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Dan Weiss

  • Morning Coffee

    I am pretty sure at least one of these things will make you happy. Start your weekend off in an appropriately dark place with images of public execution in the old west. Antique camera porn. A little whimsical art: fully…

  • Morning Coffee

    Environmental Graffiti takes a look at Germany’s hanging railway. We usually try to stay away from commercial stuff like this, but we think it’s pretty rad that Tropicana literally built a sun to make their point. A very important tutorial:…

  • Annals of Advertising: IHOP Commercial (1969)

    More Annals of Advertising.

  • Tune of the Day

    Artists: Man/Miracle Song: “Hot Sprawl”

  • Hitchcock’s Cameos

  • Morning Coffee

    This is an article about Martian lubricant. Pretty much the weirdest headline I’ve read today. “I could really use a bad-ass architecture based link.” How about this water-purifying skyscraper? “I dunno, do you have anything involving quarries?” Oh, here you…

  • Morning Coffee

    Pictures of plant gall, one of the weirdest/raddest looking things in the world. It is hard to argue with 8-bit NYC. By the way, if you live in New York, you should probably go see Olafur Eliasson’s new installation (for…

  • Morning Coffee

    Behold the (wildly impractical) coffee-powered car. Still more vintage matchbook covers (these ones have animals on them!) The Maldives have commissioned the building of several floating star-shaped islands. In related news: the Maldives evidently are totally awesome. The Maskatorium. Take…

  • Morning Coffee

    Wednesdays can be hard, so its either this or reading the GG Allin Wikipedia page in its entirety. Literally the best thing NPR has ever been responsible for (and that includes every episode of Car Talk): dinosaurs vs snakes! Neatorama…

  • Morning Coffee

    I’ve just got this hunch that things might be ok. Watching Shrek in Tehran. Hey, so, what happened to that tsunami? Related: The Chilean earthquake did however probably (possibly?) make the day shorter. Why the internet will never catch on. Gang…

  • Tune of the Day

    Artists: Beat Happening Song: “Bury the Hammer”

  • Rappin’