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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 734)

1. A wonderful tip from a reader about a very unusual French water tower found by the roadside From our reader: Just perusing your recent article of your internet finds and thought you might like to see this “treehouse”. I found it just outside Pontorson Railway Station when making a “pilgrimage” to the amazingMont St.…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 701)

1. The Secret Language of Stamp Placement Popularized by young couples in the Victorian period, stamps were once used to symbolize a number of romantic messages. From a heartfelt “I am always thinking of you” to a wishful “When are you coming to see me?”, many secret conversations were had thanks to stamps. Read more…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 733)

1. Paper Sculptures by Kate Kato (who also teaches online courses) Kate is a sculptor living in the Welsh Borders, obsessed with flora, fauna and paper. Shop her creations here. Take an online paper mushroom-making course here! Because, why not. 2. Salvador Dali’s Anti-Venereal Disease poster he made in 1941 Found on Open Culture. Further reading:…

The Women Warriors who served Wine on the Battlefield

Forgotten feminist icons of the French military, the Vivandières, alternatively known as cantinières, was the French title for women attached to military units who sold wine to the troops and offered better cuisine on the battlefield than the army could offer. An often overlooked part of women’s and military history, while they were not sanctioned to do any…

The Macaroni Club: Fashion History’s Forgotten Drag Subculture?

There’s a famous American song “Yankee Doodle” – you might’ve heard of it – the lyrics go like this: “Yankee Doodle went to town, A-riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his cap, And called it macaroni.” The familiar patriotic tune was in fact created by the British to mock the Americans during the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 732)

1. Pure inspiration: Mixed media by artist & collector Nina Garner Nina is a collector. Inspired by 19th century portrait and landscape photography, her work encompasses various techniques and materials to create compositions that glorify moments in time, the beauty in nature and people, using film photography and found objects, both synthetic and natural. Find…

Keep Calm and Make Anti-Coronavirus Moonshine for your Hands

The recipe is stupidly simple. We spend a fair amount of time geeking out over post-apocalyptic scenarios here at MessyNessy; there’s an entire category dedicated to “abandoned places” when and if you need it, zombie/ disaster movies are admittedly one of my favourite genres, and I’ve often wondered how I would fare in such scenarios.…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 731)

1. This artist who creates the most incredible dollhouses Dive into Amy Balfour’s tiny colourful universe. 2. The Ancient Saudi Arabian Tribe of ‘Flower Men’ Usually camera-shy, “a photographer took a series of exceptional portraits of the “flower men” of Saudi Arabia — a tribe of people whose traditions date back more than two millennia.”…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 730)

1. These Tiny Nomadic Caravans Made of Found Objects By French artist Paskal Tirmant – check out his website, there’s some incredible things on there. 2. Man on a camel posing with a Soviet Soyuz rocket, 1980s Taken at Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Found on Reddit. 3. Alternative Use for a Stale Baguette Found…

The Many Faces of a Forgotten Androgynous Hero

Who was Claude Cahun? As ambiguous as an empty page, a radical and an indefinable surrealist who traversed social construct; artist, performer, photographer, sculptor, writer, WWII resistance fighter, female, male, other; Claude Cahun was all of these things, or none of these things. As a largely unknown early pioneer of queer culture, Claude found later…

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