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

1. A 1969 Barber Shop Car This 1969 Barber car was designed by car-customizer Joe Bailon at a time when the custom car craze was first starting and a demand for wilder and wilder vehicles was emerging. Complete with twin antique barber chairs, authentic barber poles that doubled as turn signals and even a porcelain…

Salvatore Ferragamo and his Celebrity Feet

In 1914, sixteen year old Salvatore undertook the long journey to the United States to live with one of his brothers who worked at a cowboy boot factory in Boston (a cowboy boot factory in Boston?!). The eager young Ferragamo went to the factory to learn more about the art of making footwear. The modern…

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

1. I fell in love with the Maico Mobil Why can’t scooters look like this anymore? The Maico Mobil is an early touring motorcycle made by German manufacturer, Maico between 1950 and 1958. 2. The Abandoned Ice House Photographer Voreas climbed Mount Ossa (also known as Kissavos) in the Thessaly region of Greece and came across an abandoned radar station consumed by ice.…

30 Secret Doors to Hidden Places

From mysterious doors and secret rooms to hidden passageways and nature’s portals, my sense is that you and I have an unquenchable thirst for this stuff, so here are 30 of my favourites that I’d like to show you, freshly fished from the rabbit hole that is the internet… Behind the bookshelf 1. via Bookshelf…

Horse Meat, Sexual Favors & North Korean Style: Paris Fashion Week

Another season, another Paris Fashion Week! Nessy and her pal Kath couldn’t resist getting in on the action, so off we went to ask some fashionistas more of those hard-hitting questions… Here it is, a brand new episode of Fashion for Dummies 101 at Paris Fashion Week: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cy3NGnffgY] ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .

HistoryPin: An Online Time Machine

As if Google Street View wasn’t already cool enough, allowing you to virtually be in two places at once, there’s a new website in town that’s translocating you one step further– into history! You’ve probably looked up your street or your house on Google Street View already, right? What if you could also compare…

A Guide to Dealing with Negative Comments from Internet Trolls

Although so many of you wonderful readers leave amazing and encouraging comments on this space, occasionally there’s someone out there that leaves a negative one and it seems to have the power to grab my attention more than any other comment and consume and torment my soul … or at least bug me for a…

Midway Island

I recently learned that Walt Disney decided to put the trash cans in Disneyland’s Magic Kingdom no more than 30 steps apart after observing guests in other parks and averaging out how many steps a person would take before dropping trash on the ground. ¹ The video you are about to watch is about an island,…

American Cowgirls of the 1940s

This post is pretty much the result of me getting lost in the LIFE magazine archives again and coming across a bunch of mostly unpublished photographs of cowgirls that were too good not to share. These snaps are a melange of photo stories by LIFE photographers, Nina Leen, Peter Stackpole and Cornell Capa between 1947-48 at the…

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

1. Art Excavation by Shan Hur I love the make-believe element of Shan Hur’s installations, offering the viewer an appreciation for the art itself, but also for the adventurous ways in which objets d’art can often be discovered. via TheKhooll.com 2. Vintage Luggage Stickers You’d be surprised how hard it is to find a cool shop online that…

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