mold-a-mania

When I was a kid I desperately wanted one of those animals you could get out of a machine for $.50 at the zoo. I never got one, and clearly never got over it, even after ordering a set on-line a few years ago. Mold-a-rama machines gifted kids with an array of plastic figurines during the last several decades of the 20th century. They're not sophisticated toys by any stretch but they're bright and they're fun (and if you got one from a machine you saw them come to life). I stumbled upon Mold-a-Mania's site and discovered a really amazing collection that I'm currently coveting. Also be sure to check out the companion Flickr profile if you need to bookmark some favorites. And I might be crazy but I think some of these images would make great prints -- I'd buy them.

good medicine: seinfeld in color

Yes! I want more!

Via Kaja van Domburg

good medicine: cubicle refugee

Oh how I love some categorized color. For some reason I've been needing a good dose of green too; I've had a hankering to visit a lush forrest in a far away mountain terrain. Until a plane ticket magically lands in my lap this site will be my back-up, for that and every other color from a rainbow.

Follow the link to check out Cubicle Refugee.

reel to reel

How great is this small sampling of old ads and catalogs?! There is unbelievably sizable archive of tons more that Phantom Productions have on their website. It might take some fishing but I guarantee you will find some equal, if not better, relics if you poke around a bit. Some of the ones I like can be seen by following the link below.

immortals

Whoa and I thought I liked cataloging things. Valerie Hallier has created an installation using photos of everything she has owned in the last 10 years, intended to highlight our relationship with objects and consumerism. Visually it's of course very interesting, but more so once you consider the bigger picture. You can read more about it on her site.


[ via Picame ]

we shall become one

I can't tell you how much I want this book. The Onion is great. Lists are CLEARLY great. Categorizing things makes me tingle. Pop Culture, yes please. John Hodgman is aces. AND "24 Stupid Inventions For Lazy Americans".

Naturally I feel like was made for me. I know this is premature, but I'm going to go ahead and make a not-too-subtle Christmas list wish. This is me willing it to be so. Available here.

sleevage

The other day I wrote about a site that featured various album sleeve artwork. Sleevage is another website that catalogs such artwork, however in a slightly different vein, covering a broader range of artists and time periods as well as offering comprehensive search tools, like "musician", "album", "artist", "label", "genre" and "era". They also provide commentary, not only on the cover (which sometimes includes interviews with the artist), but also the musicians (tangentially with the artist's themes in mind and sometimes as an educational aside), truly providing a solid and thoughtful overview inside and out . This is a great database that only appears to being growing and growing by the day.

music to my eyes

What a fantastic and never ending collection that illustrator Kavel Rafferty has put together! Record Envelope: the Little Library of Factory Sleeves offers a ton of artwork and design goodies.

cover catalog

(image provided by Blue Lines)

If you are a lover of old book covers like I am then you should check out the website Book Scans.