Deserted Chernobyl. // The mummified Lenin. // 11-foot tapestry made entirely of spider silk. // Carl Sagan sings. (h/t, EQ-aliser) // A gallery of cork-lined soda caps. (h/t, Quipsologies) // Solid Potato Salad. // Promote yourself with tongue depressors. // A pretty impressive bookstore. // Banknotes. // The Blob (1958). // Project BLT. (h/t, Mr Eugenides) // Lichtzeichnungen. // The museum of DOS. (h/t, Coudal) // Remember Omni magazine? // The Prisoner returns. // How intermissions were. // Soundsculpture. // Made of wood. // Mechanical tumour feels your computer’s pain. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Club Honolulu. 

Currently doing the rounds: Movie Poster Mashups… 

They’re not all good – and not all in good taste – but I quite like the reworkings of Hairspray, Finding Nemo and The Deer Hunter. 

Synaesthesia. // Star Wars in concert. // Bird music. // Hubcap creatures. (h/t, Drawn!) // Six months of London Bridge. // Illegal drug branding. // Meanwhile, at Berkeley… // The pop-up office. // Sci-fi architecture behind the Iron Curtain. // A timeline of sci-fi inventions, 1634 – 2003. // More handsome treehouses. // A treetop zeppelin hotel. // The delights of gang culture. // Vintage European geishas. (h/t, Coudal) // The Soviet Digital Electronics Museum. // The Archive. // And, via Metrolander, it’s the tonal idiosyncrasies of Mr Dusty Roads Rowe. 

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.