watch it in a single sitting tonight 🙃

RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 5d

What day is it?

Images of a scene from the film Mean Girls. The top image text reads 'On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was', then on the picture below it says 'It's October 3rd, the day you start using alt text!'

Both images show the character Aaron Samuels who's white with brown hair, a brown open shirt and blue t-shirt and is sitting at a school desk. Behind him is Lindsey Lohan's character Cady who is also writing notes in her book, has long fierce red hair and a grey open zip hoodie on. She's giddy and smiling as she confirms what day it is today.

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 5d

Thanks, this is useful - I had no idea you could get stuff like this. Again though it's a bit grim that in 20 years or so there'll be a whole scene of people who own what were once expensive cars now trying to mod their in-car systems to keep them useable. Yuck. This is good though, so thanks :)

Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 5d

I had the music video on VHS and was fascinated by the whole thing. Released 1983. Damn.

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 5d

What was the first song you remember loving as a child?

We All Stand Together - Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus.

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 6d

Exactly this. The iDrive in my mum's 20 year old E90 stopped working about 12 months ago, I think the worst inconvenience was that she has no radio but now everything is through these systems it's like they're deliberately baking obsolescence into these things rather than wanting to create classics.

Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 7d

Imagine this, but loading on a 28.8k modem. You'll regret having asked.

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 in Netscape Navigator 4.04

YouTube video by Web Design Museum

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 7d

One of a series of images you can 100% absolutely hear. You're welcome.

Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 7d

Hampster Dance

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 7d

I'm not a car owner but have anxiety about the rate at which car controls hide behind a screen now. What happens when the computer powering it becomes obsolete, or the manufacturer stops supporting it, does the car become obsolete also? It's difficult to imagine any of them reaching vintage status.

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Gail Brodholt @gailbrodholt.bsky.social · 11d

It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway.
So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 9d

Reminded of the time a creative agency presented a brand palette to me and referred to colour hex values as "hashtag colours" 🙃

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 10d

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

Black and white photo looking down a street of terraced brick houses. Several cars line each side of the street, with many people gathered at the far end. Beyond this the bow of a large oil tanker can be seen, towering above the end of the street and the rows of houses.

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