It’s 9am on a Saturday morning and I just sat down for a relaxed breakfast and I’m hearing the birds sing in our backyard. It’s the first time this year to hear the clear, joyful sounds of the migratory birds coming back from the south. It’s Spring.
A slide taken somewhere in Europe, maybe Paris, in the early 1960s… Makes me want to join, rise to the tips of my toes in the back and whisper “What’s going on?”
Shorpy.com is a photo blog that features some of the best scans of early photographs from the 1900s to the 1940s. Many of the early black and white photos are very dramatic and many feature scenes of the daily lives of child laborers in coal mines and factories. And then there are some amazing color [...]
I found this slide in a box full of pictures from San Francisco’s Mission District that I had bought on eBay, but it clearly does not belong there… it’s in a very unusual aspect ratio, taken on 35mm black and white slide film. I assume it’s from the 1930s or maybe even 20s and was [...]
Hermann Weissenborn spent the early 20th century making some very excellent hollow neck guitars and Hawaiian ukuleles in his workshop in Los Angeles after emigrating from Germany to New York in 1902, and he would have probably been astonished to know that almost a hundred years later collectors would pay a premium for his Hawaiian [...]
It doesn’t happen often that I’m getting hooked on some Flash game on a website, but if it happens, it’s usually pretty bad. This weekend I had to put my plans for world domination on hold to spend insane amounts of time on this game: Desktop Tower Defense This game is just the right mix [...]
After spending a lot of time on sites like Swapatorium, Ookpik’s Negativity and Square America, I thought it’s my turn to try my hand at the big eBay Slides Roulette… I went and freed a couple of boxes of slides from different traders and now the first little box arrived via the US Postal Service… [...]
Ever heard of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser? Thought so… The Snow Cruiser is a one-of-a-kind vehicle that was developed in the 1930s to help conquer the Antarctic continent. It featured built in bunk beds for four and a galley and was one big piece of machinery. Oh – it also had a roof rack to [...]
For some reason there is always an intense fascination with the future of transportation. Every few months we find articles in magazines and newspapers about the car (plane, boat, subway…) of the future, and invariably these predictions are wildly – and often hilariously – wrong. We’ve all seen the tear-shaped cars of the future as [...]
Here’s a fun little quiz: Name all the countries in the world in ten minutes! There’s 192 countries that are currently officially recognized, and this little quiz almost drove me crazy. I thought that I would easily be able to spell out half the countries in ten minutes, but I had 127 countries left at [...]