Gallery of vintage bottle caps

September 24, 2009 @ 7:27 pm

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Look at this lovely gallery of bottle caps for sale. [via]

And if you want, I’ve compiled all 430 bottle caps into one downloadable ZIP file which you can grab here (7MB).

Vintage iSockit laptop cases by Blythe King

September 22, 2009 @ 12:53 am

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Designer Blythe King makes these wonderful MacBook Pro cases called iSockits that are created from vintage fabrics and various antique badges. Each one is hand-sewn and fits a 13″ MBP snugly with extra pockets on the outside for pens, notebooks, and other miscellaneous stuff. You can purchase one over at Supermarket for $65. If I had a 13″ notebook, I’d get one. These look nice!

Locomotive Shop

September 7, 2009 @ 12:57 am

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I’m in love with this photo of the Chicago and Northwestern rail locomotive shop taken by Jack Delano. Look at the sparks coming from the guy working near the bottom left of the image. Nice! :)

Elevated Subway circa 1899 by Thomas Edison

August 19, 2009 @ 12:53 am

Take a ride around 104th Street in NYC (circa 1899) in this elevated Subway video taken by Thomas Edison. [via]

Franka Rolfix folding camera

August 4, 2009 @ 5:20 pm

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Showing this baby off to the world. I picked this up at an antique shop for $20 while I was vacationing in Maine. Everything works as it should and all it needs is a bit of cleaning which I hope doesn’t remove the old, musty leathery smell that it currently has (I kinda like the smell, actually). More pictures of the body below.

I need to get some 120 film and shoot some random crap to make sure 100% that this is a working model.

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Life Nature Library covers in Polaroid

August 4, 2009 @ 10:12 am

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Check out these beautiful Polaroids taken by Patrick Tobin of a set of cover logos for Life Nature Library books published by Time Life Books in the 1960’s. [via]

Here are a few of my favorites from the set.