Morning Coffee
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Morning Coffee
In honor of the cute essay we’re running this morning, here are some photos of an extremely cute baby elephant. Still not smiling? How about now? If you’re not into cuteness, you can always check out these modern-day recreations of…
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Morning Coffee
NY Times slide show on Conrad Gessner’s beastiaries. Anyone want to go live in a sweet cave house with me? Important advances in the field of robot journalism. I’ve often asked “what are the ten strangest moons?” Here are some…
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Morning Coffee
MOMA has acquired the @ symbol. Way to go MOMA. Another reason why India is going to take over the world. Super rad photographs of childhood fantasies. Look, I’m not going to lie to you, it’s been a slow day,…
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Morning Coffee
It is important to remember that the world can be pretty ok. Oh hey tiny robot fish, what’s up? Did you know there was an Art Handling Olympics? Presumably you do now. If you are a climate change denier then…
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Morning Coffee
A visual history of tourism ads. The Ghost Orchid has risen from the dead. And as long as we’re on the subject: the Pompeii fast food establishment Thermopolium is set to reopen. Free public light for all! (woo!) I would…
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Morning Coffee
Big Picture has a rad look at the buildings of the shanghai expo. US vs UK book covers, no-holds-barred cage match. I heart Japanese train station design. There is no good reason not to look at pictures of the Great…
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Morning Coffee
Dolphins are really tired of all this “trying to swim with them” crap. Looking for a job? Flavorwire wants to show you their favorite pieces of SoCal architecture. Exploring the world of Arabic design. (via JourneyRoundMySkull.) On the personhood of…
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Morning Coffee
Spring! (almost) German prison cells are mostly nicer than my apartment. Words get in David Byrne’s way. Technically this is about old type interfaces, but let’s be honest here it’s just typewriter design porn. The sun is out today, and…
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Morning Coffee
A little political guerrilla satire to start off your Tuesday: the first corporate candidate. I don’t understand the sudden influx in vintage match boxes online, but I am in favor of it. The world’s first building with built-in wind turbines…
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Morning Coffee
Farewell ABE. (bonus sublink: the 50 best robots ever.) Fine BBC reportage: zebra stares into the mouth of death. I would like very much to live inside Ken Russell’s 1950s London photography. “This dude has got some sick giraffe shots.”…
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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…
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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:…