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San Francisco Artist’s Soapbox Derby 1975

This is so cool. I would love to see this happen again.

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Héléne Poirié: Images en Gommettes

This is a fantastic vintage sticker activity book I found on Flickr, scanned by Maptitefabrique.  There are so many other great books in the set “Livres d’enfants avant 1950” (Children’s books before 1950).  Here are many more vintage children’s books spanning different eras.  Be sure to check out this book & this book.

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vintage, projects, children, flickr, maptitefabrique, geometry, papercutting, thelooksee

vintage, projects, children, flickr, maptitefabrique, geometry, papercutting, thelooksee

vintage, projects, children, flickr, maptitefabrique, geometry, papercutting, thelooksee

vintage, projects, children, flickr, maptitefabrique, geometry, papercutting, thelooksee

Zachary Rossman: A Portrait of Stephen Hawking

Our friend Zachary has updated his site.
Also, thanks to Zach by way of Seth for this gem.

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Enormous Champion towels

I have a serious addiction to kitchen towels: floursack, huck, linen… you name it.  I usually only buy vintage ones, but I am in love with these two by Enormous Champion at Heath Ceramics.

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enormous champion, heath ceramics, towels, animals, thelooksee

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Labels

How sexy is this packaging that I came across today at the supermarket?

Etsy Vintage Picks: A Woven Tale

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1. Modern 412  2. Kitten Paws Vintage  3. Butterfly Vintage  4. Sukan  5. Nemres

Japanese Crabapple trees

These are a couple of photos I took forever ago with a Polaroid Land Camera and some vintage film on an outing to Descanso Gardens.  These photos got so thrashed from being up on my fridge for a few years (she said shamefully), but I still really like them.  I ended up parting with the camera because it was too expensive to put film in plus, the damn thing was impossible to focus and adjust.  But I did get a few interesting photos out of it.

New Looksee shop merchandise

I’ve just added a lot of new handmade and vintage jewelry to the shop as well as some other goodies.

*Just an update to let you know that I have had to increase the price of the triple triangle necklace due to the increase in the price of chain.  I am now also offering a single triangle necklace, at the old price of the triple triangle necklace.  The single is perfect for wearing with other necklaces… I can’t stop wearing the one I made for myself.

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I’ve posted some of Square America’s stereo photographs before, but they just put up some more amateur shots from around the Salt Lake City area circa 1940.   More can be seen on their blog.

Persistant Pyramids

Nice images from Anatoly Zenkov’s photostream.

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persistent pyramids, anatoly zenkov, photography, photos, nature, abstract, thelooksee

persistent pyramids, anatoly zenkov, photography, photos, nature, abstract, thelooksee

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