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

1. A Pink Scottish Castle Craigievar Castle, from this lovely Instagram account, touring the UK in a Morris Minor. 2. This 1930s LA Home For Sale comes with a key to famous High Tower elevator Accessed by the famous High Tower elevator, the Streamline Moderne-ish residence contains four bedrooms and 4.5 baths within its 2,616…

So Ben & Jerry’s Has An Actual Graveyard for Their Discontinued Flavours

I‘ve never been to Vermont, but if I go, I know exactly where I’m headed: The Ben & Jerry’s factory in Waterbury. Why? To cross the Ben & Jerry’s Flavour Graveyard off my bucket list of course! Surrounded by a white picket fence on a grassy knoll, lie the headstones of especially beloved flavours or…

The Little Paris Beekeeping School

Paris as you know, is like a jewel box, hiding endless little gems; another of which I’m going to share with you today, nestled in the iconic Jardin du Luxembourg. Begin by finding the south west entrance to the gardens on Rue d’Assas, near Hemingway’s old stomping grounds, and turn right into the fruit orchard…

The Male Beauty Contest of the Sahara Desert

The beauty standards and criteria aren’t all that different from your typical beauty pageant, except in the nomadic Wodaabe tribe of Niger, it’s the girls who get to judge the boys. That old cliché that only women are high maintenance? Well, meet the tribesmen who spend an incredible amount of time, energy, and money to get…

The Abandoned Soviet Space Centre Complete with Two Unfinished Spacecrafts Inside

After five years searching the internet for the abandoned and forgotten, it takes a lot to shock me these days. But this. This, is something you don’t see everyday. Inside a remote rusting warehouse in the Kazakhstan desert that once housed the Soviet space shuttle program, Russian urbex photographer managed to gain access inside the hulking…

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

1. On the Set Jennifer Jones on the set of “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”. Found here. 2. Colombia’s Casa en el Agua: A hostel you’ll never want to leave For about thirty bucks a night … a little piece of paradise in the middle of the San Bernardo National Park in the ocean off…

Freedom Riding on a Harley: The 1950s All-Black Biker Gang

“While Rosa Parks took her historic bus ride, and as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and Huey P. Newton and the Black Panthers stood bravely for equal rights, the East Bay Dragons MC risked life and limb during days when a black man riding a Harley chopper was a revolutionary act.” The East Bay…

Now You can Eat Gucci Too

Every now and again, I like to look in on the happenings of the fashion industry– especially when it comes to Gucci. It’s one of the few major luxury fashion brands today that wants to tell a good story through design (they’ve even let me write some content for them in the past). But today it’s…

Dudes Fashion Week: 12 Rules of Pitti Uomo

It’s men’s fashion week again and over in Florence, the Pitti Uomo parade of dapperly dressed dudes is out in full force. Worlds away from your typical street style photography of other fashion weeks, the men of Pitti Uomo have their own rules… Don’t bother coming unless your fabrics look like they were woven by…

How to Bribe Tom Hanks with a Vintage Typewriter

Aside from being one of the most loveable people on the planet, did you know that Tom Hanks was an avid vintage typewriter collector? He loves typewriters so much, he constantly posts pictures and videos of his latest acquisitions to his social media pages or of him typing away at various locations like the Eiffel…

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