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

1. Inside an Old Pencil Factory The oldest pencil factory in Portugal, Viarco, photographed by Daniel Sommer found on Slanted Magazine. 2. Office girl on Rollerskates Photo by Hank Walker found in the LIFE archives 3. TV Stove Found on the Afflictor 4. In 1982, someone thought it would be a good idea to market frozen dinners…

A Brief Compendium of Vintage Caravan Brochures

There’s a certain “je ne sais quoi” about the kind of person who owns a caravan, isn’t there? So you would expect the sales brochures for a caravan to be a little more … let’s say colourful than your average marketing material. In fact, they’re kind of a blast. I’ve spent just about my whole afternoon trawling through an online…

Oh, to have been in Venice on the Night of September 3rd, 1951

It’s my birthday today– no, no, please, hold the gifts! I couldn’t possibly accept. But if you insist, I suppose I wouldn’t turn down a ticket and a time machine to the costume party of the century– Le Bal Oriental, hosted by an eccentric millionaire at his Venetian palazzo in September of 1951… Hosted by Charles de…

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

1. Girls Playing Cards ca 1920s Found on the Vintage Everyday Tumblr. 2. What’s left of an Indoor Water Park in the Netherlands Work by Pieter Van Roijen found on Behance. 3. A Floating Gym in Paris, designed to be Powered by Human Energy a human-powered Gym Boat that cruises along the Seine…

That time the Hollywood sign got High

On January 1st, 1976, Hollywood residents woke up to read their famous hilltop sign a little differently. Local prankster Danny Finegood had indulged in some large-scale wordplay and changed the sign to say “Hollyweed“. It was to be the first of many pranks on the Hollywood sign by Danny and coincided with the day less restrictive…

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

1. Experimental Utopias in America Dacha/Staff Building, Gesundheit! Institute, Hillsboro, West Virginia Dome Village, Los Angeles, California The Farm, Summertown, Tennessee Ruins of Drop City, Trinidad, Colorado Paolo Soleri at Arcosanti, Cordes Junction, Arizona Seaside, Florida “Sweet Earth” is a series of photographs and accompanying texts that chronicle experimental utopias in the United States, in…

Oh, Just a Gingerbread House Rendition of the Bates Motel

I should really be wrapping presents right now, but there’s one thing I had to share with you before we all disconnect for the holiday weekend. I’ve been waiting a whole year for this. Ever since he shared his family’s gingerbread rendition of The Shining with the internet last Christmas, I’ve been discretely stalking Aaron Keeling’s instagram account for the…

This Spinning Human Blender looks like a Very Bad Idea

I‘m no funfair prude. I’ll get on pretty much any rollercoaster you dare me to– but this? This just looks like one of those things you can’t quite believe was ever invented, like radioactive toothpaste or lime & cheese jello salad. From what I’ve learned, a modern-day descendent of the Rotor ride can still be found at a few theme parks around the…

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

1. Driving Lesson, East Africa, 1943 Askaris of the King’s African Rifles learning how to change gear at a Motor Transport Depot. Note the stones on their heads to stop them looking down. An askari was a local soldier serving in the armies of the European colonial powers in Africa. Found on Reddit. 2. The…

The Holiday Party at Studio 54 Got a Little Out of Hand

Tod Papageorge was not your average lingering Studio 54 paparazzi, in fact, he spent three decades as a Masters professor and director of photography at Yale. Time magazine calls his photographs of bleary-eyed disco queens as “something akin to poetry“. I can’t decide if his poetry makes me feel uncomfortable and guilty for looking, or naïve and prude for thinking…

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