Postmodern Jukebox ft. Sarah Marie Young

The blog WebUrbanist is reporting that annually in Japan, Volkswagen makes a special toaster that looks like one of their vintage Type 2 buses and, while not available in stores, is “offered by VW dealers in Japan each year to the first 5,000 customers who bring their car in for an inspection.” Not only is the toaster’s exterior super cool but it also imprints the VW logo onto the the toasting bread.

As Bob Dylan famously once sang 'The times they are a-changin'... That's certainly true when you glance back on the fashions of yesteryear.

80's rap always makes training videos interesting to watch.

Los Angeles-based artist Fernando Reza created a new set of seven wonderful Super Mario Bros. themed World War II propaganda posters. Each poster is available to purchase online. Previously, we wrote about Fernando’s original series of Super Mario Bros. propaganda posters.

Despite the climb in digital music downloads, consumers are getting back to vinyl. More than 4.6 million records were sold in 2012, a 17.7% increase from 2011.

It became immediately evident as soon as I pulled out of the dealership that the newest Tesla was radically different from every other electron-powered vehicle that has been made to date.

Since its inception in the 1850s, we have always been fascinated with lighter-than-air flight or balloons with steering and propulsion capabilities. Like many early flight and other aeronautical experiments, however, the trial-and-error period was hazardous and lasted awhile.

Model maker/collector and photographer Michael Paul Smith is a master at recreating incredibly accurate outdoor scenes using his extensive die-cast model..

Printing your photos these days is far easier, with apps like PostalPix, which lets you get photo prints delivered to your doorstep using nothing more than your smartphone. If you want your photos to look just like these great examples from the National Media Museum, all it takes is a mobile app or two to reproduce the vintage look.

The up-and-coming starlets in these photos from the 1930s and '40s aren't afraid to show a little leg as they get into the spooky spirit. They often pose with large Halloween props, like German composition jack-o-lanterns and American pulp paper jack-o-lanterns.

Whether by choice or design, the following collection of vintage adverts from The Advertising Archives come complete with numerous demonic looking children plastered all over them.

"The other day, I posted this image to show off my new MacBook Pro's multiscreen prowess. Nobody cared. But I did get a few comments on my keyboard. Which got me thinking: why do I use a keyboard that's old enough to be of legal drinking age?"

Even though you might deny it, it won't change the fact that you live in a world created by marketers. Advertising is a powerful force that has shaped our attitudes and behavior since the beginning of the 20th century when it got into radio, and the late 1940s when it got into television. With ...

Los Angeles in 1913 had a population of 465,000, and boasted of over 600 miles of graded and graveled streets, of its position as the commercial capital of southern California, and of its spacious homes. The following photographs are from Frank W. Staley’s Views of Los Angeles.

Like many others I find myself captivated with vintage advertising.  There have been numerous articles, blog posts and websites dedicated to the subject and I

Air travel did have a Golden Age. There was more space, classier interiors and bolder designs. You don't even have to go back to the 50s and 60s to see that. Here are some of the actual cabin interiors for the Boeing 747s in the 1970s. They are awesome.

Syd Mead's Land Yacht was commissioned by Playboy Magazine as the ultimate go-anywhere, do-anyone ride in an alternate Blade Runner-meets-Ladies Man future. Despite the 70's look, its predictions of modern driving technology are surprisingly accurate.

More than a quarter century ago, Universal released a revolutionary arcade game called Space Panic in which players had to navigate platforms, climb ladders and avoid moving obstacles in order to progress. By most accounts, Space Panic was the first of what would become the "platformer" genre.

High bids approach a record $100,000 price, but there's reason for skepticism.

These retro camera ads are classically hilarious.

A 40-foot sink hole at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green swallowed eight of the sports cars on display inside the the facility's iconic Sky Dome Wednesday morning, said executive director Wendell Strode.

ere’s a moment in your typical advertising brainstorm when the people charged with wrestling the creative elements to the ground cry uncle, settling on a clumsy compromise for the sake of getting on with the really important business—billing their clients. Or so these advertisements fronted by some rather improbable pitchmen and women would suggest. Is a clown really going to convince us to buy tires for our cars? Did anyone ever believe Bill Gates bought his computers at Radio Shack?

5 photographers posing together for a photograph on the roof of Marceau's Studio, NY in 1920.

Former secretary of state General Colin Powell posted a self-portrait taken 60 years ago when he was in his teens."I was doing selfies 60 years before you Facebook folks. Eat your heart out Ellen!" claims Powell on his Facebook account.

The Vega was designed for vertical shipment, nose down. General Motors and Southern Pacific designed "Vert-A-Pac" autorack cars to hold 30 Vegas each, compared with conventional tri-level autoracks which held 18. The Vega was fitted with four removable cast-steel sockets on the underside and had plastic spacers—removed at unloading—to protect engine and transmission mounts. The rail car ramp/doors were opened and closed via forklift.

In 1967, a plumber doing renovations of an apartment building outside Chicago tore down a brick wall and found what would prove to be a baffling mystery to vintage motorcycle enthusiasts - a one-of-a-kind motorcycle bearing 1917 plates and the name "Traub". The building’s elderly owner admitted that his son had stolen the bike before going off to WWI, never to return. But where the bike came from and who made it remains a unknown to this day

It’s been a while since I haven't seen people who have door knobs in their homes or apartments. To be honest, I really like them and since I was a child I

Led Zeppelin are to be sued by Spirit bassist Mark Andes over iconic track Stairway To Heaven's similarity to a piece released by his band three years earlier.

We are an obsessed culture, and there are few things we tend to fixate on more than finding love. Over 41 million people in the United States have attempted to find a partner through online dating — a billion-dollar industry that banks on our desire for a connection. But services like OkCupid, Tinder, and Match.com weren’t the first computer-based dating platforms — or the first matchmakers.

Lomo'Instant is an instant camera by Lomography featuring a built-in wide-angle lens with a fisheye lens and a portrait lens both available as attachments. The camera can take multiple exposures, long exposures, and can use color gels to infuse photos with color.

The Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona is one of the biggest auto sales events of the entire year. For the last decade, it's been about what one man, Ron Pratte, would buy. But in 2015 he's selling every single car he owns at that auction, including a GM Futurliner. And he hasn't given a reason.

10 of the Best Vintage Motorcycle Models Ever Made...#8 blew me away!

In 1901, Fancy Cycling, an extraordinary book by Isabel Marks, was published, showing straight-faced paragons of Edwardian society pulling off some pretty daring (and peculiar) stunts. The original 1901 book which was one of the first to promote daring tricks for weird and wonderful acrobatics on two wheels, such as handle bar riding, riding backward and standing on the seat riding, hands off!

Discover the city of love through a legendary camera, the Pentax 67.