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Archives / June 2023

The Reclusive Peeping Tom Photographer and his Cardboard Camera

Charming eccentric or tolerated local boogyman? The townspeople of Kyjov in Czech Republic could never quite decide. Miroslav Tichý took nearly a hundred photographs a day with his homemade camera, wandering around the streets of his hometown, often spotted at bus stops, the main square, the park and the swimming pool, although he was frequently arrested…

5 Medieval-style ‘Game of Thrones’ Restaurants in Europe

Fan of the show or not, I thought you might enjoy some of my picks for a medieval style feast in Europe… 1. The Medieval Taverns of Prague Prague is pretty much your go-to European city for medieval-style taverns. The dining room pictured above is literally called Medieval Tavern, located in the heart of the…

The Guy Who Digs up Lost Cities Buried at Sea

For the last thirteen years, he’s been busy digging up a lost underwater civilization the size of Paris off the coast of Egypt. The remarkably well-preserved ruins that were discovered have been sitting at the bottom of the Mediterranean sea for the past 1,200 years, at long last solving the mystery of the lost city of…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. XXIV)

1. Weird Weather Not a sideways twister but a roll cloud. These rare long clouds may form near advancing cold fronts. In particular, a downdraft from an advancing storm front can cause moist warm air to rise, cool below its dew point, and so form a cloud. When this happens uniformly along an extended front, a roll cloud may form. Roll…

Reviving the Abandoned ‘Life of Pi’ Art Deco Pool in Paris

If you ever got around to watching Life of Pi you might recall the hero of the film, a young Indian boy living in French colonial India, was ironically named ‘Piscine Molitor Patel’, after a historic 1920s Art Deco swimming pool (piscine) right here in Paris … At the start of the film, our lead character “Pi”, short…

New York in Color, 1939 (like it was just yesterday)

It’s amazing how history can feel so much more real and alive when it’s in color rather than black and white. This footage of New York in 1939 comes from the Romano archives which has an extensive collection of unpublished historical footage from the 1930s and 40s in color available on their Youtube channel– worth…
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