1. Art Excavation by Shan Hur
I love the make-believe element of Shan Hur’s installations, offering the viewer an appreciation for the art itself, but also for the adventurous ways in which objets d’art can often be discovered.
2. This Roman glass work from 300 AD, survived intact
At the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier an archaeological museum in Trier, Germany. Found on Anonymous Works.
3. The charm of old ticket windows on the London Underground
The stations for the new Bakerloo, Piccadilly and Hampstead Tubes were designed by architect Leslie Green. The ticket office archs are made up of bottle-green glazed tiles and have the words ‘Tickets’, ‘In’ and ‘Out’ depicted in white. Ornate light fixtures would been fitted above. Most of them are now out of use.
Found on Pinterest. Further reading: go ghost station hunting on the London Underground.
4. A remote uninhabited Scottish island for Sale. Maybe the one for you and your micronation?
Asking £125,000, Eilean Loch Oscair is northwest of the Island of Lismore within the Firth of Lorne. The almost 10-acre island croft is in one of the least explored locations on the West Coast and is accessible only via helicopter or boat.
Found on The Spaces. Further reading: an insider’s guide to unknown kingdoms.
5. No unbelievably this is not AI, it’s the Plitvice lakes in Croatia
Found on Eyes Abroad.
6. Carl Sagan talking about books
Found via Swiss Miss.
7. Thanksgiving broken down as a chart
By Matt Shirley, maker of thousands of charts (@mattsurelee) found via This isn’t Happiness.
8. A vast index of Quilts and their patterns
Found on the Quilts Index via Kottke.
9. Isaac Newton’s list of 57 Sins (Circa 1662)
Before Whitsunday 1662
1. Vsing the word (God) openly
2. Eating an apple at Thy house
3. Making a feather while on Thy day
4. Denying that I made it.
5. Making a mousetrap on Thy day
6. Contriving of the chimes on Thy day
7. Squirting water on Thy day
8. Making pies on Sunday night
9. Swimming in a kimnel on Thy day
10. Putting a pin in Iohn Keys hat on Thy day to pick him.
11. Carelessly hearing and committing many sermons
12. Refusing to go to the close at my mothers command.
13. Threatning my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them
14. Wishing death and hoping it to some
15. Striking many
16. Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese.
17. Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer
18. Denying that I did so
19. Denying a crossbow to my mother and grandmother though I knew of it
20. Setting my heart on money learning pleasure more than Thee
21. A relapse
22. A relapse
23. A breaking again of my covenant renued in the Lords Supper.
24. Punching my sister
25. Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar
26. Calling Dorothy Rose a jade
27. Glutiny in my sickness.
28. Peevishness with my mother.
29. With my sister.
30. Falling out with the servants
31. Divers commissions of alle my duties
32. Idle discourse on Thy day and at other times
33. Not turning nearer to Thee for my affections
34. Not living according to my belief
35. Not loving Thee for Thy self.
36. Not loving Thee for Thy goodness to us
37. Not desiring Thy ordinances
38. Not long {longing} for Thee in {illeg}
39. Fearing man above Thee
40. Vsing unlawful means to bring us out of distresses
41. Caring for worldly things more than God
42. Not craving a blessing from God on our honest endeavors.
43. Missing chapel.
44. Beating Arthur Storer.
45. Peevishness at Master Clarks for a piece of bread and butter.
46. Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne.
47. Twisting a cord on Sunday morning
48. Reading the history of the Christian champions on SundaySince Whitsunday 1662
49. Glutony
50. Glutony
51. Vsing Wilfords towel to spare my own
52. Negligence at the chapel.
53. Sermons at Saint Marys (4)
54. Lying about a louse
55. Denying my chamberfellow of the knowledge of him that took him for a sot.
56. Neglecting to pray 3
57. Helping Pettit to make his water watch at 12 of the clock on Saturday night
Found via Open Culture / Public Domain Review
10. Retail Nostalgia
Today, doormen accept our Amazon packages, gift cards materialize in our email, and we track our Temu and TikTok Shop orders on our phones. But not even that long ago, New York was a department-store town. Holiday shopping meant a trip uptown to Bloomingdale’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, or Bergdorf Goodman, where baskets on the seventh floor brimmed with glass Christmas ornaments and you could — if you paid enough — walk out with a fully decorated tree. Best & Co., Bonwit Teller, and Henri Bendel (those brown-and-white striped bags!) all had their own niches, clientele, devotees. Downtown, there was Barneys, first downscale and later on very, very upscale, with its celebrity-themed holiday windows and mannequin renditions of everyone from Madonna to Margaret Thatcher. (If you couldn’t afford Barneys, you could walk a couple of blocks to Mays or S. Klein, both on Union Square, and sift through the schlock to maybe find something giftable.)
On Fulton Street in Brooklyn, there was A&S, where shoppers wore their finest hats and gloves to browse. On and around 34th Street, of course, there were Macy’s and Saks and B. Altman and Gimbels. (Lord & Taylor was a few blocks up by West 38th.) One could knock out a gift for everyone on their list in just a few stops because the big stores carried a much larger variety of stuff than today: books, LPs, camera gear, pianos. Macy’s and Gimbels even had counters with collectible coins and postage stamps.
A few of these department stores still exist. Most are gone, their names existing solely in swashy script on a hatbox in an elderly relative’s attic. (At least there’s Miracle on 34th Street, in which Gimbels will forever battle Macy’s for supremacy.) Here, we look back at holiday shopping when the biggest crowds were made up of shoppers in stores rather than UPS drivers trying to park.
Full article found on NY mag.
11. Some very important thoughts during Black Friday Week
12. Thanksgiving menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, 1899
Found on Reddit.
