Dan Weiss

Perhaps you are wondering what the proper protocol is when looking for a yeti in the 50s. Have y’all been following the constitutional goings on in Iceland these days? I go out of town for two weeks and somehow I…

We’ll be laying low today. Have a good Labor Day. “In Praise of the American Worker,” a slideshow from Life magazine.

I hope y’all are ready for transparent skin. 1970s art manifesto houses! Attention: outer space has way too much junk in it’s outer space trunk. Seriously dudes, soviet-era art and design is the best. Dolphin death is the saddest, but…

Welcome to the world 7th billion person! Early 70s Cuban stamps are pretty great. Here are some things you can do with typewriters. 100 year old colored photographs of Russian life! woo! Let’s all pour one out for poor ol…

Why do Eastern European kids get all the surrealist fun? Way to be land fish! Dali’s Vogue covers are pretty rad to see. When I die I intend to be liquefacted, just like my hero the earthquake ravaged San Francisco…

I’ve been all about Soviet-era design lately, this is a fact. Skinks wish they could do it with way more things than they can. Sea energy harvesters are pretty fascinating. For some reason here are pictures of chicken embryos. Marvelous…

As it turns out, construction in LA used to be a lot more visually stunning. What’s up planet made of diamonds? Way to be 100 neon lights! The internet loves scanning things that shouldn’t be scanned. The internet also loves…

Evidently there was some news about Steve Jobs this week or something, but more importantly maybe his patents don’t count because of Stanley Kubrick. Someday I’ll stop linking to pictures of abandoned things (this is probably a lie). The key…

Looks like it’s time for another T(h)rivial Thursday! Perhaps you have wondered about the fake vomit industry? The main point of this article is that scientists are nerds. Full-on authentic 60s jetsetters! Dept. of Poor-lil-guy. 15th century lettering.

Start things off classy with vintage feminine hygiene product ads. Anyone want to take a road trip up the glass beach with me? Elephants understand. Invasive species gardening as contemporary art. The number one thing I’ve learned today is that…

While we weren’t looking the Russians totally beat us at the most important part of the space race. Speaking of: totally 80s Soviet propaganda. Let’s all take a moment to think about the most poisonous spider. Fact: Scrabble is totally…

The future is now #5086: French airport holograms! Google Street View is mapping the Amazon. Sad new aerodrome fans. Dogs totally know that you have cancer. As it turns out, early life was pretty much chilling out on the beach,…