Archived Articles from Steve

A stellar writer and amazing researcher, Steve has brought a twist of creative humor into the mix with articles on geek cake designs and brilliant book artists, extreme house boat designs and real-life nanotechnology applications, dramatic guerrilla marketing campaigns and steampunk art and fashion. Steve can also be found writing away about insane news and inventions of Japan over at InventorSpot.

Scooped: 12 Chilled Out Abandoned Ice Cream Stands

Cone in 60 seconds? Though these 12 cool abandoned ice cream stands thought they could take a licking and keep on ticking, they ended up just being licked.

Can't Be Shaved: 12 Abandoned Barber Shops

This abandoned barber shop triple-quartet collectively echoes with the metallic chattering of honed clippers tempered by hazy undertones of warm conversation.

Company Capers: Ten Terrible Corporate Superheroes

The best corporate superheroes punch up sales while resonating with the youth demographic. These ten terrible corporate superheroes, not so much.

Child's Place: 10 Eerie Abandoned Orphanages

These 10 eerie abandoned orphanages were once repositories for unwanted, illegitimate and unsupportable children from a fast-fading, socially unenlightened age.

Dialed In: 15 Cool & Quirky Radio Design Concepts

DO touch that dial! These 12 cool & quirky radio design concepts provide a glimpse of this classic medium's future while giving a nod to its historic past.

All Bets Are Off: 10 Crapped-Out Abandoned Casinos

At these 10 abandoned casinos, the high rollers are laying low, the cards are all jokers, the wheel's stopped spinning and the dice have all thrown snake eyes.

Game, Cassette, Match: 10 Abandoned Video Stores

Once as common as the VHS or Beta tapes they rented out, video stores are fading away faster than the images on a well-worn cassette someone forgot to rewind.

Drowned Out: 9 Abandoned Lifeguard Huts & Towers

Battered by wind, waves and relentless weathering, these 9 abandoned lifeguard towers still stand watch though the watchers have long since left.

Bread Balks: 13 Old & Moldy Abandoned Bakeries

This baker's dozen of abandoned bakeries have closed their oven doors for good; victims of flour play, management missed cakes and muffin'd opportunities.

Going Downhill Fast: 12 Abandoned Ski Resorts

These dozen doomed ski resorts, like most seasonal winter businesses, can fall off the financial cliff by something as ironically simple as a lack of snow.

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