OBSOLETE: An Encyclopedia

If you have extra floppies from way back when, why don’t...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:39:05 -0500

If you have extra floppies from way back when, why don’t you follow these instructions and make a Floppy Disk Photo Cube! I’m asking rhetorically only. It’s pretty ugly and I’m rather sure you won’t want to make it. Jessica, my most crafty friend, has one rule about glue guns: Don’t use them. If two things were meant to be stuck together, there should be a better way to do it. She shared that pearl of wisdom with me many years ago, and now I offer it to you.

Carabaas — «asimov_trs.jpg» на Яндекс.Фотках

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:07:03 -0500

Carabaas — «asimov_trs.jpg» на Яндекс.Фотках

Gizmodo asks: Is It Time To Consider Life Without Real, Touchable Books?

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:39:00 -0500

Gizmodo asks: Is It Time To Consider Life Without Real, Touchable Books? : Book lover Rosa Golijan...

This video about OBSOLETE, which was made by Mike Kravinsky of...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:14:37 -0500

This video about OBSOLETE, which was made by Mike Kravinsky of NextNik.com, was featured last week on ABC News Now. I posted the video when he first made it, but that was before it was featured on old school teleovision! Thanks again, Mike!

You know that old VHS tape? The one that held your favorite...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:36:45 -0500

You know that old VHS tape? The one that held your favorite movie—or at least half of it? I recall as a kid that some movies were inexplicably on two tapes and I had no younger sibling to go switch it over for me.

The VHS nostalgia movement doesn’t seem to have the same traction as the post-digital music audiotape cult. Nevertheless, should you want to honor the medium, head over to CentennialMerchant’s shop on Etsy and you can get yours made into an external hard drive. Of course, you could just put the VHS box over your current external hard drive and save yourself $134.99. Still, they’re kind of cool.

(via ILikeCool)

I’ve been eyeing this book. Mostly, I’ve been...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:53:17 -0500

I’ve been eyeing this book. Mostly, I’ve been thinkin, “Shizzles, I coulda written this!” But I didn’t—and not writing it was actually much easier than writing it. Head over to Craftzine.com to see Safran’s idea of how to turn old floppies into sculptural picture frames.

Polariod prints on 100% silk around. Yours for only four...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:25:09 -0500

Polariod prints on 100% silk around. Yours for only four hundred and something dollars. Alas, you can’t get it made with a Polaroid of your own choosing.

(via Photojojo from Polaroid Scarves — Better Living Through Design)

Happy Birthday, Word!

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:34:00 -0500

A few months ago, I did a debate at Word in Greenpoint, not far from where yo vivo con mi esposo...

This morning my apartment was filled with movers. For the last...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:00:31 -0500

This morning my apartment was filled with movers. For the last few months, my husband and I have been making do with no more than a table, bed, armoire and a few chairs. It was kind of both heaven and hell to have such few things. All that changed today when my husband’s furniture arrived from Spain. To be honest, I hardly noticed the parade of boxes and Spanish commands being shouted back and forth and the piles of emptied cardboard boxes and balls of used tape flying through the place like tumble weeds. Why? I had fallen into the rabbit hole that is radioshackcatalogs.com. The owner of this site has painstakingly documented RadioShack catalogs, photos, history, and then some. Do you love RadioShack? Neither do I. And yet, I was transfixed by this love letter to the company (which was started out as a Boston store for leftover Army equipment in 1921. Its founders were two brothers, Theodore and Milton Shack. I mean, Theodore and Milton Deutschmann).

This is a very rich little site. The above videos are just some of the riches it has to offer.

(Thanks to Retro Vintage Modern Hi-Fi for directing me to this RadioShack wonderland)

Buffalo Bob and Clarabell the Clown from Howdy Doody. You see,...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:41:00 -0500

Buffalo Bob and Clarabell the Clown from Howdy Doody.

You see, boys and girls, once upon a time, phones were verrrry big…

(via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats)

Is cursive writing obsolete?

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:08:34 -0500

Is cursive writing obsolete?: I liked this little report on how people’s handwriting is...

Could we call this a “cattle call?” Are they...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:50:37 -0500

Could we call this a “cattle call?” Are they equipped with ramswering machines? Do they belong to the Farmer in the Dial?

That’s all I got.

(from pics.kuvaton.com via Ffffound.com)

Wood Lomo picture holders. (via papertissue)

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:12:06 -0500

Wood Lomo picture holders. (via papertissue)

Au Revoir, Automat

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:40:00 -0500

Native New Yorker Zoe Schneider holds a party every month for native New Yorkers—like me!...

Back In 1967, This Was Your Average Camcorder (via Gizmodo)

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:45:58 -0500

Back In 1967, This Was Your Average Camcorder

(via Gizmodo)

More Lady Gaga gewgaws: She designed the this new Polaroid PIC...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:17:01 -0500

More Lady Gaga gewgaws:

She designed the this new Polaroid PIC 1000. It’s a little too design-y for my taste, but still, I give it two thumbs, because I have them and they’re not doing much right now except hitting the space bar.

So, Lady Gaga. She is something. Does product design AND hair. And she sings. Sheesh, man. Can’t she just smoke like the rest of us?

(via illillill, Polaroid PIC 1000 | Design You Trust)

A real phone! On her head! Does it work? Is her cell out of...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:12:07 -0500

A real phone! On her head! Does it work? Is her cell out of batteries?

(You know, I put a barrette in my hair and I think I’m all fancy.)

dylicious via jcup:

Preview of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video!

LOOK @ HER WEAVOPHONE.

A fellow native New York-ite sent this piece to me about the...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:09:27 -0500

A fellow native New York-ite sent this piece to me about the plight of roasted nut stores in NYC. I was going to cut and paste a sentence or two from it, but all the sentences are good and I couldn’t decide. So, just go read the whole thing. Or don’t. It’s your day—waste it as you wish. xox

Stained glass window, made with Kodachrome slides. Pretty...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:23:53 -0500

Stained glass window, made with Kodachrome slides. Pretty sweet.

(From via Flickr from Rosa at Gizmodo)

This girl is a) Pushing the button that will end the world b)...

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:55:06 -0500

This girl is

a) Pushing the button that will end the world

b) Subtly drawing attention to her ¨box.¨

c) As confused as I am about what it means to be a ¨Candid camera picture of My Valentine.¨

Thoughts?

vintage valentine: mechanical w/ camera

(via karenh)