In Defence of a Bad DIY Haircut before its Post-Lockdown Debut

I’m on the brink of cutting my own hair, and I can’t be the only one. I’ve been imagining that coming out of lockdown is going to look like the 1980s for hair all over again. And it got me thinking – there must have been something to those crazy perms and gravity-defying bangs for…

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

1. These Downloadable coloring sheets inspired by Wes Anderson Movies We featured artist Jordan Bolton’s poster work on 13 Things before, but he’s kindly offering these colouring sheets to download for free and help us pass the time. Find the colouring sheets here, via My Modern Met. 2. What Wes Anderson is watching during Quarantine…

What if the First African American Woman to Run for President Had Won?

Shall we for a moment, imagine an alternate reality where Shirley Chisholm became President of the United States in 1972 instead of Nixon? As the first African American woman in Congress, as well as first woman and African American to run for President, Shirley campaigned under the powerful mantra, “Unbought & Unbossed“. And let’s just…

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

1. The Vibrant Artwork of Turkish Tobacco Ads Found in this Flickr Album. 2. Istanbul, 1948 Photo by Maynard Owen Williams for National Geographic. Find more like this in Nat Geo Found. 3. The first Black airmen to fly across America James Banning and his mechanic Thomas C. Allen met only 4 days before setting…

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

1. An advertisement from Bell Telephone 100 years ago How the phone failed to make the Spanish flu crisis bearable, full article found on Fast Company. 2. Restaurant Sleepovers of World War II Diners are tucked in to bed in the basement of ‘The Hungaria” restaurant on Lower Regent St – October, 1940. The restaurant…

Virtually Wander & Weave through an Enchanting Odditorium of Curiosities

It almost feels like you’ve clicked on something you shouldn’t have and suddenly, a door to internet Narnia has opened and you find yourself roaming the aisles of a huge maze of glass cabinets, overflowing with an insane amount of objects. You’ve stumbled into the cabinet of wonder that is the Pitt Rivers Museum. Indefinitely…

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

1. An online museum of plastic lost at sea In 1997, nearly 5 million bits of Lego, much of it sea themed, fell into the ocean when a huge wave hit the cargo ship Tokio Express, washing 62 containers overboard. Among the pieces lost were tiny minifig heads, their faces now mostly blank after decades…

Our Zoom Date with a Paris Catacombs Explorer

Welcome to our Q&A with the fabulously entertaining Alexander J.E. Bradley – an artist and urban explorer whose mastery of the Paris catacombs has led us down many a rabbit hole (you may recall our trip to his underground catacombs cinema to watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show one Halloween). If you missed the live…

The Complicated New World of Voyeurism

The saying is we’re ‘living in strange times’, right? But just how “strange” are we willing to admit we’re becoming too? The nature of the worldwide lockdowns has us all looking out of our windows significantly more, searching for something or someone to uplift, inform or entertain us. As we applaud front liners with our…

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

1. A Human Torpedo, 1967 They were used as secret naval weapons in World War II. The basic concept is still in use. The Italian Navy experimented with a primitive tiny sub carrying two men as 1918 and this craft did have some success. The first truly practical human torpedo was the Italian Maiale (nicknamed the “pig” because…