Morning Coffee

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    Feelin’ kind of teenaged today. Vintage Polish fashion magazine advertisements? Yes please. Hearing with our skin. Department of beautiful but terrifying implications: Dead tire graveyard. Guardian UK on the unsure cause of Jane Austen’s demise. Yesterday was the first day…

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    Evidently we’re thinking about cities today. New Scientist takes an in-depth look at drowned cities, fact and fiction. Thank you New Scientist. The winning design for Mexico’s pavillion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. 1/100 scale architectural models. If that…

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    Have a good Thanksgiving, we’ll see you on Monday. Famous missing body parts. Alice’s copy of “Through the Looking Glass” is up for auction. LA without traffic is a pretty unsettling thing. Secrets of pinball economics. What was once thought…

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    Flavorwire on the loss of Pop-up pioneer Wally Hunt and the best Pop-up Books of all time. I don’t know how people made found art before google maps. It is pretty terrifying to imagine being fully conscious and in a…

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    Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home. Abandoned wood burning stoves. A look inside a San Francisco opium den circa 1889. Rebecca Ward‘s tape installations. Pickled evidence for evolution.

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    1970s lowbrow super 8 design. hurray! Journey Around my Skull continues its look at Polish children’s books. Is ALL marriage illegal in Texas? 15 uses for newspapers. Imaging alien Earths in the near future. Turning videogames into art.

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    Logical flow. On death masks. Going through back issues of Cabinet magazine is a good way to spend a day. A minor history of giant spheres. Voyeuristic architectural offices. Curbed looks at the best new SF buildings of the decade.…

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    Jim Kazanjian’s aberrations. We try to stay away from foreign language links as much as possible, but these x-rays of speech are pretty universally rad. Warhol’s Little Red Hen. If your kid isn’t afraid of things they are going to…

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    Actually, blowing up the moon WAS successful! Guardian UK on In Cold Blood 50 years on. Don’t try and bring snow globes on an airplane. Don’t do it! Modern day Alpine witch houses. Everything that could possibly exist on the…

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    Shockingly not boring: a look inside an English cardboard factory. Children’s books from Poland. WWI-era airplane detection hearing aids. Could the common cold be the trick to avoiding swine flue? (spoiler alert: maybe!) Fact of the day: Japanese barcodes are…

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    Have you seen Big Picture’s photo-essay on Mars? It is the best thing. What does the grammar of Google searches say about us? I am just linking to this article so I can use the phrase “monkey justice.” The great…

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    I don’t know if anyone has noticed this yet, but it is Autumn. The bitter lapse into everyday life. Wayne Levin’s haunting underwater photography. How to convert old factory buildings into rad Spanish art musuems. Impromtu musical from Improv Everywhere.…