Millennium Falcon Guitar

What kind of guitar would Han Solo play a solo with? This Millennium Falcon Guitar, of course! Its maker, Travis S., told our pal Urlesque blog:

Tell us about the guitar’s construction.

I used a vintage Millennium Falcon toy / playset for the body. As it’s an electric guitar, the body material is relatively unimportant (in comparison to acoustic instruments) so i just had to concern myself with building the necessary structural elements of the instrument into the toy.

Since the aging plastic wouldn’t be able to withstand the tension of the strings, I pieced together a maple block running from end to end inside the ship. The bridge, neck, and strap pins connect to this piece; while attached firmly with some powerful glues the toy itself is almost entirely cosmetic.

The top of the toy has been routed out for the electronics, including some switch activated LEDs. Those required separate battery packs, which I made accessible using the structure of the toy; one pack is hidden in the original battery compartment while the other is attached to the ramp door that was designed to open.

Link, Via: Neatorama

Vintage national park posters

National Geographic has a gallery of vintage national park posters from the 1930s.

Created in the mid-1930s in response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration and its Federal Arts Project were focused in part on providing artwork for public buildings while assisting struggling artists. Artists were tasked with creating posters that promoted the landscapes and wildlife of America's parks. The program ended in 1943, and the largest collection of WPA-era prints--including the selection in this gallery--is now in the Library of Congress.
Photo gallery: Vintage U.S. Park Posters [National Geographic], Via: Boingboing

Vintage HAM Radios

Diana Eng tours the vintage HAM radios at the flea market at the Hamvention in Dayton, Ohio. LINK: Youtube

Vintage pocket watches shaped as a bike and a book

eBay oddity scout Michael-Anne Rauback spotted these curious "Victorian" brass mechanical pocket watches in the form of a bicycle and "Mr. Book." LINK: Boingboing

Vintage Tobacco Advertisements

Interesting, I forgot what some of these looked like. LINK

Antique Phonographs

Before the MP3, before the CD, before the cassette tape and before the 8-track, there was the almighty vinyl record. Thomas Edison essentially invented the phonograph, paving the way for music to be heard by Americans and people worldwide. Vinyl still stands as the most durable way to keep music around. While some of the phonographs and gramophones would eventually burn out trying to play a massive record collection, the vintage sound they give off brings back memories of times that were simple and fun. LINK

Steampunk - Vintage Watch Movement

Amazing steampunk pendant features several golden gears mounted on a vintage watch movement in a brass setting. A blue glass cab, resembling an all seeing eye is set into a watch part. A rustic brass tag urges you to ... believe

Necklace measures 18" long and would look fabulous with any outfit!

Simplywillow @ Etsy.com

Lovely Cowgirls in Vintage Westerns

When Ladies with Guns and Lots of Attitude Scorched the Screen... and Blessed Your Heart! LINK

Steampunk Filigree with Black Crystal

A beautiful victorian type filigree has been adorned by a black crystal set into a small ornate setting. A vintage watch movement dangles delicately from the filigree.


Necklace measures 17 1/2" long. LINK: Simplywillow

Inspiring Vintage Advertisements and Creative Directions

Vintage ads were always a method to inspire us and let us see how the old designers were thinking in. In this post, I will explore with you some of the amazing vintage ads along with the creative direction available with each one. LINK

Sinatra's First Vintage: 'Come Fly With Me' is a Cabernet Sauvignon...

Sinatra Family Estates:

Sinatra Family Estates is proud to announce the release of its first vintage, “Come Fly With Me,” a limited-production 2007 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (500 cases). The wine is being produced from a 5-acre vineyard site in Napa Valley. “We spent several years seeking out the right vineyard land for this project and are delighted with the quality of fruit it is producing,” said Sinatra Family Estates managing partner John Schwartz. The wine exhibits a deep ruby color with flavors of cedar, tobacco leaf, blueberry, and black currant, with beautiful tannins and a nice fleshy finish.

Each vintage of the Cabernet Sauvignon will pay tribute to the music and artistry of Frank Sinatra. The initial vintage celebrates the classic “Come Fly With Me,” recorded by Sinatra in 1957. The album of the same name became Sinatra’s first-ever #1 on the Billboard charts and was nominated in 1959 for an Album of the Year Grammy. The wine label is highlighted with a classic 45 rpm, embossed with the logo of Reprise Records, Frank Sinatra’s own record company founded in 1960. The fedora is in orange, Frank’s favorite color. LINK


LINK: Youtube

Vintage Oil Cans

Most likely the best collection of vintage oil cans that you'll see.

One example: Is made from dinosaurs, and has been mellowed for 100 million years. More examples at links.LINK, Via: Bad Banana Blog

Vintage and Retro Typography

. In this article, we go retro, finding beautiful examples of vintage typography and the modern work they’ve inspired. Looking back, it’s easy to see why some of this type has stood the test of time and is still lingering in the design community today. LINK

50 Beautiful Vintage Posters

You will see here several types of vintage posters, some ads, film posters, traveling publicity and so on. Hope you like them!! LINK

Click at the images to visit the source where we found them!

Vintage Beer Cans

Photo: Lance Wilson Via: Love Made Visible

Love beer? Here’s something for you: a neat collection of vintage beer cans by Lance Wilson and Dan Becker. According to TheDieline blog, the duo have over 2000 beer cans from the past 70 years or so, and have uploaded photos of a small fraction of them onto Flickr.

Link [Flickr Photoset], Via: Neatorama

Vintage Typewriter Ascii Art from 1948

Well, as a matter of fact this Ascii art drawing is older then the Internet itself, many of our most simple Gadgets and some of us as well, since these drawings have been crated in 1948. LINK

Vintage Japanese robot gallery

Wired's posted a photo gallery from the new show of vintage Japanese robots opening at the Sci Fi Museum in Seattle.

Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots for decades.

The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle will exhibit toys from Geismar's collection in Robots: A Designer's Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels through Oct. 26. The vintage robots on display reflect Geismar's trained eye. "I've really restricted myself to ones that appealed to me as interesting, imaginative designs," he says.

Link, Via: Boingboing

Vintage aviation hostess photos

Wired's got a strange and evocative slideshow of paleo-air-hostesses from the early days of commercial aviation online. Did they really fly long-haul in miniskirts and knee-high high-heeled boots? Christ, they must have been in agony. Link, Via: Boingboing

Vintage Ads of Fictional Futures

Mark Rayner of the Skwib blog and author of the novel "The Amadeus Net" (plot: turns out that Wolfgang Amaeus Mozart is immortal and has been making a living by selling "lost" works of Mozart!) has a fun photoshop contest: a vintage ad poster of a product from a fictional future!

Here are the top ten finalists: Link, Via: Neatorama

Vintage Microphones

A collection of vintage microphones. LINK