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England, is that You?

For some 30 years, a collection of nearly 4,000 slides sat undiscovered in a university basement in Sheffield. The lost collection of photographs, found inside a forgotten pile of boxes, has since been digitised by students of the University of Sheffield, and I just spent the morning digging through it. Back Lane, Blanchland, Northumberland (c) JR James…

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

1. The Lyford House being saved from demolition, 1957 Being moved by barge across Richardson Bay, Tiburon, California, December, 1957. Found on Historical Times. 2. Artist made glass boxes specifically to fit inside FedEx packaging and then shipped them. This was the result. An ongoing project by Walead Beshty via This is Colossal. 3. Street…

Don’t Trust that Giant Abandoned Listening Device in Chernobyl

It looks like something out of a science fiction movie– close– it’s inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone. A former top secret military object used by the Soviet Union, the mysterious giant antenna system called the Duga-3, was the origin of an extremely powerful but anonymous signal between 1976 to 1989. The sharp, tapping signal came without warning,…

Vintage Rides and Drive-Thru Trees

“Where’s that tree you can drive through?” According to park rangers, this is the single most frequently asked question in California’s national parks. I asked that very question myself on our road trip in the golden state a few years ago, although we never did up finding a drive-thru tree. Of all the cheesy tourist…

Marilyn Monroe’s Forgotten Hollywood Sorority

If you had knocked on the door of room 334 at the Hollywood Studio Club on Lexington Avenue in 1948, a 24 year-old struggling actress going by the name of Marilyn Monroe would have answered with eyes full of hope. Marilyn was one of over 10,000 girls who were housed at the Hollywood Studio Club during its sixty year history, providing film studios…

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

1. Inside an Old Pencil Factory The oldest pencil factory in Portugal, Viarco, photographed by Daniel Sommer found on Slanted Magazine. 2. Office girl on Rollerskates Photo by Hank Walker found in the LIFE archives 3. TV Stove Found on the Afflictor 4. In 1982, someone thought it would be a good idea to market frozen dinners…

A Brief Compendium of Vintage Caravan Brochures

There’s a certain “je ne sais quoi” about the kind of person who owns a caravan, isn’t there? So you would expect the sales brochures for a caravan to be a little more … let’s say colourful than your average marketing material. In fact, they’re kind of a blast. I’ve spent just about my whole afternoon trawling through an online…

Oh, to have been in Venice on the Night of September 3rd, 1951

It’s my birthday today– no, no, please, hold the gifts! I couldn’t possibly accept. But if you insist, I suppose I wouldn’t turn down a ticket and a time machine to the costume party of the century– Le Bal Oriental, hosted by an eccentric millionaire at his Venetian palazzo in September of 1951… Hosted by Charles de…

The Dark Secrets of a Tiny Tropical Island Occupied by Descendants of Pirates

There’s a paradise island in the Pacific Ocean that no one wants to live on. Food and water is plentiful, the land is fertile, it’s surrounded by the most pristine ocean habitat in the world, and yet a potential extinction of the island’s current population (primarily direct descendants of pirates who shipwrecked themselves here 200 years ago)…

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

1. Girls Playing Cards ca 1920s Found on the Vintage Everyday Tumblr. 2. What’s left of an Indoor Water Park in the Netherlands Work by Pieter Van Roijen found on Behance. 3. A Floating Gym in Paris, designed to be Powered by Human Energy a human-powered Gym Boat that cruises along the Seine…

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