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

1. This Abandoned Villa in Italy After a little digging for more context, this place is rumoured to belong to Villa Pirotta in Brunate, a village on an hill over Como, Italy. This room may be inside one of several buildings on the estate, which is currently listed for sale on Sotheby’s. Photography by Mathias…

10 Things to Know (and Love) about Amanda Gorman

Before she’d even finished reading her poem at Joe Biden’s inauguration, she’d stolen the show. Overnight, Amanda Gorman became household name, and in the hours after she delivered her poem “The Hill We Climb” to a global audience, you could refresh her Instagram page and watch the follower count jump by hundreds of thousands per…

Stop Everything and take a Virtual Visit of Catalonia’s Crown Jewel

Imagine building a house with an unlimited budget and dying before you have the chance to move in! That’s what happened to Joaquim Navàs, the patron of Casa Navas, located in Reus, Catalonia, Spain, a design masterpiece which has remained in remarkable condition. This house on the surface might look like Art Nouveau at its…

The Town where Unwanted Architecture Found a Home

If you were to take photographs of the most charming villages from around the world and make a collage of their most picture-perfect views, you’d get a pretty good representation of what Portmeirion looks like. An enchanted technicolor mish mash of architecture, built in the 1920s by one wizard of a man, let’s take a…

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

1. Why The US Capitol Has a bunch of Mysterious Tiny Doors 2. ‘Free architecture’ Arquitectura libre is a long-term project that focuses primarily on the architecture of remittances; the fantastical houses being built in Mexico, India and Romania. Found via Present & Correct, discover the growing collection of photos by Adam Wiseman. 3. Old Quarry…

The Forgotten Cafés where the British Beats Used To Meet

We have all heard of the Beat Generation, but have you been keeping up with the Kardomahs? Across the pond from Ginsberg’s gang and a couple of decades earlier, there was a group of bohemian artists and writers who beat them to it. The Kardomah Gang are Wales’ and the world’s forgotten intellectual boyband, who…

From Frida to Shakespeare, the Amazing Things They Did whilst “Social Distancing”

In around 1603, a poet had a decision to make. With a plague underway in England, he could choose to answer to fear, or answer to the muse. Luckily for us, the writer – one Mr. William Shakespeare – decided to put pen to paper (quill to parchment?) and turn out one of his greatest…

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

1. David Bowie’s thoughts on the Internet “I don’t think we’ve even seen the tip of the iceberg. I think the potential of what the internet is going to do to society, both good and bad, is unimaginable. I think we’re actually on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying… I’m talking about the actual…

The Forgotten Firsts: 10 Vintage Versions of Modern Technology

In this age of mobile, wireless, digital and whatchamacallit technology, nothing seems to surprise us nowadays. Unless they’re going to finally show us those flying cars we’ve been waiting for since The Jetsons aired on television, we’re hardly batting an eyelid at some of the latest gadgets. But if we take a look back, we might find some familiar but curious…

Inventing the Bra Was The Least Interesting Thing This Blue-Blooded Bohemian Did

Inventing the bra is a pretty big deal. For Caresse Crosby, this wasn’t her only or even most uplifting accomplishment. The bra was just the beginning. This wild woman lived an extraordinary life, in fact, multiple lives to accompany her multiple names. As well as being an inventor, she published and partied with the Lost…

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