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Flickr Find | Disassembled Household Appliances

Aug 19th, 2008 | Categories: Art, Flickr Find | by Michael Williams

Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.

While a student at the Hartford Art School, Brittny Badger wanted to show everyday household appliances from an otherwise unseen perspective. She set to work meticulously disassembled each piece and “arranged their interior parts very systematically on a white sheet of Bristol board” to expose the appliance’s “brains.” The arrangements and subsequent photographs give a completely unique look at something regularly ignored. The resulting images are stunning, futuristic and would be the perfect kitchen decor.

Dust Buster





Flickr Find | Fort Worth Signs

Aug 7th, 2008 | Categories: Flickr Find | by Michael Williams

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 | Typography of Transportation

Jul 30th, 2008 | Categories: Design, Flickr Find | by Michael Williams

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 | Red Hook, Brooklyn

Jul 3rd, 2008 | Categories: Flickr Find | by Michael Williams

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 | Money Shot

Jun 18th, 2008 | Categories: Flickr Find | by Michael Williams

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 | Kodachrome

May 28th, 2008 | Categories: Flickr Find | by Michael Williams

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 | JFK

May 13th, 2008 | Categories: Flickr Find, Preppy, Style | by Michael Williams

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 | Old Signs

May 6th, 2008 | Categories: Flickr Find | by Michael Williams

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.

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Flickr Find | Ampersand

Apr 29th, 2008 | Categories: Flickr Find, Style | by Michael Williams

Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.

Is there a better character than the Ampersand? The elegant symbol is my Flickr obsession for the week. The complete set of images can be found here.





Flickr Find | Ephemera

Apr 22nd, 2008 | Categories: Flickr Find, Style | by Michael Williams

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 | Control Panel

Apr 8th, 2008 | Categories: Flickr Find | by Michael Williams

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 | Credit Card Statements

Apr 2nd, 2008 | Categories: Flickr Find | by Michael Williams

Flickr Find is a weekly column of interesting things found on the amazing and inspiring photo sharing website Flickr.

Blogger and illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt decided to draw her credit card statements until she was debt free. The full set can be found here.

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