Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mastodon.radio is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Mastodon.Radio is a space for the Amateur (Ham) Radio community, anyone interested in Shortwave Listening (SWL), etc. Come join us and talk radio, technology, and more!

Administered by:

Server stats:

787
active users

mastodon.radio: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.5.0

#vintage

74 posts54 participants3 posts today
No Context Pictures

1980 Classic Polaroid Camera Advertisement from January 1980

The image is a vintage advertisement featuring two classic instant cameras, with the left camera labeled "The Genius" and the right one as "The Prodigy." The ad showcases these models which are part of the Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera series. Both designs incorporate distinctive yellowish lenses that were characteristic of their era.

Beneath each camera model is a brief description in all caps, emphasizing their unique features or concepts for instant photography—a concept revolutionary at the time.
The "Genius" has its lens on top while opened up and appears more compact compared to the "Prodigy," which seems larger with two lenses visible side by side.

nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/0

-camera -70 -camera -1980

The Vinyl Ape

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
Machina / The Machines Of God
2025 U.S. 2xLP reissue

This is the last GREAT Pumpkins album, & the last great gasp of the .
When it came out, everybody unjustly ignored it, and it failed miserably, despite it being a masterpiece.

Rock star goes crazy, believing God is speaking to him through music. But it’s also about the listener — how we project divinity onto people, then destroy them when they fail to be divine.

#vinyl#vinylrecords#art
Airplanista

I was just digging thru an old junk drawer and came across something I thought was long gone.

It is a vintage aviation chart dated 1947 for the Lewiston, Maine area. Super cool that it shows the radio range courses. That is some old school navigation right there.

#avgeeks#aviation#airplanes
The Kid Should See This

These color of taken between 1914-1918 use Autochrome Lumière , developed by the Lumière brothers in 1903 as one of the first commercial color processes.

The images capture Paris at a pivotal historical moment, transitioning from La Belle Époque to modernity, showing iconic like the , , and alongside ordinary street scenes including French soldiers awaiting deployment.

openculture.com/2025/11/beauti

Open CultureBeautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle ÉpoqueIt may well be that the major pivot points of history are only visible to those around the bend.
#history#wwi#vintage
*
The Vinyl Ape

BOB DYLAN
Time Out Of Mind
2023 Worldwide 2xLP reissue
Clear Gold vinyl

Hands down my favorite post-1980 Bob Dylan record, and MAYBE my favorite of his period.

I can’t stop coming back to this. Three or four times a year, front to back, without fail.
It’s so hauntingly beautiful and eerie, and I thank the moon and stars above that Daniel Lanois met Bob Dylan. He, more than anybody else, may be most responsible from saving Bob from the depths of his horrible 80s dregs.

The other I think was Bob’s intense focus on the lyrics, which (with the exception of Oh Mercy, Lanois’ other Dylan record) had gotten pretty dumb throughout the previous decade.

“Lovesick” is creepy and psychotic sounding (in the best possible way), “Not Dark Yet” and “Standing In The Doorway” are both heartbreakingly beautiful.

Not one bad or uninteresting moment to be found anywhere on this album. It’s pretty perfect.

#vinyl#vinylrecords#vinylcommunity
The Vinyl Ape

OVERWHELMING COLORFAST
Overwhelming Colorfast
2022 U.S. reissue
Ltd. Edition Clear With Yellow & Red Splatter vinyl

The FIRST Colorfast record, and a FAR superior and more professional reissue job than what was done for Two Words.

My love for both Overwhelming Colorfast records is eternal. Other than Nevermind, there was no album I listened to more in 1992 than this.

I have come to be friends with the Reed Brothers over the years, a fact that the 15 year old me would have never believed. I even got to play a show with drummer Dan Reed’s post-Colorfast band, and I had been up his ass for a long time about getting those first two released on vinyl.

This album is incredible. Big, fuzzy, melodic, crunchy guitar rock. Songs that impressed The Ramones enough to take them out on tour with them in the .

Alt-rock masterpiece.

#vinyl#vinylrecords#vinylcommunity
The Vinyl Ape

OVERWHELMING COLORFAST
Two Words
2023 U.S. 2xLP pressing
Special Edition #134 of 300

One of my favorite bands of the ; still under-appreciated and underrated today.

This long-overdue press of their incredible second album is littered with problems. It had never been pressed before, and my expectations were high.

It took a spin clean to get this to sound really good. BOTH records were beyond filthy and noisy as shit out of the package.

The packaging is an utter nightmare.
THREE (!) corrective sticker labels on the inside gatefold (misprint of ampersands instead of the word AND), as well as a far more egregious error: a corrective sticker over the SPINE, as the idiots at Beihai printed the album title as “Two Worlds” instead of what it’s actually called.
Just a total cluster fuck.
It looks like shit, but luckily, after spin cleaning it, it sounds good.

Still… pretty inexcusable QC.

#vinyl#vinylrecords#vinylcommunity
The Vinyl Ape

PEDRO THE LION
Havasu
2022 U.S. pressing
Transparent Peach vinyl

I’ve been a longtime admirer of David Bazan’s songwriting all these years. I got into Pedro The Lion very early, starting with Winners Never Quit, and becoming FULLY devoted with Control.

Although the personnel has changed drastically over the years, the quality of music hasn’t. His songwriting has only grown more interesting over the years, and Havasu is no exception.

These are the songs of a dude who’s been around, and seen it all. There’s a wisdom not just in his words, but you can actually hear it in his voice.

A very moody, but wonderful latter-day PTL album.

“First Drum Set” is classic Pedro The Lion, man.

#vinyl#vinylrecords#vinylcommunity
𝚛𝚊𝚝

"Scott talks with Stephen Jones of the new Interim Computing Museum, about the craft of bringing old computers back to life. From wire-wrapped boards to tape drives and terminals, this episode dives into why running the old systems — not just displaying them — matters for understanding how modern computing came to be."
youtube.com/watch?v=EFkxiLBSjT
Support, Visit, and Donate to the at icm.museum

YouTubeThe Past Still Boots with the Interim Computing Museum's Stephen JonesScott talks with Stephen Jones of the new Interim Computing Museum, about the craft of bringing old computers back to life. From wire-wrapped boards to tape ...
Live feeds
About