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The Great American Picnic of 1948

It’s a Spring Friday afternoon and “school” is out, but you’ve had such a busy week, you’ve forgotten to plan your weekend … Well pssst! Follow me and hop into my time machine to the all-state picnic in Ontario, California circa 1948… Put your short shorts on and head to Euclid Avenue for a good old fashioned American chow…

Are Mongolian Nomads moving into China’s Ghost Cities?

“I stumbled across some traditional Mongolian yurts plonked in the middle of this empty ghost city,” said Shane Thoms in an email to me this morning. It’s always exciting to receive news from my favourite urbex photographer who is usually based in Japan but took a break to spend some time in a Northern Chinese ghost city in the…

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

1. Iran in the 1970s “Back in the 70s, people in Iran looked like this. Also, the man in the picture is my father”, submitted by a user on Reddit. 2. A Miniature version of Hell, discovered by demolition workers in Paris A crew of demolition workers in Paris discovered a mysterious wooden box…

No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Film, 70 People Were.

Three years ago, I published an article about a photo story I’d found hiding away deep in the LIFE archives. I saw it spread like wildfire on the internet; jaw-dropping photographs of Tippi Hedren and her family living with full-grown lions, including her daughter, a young Melanie Griffith who is the little girl pictured lying in bed with a…

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

1. This artist’s house in New Orleans More photographs found on the NY Times. 2. Stone Money Rai, or stone money, are large, circular stone disks carved out of limestone, used on the island of Yap, Micronesia. They have been used in trade by the locals and are described by some observers as a form of currency. The extrinsic (perceived) value of a specific stone is…

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

1. This House (and that pool) in Provence Restored house near Avignon by Belgian architect Mark Mertens of AM Designs. More photos found on Côté Maison. 2. Oum al-Maa Lake, Ubari Sand Sea, Libya The Ubari Sand Sea is a vast area of towering sand dunes in the Fezzan region of south-western Libya. But 200,000…

The Secret Playboy Mansion Tunnels that led to the Hollywood Homes of Celebrity Casanovas

The editorial staff at Playboy.com recently revealed that they have discovered a bunch of dusty old blueprints, plans and photographs in an unfinished basement area of the Playboy Mansion, which unveil a network of underground tunnels that allegedly once linked Hefner’s notorious bachelor’s pad to the homes of “Mr. J. Nicholson,” “Mr. W. Beatty,” “Mr. K. Douglas” and “Mr.…

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

1. A 24 Carrot Cake There are actually 24 baby carrots used in the cake recipe, so the title is completely legit. Recipe found here. 2. Vintage Weddings Nuptial Nostalgia found via Miss Moss 3. The Beatles having a Picnic in the Snow Found via Paris Picnic. 4. The Digitalization of 30,000…

A Compendium of Teenage Bedrooms on Screen

I never thought teenage bedroom design would inspire me but then I found this amazing Tumblr dedicated entirely to just that. Hollywood set design at its most loveable. It’s also a handy tool for picking what to watch (or re-watch) on movie night. Enjoy this trip down memory lane! Valley Girl (1983) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)…

The Victorian Daredevil Dame who threw herself off the Niagara Falls in a Barrel

She was a fragile-looking 63 year-old widow, barely getting by as a school teacher at the turn of the century, but Annie Edson Taylor didn’t sit around feeling sorry for herself. This is the outlandish story of a woman who took a barrel ride down the Niagara Falls in 1901 and became the first daredevil to survive…

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