Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.
Texas is hugely intriguing to me. The state is such a diverse and unique place with a distinctly American personality. My recent fixation with No Country for Old Men got me searching for old hotel signs on Flickr which ultimately lead me to this terrific photoset of old Fort Worth signs.
Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.
Living in New York City we are blessed with the privilege of rail travel. While Metro North is not nearly as aesthetically pleasing as the old timey trains pictured below, it still creates a connection to an older time. The typographic elements exemplified on these trains are easily recognizable, but still new and fresh. The disappearance of this type of great American design is what leads patriotic gentlemen like Aaron Draplin to declare “America fucked“…at least from a design perspective.
Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.
Since I have the day off from work, I took the opportunity to ride my bike over to Brooklyn this morning. And since I had the time on my hands I rode around sort of exploring places I hadn’t been in a while. At one point I ended up amongst the expansive iron and brick warehouses of blue collar Red Hook. I really love all of those old buildings and decided they would make for an enjoyable FF.
Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.
Get your mind out of the gutter. You thought the sleeveface pictures were cool, behold the Money Shot pool. Genius pictures of folded bills and partial heads. Full set of images can be found here.
Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.
I fell in love with the Kodak Kodachrome only a short time ago thanks to Shorpy. I recently made a huge camera acquisition but nothing about modern digital photography can replace the color and the richness of a Kodachrome. Paul Simon said it best..
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the worlds a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away
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Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.
Long revered for his enduring style, JFK is the focus of this week’s Flickr Find. All images are public domain from the National Archives.
Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.
Found on Otis & Carla’s Flickr are beautiful old photographs of American Motel & Liquor store signs, mostly from Texas. The images sort of remind me of this. More old Americana can be seen here.
Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.
I stumbled across this photo set of Ephemera from the guys at We Made This. Lots of good old type and texture. The full set of images can be seen here.
Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.
Gadgets, knobs, meters, gauges and other sets of controls. This week’s Flickr find is a photo pool of cool looking control panels. Some of my favorites are below. The full group can be found here.
Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. -Ernest Hemingway
At some point my obsession with Ernest Hemingway led to a love and appreciation of typewriters. Nothing is more pure then a typed letter on a manual type writer. I’m sure this fascination with type runs parallel to my affinity of natural, non-plastic materials. The Writing Machines group on Flickr has an interesting archive of different makes and models of manual typewriters. Some of my favorites are pictured below.
