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

1. Miniature Mom & Pop Facades of NYC Randy Hage’s has spent many years photographing the gradually disappearing street level Mom & Pop storefronts in SoHo and then recreating them in stunning three dimensional detail to preserve memories of their “hand painted signs, layers of architecture, wonderful patinas and intriguing history.” You can see all his sculptures vs…

The Fashion Brand the Cool Kids would Rather Keep a Secret

It’s not very often that you’ll catch me dedicating an entire post to a fashion brand, but now and again, I tumble head over heels for something truly unique and just absolutely need to share it with you… It’s not often that you come across a shirt that doubles as a hand-painted piece of art, which could sound…

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

1. New York City, 1900 Found on Reddit. 2. Alexandre Dumas’ hideaway on the grounds of Monte Cristo Castle in Marly le Roi, France Where he possibly wrote The Three Musketeers? Found here and Wikipedia. 3. Soldiers (left to right) from Britain, United States, Australia, India, Germany, France, Austria Hungary, Italy, & Japan…

Liverpool has a Buried Underworld and No One Knows Why

For fifteen years, retired Liverpudlian locals and curious have-a-go volunteers have been digging up a vast network of 200 hundred-year old tunnels and cellar systems beneath their streets, not knowing how far they go, where they lead to and why they are even there. The only clue history has given, is that they were built…

This is Not Burning Man, These are the Soviet Bus Stops of Siberia

At first glance, I thought I was looking at one of this year’s fantastical desert sculptures debuted at the Burning Man Festival, but these oddball structures, seemingly plonked in the middle of nowhere, are in fact a product of none other than the former Soviet Union. When photographer Christopher Herwig told friends he was going to travel to…

Trust Brooklyn Hipsters to make Party Balloons Cool Again

They’re calling it balloon craft, “a modern, fresh and cool” take-over of the classic kid’s party balloon. A young father from Williamsburg, NY, Robert Moy founded the Brooklyn Balloon Company in 2012 after a few impromptu performances at friends’ kids parties and was urged to start a business. Three years later, he has a following of…

Last Train to the Eiffel Tower: The Station that Paris Forgot

On the outskirts of Paris proper, at the back of a parking lot down a side street in a quiet residential neighbourhood of Clichy, there sits an old forgotten train station; crumbling at the edges, blackened in the corners and scarred on its facade. But it wasn’t always sitting here, hidden away and withering in an inconspicuous…

The Ethiopian Fashion Tribe that turns Nature into Haute Couture

Remember when you tried to get creative and bejewel your jean shorts or decorate your new tennis shoes with a Sharpie pen? Well this is not that. In the Omo Valley of southern Ethiopia, the Surma and Mursi people don’t have glue guns, sewing machines, sequins or Sharpies to accessorise with. Inspired by the tools and textiles…

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

1. Married to the Mob (Graphic content ahead)… Actress Alice Granville shows off two bullet holes in her arm at Roosevelt Hospital after she was shot by her hitman husband, Pete Donahue, 1931. The mob moll said Donahue shot her at a nightclub party to prove his affection. Smitty White was arrested and held at…

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

1. Stock Photos from the 1970s Found via Mashable 2. This 70 Year Old with So much Swag Found on So Bad So Good and UBerlin. 3. Vietnamese “Mods” in the 1960s Found on Flickr via Shooting Film. 4. Los Angeles Might Be Getting Occasional Party Train to Vegas X Train, which has been…

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