13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 680)

1. These 1980s Dollhouses, made for an architect’s competition In 1983 Architectural Design Magazine launched a competition to for architects to design a doll house. Find more on Present & Correct. 2. The Artist’s House in Paris, 1913 By Czech artist, Tavík František Šimon (1877-1942). Found on Art Nau. 3. A woman applied to Disney in…

A Gourmet Dinner on the London Underground

The average commuting Londoner spends up to 75 minutes a day on the Tube. Convincing one to get back on the Underground for dinner would probably seem like a terrible idea, but we’re not talking about a late night bacon butty and a bag of crisps to chomp on the last train home. No, we’re…

Investigating Brooklyn’s 156-Year-Old Secret Society for Black Women

MacDonough Street looks much the same as any street in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood; long and leafy and residential, with historic townhouses neatly arranged in rows, punctuated by the occasional larger building. But one of those larger buildings – 87 MacDonough Street – stands out. Although today its windows are boarded, you can see the grandeur…

Here’s What We Know About the Hundred Mile-Long Linear City they’re Building in the Desert

The opportunity to design and build an entire city from scratch sounds like the dream of every child (and child at heart) in possession of a Lego set and an imagination, and this is exactly what NEOM, the team behind The Line, a new sci-fi city currently underway in Saudi Arabia and set to be…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 679)

1. The historical facade of an 1890s building in Cincinnati was revealed during renovations Found on Viewing Mag. 2. The Crown’s end of an era auction of sets, costumes and props at Bonham’s Experience the exceptional craftmanship and creativity behind The Crown with a special exhibition of the sets, costumes and props from series 1 – 6, touring…

Paul Is Dead: The bizarre conspiracy that became part of The Beatles phenomenon

‘’Those freaks was right when they said you was dead” spat John Lennon in the 1971 song ‘How Do You Sleep?’ It was a venomous retort to his ex-bandmate Paul McCartney in an ongoing feud after the break-up of The Beatles. But what he meant by these caustic lines is a little more outré. These…

A Brief Compendium of Ruffs, History’s Most Inconvenient Fashion Fad

To us comfy dressers of today the idea of an itchy, restrictive gadget – fashionable or not – impeding our head movement isn’t the most appealing of accessories. But the ruff, a cumbersome featherlike collar worn around the neck, like so many other awkward fashion fads throughout history, was very much of its time and…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 678)

1. David Hockney in Paris, 1972 That sweater! Portrait by Jean Léger? Found on Pinterest. 2. Old Bohemia vs faux new Bohemia – The Bystander, 1913. “There is, at the present time, a curious tendency among so-called ‘Society people’ to play at Bohemianism.” Found on Alchemie Books. 3. “We’re not the people with the tinfoil…

The Familiar Hollywood Tale of How Screen Legend Veronica Lake Wound up Working in a Dive Bar

In 1962, a reporter with the New York Post got a tip that screen goddess of the 1940s, Veronica Lake, was working as a barmaid in the lobby of the Martha Washington Hotel, a low rent boarding house in Midtown Manhattan. Using the name Connie de Toth, she said she enjoyed her job because “I…

Time Machine du Jour: A 1960s London Flower Taxi

It can’t be often that you come across a charming little business lost in the archives and think – wow, that’s a really innovative idea! Time travel with us back to a 1960s London when a young couple decided to sell flowers from the back of a taxi… This got me thinking about the classic…