I could spend hours browsing through the John Jenkins SparkMuseum's incredible collection of antique radio and scientific apparatus. Vintage electronics seem so much more aesthetically pleasing to me than the bland design of modern gadgets like the ubiquitous iPod.

[Link: SparkMuseum][via Plep]

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Mildred's House of Signage: a cornucopia of Chicago-area storefront advertising categorized by Lovely Fonts, Bad Spelling, Good Names, and Just Chickens.

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Markus Rothkranz is an artist/filmaker who's shopping around a very cool television concept called Atomic City, a show set in the mythical town of Lost Vegas that contains just about every imaginable retro-fetish from the '50s and '60s including googie architecture, space-age bachelor pads, pin-up girls, spy movies, UFO-ology, kustom-kar kulture, and tiki. The show is also awash in celebrity impersonators like Tom Jones lookalike Harmik, and the show's star, Matt Lewis, who passes himself off nightly as Elvis at the Imperial Palace Casino in the real Las Vegas. I sure hope Markus finds some financial backing, 'cuz I definitely want to watch this show.

Check out the official Atomic City webpage for more images and a sample video clip.

[Link: Atomic City]

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