Challenge - The State of Your Desk NOW

[Colcam]

Okay, what does your desk look like right now. No cheating and cleaning up before taking the photo'. Winner is open to general vote if you like. The sickest mind is usually judged by the cleanest desk. We are not looking for art this time.

If you have time to take and post the photo', then you should have time to clean it maybe?
On your marks, GO!
Here is my entry. (I just cleaned it up. BTW)
Col

[stubbsy]

Nice idea Col

Here's mine complete with my two cats (Gin Gin keeping warm on my PC and Monty sitting on my Graphics tablet ). Guess which room is the warmest in the house?

My desk is normally a little tidier than this. And it wouldn't be me without a fish eye shot (20% defish in DxO)

[admajic]

Heres my shot. In my Balcony Lab!!
I have a slight lack of space but the wife wants to live in this suburb!!
I wont show a photo of the other side of the room

[Mal]

Nice idea this one!
My trouble is I have a new "desk" every second day.... Here is one of my desks from a couple of weeks ago. As you can see I use a reverse scan monitor



And my office is rather cold!

[johndec]

Fair dinkum, you guys aren't even apprentice slobs! Colcam, compared to me you are a neat freak, Stubbsy should get "Housewife of the week award" for his immaculate workspace. I must admit admajic is up there though..

Here is my pigsty:


Please note the special touches such as:
- overloaded power point
- unpaid billls just scattered on the floor
- vaguely important pieces of paper stapled straight onto the wall
- 200 DVD cases I have no use for
- Missing gaps in the carpet tiles
- side panel of the computer leaning against table leg (took it of 3 months ago and still haven't replaced it).

[Manta]

Geez - if this challenge had been thrown out two days ago my desk would have looked like a war zone. I was really good yesterday though and cleaned it up. Thanks Colcam.

[moz]

I live in one room of a share house, so you get (left to right): my tool box, like the ones you see on the back of tradesmen's utes. Full of tools, oddly enough. The black box is a PC with a toy UPS on top of it and a 29AH battery on the floor behind it, then a laptop on the desk, a couple of monitors with some DVDs above them. To the right is a folding bike then a recumbent, leaning on a shelf that haas boxes of stuff Plus you get a bit of me. Kinda.

[macka]

Here's mine complete with my two cats

I want two monitors and two cats and a cool star wars poster.

[sheepie]

My desk is normally a little tidier than this.

Don't believe him folks - this is the cleanest I've ever seen it!!!

Luckily I don't have my camera in range at the mo, as my office is currently the bedroom - and I'm sitting in bed with the laptop

This is a good thread - my wife now realises there are other people out there as messy as me!!!

[macka]

Luckily I don't have my camera in range at the mo, as my office is currently the bedroom - and I'm sitting in bed with the laptop

Me too! And rooboy was threatening to take photos of me 'at my desk.'

No, no, no.

[birddog114]

My desk is normally a little tidier than this.

Don't believe him folks - this is the cleanest I've ever seen it!!!

Luckily I don't have my camera in range at the mo, as my office is currently the bedroom - and I'm sitting in bed with the laptop

This is a good thread - my wife now realises there are other people out there as messy as me!!!

Sheepie,
Good to see you coming back

[rooboy]

Stubbsy, love the cats, love the poster even more

Anyway, for Kris & I:


We live in a small apartment . That's actually pretty clean as things go, it was better a few days ago, but is now cluttered with borrowed filum cameras and a brand new SB600 box & manual (thanks Birdy ).

I won't clutter up this thread with the most important detail of our desk, but here's the most important aspect for anyone that missed it

[pharmer]

but is now cluttered with borrowed filum cameras and a brand new SB600 box & manual (thanks Birdy ).

"Filum" - sounds familiar, typo I imagine, but being kiwi it sounds like home

[rooboy]

"Filum" - sounds familiar, typo I imagine, but being kiwi it sounds like home

A deliberate typo (if such a thing exists) - I've never used film on an SLR before and am looking forward to it . Which bit of Kiwiland are you from?

Show us your desk pharmer, in your normal style of either urban decay or high saturation/contrast

[sirhc55]

[gstark]

Chris,

What's that white thing on the right?

Rooboy, I have yet to use filum in a DSLR.

Johndec, that's not a mess. My camera refuses to take a photo of the mess here.

[sirhc55]

Chris,

What's that white thing on the right?

[wendellt]

corporate clean at Work



a bit messy at home, but the lighting is nicer

[optogamut]

Rooboy, is that surround sound for you monitor?

[optogamut]

and here's mine...

[kenny12]

i've got a guest coming over tmr, my table isn't usually this clean


same lens, guess the tool used to make this photo (not digitally done) hint: look on the table

[admajic]

Some good shots there!! My wife hates my mess!! I seem to be able to find things thou!! sirhc55 I wonna see a shot when u have stepped back from the desk

[wendellt]

Adam

you have a horrible mess, but it has a grunge appeal

Chris, how many external hard drives do you need?!!
and yay to another mac user

Peter
nice cats, i have one that looks like monty with just a tad less hair

[Alpha_7]

I certainly didn't clean up, I'd probably prefer to post my desk at work, my room is fairly trashed at the moment.

[Steffen]

Alright you asked for it...

Here's mine, guaranteed uncleaned. Only alteration is the strategic placement of a copy of the HHGTTG, to avoid any suspicion of un-geekness...



(sorry if it's a bit blurry, handheld at 1/8sec...)

Cheers
Steffen.

[Steffen]

Wendell, is that an IBM model M keyboard I spot on your desk, or is it just a look-alike?

Cheers
Steffen.

[wendellt]

Wendell, is that an IBM model M keyboard I spot on your desk, or is it just a look-alike?

Cheers
Steffen.

it may be modelled after one
but it's legacy Silicon Graphics just like my monitors

[rooboy]

Rooboy, I have yet to use filum in a DSLR.

Neither have I . The camera on the right with the strap hanging down is an F80, behind it is an F65

optogamut, All 5 speakers sit there out of the way. When I need to use them, leftmost goes behind me (perched on a wardrobe shelf), rightmost sits on the bed. Nothing like ghetto surround setups

[TonyH]

Couldn't get to my camera to take a shot of the clutter because of all the clutter........

[tasadam]

Wow... Great topic. I gotta look at my desk and work out whether I want to risk damaging my camera by photoing it... Then work out whether I will embarass myself enough by posting it!

[wally]

wow this is realy cool

here is where i work

no monitor atm so i carnt see wot it looks like

my brother sez i have all the gear but no idea coz i got lotsa stuff

tell me if they're arnt enough pixels coz if it is i'll buy a new d200 from birdy

[Colcam]

Nice idea Col

Here's mine complete with my two cats (Gin Gin keeping warm on my PC and Monty sitting on my Graphics tablet ). Guess which room is the warmest in the house?

My desk is normally a little tidier than this. And it wouldn't be me without a fish eye shot (20% defish in DxO)

Argh! I can see the surface of the desk there. You may not have a sick mind, but the family will have to watch you.

Heres my shot. In my Balcony Lab!!
I have a slight lack of space but the wife wants to live in this suburb!!
I wont show a photo of the other side of the room

Couldn't your wife be persuaded that a nice cosy little nook would be a great place for the TV and you would selflessly shove all of your stuff in the living room?

Nice idea this one!
And my office is rather cold!

Man, you will probably take the prize for the bleakest cubby hole!

Fair dinkum, you guys aren't even apprentice slobs! Colcam, compared to me you are a neat freak, Stubbsy should get "Housewife of the week award" for his immaculate workspace. I must admit admajic is up there though..
Here is my pigsty:

Sometimes I have to walk an Egyptian to reach the desk!

Geez - if this challenge had been thrown out two days ago my desk would have looked like a war zone. I was really good yesterday though and cleaned it up. Thanks Colcam.

Yeah sure, sure. That's what they all say!
ARRGGHH!!!! I just went & looked how many folk are in on this! I was thinking about 6 or 8 would answer & as you can see I was gonna comment on each, but now,,, Nup!
It's kinda groovy to see that we are not alone in this world of sloth.
Col

[Manta]

I forgot to mention the significant objects in my favourite space...

It's hard to see but the the conical glass object on the shelf directly behind the black desk lamp is the inaugural "Thanh Ho Outstanding Member of the Year Award". Already a priceless collectors item!

The guitar is an electric classical/spanish, made in Korea but still gives beautiful tones. (Bought specifically to play Dire Straits "Private Investigations" - I couldn't afford a Gibson Chet Atkins or a Ramirez which were Knopfler's instruments of choice for the piece.)

However, by far the most significant item in the pic is the photo on the wall, one of two I have hung in the study. Taken by a RAAF photographer chasing in a Macchi jet trainer, it shows two F-111s flying into the sunset above East Sale in Victoria. The date was April 2, 1987 and this would be the last flight of the lead aircraft. An hour or so later it crashed near Tenterfield, NSW, on it's way back to Amberley, killing the pilot (my brother) and his navigator. A pretty special photo and quite poignant with the planes streaking towards the sunset. It was featured in the RAAF Calendar the following year with a caption explaining the tragic circumstances under which it was taken. Naturally, it's one of my treasured possessions.

[stubbsy]

However, by far the most significant item in the pic is the photo on the wall, one of two I have hung in the study. Taken by a RAAF photographer chasing in a Macchi jet trainer, it shows two F-111s flying into the sunset above East Sale in Victoria. The date was April 2, 1987 and this would be the last flight of the lead aircraft. An hour or so later it crashed near Tenterfield, NSW, on it's way back to Amberley, killing the pilot (my brother) and his navigator. A pretty special photo and quite poignant with the planes streaking towards the sunset. It was featured in the RAAF Calendar the following year with a caption explaining the tragic circumstances under which it was taken. Naturally, it's one of my treasured possessions.

Wow, Simon - what a special thing to have to remind you of your brother and something tangible to treasure along with the great memories you have of him. Thanks for sharing this story with us.

[Glen]

Simon, a very touching story, thank you for sharing that with us

[Mal]

Wow thanks for sharing that Manta. You don't happen to know the name of the photographer do you? The dates and places fit when a mate of mine was a photographer for the RAAF. He doesn't talk much about his work, but when he does he has amazing stories.
Thanks again for sharing your story with us.

[Manta]

Thanks for the comments guys - sorry to hijack the thread.

You don't happen to know the name of the photographer do you? The dates and places fit when a mate of mine was a photographer for the RAAF. He doesn't talk much about his work, but when he does he has amazing stories.

Your namesake actually: Mal Lancaster, a prodigious talent in this type of work. He has taken some magical images over his career.

[Mal]

Thanks for the name, I'll ask Jason (my mate) about Mal Lancatser, I am sure that they know each other.


Back to the thread now.......

[birddog114]

Manta,
Thanks for sharing your story! great to know that you have some links with the Air Force (RAAF), which was one part of my life.

[DionM]

Here's mine!



Very messy. Twin 19" LCDs for PP. Then there's my iPAQ just to the right of the monitors (sitting on a hub), then to the left there's a flatbed scanner, USB hub, Sandisk card reader, then a neg scanner (being used as a place to sit my CD spindle on). Then assorted rubbish across my desk (what a mess!). Underneath is my workstation (on the left, grey cabinet) and my server (on the right, black cabinet). Then cable hell under the desk!

The room is shortly to be renovated hence the lack of care about keeping it tidy!

[Dug]

However, by far the most significant item in the pic is the photo on the wall, one of two I have hung in the study. Taken by a RAAF photographer chasing in a Macchi jet trainer, it shows two F-111s flying into the sunset above East Sale in Victoria. The date was April 2, 1987 and this would be the last flight of the lead aircraft. An hour or so later it crashed near Tenterfield, NSW, on it's way back to Amberley, killing the pilot (my brother) and his navigator. A pretty special photo and quite poignant with the planes streaking towards the sunset. It was featured in the RAAF Calendar the following year with a caption explaining the tragic circumstances under which it was taken. Naturally, it's one of my treasured possessions.

Sorry to hear about your brother I lost quite a few mates in my years in the RAAF it was always hard. They are still remembered and still missed.

[sirhc55]

A touching momento Simon that is with you everyday - thanks for sharing

[Dug]

My full workspace including 14" TV and 17" mac monitor



the surface of the desk is down there somewhere This is actually pretty tidy for me there would normally be much more junk about.

[Dug]

 PS I know Mal Lancaster

and I will say no more on the subject It's a long story.

[sejanus]

this is a tad messy though i think neat compared to a few

the real mess is under the desk though so I made sure to include that in the shot!

[Thommo]

thats alot of external storage

[leek]

Sorry... but I have to top the lot of you for the messiest desk....



Note:
- the discarded D70 and L-bracket
- the large mound of unpaid bills and tax returns
- the glass of Sav to make it seem better
- random CF cards & Wacom tablet.
- reading glasses so that I can see what the hell is going on on my screens
- discarded lenses
- cobwebs outside the window
- SC-101 on the right hand side - backup for all my HDs
- my minimalist HK sound system
- my sheet of chiropractic exercises hanging on the wall and continuously ignored.
- dental floss (unused)
- (empty) packs of cigars
- tube of Canesten to treat my athlete's foot (too much info)

[Heath Bennett]

The workspace - clients are an excuse to keep things reasonably tidy:

[Geoff]

Way too neat HB - but very organised and civilised and homogonised...no, that's the milk ....serious piece of printer u have there too. Nice work.


My desk is about to be shown.

[Geoff]

Ok...here's my desk AS IS - no tidying. You see my beloved old D70, the 70-200VR, my printer, dual monitor setup and a whole lot of crap that I don't know exactly what to do with but has meaning in my life - i.e to put it away would be silly as I use it all the time, and weirdly enough, through all that paperwork I know where everything is. It's funny isn't it - I have changed over the years, used to be a COMPLETE neat freak, now I have a more chilled out approach, it's cool . Life is cool, but now i'm just rambling....there...Oh yeah, there's a tool box there - I love to think I'm a home handy man (hahahahahahahahahaha)...erm no...

Now where's my bed.....

EDIT/ADDIT: Yes - that's my ALDI desktop machine