50 Watts is still going strong after almost 20 years. It describes itself accurately as "a growing archive of weird and wonderful visual ephemera from around the world."
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Mikkel Eye is an Architectural Designer who posts pictures of trees to his site, Meye.dk.
Mikkel explains: "All the trees are available as high quality PNG’s with transparent background. The trees are free to use for anyone who wants to add plantings to their visualizations, sections, and diagrams within the fields of landscape architecture, architecture, or urban planning. However, your project should be in focus. The trees of Meye are not to be used as free standing pictures or for advertisements."
Norway Maple // Windmill Palm // Scarlet Oak
You can filter by Species and Season. Niche-y, but for those in need: great resource well done.
After The Tone is an archive of found answering machine incoming messages.
Over three decades, Aadam Jacobs obsessively documented Chicago’s indie rock scene. Today, the future of his roughly 10,000 live recordings is unclear.
From WBEZ: Chicago's Hidden Indie Rock Archive by Monica Eng.
A Handyfoto — or mobile photo — captures mundane objects or situations as a photo or video. It is the unexpected synergy between two unharmonious elements. The Marco Land Handyfoto Foundation defines Handyfoto also as a way-of-seeing, a sacred practice: unplanned, observant, and attuned to life’s subtle humor and charm.
This will make more sense if you hop over to the Foundation's website and play with the filters.
The Nokia Design Archive is a graphic and interactive platform that allows you to explore behind-the-scenes design processes at Nokia.
The Public Domain Image Archive is exactly what you think it is.
Linotype.Wiki is exactly what you'd expect: info on typesetting machines. I love niche things like this.
I've been working on an essay about David Lynch's Mulholland Drive forever, it seems. Since it's still not done, I give you this instead.
David Lynch Presents Interview Project is a 20,000 mile road trip where 121 people were found at random and interviewed. Those interviews were edited into short films and showcased on David Lynch's website. When david took his site down the Interview Project material was also taken down. To commemorate the 15 year anniversary of the original launch of the series in 2009, the Interview Project Team has decided to re-release all 121 of the original episodes in hi definition here on YouTube.
100 45s for your enjoyment.
The collection is comprised of country and rock 'n' roll 45s from the '50s and '60s, along with a set of guitar-driven instrumentals from the same period.
