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

1. The Last disco ball maker in the U.S Yolanda Baker, 69 years old, the last of the Omega crew still making the mirrored globes by hand. At the height of the disco craze, about two dozen women joined Ms. Baker at the factory, often with the Bee Gees blaring from a tape player, as…

The Congo Airport Playground

Some people’s instagram accounts are full of cat pictures or fashion selfies or cupcakes. And then there’s the instagram account of photographer Michael Christopher Brown, who hangs out with Congolese kids in airplane graveyards. From the looks of his instagram photos, Michael hasn’t been back home to Brooklyn in years. His profile is a continuously stunning feed of raw and intimate glimpses into a world…

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

1. Soviet Union “Restricted Areas” Airplane – amphibia with vertical take-off VVA14. The USSR built only two of them in 1976, one of which has crashed during transportation. Former residential buildings in a deserted polar scientific town specialised on biological research. The world’s largest diesel submarine. Former mining town which has been closed and…

Inside the Olympics of Taxidermy

Can you name a famous taxidermist? Me neither. When most people think of taxidermy, they think of dead animals hanging on a dark wood walls, but at the World Taxidermy Championships founded in 1983, the participants are trying to be accepted in the art world and see their creations recognised alongside the greatest art sculptures in the world. “You have…

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

1. This Father & Daughter giving everyone Hair Envy New York artist, singer/ songwriter Benny Harlem shares Instagram photos of him and his daughter Jaxyn, who has an almost identical head of hair. He says he wants to “bring that feeling of family and fatherhood back”, inspired by the TV sitcom shows he grew up watching. Discover…

Inside the Castle in the Middle of the Death Valley Desert

On my first California road trip a few years ago, one of our stops I was looking forward to the most was Death Valley’s mysterious Scotty’s Castle, a sprawling Spanish style manor built in the middle of nowhere in the roaring twenties. We were dangerously low on gas but determined to find this isolated oasis, and to my…

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

1. WWII Refugees Escaping to Safety in Syria Around the year 1944, the Middle East Relief and Refugee Administration (MERRA) began opening camps in Syria, Egypt and Palestine. With promises of a safe place to wait out the war and escape the bloody conflict, people of all ages and classes began the long journey. These…

Who Knew Bill Cunningham Made Haute Couture Hats?

“Who the hell is that tourist in the blue jacket with the fancy camera?” I wondered. It was my first Fashion Week experience: I was shadowing photographer Eddie Newton, holding up a reflector as he shot passing fashionistas outside of the Chloé show. While the hoards were running left to capture Anna Wintour, then right to catch Kanye West,…

One Guy’s Quest to Save the 1960s Time Capsule Homes of America

Miles McDermott might just be the youngest person to restore a time capsule home. An award-winning designer, local tastemaker and fellow old soul living in Phoenix, Arizona, he’s just spent the last few years transforming his own mid-century style home– which he found looking worse for wear on Craigslist– into a virtual museum of 1960s interior…

Beautiful Tomboys of the 1930s

I was tumbling through Tumblr, one of my favourite places on the internet to discover history’s lesser-known muses and there, on page thirty-something of my browsing, I stopped at a photograph of an androgynous woman taken by Marianne Breslauer, a name unfamiliar to me. As I began googling her work, my screen was soon taken over by black…

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