Ruins Safaris

An urban exploration photo set from Ruin Tourist on Flickr. I particularly like the empty kodak building and photographs found there.

Arcade Fire

Interactive music video for Neon Bible (via notcot.org). Arcade Fire can do no wrong.

Yokoespen

Yokoespen’s photo set - if it was a book I would buy it.

Cut out science illustrations

Not immune to colors by Airform Archives. A series of photos of the top scientists circa 1968 studying the immune system with fantastic cut out paper backgrounds.

Play-doh

Another great Sony Bravia advert. It took three weeks to make this stop-motion animation and 2.4 tonnes of plasticine.

Basil Spence

Slideshow of photographs from the Basil Spence Archive on wallpaper.com (via Sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy). I knew nothing of Basil Spence until I found some of my Dad’s old architecture photos. There is a flickr group dedicated to the architect too.

Amateur Radio QSL card from Riga, USSR.

• BBC News - Russia marks 50 years of Sputnik
• Ward-O-Matic’s Space Alphabet

I’ve just got back from working in Portugal. There wasn’t much time for sightseeing but, where I could, I photographed the tiles (Azulejo) that adorn the exteriors of many buildings. Azulejo was introduced to Portugal, via Spain, by the Moors in the 15th century. This tradition has continued and I was pleased to find modern tiles around the area of Tavira in the Algarve.

• Full set of images in my Portuguese Tiles set on Flickr
• Azulejos de Portugal group photos on Flickr
• The history of Azulejo from Wikipedia

The paper mill looked as though it hadn’t been touched since the last bell went. I had never appreciated how much work went into making paper, this was a huge operation. I really enjoyed the areas that gave you a glimpse of the people that worked there such as offices, lockers, mess rooms and canteens.

• Full set of images in my Abandoned Paper Mill set on Flickr

Work by Abram Games fetches high prices these days, so it was nice surprise to find this affordable booklet in a second hand shop over the weekend. Roof Over Britain tells the official story of Britain’s Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942. It was published in 1943 while Corporal Games worked for the Public Relations Department of the War Office. Games is perhaps know best for the Festival of Britain emblem in 1951.

• Abram Games - Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means

Atlas Continental Candle Lamps

Part of Colour Week

Pano-Vue Slide of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus at Primeval World, Disneyland

Part of Colour Week

Penguin book covers

Part of Colour Week

‘The Junior True Book of Cloth’ first published 1960, reprinted 1969. By Esther Nighbert illustrations by Chauncey Maltman

Part of Colour Week