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Closed Shops

This morning I woke up early thinking I’d have a productive errands day; get to the gym, run across town to pick up those shoes for my brother’s upcoming wedding, pick up my dry cleaning– all the little things you don’t really feel like doing on the weekend. And then of course I realised that the…

The Congo Airport Playground

Some people’s instagram accounts are full of cat pictures or fashion selfies or cupcakes. And then there’s the instagram account of photographer Michael Christopher Brown, who hangs out with Congolese kids in airplane graveyards. From the looks of his instagram photos, Michael hasn’t been back home to Brooklyn in years. His profile is a continuously stunning feed of raw and intimate glimpses into a world…

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

1. Soviet Union “Restricted Areas” Airplane – amphibia with vertical take-off VVA14. The USSR built only two of them in 1976, one of which has crashed during transportation. Former residential buildings in a deserted polar scientific town specialised on biological research. The world’s largest diesel submarine. Former mining town which has been closed and…

Nasa Astronauts and Soviet Cosmonauts are having a Yard Sale

To celebrate the 47th anniversary of the first time man landed on the moon, astronauts, cosmonauts and rocket engineers of the great space race are having a giant yard sale next month– also known as the Bonhams annual Space History Auction. Even if I wasn’t the type of kid that went to space camp and I…

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

1. This Father & Daughter giving everyone Hair Envy New York artist, singer/ songwriter Benny Harlem shares Instagram photos of him and his daughter Jaxyn, who has an almost identical head of hair. He says he wants to “bring that feeling of family and fatherhood back”, inspired by the TV sitcom shows he grew up watching. Discover…

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

1. WWII Refugees Escaping to Safety in Syria Around the year 1944, the Middle East Relief and Refugee Administration (MERRA) began opening camps in Syria, Egypt and Palestine. With promises of a safe place to wait out the war and escape the bloody conflict, people of all ages and classes began the long journey. These…

A 1940s Abalone Picnic

Looking for a lighthearted distraction from life, I went diving into the Life magazine archives and found just the thing– a Hollywood beach picnic circa 1944, with pretty ladies, handsome boys and a how-to guide on preparing freshly-caught Abalone steak sandwiches. The perfect way to start the weekend… Our picnic hosts are young actresses Martha O’Driscoll, Ramsay Ames and former Yugoslav swimming…

One Guy’s Quest to Save the 1960s Time Capsule Homes of America

Miles McDermott might just be the youngest person to restore a time capsule home. An award-winning designer, local tastemaker and fellow old soul living in Phoenix, Arizona, he’s just spent the last few years transforming his own mid-century style home– which he found looking worse for wear on Craigslist– into a virtual museum of 1960s interior…

The Neglected Ghost Town of Italy’s Dolce Vita Drinking Water

San Pellegrino is an icon of the Italian lifestyle, the most stylish brand of sparkling water you can order anywhere in the world, synonymous with luxury, fine dining, jet set summers in Europe and “la Dolce Vita”. One of its first admirers was allegedly Leonardo da Vinci, who visited the source in Lombardy to sample the…

Beautiful Tomboys of the 1930s

I was tumbling through Tumblr, one of my favourite places on the internet to discover history’s lesser-known muses and there, on page thirty-something of my browsing, I stopped at a photograph of an androgynous woman taken by Marianne Breslauer, a name unfamiliar to me. As I began googling her work, my screen was soon taken over by black…

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