Morning Coffee

Some photo-essays to get you through the midweek: Communist May Days of the 50s and 60s, and the South Central States. The Clash Project is pretty neat. The highest electrical…

Today is the first day of summer and frankly I’m just thinking about this and this. You know who is good at detecting the difference between identical twins? Czech police…

If I am reading this right, all IT people are autistic. I would like to live my life inside a converted French Art Deco swimming pool. Behold the Russian Wizard…

The best kinds of animals are transparent animals. Admittedly we should have linked to this yesterday: Nabokov maps out Bloomsday. Here is a website that is in french but that…

Y’all ready to leave the solar system? No thanks, I think I’ll stay here and explore World’s Fairs of the 1930s. Fact: babies love Picasso. (via Gerry Canavan.) I don’t…

Things you can do with abandoned nuclear plants: turn them into amusement parks! Today is a good day to check out pictures of Soviet Moscow int he 30s and 40s…

If anyone wonder where I am this weekend, I’ll probably be identifying mid-century modern typefaces. Spanish architecture porn. You best stay away from me bad-ass spider. You best stay away…

Facebook is giving you the sads. This week in new iconic space pictures. Behold the first living wall painting. 60s and 70s French magazine covers will always make me happy.…

All roads lead to the philosophy wikipedia article. The NY Times wants us to think about Jellyfish. Ok! Men in high heeled shoes in art. Can we all agree that…

How did I miss NASA’s new deep-space vehicle? On the dark art of Heavy Metal umlauts. (via @SandiV.) The Venice Biennale has the best ATMs in the world. Hollywood’s gunslinging…

Soviet science illustrations? Yes please! Similarly: Old pictures of Teloscopes. Also: Welcome to the real world, heaviest elements. Oh, and: Hurray for cuttlefish! They can’t all be scientific: 70s Cuban…

Maybe you’ve already seen this, but dang if this amphibious ice cream truck isn’t the best thing of the week. Also, in England, the benches sound like Alan de Botton.…