A set of German retrofuturist predictions from 1900s. I find this rail-ship utterly mesmerizing. Neato

This piece of retro advertising is almost perfect (-ly wrong) on so many levels. And I love the texts — “For responsible work” / “Porto Cigarettes — the base of your decision”. It only lacks one thing: booze. Pedro Quintas

Roomba robots’ light trails. Here’s a Flickr photoset. New Aesthetic

Soviets in space! Here’s an interesting set of USSR space propaganda posters. Politics aside, I always thought the Russian space program rocked. Just look at how the Soyuz spaceship is now the only reliable vehicle for taking cosmonauts to orbit, now that the Space Shuttle has been decomissioned. Or consider that the Soviets managed to land a probe in Hell (meaning, of course, planet Venus) and send back some pictures. Trivium

Today’s xkcd is spot on.

Paysages d’Italie, by Thibaut Cuisset VVORK.

Here in Portugal, we also get these a lot.

Daniel Bejar’s The Visual Topography of a Generation Gap shows what happens when you copy a house key many times over.

New York storefronts.

Taking measures, by Ignasi Aballí. VVORK

David Welch’s Material World.