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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 666)

1. Ford Almost Made the Perfect Camping Car In an archived July 3, 1958 issue of the Washington Post, a 1959 Ford Country Squire Station Wagon is presented as a “pushbutton camper” concept. Unfortunately, while Ford was happy to show consumers just what the big Country Squire could do, it didn’t leave the concept stage. In the archived issue…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 665)

1. Heavenly Architecture Transparente of Toledo Cathedral, Spain, found on Tumblr. 2. This Hotel in Thailand has rooms made out of old train carriages The Inter Continental Khao Yai resort in Thailand, made up of more than 65 suites and villas, includes a series of upcycled Thai train carriages that have been converted into luxury accommodations.…

Tune into the Forgotten Dial-a-DJ Jukeboxes of Yesteryear

Isn’t she a beauty? I had one of those hallelujah moments while browsing the collectible pages of Ebay today when I came across this seldom seen “Empire State Building” jukebox circa 1935. Invented by Ken Shyvers, the same guy who invented pinball machines, the Shyvers Multiphone is about 50cm tall with a 19cm square base and…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 664)

1. It’s Mushroom Hunting season! Here’s an 1827 Atlas of Mushrooms The edibles… Mushrooms that can cause mild illness (from vomiting to indigestion)… Poisonous mushrooms… Lithographs from M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des Champignons (1827), found on The Public Domain Review. 2. Rainbow Clouds, aka Iridescent Pileus Clouds A group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 663)

1. This penthouse by Le Corbusier in 1920s Paris During the Parisian annèes folles, he [Carlos de Beistegui] selected Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret to design a machine à amuser, a penthouse on the Champs-Élysées dedicated entirely to entertaining and hosting crazy Parisian parties typical of those years, characterized by a brilliant and festive atmosphere of…

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

1. The Cinéorama At the 1900 Paris Exposition, the Lumière brothers, who had made the first public projections of a motion picture in 1895, presented their films on a colossal screen, as well as a primitive talking motion picture. An even more ambitious experiment in motion pictures however, was the Cinéorama of Raoul Grimoin Sanson, which simulated a voyage…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 662)

1. Billy Burke (aka Glinda the Good Witch) was the Original Fashion Influencer Before the runway there was Broadway. And before fashion influencers there was Billie Burke. And before she was Glinda the Good Witch, Billy Burke was the original fashion influencer. Burke was a stage actress in the early 1900s at a time when…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 661)

1. The Motormat, a Los Angeles drive-in where the food was sent out on conveyor belts right to your car, 1948 Found on Vintage Everyday. 2. These lovely sketches by Jeanne Lanvin from 1929 Found in the French National Archives. 3. Taiwanese couple in their 80s pose with clothes forgotten at their laundromat, become fashion…

VIDEO: Talk to Your Daughters Before the Beauty Industry Does

78% of 18 year old women are unhappy with their bodies and this is probably a large part of the reason why… YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Starved of a Realistic Female Body Image? Flesh & Curves this way…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 659)

1. The understated, underrated photography of Evelyn Hofer When she was still alive, the art critic of the New York Times, Hilton Kramer championed her as “one of the most illustrious of living photographers”, but as Kramer pointed out, “She seems not even to have been heard of”. Hofer, who died aged 87 in 2009 but…

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