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

1. London Underground: Then & Now Found on imgur 2. Doctored Art Closed Zombiescape Wonder Queen We Want $ The Art of Andrez Leipzig 3. A Ghost Town for Sale with a Liquor License – $225,000 In Seneca, California: Want to buy a ghost town with a bar and liquor license?…

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

1. Princess Leia off-duty Carrie Fisher, 1983, found on Reddit 2. An Abandoned Car swallowed by Ivy found in Beijing, China In China, abandoned cars are known colloquially as “jiangshiche,” or “zombie cars.” Police tried to remove the vines, but they were so thick and thorny that it was decided the vehicle should…

Anywhere but Here: Deserted Banking Empire turned Skyscraper Slum

Featured in this week’s Homeland. It was built for stockbrokers and bankers in their thousand dollar suits to make million dollar deals, but for nearly two decades it has held the less impressive title of the world’s tallest squat. Welcome to the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, more commonly known as the Torre David (the Tower of David) in…

Three Cities, Three Nocturnal Cultures

Europe is hardly a nocturnal place. Most cities seem to close up shop and tuck into bed by 10pm, unlike New York, where you can buy anything at any hour. But three different photographers, in three different European cities took to the streets to document the stand alone trades that operate after dark. These are…

Here is the Instagram Account of a Photojournalist stationed in North Korea

David Guttenfelder might just be the most interesting person to follow on Instagram. As the Associated Press Chief photographer in Asia, he’s a bit of a regular in North Korea now that the AP has opened a bureau in Pyongyang. “I’ve covered stories where foreign photographers are everywhere. But in North Korea I’m usually the…

Shoefiti: Behind the Modern Mystery of Shoe Tossing

Have you ever seen a pair of sneakers tied together and hanging over a power line? Chances are you have. The practice of shoe flinging, nicknamed ‘shoefiti’, is widespread and can be found the world over, from busy city streets to the loneliest desert highways. But for such a worldwide phenomenon, the strangest thing of…

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

1. Early Skype Found on Flickr 2. The Sliding Facade of an Abandoned House British designer Alex Chinneck created the installation – called From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes – by removing the facade of a detached four-storey house that had been derelict for eleven years and replacing it…

10 Reasons why Vintage Hollywood Sci-Fi is still So Good

I spent the majority of my day today digging through vintage science fiction groups on Flickr, (as you do) and found a very cool archive of images from a time that seemed to have just a little bit more imagination and creativity. And because making random lists is one of my favourite things to do,…

The Kowloon Walled City Replica: Historical Accident turned Amusement Park!

If you’ve been following this blog for a while or have had the chance to dig through the archives, you might remember we looked at Kowloon “Anarchy” City, the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century that belonged to no country and where law had no place; an interconnected urban enclave that was for…

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

1. The USSR’s first aerial tramway, still going strong after nearly 60 years The mining town of Chiatura, Georgia, surrounded by steep cliffs, is criss-crossed by a network of aging Soviet-era aerial tramways that are still in use today. Full photo story found on the Atlantic, photographed by Amos Chapple 2. Hot Wheels:…

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