13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 696)

1. A workshop in NYC where you can make your own matchbox shadowboxes Book your workshop with Behind the Matches. 2. Mysterious scrapbooks full of artist obituaries found in the met archives The two scrapbooks held thousands of obituaries of painters, sculptors, and photographers of the early twentieth century. Organized in chronological order by publication…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 695)

1. Paris traffic jams Found from a series on Live Journal. 2. Night at the Museum in Paris Airbnb has launched its latest competition for the Olympics at the Musée d’Orsay. A perfect opportunity for Thomas Crown, surely. Find out more on Airbnb. 3. Aphrodite, Stuck in the mud Found on Arkeonews and ART news.…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 694)

1. This Parisian illustrator Lovely work by Yukiko Noritake. 2. Who Ate Where: The Restaurants (and clientele) that defined New York I just finished watching Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs The Swans and found this compendium of NYC’s social history told through its restaurants, quite interesting: It’s only in New York that we have the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 692)

1. Springtime Autochromes, 1900s Found on Société française de photographie. More about the surprising art of autochromes here. 2. How to get people to come to your art show Found on This isn’t Happiness. 3. Royal Neighbors of America, one of the largest women-led life insurers in the USA The early members of the Society…

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

1. A Pastel-colored Trailer Park “A perfect summer day, sunny and warm in the Owens River Valley. We stumbled across this trailer court in either Lone Pine or Independence & have not been able to find it since….we’ve certainly looked. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a place that is ‘just big enough’….?….to get rid…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 690)

1. Rococo and Baroque Pools Prompts by @tomislavmarcijus & @marcijusaivision (Midjourney V6 + Magnific AI) 2. Loft Law: The Last of New York City’s Original Artist Lofts The new book by Joshua Charow is available here. 3. Antique Ribbon Swatches Browse this 19th century book in the Winterthur library archives and this one from the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition.…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 689)

1. Abkhazia, the Lost Paradise by Pierpaolo Mittica Abkhazia is a non-place. However, it was once considered a paradise. In the years of the Soviet Union, this strip of land spanning 200 kilometres by 100 and facing onto the Black Sea was the chosen holiday destination of the political elite, who could enjoy hospitality of…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 688)

1. Paris Waiters Race as Storied Contest Returns On Sunday, for the first time in over a decade, Paris revived a tradition: an annual race of cafe and restaurant waiters. About 200 men and women swerved, jostled and jogged 1.2 miles through the city streets, which were lined with cheering crowds. Contestants rushed through the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 687)

1. Truth Windows A traditional feature of strawbale houses is the truth window – a small section of a wall that is left unplastered on the interior, and a frame is used to show the walls are actually made from straw bales for insulation. Truth windows often take on the role of an altar, bringing gratitude for the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 684)

1. An ostrich jockey in the streets of Brussels, 1933 Photographer by Jacques Hersleven, colorised by RDB Colors. 2. Concept art for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Found on the Art behind the Magic. 3. Van Gogh’s lesser-known Olive Tree series Vincent van Gogh painted at least 15 paintings of olive trees, mostly in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1889.…