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

1. The Home of architect Vittorio Garatti in Milano Designed in 1989. Found on Archilovers. Additional imagery by Federicotorra.com. 2. Italian Panoramic Trains in 1950-51 Renzo Zavanella designed the “Belvedere”, the “O.M. 990”. Found here. 3. This Space age Petrol Station in Ukraine An ex Lada gas and now Avias petrol station in Kviv. Found…

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

1. Marseille’s Transporter Bridge (and Restaurant) inaugurated in 1905 and destroyed in 1944 Demolished by the Nazi army in an attempt to block the port during the liberation of the city. At the top of the bridge there was a luxury restaurant while at the water’s edge a mobile platform suspended by cables connected the…

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

1. Trapani Coral In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a notable production of works by experienced masters flourished in Trapani [Sicily]… The history of Trapani coral however has its origins much before and as early as the twelfth century, that famous Arab traveler, Muhammad Idrisi, noted the exquisite quality of the red material. The discovery…

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

1. The Man Who Crawled the World Meet performance artist Pope .L “who traversed a substantial portion of New York City (and parts of Europe) on his hands, knees, stomach, and elbows, wearing everything from a Superman costume to a sports jersey and Nike sneakers”. “One of the problems with . . . my crawl works is they…

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

1. An Abandoned Chateau Known as “Little Versailles” In a village in the Vosges department of France is a chateau built in the nineteenth century by Charles Perron for the widow of a wealthy French industrialist, Elisabeth Géhin. Called the “Versailles vosgien”, the chateau was built in the Louis XV style, using only the finest…

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

1. Behold, Croissant Cereal It was National Croissant Day in France over the weekend (Jan 30th), so here’s the recipe to croissant cereal you didn’t ask for…. It’s unclear exactly who started the trend – one Brooklyn-based bakery was actually selling it for $50 at one point. Youtube channel Chef Steps created a how to…

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

1. This insane Connecticut Castle listed on Zillow Built in 2010 by the “great-grandson of a Chicago steel tycoon” the 18,777 square-foot estate, nestled on top of seventy-five acres, features 9 bedrooms, 7 full baths, 3 half baths and 12 fireplaces — as well as a moat and “towers rising 126 feet into the sky.”…

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

1. Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested for “loitering,” Montgomery, Alabama, 1958 Public domain photograph (photographer unknown). Found on Reddit. 2. Lee Krasner Is Finally Appreciated for Being More Than “Mrs. Pollock” Her reputation as a painter was, for most of her life, dwarfed by that of her husband, Jackson Pollock. Within the past few years, however,…

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

1. An Artist’s Utopian Vision from the Early 1900s Wenzel Hablik (1881) was a painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, and craftsman from Bohemia of the early twentieth century, associated with German Expressionism. At the age of six, he found a specimen of crystal, and saw in it “magical castles and mountains” that would later appear in…

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

1. The Underrated Costume Designs of Flash Gordon Costumes for the 1980 space opera film were designed by Italian Danilo Donati, who in addition to being a production designer, won the Academy Award for Best Costume twice (first for Romeo and Juliet in 1968 and Felini’s Cassanova in 1976). Found on Quora. 2. This champagne bottle fancy dress…