Dust storm, Sydney, September 23rd.

You’ll be pleased to hear that Misty Keasler, quoted above, has published a book of her photographs, Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan. Among her subjects is the Hotel Adonis, Osaka, which offers patrons a Naughty Nurse Play Area and a Hello Kitty S&M Room.

Ms Keasler is interviewed here. Via Coudal.

A tempting menu of available bachelors, as displayed on Video Mate, circa 1983.

I know, it’s a tough call. Is it toxic waste guy? Data processing guy? Or maybe Fred has the edge, what with the Viking outfit. Via Protein Wisdom.

Tomorrow’s World revisited, 1965-2003. // Sci-fi corridors of note. (h/t, Anthony) // Chlorophyll drops and night vision. // Crack bitch arachnid. // Magic lanterns and phenakistiscopes. // Man walks across China, beard growth ensues. // Beethoven’s Fifth, visualised. // Various periodic tables. // Vintage porn logos. // Little people. // A search engine for Muslims. // The Sheffield Museum of Anaesthesia. (h/t, Coudal) // An electric unicycle. // The Dyson tricycle. // The cardboard tube fighting league is not to be trifled with. // Stereogram Tetris will slowly drive you mad. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mephistopheles.

High-resolution images of the lunar surface, as seen from Earth. Or, more precisely, from a back garden in Oxford.

Above: The Plato impact crater, photographed by Nick Smith, February 15, 2008. Diameter 109 km, depth 1.0 km. Via Things.

Armadillo-cam. // At last, ultra-Velcro. // Death Ray from Space and other five-second films. (h/t, Coudal) // Mouse versus magnetism. // The Mannahatta Project. // Hong Kong, then and now. // IKEA Heights. Soap and furnishings. // Perforated housing. // “Furnished apartment,” Moscow. $900 a month. // The two Mongolias. // Assorted hypnotist posters. (h/t, Mick) // 100 years of special effects. // Skimming Triton. // How many people are in space right now? // Record collections of note. // Paperclip chandeliers. // Imitating art. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Ms Dionne Warwick. 

Some ingenious tilting by Romain Laurent.

This is sweet. The story of Galco’s Soda Pop Stop, Los Angeles.

I think I’ll skip the Sweet Blossom Rose Petal Soda and the Plantation Style Mint Julep, and the Cucumber Soda doesn’t really appeal beyond its curiosity. Though I am quite tempted by Bundaberg’s Ginger Beer. If you’re intrigued, visit Galco’s online store. 

Via Coudal. 

And we’re back, just about. While I get my bearings, here are two items featuring enhanced human anatomy.

First up is Japanese television’s Dogoo Girl with her deadly décolletage.

The booze death calculator. // Bomb shelters of note. // Pig candy, bacon buttercrunch and maple bacon lollipops. (h/t. Mr Eugenides) // Carnivorous vegetation. // Sex and magnetic resonance. // Moscow’s sewage system. // Splashes and sound waves. // The evils of pan and scan. (h/t, Coudal) // Make your own Green Lantern power ring. // How Scientology looks to people who aren’t unhinged. (h/t, Dan) // The amazing Spider-Camel. It could happen, people. // A chart of time travel in film and TV. // Flying machines. // When flying machines stop flying. // And, via The Thin man, it’s the return of Ms Liz Brady.