Archive: 2012

Extraordinary Inventions: Victorian-Era Prank Machines Electric shocks and mechanical goats fun The World's Worst (and Ugliest) Cars Somebody shoot these wheeled abominations Cute Vintage Ice Cream Trucks "Often Licked, Never Beaten!".. The Most Incredible Space Imagery Blast off to distant galaxies! Merry Christmas & Happy New 2012 Year from DRB! A healthy helping of Seasonal Cheer Spectacular 2012 Heavy Machinery Calendar Higher, Bigger, Heavier! The Other Space Race Active Space Programs outside USA or Russia Hilarious Prank Letters to Corporations "I am a lover of all things clarinettal..." American Concept Car Showcase, Part 2 The Age of Chrome, Aerodynamic Excess and Sheer Excitement January 30, 2012 - Biscotti Bits Mixed Links & Images Incl. "Most Dangerous Bridge Crossing" Surreal Abandoned Amusement Park in Berlin Complete with the fallen dinosaurs Stunning Art of Ancient Calendars Time Out of Time: Egyptian & Mayan Wonders Fascinating Matchbook Art Always Striking! Classic Matchbooks, Part One Coffee Art & Style Extravaganza Have your cup of coffee with a smile (and a vengeance) Retro Future: Glorious Transportation Update Making you hate your current family car since 1951 Bookshelf Heaven: Awesome "Containers" for Books So radical... So comforting... Jets & Clouds Effects: An Ephemeral Sky Show Airplanes create art in the sky Architectural Gems of Old Russia, Part 2 Including the true baroque skyscraper! Russian Fairy Tale Wooden Palace: Restored! The Architectural Gems of Old Russia, Part 1 Girls & Trucks! Part 1 1960s-style girls plus huge chromed trucks Intricate Japanese Movable Type Sets Visual Caffeine: Exploring Art and Architecture, Issue 1 Impossible Plant-Animal Hybrid This creature should not exist... but it does. Heavy Bombers: Fearsome Angels of the Cold War A game of fear, played with monstrous planes The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler’s Volkswagen Finally, the full story behind emergence of Volkswagen Fluid Dynamics & Liquid Photography It's a Splash! - High-Speed Photography at its Finest Hanging Monasteries of the World Truly the way is narrow and the path is steep... Steam Buses & Trucks Ugly, smoke-belching beasties... Historic & Elaborate Water Pumps Most flamboyant styles for pumping water Lovely Japanese Vintage Ads Industrial Design with a Deliciously Cute Factor Car Dashboards as Works of Art New & old, weird & beautiful "dashes" DRB Pic of the Day: Cold War Jet Fighter F-80 jet, in all its Chrome-like Glory Liquid Art & Droplet Photography One Ordinary Drop of Water Precariously Leaning Towers of the World The other ones, not the one in Pisa Propeller-driven "The Bennie Railplane" DRB Pic of the Day: Rusted & Abandoned Wonder-Plane Quick Shot: Dieselpunk Art DRB Pic of the Day: Grimy Airships Wide-Format Goodies Some spectacular imagery for your desktop wallpapers. Sensational Japanese Contemporary Art Visual Caffeine, Issue Two Strangest Tanks in History, Part 2 The Power to Terrify: the First World War Tanks Strangest Tanks in History, Part 1 From Early Tank Ideas to Enormous Pre-WW1 Steam Tanks Great New Hydrofoil & Submersible Concepts Modern Italian Design + RetroFuturism Style Most Extravagant Bus Ever Built Citroen U55 Cityrama: Parisian spaceship tour bus Rare & Wonderful 1950s Space Art Russian, Italian and British Pulp SF Art Russian Cold War Phones Beautiful? ugly? paranoia-infected devices History of the Tailsitter Airplanes Truly remarkable pieces of aviation history Killer Viruses and Other Cutting-Edge Glass Art Visual Caffeine, Issue Four Transit of Venus Today (in Pictures) June 6, 2012 - The Last Transit of our Lifetime Land Speed Record Vehicles, Part 2: Jet Propulsion 1960s-1980s Most beautiful streamlined shapes in the Sixties (of course) Land Speed Record Vehicles, Part 1: The Pioneers The Thrilling Story Of The Land Speed Record and The Fastest Men On Earth The Fearsome Scale of Phobos ...superimposed over a European city The History of Hydrofoils Including Nazi and Soviet Weird Concepts Streamlined Soviet Passenger Hydrofoils Welcome on board of the Soviet River Time Machine! Most Dangerous Roads in the World, Part 7 Crazy Routes in Tibet and India Huge Airborne Aircraft Carriers Planes on top of planes... with more planes inside! Awesome Vintage Ambulance Cars Chromed & streamlined legendary vehicles Olympic Flame Torches & Cauldrons: A Retrospective Large and exciting collection of designs Upside Down & Other Weird Houses "- And He Built a Crooked House -" Fascinating Chemistry Photos Fantastic visuals at a point where science intersects art Awesome Vintage Calculators Highly desirable objects of technological genius "Flying Saucer" Soviet Architecture in Caucasus Truly "The House on the Borderland" Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest: Bordeaux, Washington Exploring Abandoned Places in the Land of Myst Up, Up and Away: Building an Airship House H.G. Wells & Jules Verne would approve Huge Off-Highway Road Trains All set to conquer the Moon, Mars (almost!) Unusual and Fascinating Coins & Currency, Part 2 Coins with pieces of the Moon in them! Monstrous, Angelic, Unusual Bridge Sculptures Griffins, trolls, hamsters of all sorts "Tatra" Car & Other Aerodynamic Marvels, Part 2 Futuristic Shape and Radical Design in the 1930s-1950s The Tatra T87: Streamlined, Fast and Mostly Unknown Designed to resemble German airships Peculiar Postage: Unusual Stamps from Around the World, Part Two Stamps with embedded volcanic ash, sand from Sahara dunes... Unusual, Intriguing Water Towers Bizarre designs, strange interiors Monster Machinery Update Born to Intimidate. (And Get Work Done) Surreal Human Sculptures by Andrew Baines Bowler Hats & Umbrellas vs. The Immensity of the Sea Attractive, Unique Vintage Telephones Go ahead, call your mother Fascinating Matchbook Art, Part Two Always Striking: Classic Matchbook Art The Best of "Dark Roasted Blend" in 2012 Weird & Wonderful Things in 2012! CONTINUE READING: 2011 FULL ARCHIVES -> 2010 FULL ARCHIVES -> 2009 FULL ARCHIVES -> 2008 FULL ARCHIVES -> 2007 FULL ARCHIVES -> 2006 FULL ARCHIVES ->