Retro Restoration: Abandoned Space Age Bungalows
In the 1970s, these odd little pods were on the cutting edge of portable architecture, with a design clearly influenced by Space exploration and futurism. Today, they sit abandoned on the lot of ...
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15 of the World’s Weirdest Low-Tech Film Cameras
A pistol that shoots photos instead of bullets, a harness for pigeons, a cane and a human skull are among the unexpected objects that have been turned into film cameras since the dawn of ...
The Red Menace: 15 Vintage Anti-Communist Ads & Propaganda
Look out - communists are infiltrating the country with nefarious plans to sterilize our men, steal our women and convert children! Dramatic and overwrought, anti-communist ads and propaganda ...
Future Past: 7 Weird Wonders Predicted 100+ Years Ago
"These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible," reads the intro to a 1900 article printed in the Ladies Home Journal entitled 'What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years.' And over a ...
Retro Hover Cars: Editing Photos to Float Vintage Rides
One of the most common concepts for the future has long been the wheel-free automobile, even before it was popularized in Back to the Future - but always, these looked almost shockingly familiar ...
Sleek Internet Logos Echo Metal-Etched Japanese Cameras
There is something simply elegant about type-embossed metal - in part the association with classic high-end manual cameras. This logo series takes that typology and applies it to a series of ...
Rein-Vend: 7 Converted, New & Reverse Vending Machines
Things have come a long way since the world's first vending machine - a 2000-year-old device that dispensed holy water when a coin was slipped into a slot. Some now-vintage models dispense art or ...
The ABC of Architects: 26 Famous Buildings in 100 Seconds
An adult-fascinating and kid-friendly overview of 26 works by architectural greats from the last 100 years. Watch as this fantastic collection of animated iconic buildings comes to life in less ...
21 Retro Travel Posters Feature Fantasy & Sci-Fi Destinations
Ever wanted to be the next companion of Doctor Who, wished you could ride along on the Firefly-class Serenity, or wondered what it would be like to cruise the galaxy with the rebels (or imperial ...
Click, Hum, Whir: An Orchestra of Obsolete Technology
In the broad scheme of audio technology, cassette tapes had a rather rough go of things. Their predecessor, the vinyl record, had been around for decades before and even now continues to be a ...
