Mysterious site steeped in 1920’s style
This page is a “jukebox” of randomly selected songs from the era.
Hundreds of classic Bossa, Balanco & Samba LPs from Brazil
LP cover art and mp3 downloads from the 60’s. Wonderful niche collector site.
Estonian TV ads from the 70’s and 80’s
Oh so corny, but wacky and fun to watch.
Museum of cardboard records
Also a few metal records. Some cardboard records come with their own paper “record player”!
Mid 90’s webdesign vernacular retrospective
Seeing those garish repeating backgrounds and “under construction” images brings back those earlyweb feelings.
Dial Comes to Town
Telephone education film from the 20’s (?) featuring a town hall meeting with oversized rotary dial. Plus, the title is great!
List of “obsolete” computer and electronics warehouses in the Bay Area
Turns out Weird Stuff Warehouse is just the beginning! Cheap 1 and 2 line lcds.
Kiddie Records - Site collecting and digitizing old 40’s and 50’s kids records
Sister site of basichip.com. Some classic big band / show band stuff. Nowadays it seems like kids media is overtly commercial. Shame.
Prototype of morse code input interface for the Danger Hiptop
(or possibly any phone if coded as a MIDlet) Hilarious, and yet awesome.
Kodak camera from the 1920’s
Photos taken with it of present day subjects still look pretty old! Neato.
Getting a ytalk server up and running on linux
Limit connections to localhost, use ssh to keep conversations private. Hey, at least it’s better than write.
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.