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The rusted carriage of a Gabriele 2000 typewriter, hanging from the draw straps nailed to a heavily graffitied brick wall.

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A variety of molded ceramic case wall clocks from various German manufacturers of the 60s and 70s. Movements are all quartz. Manufacturers represented are Junghans, Esme, WLH, and Garant. Each has its own color, texture, shape, and glaze variations. Green, brown, orange, and red are dominant in the palette. Blue embossed Dymo plastic labels on the glass covers indicate the time zone each is set to.

I love these kitschy ceramic clocks that are ubiquitous in Germany so I decided to make a world clock wall out of them for my office.

A glorious free pile haul of a seafoam green office trolley with chrome accents, and a pair of stackable Castelli DSC 106 chairs upholstered in dark brown.

Found some great stuff 'zu verschenken' today. Neat little office trolley thing with no identifying marks on it, and a pair of minty Castelli DSC chairs. I had one I'd reupholstered back in Portland, and they're both cool looking and impressively comfy... Kinda missed it, happy to have one again.

Just had to renew my US passport by mail and it was surprisingly easy. Fill out a form, pay a fee online, mail form & old book to the consulate in Frankfurt, and wait... My new passport arrived exactly two weeks later to my door. Took over twice as long last time I did it back in the US.

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We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.

A manual page showing instructions for the use of a televisions Teletext functions, and details about a SECAM transcoder add on card.

I'm sure it's unobtainium now but apparently there was a SECAM transcoder add on available. For if you wanted to watch programs from the DDR, say.

A Loewe portable television set displaying the title screen of the SNES port of Ms Pac Man, in glorious color!

Also discovered this has been a color set all along. I thought it was too old but whoever had it before me had just set chroma all the way down, and since it's something you can only adjust with the remote I hadn't noticed yet.

A Loewe black and white television showing playback of a 3D art and music compilation titled X-MIX-3 published by STUD!O K7 of Berlin.

A photo of the track list and back cover text of X-MIX-3. Most of it is from before I was aware of this stuff back when it was new, but I recognize some of the labels.

Testing out an assortment of tech junk. VHS player was sitting on the curb when I was out walking the dog... Appears someone didn't know how to replace the fused power cord. It was missing some case screws but the only thing wrong with it was the cut off power cord.

A sticker on the edge of a billboard frame, of a Yu-Gi-Oh trap card featuring a delicious looking glass of beer. Its title is 'Lecker Bierchen' and its description text is 'lecker schmecker'. To the left of the sticker the text 'ACAB' is written in vertical block letters with white paint market.

That damn trap card always gets me... Lecker schmecker!

A snail wedged in the crevice between a yard gate and its frame.

Spotted a snail trying to stay cool, or maybe just safe from the birds.

A sticker on a gutter downpipe attached to a brick wall. It portrays a young person with a stack of stickers in their pocket beckoning toward the viewer to follow them. Text around the border reads "Komm, wir geh'n kleben".

Ich gehe gerne mit!

#kleben #slaptag #stickerart

2010s wood-framed detached house we lived in back in the US had double-pane windows. Got hot as hell in the summer. Caught all kinds of noise from the commercial street a block over, and the freight rail line 3/4 a mile removed. Felt traffic from both of those, too.

Can confirm. Currently enjoying triple-glazed windows in a 2020s German building, pre-cast concrete construction. With the place buttoned up you hear nothing despite being able to see a major rail corridor outside. Thermal performance is great too. Roller shutters as standard are another advantage.

A piece of scrap metal with 'DB' written in it in fluorescent orange spray paint, with an arrow indicating right. It is tied with wire to a metal cage wall full of rough stones. Some climbing plants are beginning to grow up the cage grid. The concrete support for the cage wall shows little weathering, but the edge of a spray painted tag in black is visible.

Bahnpfeil

There are definitely people doing refurb and reselling, and the stuff does move. Internet hype and the price inflation that comes with it just doesn't seem to have hit a lot of the brands here like it did for similar tier American gear.

It's kind of a rare release, if it had been salvageable I'd have kept it :P

Year printed on the label was 1991.

A copy of this tape spooled out on a bike lane in the sun: https://www.discogs.com/release/28162864-Oceán-Pyramida-Snů

Some Czech synth-pop in the bike lane.

Loved the article! This is the example that I always remember... 'NO FOOD OR DRINK' signs on Brunswick AS-80 and AS-90 bowling scoring consoles from the 1970s/1980s. Not sure if the signs were a factory thing or just a common addition (they also cover a paper printout slot that was rarely enabled).

An Osram 41900 halogen reflector that has been drilled out to allow an LED replacement bulb to be slotted into it.

An Osram 41601 Minispot lamp in black. An LED replacement bulb has been fitted.

I've gone to a lot of effort to retrofit LED replacements for these Osram 41900 bulbs with integrated reflectors... Wish I'd realized earlier that the reflector is just metallized plastic. Can just pop the halogen bulb out and drill the reflector to fit whatever LED bulb you have lying around.

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A scarf with a design showing the Portland, Oregon downtown skyline with the Tilikum Crossing bridge in foreground.

A scarf with Portland Timbers text on it. At the ends are designs showing transit vehicles crossing the Tilikum Crossing bridge over the Willamette River.

Finally got my hands on one of these. Portland Timbers scarf design that commemorates the opening of the Tilikum Crossing bridge and Trimet MAX Orange Line, from back in 2015.

A beautiful fluffy cat, as voluminous as she is deadly.

I gently brushed Marci's ear with the back of my hand and lived to tell the tale. Always love seeing the resident cat holding court in my favorite Portland vintage shop, Really Good Stuff.

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A pair of mid-1970s Heco P3302 speakers on a shelf. A salt lamp sits between them, glowing orange. A flip-digit clock, ceramic maneki neko, and stereo receiver sit on the shelf below.

The number plate for a Heco P 3302 SL speaker. It indicates an impedence of 4 ohms, 45 watt constant power handling capacity, 70 watt peak power handling capacity, and that the device was manufactured in the Federal Republic of Germany. The serial number, rather than being printed, is shown by dots punched out of the label to form numerals. A DIN plug connects the speaker to an amplifier.

A red 'Heco' logo faux wax seal, impressed in some kind of plastic. It is applied to the back of a wood speaker cabinet, with rounded corner edges formed from separate pieces with a visible seam.

Still can't believe the deals on vintage audio gear one finds here in Germany. This very handsome pair of mid-1970s Heco speakers was just a hair over €50 shipped. They sold for around 450DM for a pair when new... About half an average earner's monthly income back then. They certainly sound like it.

For those who haven’t seen this MASTERPIECE in person yet, it is meant to be viewed from 3 angles:

From below: map of CTA network
From side: picture of bus
From front: picture of train

A pair of round pins advertising Space Invaders (1979/1980) and Bally Elvira and the Party Monsters pinball (1989).

Some true vintage arcade advertising pins I found on eBay, arrived from France of all places today. Hype material for the all timer classic video arcade game Space Invaders, probably the Midway version (1980), and Bally's Elvira and the Party Monsters pinball machine (1989).

The hardest working font in Manhattan A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

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