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These Cosmic Painted Gloves are the Only Way to Make it through Winter

Gloves are probably the least desirable piece of the winter wardrobe and most of the time I just feel like I a penguin when I have to wear them. I mean, have you ever seen a really cool pair of gloves? Well me neither, until I came across these weathered vintage leather gloves, hand-painted by LA-based…

Baroness Shraeder vs. Maria Von Trapp

When our favorite movies would end and the credits rolled, we couldn’t help but continue dreaming about the stories and the characters. Where filmmakers had skimmed over small details, we dove in and swam around in a sea of untold scenes. I’ve recently stumbled upon a literary treasure trove online called Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency…

Alaska’s Eskimo Ghost Village on Stilts

For thousands of years, a community of Inupiat Eskimos lived, survived and thrived in one of the harshest environments in the world. This is King Island and these are the improbable cliff-hanging houses of Ukivok that a displaced community still calls home more than 50 years after its abandonment. (c) NOAA Photo Library In 1959, the…

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

1. The Ruins of this Ancient Roman Library The library was completed in 135 AD and was built to house 12,000 scrolls and to honor the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, whose tomb is below the entrance. Photos found via Travel Junkies and Flickr 1, 2, 3 2. This Building in Macau Found on…

Shopping at Cuba’s Ration Supermarkets

You might be ready to light up that Cuban cigar thanks to Obama or fill up your Instagram account with voguish snapshots from a Havana vacation, but even with the historic opening of diplomatic relations with the US, how will life in Cuba really change for Cubans? To get a real idea of the transition that lies ahead for Cubans emerging from their…

The Fashion Institute of Technology is Cleaning out its Closet

The permanent museum collection at the Fashion Institute of Technology currently includes something like 50,000 garments and accessories, dating from the 18th century to the present– and they’re still acquiring new pieces all the time. So just like the rest of us ladies, every now and again, they need to do a little downsizing to refine the…

Exactly what Your Next Dinner Party Needs: Nuclear Reactor Porcelain Plates

To save your next dinner party (and its guests) from the curse of politically-correct small talk, set the table–and your ambiance– with a radioactive sense of irony. I’ve gone a little gaga for this collection of hand-painted porcelain plates which replace folkloric windmills and country farms with hand-painted nuclear reactors and power plants… Created by a German…

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

1. Abandoned Detroit Ballroom, host to Jazz Royalty, may get a second chance… The Vanity Ballroom hosted jazz greats including Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. The venue, on Detroit’s East Side has been closed for years now. This is what it looks like…. Now another one of these “impossible” projects looks…

A Quick Tour of the Remotest Island in the World

Not a single ship visited Tristan da Cunha from 1909 until 1919, until the HMS Yarmouth finally stopped by to inform the islanders of the outcome of World War I. Accessible on by sea, Tristan da Cunha is in fact an archipelago, the remotest inhabited one in the world, although only the main island was settled by man, with…

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

1. A Time Capsule of Medical History Discover this amazing little museum in Indiana, found on Thought & Sight. 2. The Streets of San Francisco Found on this instagram account via This isn’t Happiness. 3. London’s Abandoned system of Elevated Walkways A fascinating documentary well worth your time… 4. Miniature Facades by Drew…

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