1. Shakespeare’s “King Lear”, staged in a burnt out theatre in Peru, 1999
In 1999, architect Luis Longhi transformed the fire-damaged Teatro Municipal de Lima into a unique setting for “King Lear.” Utilizing the theater’s ruins, he installed a steel ramp traversing the roofless stage, integrating the stalls and boxes to create an immersive experience that blurred the lines between performance and audience space.
Twelve years after the fire, in 2010, the Municipal Theatre was reopened completely restored and renovated.
Found on The Mind Circle.
2. Snoop around this ballet costumer designer’s atelier in Vienna
‘Step inside the Vienna stage. You might call it a Gesamtkunstwerk,’ says ballet costume designer Susanne Bisovsky of her cosmopolitan atelier. Located in the city’s 7th district – once the heart of a thriving silk industry – the studio is part salon, part archive, and entirely enchanting.
Discover her space at World of Interiors.
3. “From Window”, 1973: A Japanese photographer captured his wife, Yoko, from above everyday for a year
Yoko left her husband, Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase, after 10 years of marriage because according to her “…he would only look at me through the lens of a camera. The photos he took of me were undoubtedly depictions of himself.”
This sent Fukase into a deep spiraling depression and he would spend the next 6 years (1976 to 1982) photographing ravens in Hokkaido, Kanazawa, and Tokyo.
Found on History Cool Kids.
4. I’m in awe of these Harlem Renaissance portraits by Winold Reiss
Artist Winold Reiss was born on September 16, 1886, in Karlsruhe, Germany. A gifted portraitist, Reiss challenged the convention of racial stereotyping by portraying African American, Native American, and Asian American subjects as dignified individuals. In 1924, Reiss was commissioned to make portraits of major figures of the Harlem Renaissance for a special issue of Survey Graphic, a magazine that focused on sociological and political issues. So much of his work is now in the public domain.
5. Each day, she sews an “icon” onto her embroidery journal to represent that day’s events and memories.
Since January 2020, Sophie O’Neill has been keeping an embroidery journal.
Fun concept. Check out her blog and instagram.
6. The Untold Story of New Year Novelty Glasses
“Thirty years ago, in a small Seattle apartment, two friends smoked some weed, knocked back a few beers and talked the night away. That was tradition for Richard Sclafani and Peter Cicero, two best friends working middling jobs to supplement their music careers. But on this particular Friday night in January 1990, Sclafani and Cicero’s doodling would change New Year’s Eve celebrations forever.
We were always coming up with ideas — they’d just pop into our head and we’d scribble them down — but we’d never do anything about them,” Sclafani tells me. “We’d somehow gotten onto drawing novelty glasses and had ideas sketched out. Pete drew the number 2000 and put a couple of eyeballs inside the zeros. I took one look at it and had this vision of the year 2000 in Times Square, and all the people wearing these glasses. It was really a vision.
Those were literally the very first New Year’s Glasses ever made. Sclafani and Cicero immediately knew they had something, but the year 2000 was still a decade away. “Then Pete draws the year 1991, and we realize, ‘Gee, you could use that too! There’s a circle for the eyes!’ That’s when we really got excited and started dancing around the room,” Sclafani laughs. “I don’t think either of us slept for at least a few days after that.
Within days of their thunderbolt, Sclafani took “a big piece of green wire” and bent it into the shape of 1991 glasses. Next up? All the hard stuff. Not only did they need to learn how to navigate the U.S. patent system, but they also had to learn how to make, sell and ship the glasses at scale. “We had to learn everything as we went, which meant very long days,” Sclafani says.
For the two musicians living hand-to-mouth, this wasn’t an easy decision. Without any kind of disposable income, Sclafani racked up $30,000 in credit debt to make the first 1991 mold and get the operation off the ground. “We did everything to make them as popular as they were.”
“People who knew the patenting system told us from the start that there would be no real way to protect them from rip-offs.”
Found on Mel Magazine.
7. An Advert for the London police force in the 1930s for “hefty women” but “must be fairly good looking”
Found on Reddit.
8. Family Feud host Richard Dawson would always kiss the women contestants, regardless if they were single or not (1976-1985)
9. Novel use for an old piano
Found on Pinterest.
10. A door lock created in 1911 depicting the fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Made by the German locksmith Frank L. Koralewsky, of iron, gold, silver and copper.
Found on The Art Institute of Chicago.
11. The Invention that Accidentally Made McMansions
12. This dreamy Moated Chateau for sale
Located just 2 hours from Charles de Gaulle Airport, this 15th-century white château is nestled in 16.2 acres of secluded parkland. Listed at € 2,198,000, more details found here.
