1. Photographing the Williamsburg Bridge Riders
A few of my favourite shots from the Instagram account of Adam DiCarlo found via Kottke.
2. How Kodak invented the “snapshot”
3. Taking Baths, Drinking Alcohol & Other Strange Ways Famous Writers Got Inspiration
Journalist Blythe Roberson copied her favorite writers’ schedules to see if they would offer the secret to unlocking my ultimate creative potential.
Read the article on Bustle here.
4. The wonderful whimsical work of Laura Davidson
Discover her work on her website and Instagram.
5. Bookbook Inspiration
Unfortunately, the creator behind these booknooks is no longer creating but here’s our article about book nooks with some links on how to get started.
6. The Dolls’ House Maker with an Enchanting Studio in the South of France
Images from Kerry Morgan and Eric Lansdown, one of the world’s foremost dolls’ house and aviary artists whose studio in the south of France is as enchanting as his creations.
Article found on Cabana Magazine.
7. Medieval European cuisine used to be much spicier. But snobbery changed all that.
Once spice became cheap and readily available to the poor, the elites started taking spices out of European cooking as they didn’t want to be associated with the poor. This trend had lasting effects on European cuisine.
Read the article on NPR.
8. The lump of coal that turned out to be a sapphire
A 12 year old boy in the 1930s found what looked like a “great lump of coal”, his family used it as a doorstop for a decade until his dad had “a little look at it.” This led to the realization it was the world’s largest black sapphire. After being faceted, the Black Star of Queensland is 733 carats.
Read more about it here.
9. Photographer Captures Side-By-Side Portraits of Historical Figures and their Direct Descendants
Thomas Jefferson (Left), 1800 And Shannon Lanier (Right) Sixth Great-Grandson Of Thomas Jefferson.
Emeline Pankhurst (Left) And Helen Pankhurst (Right) The Great-Granddaughter Of Emeline Pankhurst
Napoleon (Left), 1812 And Hugo De Salis (Right) The Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandson Of Napoleon
Frederick Douglass (Left), 1863 And Reuben L. Andrews (Right)
Liza De Giocondo (The Mona Lisa) (Left) And Irina Guicciardini Strozzi (Right) The 15 Times Great Granddaughter Of Liza De Giocondo
Charles Dickens (Left), 1858 And Gerald Charles Dickens (Right) Dickens’s, Great-Great-Grandson.
10. One Hour of David Lynch Listening to Rain, Smoking & Reflecting on Art
11. Just some Nocturnal Paintings
Found here.
12. Prostitution in Paris of Yore
From the Eugene Atget collection and photographs by Ed Clark from the Life Archives.
13. British 1980s Teenagers on Clothes and Conformity
