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

1. What it’s like to live at Everest base camp Every year a pop-up city is built at the foot of the world’s tallest mountain… Life at base camp is an odd mix of mundane domesticity, logistical challenges, and the occasional flash of life-or-death drama. National Geographic takes us on a fascinating look around. 2.…

Free the Nipple, says History

Nipple slips must have been a real problem in the 17th century. Or rather, not so much a problem per se, as an everyday practice. If you’ve ever walked around a portrait gallery of Renaissance European art or watched a few period films set around that time when the cup did truly runneth over, you…
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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCCLII)

1. Eiffel Tower Spotting on its 130th Birthday As the iron lady turns 130 this week, here is a photography project by Jasper White looking at intimate and unique views of the Eiffel Tower from the homes of Parisian residents. He has a book coming out on the project soon. 2. When the Paris Metro…

Remember that time the Motion Picture was Invented (and Everyone was Naked)?

One of my favourite things about Eadweard Muybridge, the man who gave us the moving image, aside from the vast array of exotic spellings he adopted for his birth name (Edward Muggeridge), is the idea of him travelling around the American wild west in a 19th century carriage which he converted into his very own…

The Peculiar Art of Over Complicating Things

He was so good at imagining overly complicated and outlandish contraptions that his name became part of the English dictionary in the early 20th century to describe anything with an unnecessarily elaborate design. “That’s a real Heath-Robinson!” one could say to describe an apparatus that performed very simple tasks in an eccentric but rather inefficient…

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

1. Post Modern cakes by a Fashion designer turned Baker Discover the delicious world of Ard Bakery found via Present & Correct. 2. This Home built around a Boulder Desert Modernist AlbertFreyintentionally designed Frey House II around a large boulder to honor + incorporate the natural environment. The house is open for series of tours…

Paris is Removing its Iconic Kiosks. So What Will Become of Them?

I woke up one morning in Paris, headed to the boulangerie, when I noticed a strange new structure had been installed on the sidewalk overnight. It took me a moment to figure out what it was. One of those self-cleaning public toilets? A construction crew’s cabin for yet another roadwork about to begin? And then…

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

1. Anyone like this idea of Notre Dame’s roof as a greenhouse? As you might have heard, France announced an international competition to be held to find a replacement for the Notre Dame spire destroyed in the cathedral fire. Some of the designs making the rounds on the internet so far have been er, interesting,…
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