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Giant Pink Lily Pads & other Epic Projects

You might have mistaken these images for the extraordinary phenomenon of earth’s pink salt lakes. But upon a closer look, it becomes clear this alien sight is very much man-made and created by some very big dreamers… We’re looking at the incredible artistic project of husband and wife team, Christo and Jeanne Claude. They met…

The Lost Art of Street Typography

I wonder if in the old days, they found their hand-painted typography and artisanal signs as charming as we do today? Maybe they found it a nuisance; all those different fonts competing for attention as you walked down the street. Personally, I’d love nothing more than to time travel down my local high street and see…

Benin’s Amazing Technicolor Voodoo Cloaks

Voodoo has gotten a bad rap. Typically associated with the fear of someone sticking needles into a tiny doll that looks like you, it is widely stereotyped as a black magic cult. But did you know that in the West African country of Benin, believed to be its place of origin, voodoo has been recognised as…

Who was the Kissing Bandit, Baseball’s Forgotten Sex Symbol?

For thirty years, she was the buxom babe of baseball who famously rushed the field at major league baseball games to steal kisses from up to 50 athletes in front of thousands of spectators. The media branded her Morganna, “The Kissing Bandit,” and she quickly became a celebrity in her own right, winning endorsement deals, film, television and magazine…

Inside the FBI’s Colossal Fingerprint Factory

Before the FBI went digital, it looked a little more like a giant stock warehouse for Amazon.com. In the 1920s, the bureau was only employing 25 workers to classify around 800,000 print cards, but by 1943, there were more than 20,000 employees sorting through 70 million fingerprints. At the height of wartime, the archives were so overwhelmed that the FBI eventually…

World War II Stories of a Cult Fashion Jacket

Isn’t she gorgeous? I was taking my morning roam around the internet when I stumbled upon this vintage embroidered silk jacket for sale online at Etsy. Unfortunately, when I clicked the link, I was told, “Sorry, this item has been sold”. Of course it had. But I never give up that easily. And, just as all great and…

Inside the Secret Collections Backstage at the US Museum of Natural History

If I had the choice, I would always choose to visit a museum inside out– that is, take a backstage tour of what they don’t display, which in most cases, is much larger than what is actually on display. And we’re not talking about 2 to 3 times larger, we’re talking about secret collections that…

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

1. This Secret Trash Collection in a New York Sanitation Garage On the second floor of a nondescript warehouse owned by New York City’s Sanitation Department in East Harlem is a treasure trove—filled with other people’s trash. Created entirely out of objects found by Nelson Molina, a now-retired sanitation worker, who began by decorating his locker.…

Presenting the Pussycar, the Maddest Cars to ever Hit the Streets of Paris

“In this world where everything is banal and ugly, we must know how to create the beautiful and unusual.” These are the words of Jean Pierre Ponthieu, quite possibly the maddest French inventor of the 20th century. In the 1960s, Ponthieu embarked on a new career in car design and created more than 200 small cars, given the highly unfortunate…

Meet the Flying Cholitas, the Women who Wrestle in their Petticoats

Fashion and wrestling are two things you wouldn’t expect to be put in the ring together, but in Bolivia, they make fierce opponents– or should I say, allies? The elaborate but uniquely sartorial outfits worn by the indigenous women throughout the Andean highlands of Bolivia have captured the eye of many a traveler, myself included. They…

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