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

1. Meet Baddie Winkle, Who Fell In Love With Raver Clothes At Age 87 Baddie Winkle, Instagram’s Oldest Teen. Full article found on Refinery 29. 2. Compromise Cake Found on Reddit. 3. Losing Weight in Heels at Rose Dor Farm, 1938 An editorial from a 1938 issue of LIFE magazine about Rose Dor Farms, an…

Meet the New England Inkeeper Moving to Paris and Giving Away Her Charming Inn

Today I opened my inbox to find an email with the subject title, “From a great inn in Maine“. Sarah introduced herself with a picture. “This is me:” she wrote and posted a photograph underneath. Isn’t she cute? “I’m an innkeeper on the coast of Maine but I’m ready to leave this life and follow my girlfriend (she…

Buried by Nature: The Dark Colonial Past of Jungle Book Island

It has become one with the jungle since the last human inhabitants abandoned its shores in World War II. Ross Island, or as I’ve come to call it, “Jungle Book Island”, was once referred to as the “Paris of the East”, for its opulent architecture and exciting social life amidst the unlikely setting of a tropical island…

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

1. An 8.5 Million Dollar Dollhouse Built over 13 years by Elaine Diehl in the 1980s, the Astollat Dollhouse is now on display from Thursday through Dec. 8 at the Shops at Columbus Circle, in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center. More photos found on Bloomberg. 2. Hotel Notepads of Cult Movies The Overlook Hotel (The Shining) Royal Imperial Windsor Arms…

The Subculture of Japanese Trucker Art

‘Lit up like a Christmas tree’ doesn’t quite cover it. Moving pieces of art, embellished with massive neon lights and bling-tastic chrome; something between a science fiction robot and a Las Vegas arcade. “Decotora” trucks (translation: trucks decorated with illuminations), are the emblems of an unlikely subculture to emerge in the last decade out on the…

Made in Holland: The Chanel of Africa

A small town factory in the Netherlands might not seem like the obvious birthplace for African haute couture. Helmond is a place most people (Dutch or African) wouldn’t be able to point out on a map and yet, this unassuming little town is where one of the most iconic fashion brands of West and Central Africa was created. As the main…

Meet the Family with the Secret Recipe for making London’s Iconic Blue Plaques

Jimi Hendrix has one. Virginia Woolf has one. So does Karl Marx. Since 1984 all the plaques have been hand made by just one family– and they’re pretty adorable… Via Huck Magazine.

3 Ways to Spot Fake Wine: Meet the Sherlock Holmes of Wine Crime

I won’t pretend I know much of anything about buying expensive wine, but I do know that I love playing detective. Armed with blue lights and razor blades in her toolkit, Maureen Downey has become a top wine fraud investigator, helping to rid the wine industry of counterfeit and stolen wine. Yes, wine crime is actually a…

And they say Romance is Dead? Rooms by the Hour at the Paris Love Hotel

I‘ve taken the liberty of translating a few lines from the brochure… “Finally rooms that rent by the hour for a gallant time!” – Yes, finally! “Original rooms, a moment of intimacy in the heart of Paris for couples in love.” –I think it’s really sweet how they specify the rooms are for couples in…

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

1. Steve McQueen and his wife, Neile Adams, firing pistols in the Palm Springs desert in 1963 Found on Reddit. Poison Garden 2. Empty Chinese Amusement Parks What happens when the crowds go home? That’s what Stefano Cerio has spent the last year investigating for his latest book, Chinese Fun. The Italian photographer has…

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