Archive: 2011

The Biggest Ships in the World (DRB Series) From supertankers to Godzilla cranes 7 Billion: Discussing Overpopulation Interview with Robert Kunzig, National Geographic Ship Figureheads: Symbols of the Sea Ladies and monsters as "hood ornaments" for ships Grand Scale Environmental & Land Art "Man's Reaction To His Earth": creative landscape art Fantastically Intense Wiring Part 7 of our highly popular series Vintage New York Marvel Age: The City of Superheroes January 6, 2011 - Feel-Good Issue #2 Welcome 2011: DRB Feel-Good Issue #2 Mixed links & images: cars, girls, etc. Weird Vintage Ads: Outrageous! Disclaimer: we have nothing to do with this. Painted Trees in the Mountains of Colorado Psychedelic Dead Trees Revived Making Exotic Cars: Behind-the-Scenes Photos See how Maserati, Bentley, and other supercars are made The Coolest PC Case Mods on the Planet Stylish, wicked, fast Extreme Murals & Painted Buildings Boring walls transformed by creativity Radical Screw-propelled Vehicles Moving sideways, and often unstoppable Mega Earthquake and Tsunami Snapping tectonic plates and ravenous waves Slot Car Addiction: The Joys of Model Racing Hugely complex kinetic art & races Cramped Efficiency: Inside a Submarine Maximum tangle in a smallest space Uniquely Creative Ads, Issue 14 Wide-format marketing wonders galore March 21, 2011 - Biscotti Bits Mixed Links & Images Incl. "The Cyclotrope" Unusual Musical Instruments, Part 2 Some Odd, Forgotten and Bizarre Sounds The World's Most Powerful Mobile Crane The Apotheosis of All Truck Cranes Intricately Carved Pulpits Stunning examples of religious art Weird (Tasty?) Food Art Part 2 of this highly eatable showcase Spectacular Cog Railways Clockwork Precision & Marvelous Engineering Gargoyles & Grotesques, Part 2 Still frighteningly strange... after all these years Nuclear Everything! Atoms in the Air, on Wheels, Rails, etc. Magnificent & Weird Trees The Walking tree, the Cannonball tree, and others American Concept Cars Showcase, Part 1 The Creme de la Creme of Automotive Design Industrial Photography with a Soul Iron Bridges, Gothic Bell Towers and Mystery Machines Harley-Davidson Blackline: Exclusive DRB Interview Lean as wire, hard as iron Dark Custom Vintage Arcade Machines Showcase Colour! Action! Thunder! Weirdness, too More Crazy Intersections & Traffic Jams Part 3 of this popular stress-reliever Russian Nuclear Icebreakers: to the North Pole! Odyssey in the Arctic with Russian Icebreaker Fleet Retro Future: Space Art Update Gentlemen! Forward - Into the Past! Exploring the Ruins of Gary, Indiana Urban Photography by David Tribby Awesome Car Hood Ornaments Lovely, sleek, exquisite car art Intricate Ship Sterns: Art on the Ocean More elaborate than Barocco palace facades The Mysterious Minaret of Jam Immense 12-Century "Skyscraper" Futuristic Urban Mega-Structures Update From RetroFuture to Algorithmic Architecture Ultra Rigs of the World, Part 2 Custom trucks & incredible road trains Ancient & Marvelous Turtles After two extinctions, looking very well! Glorious Socialism: Chinese Ladies in Propaganda Posters Smiling Face of Socialism, Loads of Optimism Mega Dashboards and Instrument Panels, Part 2 These knobs were made for twisting... Tetris Furniture & Rubik's Kitchens The Whole Room in a Box: Compact Furniture Collapsed! "Tsunami in the Sky" Storm Cloud Lightnings from the "belly of the beast" Quick Shot #1 Japanese Memo Clock Cute Idea Architectural Blunders & Atrocities Drunk Builders and Mad Architects, Part 5 Coolest Gadgets, Modern & Retro. The Weird and the Marvelous Ghost Cars of the World Venezuela, Cuba, Russia: take your pick Art Deco Skyscraper of the Week: Trinity Building, New York Perhaps the first twin towers built there Abandoned Disney, Part 1 Overgrown Discovery Island, and other awesome sites Sensational Rock Formations: Moeraki Boulders Strangely Round Rocks of "Unknown Origin" Perpertuum Mobile: The Quest for Perpetual Motion Perpetual Futility, or Triumph of Imagination? September 25, 2011 - Feel-Good #3 DRB Feel-Good Issue #3 Mixed links & images: cars, girls, etc. September 18, 2011 - Quick Shot #2 Moscow Metro Stained Glass Avantgarde Journey into the MicroWorld Epic "Fantastic Voyage"-like quest & photography combination Treasures of Art Nouveau, Part 1 "The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture." Glorious Retrofuture from Japan Plus super-fantastic toys attack! Unique Sidecars Showcase Splendid sidecars & passenger capsules The Most Surreal Insect on Earth A real insect, which only pretends to be an alien helicopter October 20, 2011 - Feel-Good #4 DRB Feel-Good Issue #4 Mixed links & images: cars, girls, etc. The World's Largest Ship Propellers Steel behemoths propelling huge ships Surreal Art Update: Glass Garage Gallery Not afraid of "pretty", but still pretty weird Luigi Colani Radical Designs Update These forms cry out "FUTURE!" in a way that cannot be ignored. Wild'n'Wooly Printer Concepts Printers cannot always be evil. Here is proof. The Dark Tower: Found! Huge Black Tower in the Mists of Sao Tome Feel-Good DRB Feel-Good Issue #5 Beautiful art, cars, girls, etc. The Best of "Dark Roasted Blend" in 2011 Wonders upon Wonders! CONTINUE READING: 2010 FULL ARCHIVES -> 2009 FULL ARCHIVES -> 2008 FULL ARCHIVES -> 2007 FULL ARCHIVES -> 2006 FULL ARCHIVES ->