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

1. A Silver-gilt Foot, 1450 Now in the Landes museum in Zurich. This reliquary was made c. 1450 to house a relic of one of the Holy Innocents massacred on the orders of King Herod.⁣ It is rendered as a realistic silver foot wearing a gilded sandal. Although there are some pearls and a real…

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

1. Oh, just a Floating Bed in the Ocean Los Angeles–based artist Ariana Papademetropoulos’ new body of work, “Just Like Arcadia” highlights and explores the way the natural becomes mediated and conceptualized through domestication, locating interiority as a key in understanding the process in which mythologies and histories are created and perpetuated. View this post on…

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

1. Waiting room with TV sets at Greyhound bus station, Los Angeles, USA, 1969 Found here. 2. Before McDonald’s there was “Snappy Service System” The saga of Snappy Service System dates back to the 1930s. This Chicago hamburger stand was forgotten for decades, encased under yellow paint during its long afterlife as La Pasadita, a…

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

1. Miniature Worlds inside Pocket Watches & Pendants By Gregory Grozos 2. Lough Key, a lake in Ireland How to visit. Photographed by Malte Heitmueller. 3. A Grand French chateau in Bordeaux has reopened as a hotel Following a full renovation, the centuries-old La Maison d’Estournel is once again opening its doors to guests visiting…

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

1. The inventor of modern butter sculpture Caroline Shawk couldn’t afford marble, so she started making butter sculptures to raise money at local fairs. Her butter sculpture became a runaway hit at Centennial exhibition, which allowed her to open her own studio and work with marble. Found on Wikipedia. 2. Occult Ceramics The best kind.…

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

1. China’s Abandoned Nuclear City “404 is the name of an abandoned city in the Gansu province of northeast China, situated within the sandy plains of the Gobi desert. The city was built in 1958; it occupied an area of 4 km2 and included a factory, police station, school, and a residential area. In the 1990s,…

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

1. A picture worth well over 1000 words Let me start off by saying I’m terrified of open water. For some reason, I thought it would be a great idea to wake up at 4am, drive to the Dead Sea, and swim out to this salt island before sunrise. The distance from the beach was…

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

1. The Cruise Ship that could have been The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929. First conceived by Dr. Claude Dornier in 1924, planning started in late 1925 and after over 240,000 work-hours it was completed in June 1929. The type was popular with…

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

1. A vintage trailer, complete with a 1955 BMW Isetta micro-car The BMW Isetta became the world’s first mass-production car to achieve a fuel consumption of 3 L/100 km. It was the top-selling single-cylinder car in the world, with 161,728 units sold. Found on Vintage Camping. 2. The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket You might…

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

1. Starcourt Mall from ‘Stranger Things’ is actually a real dead mall The Verge: There’s a reason why the Starcourt Mall, the principal location for the third season of “Stranger Things” looks so real: it’s built inside of a real shopping mall. Specifically, it was built inside of Georgia’s Gwinnett Place Mall, which was built just a…