Dan Weiss is a professional bookseller, amateur dilettante. He writes and plays in the band The Yellow Dress. He firmly believes that everything is going to be okay.
No, we didn’t find alien life this weekend. Here is your library architecture porn for the week. What did people do for art before Google Maps? The important lesson to…
South Korea’s ship is much bigger than yours. The Smithsonian wants you to look at animals. As long as people are thinking about New Orleans, here is some NOLA based…
Let’s all just take a moment to look at buildings in the puddles of New York. These are things people spend money on: a $350 hundred year old stick of…
What are you heartless? The loneliest whale in all the world. Competition Competition just picked out the best losing architecture proposals of 2010. Can we all agree that “Thunder Thighs”…
Here is a thing: evil people living in modernist homes in popular films. Time marches along and before you know it there are no more WWI vets. NASA gets ready…
This week in “exciting” Flickr galleries: iconography of justice and mid-century corporate design! Let’s talk a bit about Walt Disney’s Magic Highway (USA). The Book of Eclipses. This is why…
Today might be a good day to check out the CIA Museum Flickr feed. When celebrity endorsements are from the past they become way more interesting. For some reason scientists…
Photo Opportunities makes pictures out of thousands of snap shots of tourist destinations. It is pretty cool. In Russia, weddings photos take YOU! (I am not actually old enough to…
I know this isn’t the point, but I can’t stop thinking about how cute these fat monkeys are. Psychedelic Don Quixote illustrations. Abandoned World War 2 bunkers are sort of…
It’s a Monday, so here is a baby armadillo for you. Google Street Art is a pretty cool thing I think. Buffon’s Beasts (is great). This week is twitter visual…
The BBC has really been bringing it this week, nature-wise. “Reasons not the think outside the box.” Penguins understand what to and not to freeze. I have one last word…