Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Unusual architecture in the Soviet Union
Frederic Chaubin is chief editor of the French magazine Citizen K, and also a photographer who has been attracted by strange architecture in the former Soviet Union. The photos he takes in countries like Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Georgia, reveal an extraordinary, almost sci-fi world. PingMag takes you to the world of Soviet style [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Strange Places by Marlow Harris
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Unusual Food Museums
New World of Coca Cola — Atlanta
Quench your thirst for information about a quintessential American beverage at the New World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta. This multisensory, multistory museum includes a 4-D theater (combining 3-D with graphic special effects) and a display of the world’s largest collection of Coke memorabilia, including an original Coca-Cola-themed Norman Rockwell [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Architects and Designers, Strange Places by Marlow Harris
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Photoset of weird houses
Weird Houses of Utah (most from Strange Cosmos).
No Comments » - Posted in Unusual Homes by Marlow Harris
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Art Museum
This museum consists mostly of toilet seat lids decorated by Barney Smith, a retired master plumber now in his eighties.
At last count, Smith had 645 toilet seats and lids in his garage at 239 Abiso Avenue in the San Antonio suburb of Alamo Heights (210Ã824Ã7791). Each item has a different theme. Some themes are more [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Fascinating People, Strange Places by Marlow Harris
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Weird LA houses
Weird Houses in LA link
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Ultimate Taxi
Since 1984, Jon Barnes has been carrying tourists through Aspen in the back of his 1978 yellow Checker cab. Now he’s carrying thousands more virtual visitors online. The vintage taxi is enough to stop traffic. But over the years, Barnes has been accumulating more and more cool stuff — electronic keyboards, drums, lasers, [...]
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller with models of the Standard of Living Package and Skybreak Dome. “[Fuller] believed that his task was to innovate in such a way as to benefit the greatest number of people using the least amount of resources,†Kolbert writes in The New Yorker. There is an exhibition about Fuller at the [...]
