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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 658)

1. This Historic Home and Shop in Bath, England, is For Sale Biscuit factory, apothecary, emporium, and pub, this Bath property lived many lives before being converted into a house and shop by husband and wife duo, Patrick and Neri Williams, founders of Berdoulat. The Georgian live/work space has spectacular heritage bones and Inigo is marketing the historic…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 657)

1. Owlsley Stanley, the Acid King of the 1960s Stanley was a rather famed clandestine chemist who manufactured large quantities of LSD in the 60’s, provided LSD to the Beatles during the filming of “Magical Mystery Tour”. He also designed the Grateful Dead’s early sound and was the inspiration for the Bear logo (he was…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 656)

1. The colourful covers of a Japanese lifestyle magazine, in production since 1948 The magazine is Kurashi No Techo, found via Present & Correct 2. Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864) Lewis Carroll’s original manuscript of Ailce in Wonderland (then titled “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground”) is littered with thirty-seven of his own…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 655)

1. Avast online archive of vintage interior advertising ADSAUSAGE preserves material relating to 20th-century advertising and popular culture, with a focus on film and Los Angeles history. Holdings maintain a collection of over 40,000 artifacts, encompassing newspapers, magazines, slides, and photographs. Found via Present & Correct. 2. This virtual hotel wants you to vacation in…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 654)

1. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s art and antique collection heads to auction Check out the auction lots on Sotheby’s. 2. Why Young Collectors Are Buying Fussy Antiques “The news in the antiques world was, Young people are finished with this stuff, they’re never gonna like it again. We’re screwed. We’ve got warehouses full of material…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 653)

1. “Dreaming of Pomegranates”, 1913, by Felice Casorati an Italian painter, sculptor and printmaker More from this artist found on Weimar Art. 2. A master-planned retirement community with more than 1,740 RV homes Mobile home and RV parks cover a considerable portion of eastern Mesa, Arizona. The circular cluster is the Venture Out RV Resort.…

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

1. A Lot of Chairs An installation by Doris Salcado featuring 1,600 chairs squeezed between two buildings in Istanbul. This work takes reference from conditions of forced displacement and how it equals to a form of incarceration, which artist Doris Salcedo calls a “Topography of War”. Images found here. 2. An Oddly Pleasing Collection of Security Envelope…

18 Reasons why I’m Proud to be a Frenchy

This week the French are celebrating Bastille day. It’s a really big deal, sort of like American Independence day and we celebrate being Frenchies and all that patriotic stuff. So I thought being half French myself, I’d do a little patriotic post on why it’s awesome to be French… 1. We were infamously led into…

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

1. When Paris turned into Venice Paris and its environs has regularly experienced flooding previous to 1910. But that year, after months of rainfall, the city experienced one of the most severe episodes of flooding in its history. Some historians have come to see the flood as a “dress rehearsal” in solidarity that Parisians would…

North Korea’s Most Popular Pop Group is Everything you Expected

You could say I got a little off-track from my usual internet route today and stumbled upon North Korea’s own K-pop girl band, Moranbong Band, which is the most popular musical group in the country. It is also, as far I can tell, the only musical pop group in the country. Consisting of 18 female members,…

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