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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 700)

1. The Bygone Baguette Mailboxes of French Polynesia Read the article on Atlas Obscura, found on Present & Correct. 2. State Guest Mansions, 260 abandoned villas in Shenyang, China The Story Behind the Many Ghost Towns of Abandoned Mansions Across China found on Architectural Digest. 3. The Ancient Tattoos made from Breastmilk and Soot 4.…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 699)

1. Inside Andy Warhols Factory Andy Warhols Factory photographed by Timothy Hursley. An extraordinary set of photographs that capture the office elements to the factory as well as the terrific excitement at the sight of Keith Haring or Bianca Jagger at the end. I also think we should all make a note of the napkin…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 698)

1. Painter of bugs, Jan van Kessel the Elder Found on Gods and Foolish Grandeur. 2. Someone’s 94-year-old grandmother has kept a list of every book she ever read since she was 14 years old An archive of one person’s mind over nearly a century. Find more pages from the list on this amazing Twitter…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 697)

1. Not one, but two Victorian maritime forts going up for auction next month To be auctioned at Savills on 18 June, they have been under the same ownership for the last 12 years and were restored by businessman Mike Clare as unusual boutique stays. Lot 499, No Man’s Fort, between the Isle of Wight…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 696)

1. A workshop in NYC where you can make your own matchbox shadowboxes Book your workshop with Behind the Matches. 2. Mysterious scrapbooks full of artist obituaries found in the met archives The two scrapbooks held thousands of obituaries of painters, sculptors, and photographers of the early twentieth century. Organized in chronological order by publication…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 695)

1. Paris traffic jams Found from a series on Live Journal. 2. Night at the Museum in Paris Airbnb has launched its latest competition for the Olympics at the Musée d’Orsay. A perfect opportunity for Thomas Crown, surely. Find out more on Airbnb. 3. Aphrodite, Stuck in the mud Found on Arkeonews and ART news.…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 694)

1. This Parisian illustrator Lovely work by Yukiko Noritake. 2. Who Ate Where: The Restaurants (and clientele) that defined New York I just finished watching Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs The Swans and found this compendium of NYC’s social history told through its restaurants, quite interesting: It’s only in New York that we have the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 693)

1. This 1930s Art Deco Illustrator (and master of line-drawing) Art Deco Illustrator Charles Perry Weimer creates a powerfully graphic depiction of a 1930s couple in front of a classic Art Deco building with a clock face. This work is particularly relevant in today’s artworld, where few artists can do tight renderings with carefully composed…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 692)

1. Springtime Autochromes, 1900s Found on Société française de photographie. More about the surprising art of autochromes here. 2. How to get people to come to your art show Found on This isn’t Happiness. 3. Royal Neighbors of America, one of the largest women-led life insurers in the USA The early members of the Society…

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

1. A Pastel-colored Trailer Park “A perfect summer day, sunny and warm in the Owens River Valley. We stumbled across this trailer court in either Lone Pine or Independence & have not been able to find it since….we’ve certainly looked. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a place that is ‘just big enough’….?….to get rid…

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