1. This must be the place
Maydelle, Texas – interesting little backstory on this place here.
2. Hemingway and Dalì’s Venetian Vacation Home
A corner of Holland in the Venetian Lagoon, the Casone di Valle Zappa was built between 1923 and 1928 in a thriving fishing, bird watching and hunting area. The charm of the Casone, which reaches the pinnacle of beauty in the times just before and shortly after sunset and which gives life to a chromatic spectacle of incomparable beauty, has struck famous people such as Ernst Hemingway and Salvador Dalì who have spent periods of vacation inside the building. In 1976 it was used as a film set for the film “Portrait of the bourgeoisie in black” by the director Tonino Cervi. Currently the building belongs to the Roncato family, Venetian entrepreneurs in the luggage sector, coming from Padua. The nearest road is 9km away and Venice is 20km away.
Discover more about the location here.
3. Paris reimagined as a giant farm
AI Art/Prompts by @ifonly.ai
4. German Signs in Paris during World War II Occupation
Found on Live Journal.
5. This Ferris Wheel at the Worlds Fair, New York, New York 1964-1965
The 80-foot Uniroyal Tire Ferris Wheel, Worlds Fair, New York, New York 1964-1965. Found on Archive of Affinities.
6. A 10cm clock-watch, complete with a lunar wheel-chart, sundials, and even an alarm, circa 1570
Gilt-brass cased clock-watch with alarm, sundials and lunar volvelle in the form of a book, Hans Koch, c.1580
Found on the Ashmolean Museum.
7. An occult artist whose mysterious work was discovered in a remote cabin after his death
These mysterious drawings were discovered in a cabin in Carmel, California after the artist’s death. After World War I, Grant Wallace (1868–1954) built a small cabin in the forest near Carmel, California, which he used as a laboratory for experimenting with telepathy, which he sometimes referred to as “mental radio.” He made hundreds of drawings, charts, diagrams, and writings, attempting to reveal the patterns of life, including reincarnation, communication with intelligent life on other planets, and with dead spirits. He wrote about messages from the dead, from ancient Greeks, ancient Egyptians, Vikings, and Atlanteans, to more recent dead, such as Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin, and transcribed messages from and drew pictures of extraterrestrial life, especially from the Pleiades star cluster.
The first gallery exhibition ever to be mounted of the work of Grant Wallace was nearly 70 years after his death at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York in 2022.
More found on Riot Material.
8. Milk, pity and power
Since antiquity, artists have depicted a perverse scene of a daughter breastfeeding her aged father. What does it mean?
The daughter’s breast, nurturing and erotic, distracts us from patriarchy’s blind spot: male need … For him to live he must regress to the position of infant. Emasculation is the price of his salvation.
Read the full article found on Aeon.
9. Medieval Mixed-Gender Fight Club
Images from a 15th-century fighting manual, found on Public Domain Review.
10. Ladies’ ordinary: Women-only restaurants of the early 19th century
A girls’ night out in the 1830s looked very different from how it does today. In fact, for most of the early 1800s, the chances of a group of women (or a woman by herself, for that matter) finding a restaurant that would serve them without the company of a man were pretty slim. Only women of ill-repute dined alone, but occasionally, respectable ladies who were traveling alone or in town to shop or attend church got hungry. The solution to this was the “ladies’ ordinary,” the women-only dining areas that sprang up in American restaurants and hotels to give proper ladies a proper place to eat.
Found on History Daily.
11. A Collection of Weird and Wonderful Locations on Google Street View
Start your random location drop here. Found via Kottke.
12. Italy’s Narrowest Street
Found on Reddit.
13. A short documentary I just love so much
Sharing this one again as it’s a documentary that inspired a good little chunk of the architectural walks in Don’t be a Tourist in London, now available to pre-order!
