Thursday, December 30, 2010

Blackbird

11:00am, December 20 2010 at 57a. Click images for higher resolution.



Blackbird, from the album A Tribute to The Beatles - 1967-1970, at Amazon

Monday, December 06, 2010

The Battle of the Valve Jobs

Not really a battle. It's just cool that somewhere there are people making old-style valve radios.

This is a beautifully restored Telefunken Opus 7 circa 1956...

And this is a brand new R801 by Shenzhen V. A. L. Technology in China...


Here's what it looks like on the inside...


The R801 has 7 valves and costs about $848. It's pretty big, too. 54cm x 33cm x 25 cm.

More info at http://www.audio01.com/eng/productClassical.htm and http://www.questforsound.com/tuners/tuners_R801.htm.

Via Retro Thing.

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Metropolis II

This is just like the Hot Wheels tracks we used to build as kids. But, we had a few less cars. And I don't think our tracks were quite as long.


Via RetroThing.com