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An 8th World Wonder without Tourists: Georgia’s Ancient Cave Cities

From the top of the ridge, a dusty wind blows south, sweeping down and across the endless desert-like plains in Azerbaijan. A narrow path cuts through the dried up shrubbery that shakes with each passing of stamping feet (recommended to scare away poisonous snakes). A rusty railing cuts down the already narrow path marking the border between Georgia…

A Hidden Jungle Book Façade of Paris

Could you dream of a more perfect façade? I tell you, it’s really hard to get anywhere in this city when you’re constantly jumping off your bike to photograph something magical at every turn. This pastel mosaic menagerie has just been hanging out on a backstreet in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, waiting for someone to notice… When I saw the building’s caretaker sweeping…

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

1. A Collection of Rare Photos of Men in the 1800s in Surprisingly Intimate Embraces In 2008, Columbia University librarian Herbert Mitchell passed away, bequeathing a trove of curios to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotypes of men “enjoying intimate physical contact without any evident trace of the self-consciousness one might…

Camping like an Alien

When NASA tests habitation on Mars, they do it at a station in the Mojave Desert. This is a landscape that was chosen to be most representative of another planet and it’s also where Andrea Zettler, American sculptor, installation artist, and investigator of social practice, set up her sci-fi campsite. Lead Image (c) Rich Combs One of Andrea’s…

The Interwar Gender-Bending Glamour of the Beach Pyjama

Before the bikini, fashionable ladies donned “beach pyjamas” all along the world’s most stylish coastal towns. The swishy palazzo-like pants and jumpsuit styles shocked the public in the interwar years, while we, on the other side of the second millennium, find some serious beach-going inspiration. But what made the “beach pyjama” so shocking? As with…

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

1. The Abbey Road Recording Console used by Pink Floyd is For Sale An Abbey Road Studios EMI TG12345 MK IV recording console used between 1971-1983, housed in Studio 2, the console which Pink Floyd used to record their landmark album, The Dark Side of the Moon. Also used by many other artists including: Paul…

Show and Tell: My Vintage Swiss Family Robinson

Today I’d like to share with you one of my most prized acquisitions of late. I was recently frolicking around the English countryside when I stumbled upon a rare books shop in the antiques town of Stow-on-the-Wold. I saw it straight away, staring at me in the shop window and I knew it had to be…

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

1. The Gritty History of the Elk Hotel, One of Times Square’s Last Pay-By-the-Hour Hotels In February 2012, the Elk Hotel shuttered for good after nearly 90 years in business. Formerly one of the last hourly hotels in Times Square, the seedy flophouse has garnered a rather notorious reputation over the years. Of the three…

Oh, Just an Abandoned Hobbit Castle Built for Sheep

Having spent seven years surfing what I’ve come to call the “underweb”, I’ll tell ya, it takes some pretty weird stuff to surprise me these days. But this? This restores my faith in the internet’s ability to never run out of obscure things to show me. Behold “Colin’s Barn”, an eccentric hobbit-like superstructure built in the 1980s by…

Tokyo’s Forgotten Botanical Gardens look like Jurassic Park

This photograph above has been floating around on my To-Find-Out-What-The-Heck-This-Place-is List for a while. It’s one of those semi-viral images that doesn’t have any accurate information attached; not the photographer’s name nor the exact location it was taken (trust me, I reverse-searched this image for the owner until the end of Google– no luck). But…

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