Dispatches from Vault 23



Post apocalyptic, rockabilly, ephemera, miscellany, eclectica, curio, journal, diary, notes, scrapbook, etc.



10.1.08

Gone with the Blastwave

Fairly entertaining, disturbed, gallows humor, post-apocalyptic/red-vs-blue comic.
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Gone with the Blastwave

9.1.08

Quicksilver

While I customize considerably larger machines, like my modified, custom, rat-rodded '63 Fairlane, I thought there might be some lessons here I can apply.

"Quicksilver" Retro-Future Scooter from appliances and scrap metal

Read Polish?


Outpost

Brass Goggles


Brass Goggles
The lighter side of Steampunk

Andrew Severynko


Andrew Severynko
Contemporary sculpture artist

7.1.08

Body Hacking - Exercise

exrx.net

Excellent exercise instruction site and it's free. No hard sell of supplements and the rest of the bullshit. Clear instructions, detailed programs, theory behind the exercises. Created by sports medicine folks.

Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea

Those that have followed me down the rabbit hole may remember that I had mentioned this documentary narrated by John Waters before. I still haven't had a chance to see it, but I really like the idea and I hope some day to visit the Salton Sea.



Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea

6.1.08

Survival in the Wasteland - Dog (Cat) Food


Will eating pet food kill me?
The answer at LiveScience.com

From the article I also learned that a good deal of fire retardant is made of piss. (Actually urea can be synthesized, which is not quite as humorous.)

Survival in the Wasteland - General

You wake up late because the radio does not come on. Outside there is only the sound of the wind, and of the birds in the trees. The roar of jumbo jets coming into land is absent.

And, most shockingly, so is the everpresent rumble of traffic. As the day wears on, the full, horrible, bizarre truth dawns: you are completely, utterly alone.
Article inspired by the recent release of "I am Legend."
What would really happen if you were the last person on Earth?

5.1.08

Joe Strummer - London Calling (BBC World Service)


"Mid 1960s and in the heat of an African night a teenage boy fiddles with the dial on his father’s short-wave radio in a desperate bid to find the sound of home. Through the crackle of reception he picks up the UK chart run down and is amazed that even in the middle of the night, in the middle of Africa he is receiving radio form Britain. This was Joe Strummer’s introduction to BBC World Service radio. He had been visiting his father who was working in Malawi and as he recalls:‘It was fantastic to be undeniably receiving radio from Britain. Ever since then I've always wanted to spin records on the World Service’"

Playlists and links to the archived shows here.

Stormy weather


PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Members of a Czech art group who hacked into television broadcasting with images of a hoax nuclear explosion were charged and will have to stand trial, a state prosecutor said Thursday...

...In December, the project was awarded the NG 333 prize for young artists by Prague's National Gallery together with a cash prize of 333,000 koruna (US$18,350). (Article)

4.1.08

Local Boys


Dropkicks

Post Apocalyptic Rockabilly

3.1.08

Spiced Ham

As long as the SPAM holds out, you won't have to go after the slow and sick ones.

SPAM

Abandoned But Not Forgotten

"ABANDONED, HISTORICAL and UNUSUAL locations throughout various states and countries."
Link

BackyardMetalcasting.com

BackyardMetalcasting.com
...Melting and casting metal yourself.

2.1.08

Lady Wasteland

Good stuff
This is the adventure of Lady Wasteland. A story rooted in the misfortune of individuals left to scour a vast wasteland in search of their own private destiny. Each character: a fragment, a survivor, a wanderer. In a god-forsaken landscape after the collapse of civilized society, we find a generation left for dead, fueled by revenge, apathy, absurdity, and the need to find a piece of food.




Lady Wasteland Homepage

The "Tiny Tim" Welder

A homemade micro welder from junk around the house.
(Link)