Six minutes of letterpress

Brief documentary by filmmaker Chuck Kraemer about John Kristensen and Firefly Press in Someset, MA. Shot and paced like a classic CBS Sunday Morning segment. And I mean that in all the best ways.

Link, via Jessica Bigarel

The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks

This site just keeps getting funnier every time I visit it.

I wish I could say I discovered it, but I have to give credit to Chris for showing me. He kindly refrained from posting it here, reserving it for my triumphant return to Blognabbit.

Faded Building Advertisements

A treasure trove of photos cataloguing the ghosts of advertisements past from the sides of buildings in and around New York City.


From Forgotten NY, a site dedicated to the lost and decaying.

Frameable Fruit Crate Label Art

Box of Apples offers a gazillion high-quality fine art prints of vintage crate labels.



Wow. One more reason to build that addition to the house.

The Condiment Packet Museum

An online gallery of condiment packets.

Ketchups, sure.

But also soy sauces, salt & peppers, jams, and even extra virgin olive oil (under Misc 1).

Audio Cassette Nostalgia

Images of cassette tapes.
That's pretty much what you'll find at tapedeck.org

This. site. is. awesome.

Visual Treat: Vintage French Ephemera

A blog collection of vintage printed materials from France. Movie posters, textbook pages, trading cards, other random objet.

Yum.