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

1. A Wild West Ghost Town for Sale Located 40 minutes from Palm Springs, 20 minutes from Joshua Tree National Park, and not far from Pioneertown– Stargazing Desert Retreat, is currently on the market for $1,495,000. Built by Hollywood moguls as a permanent Wild West set—the property includes a main house with over 3,000 square feet, four…

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

1. Kitty Couches Crochet Patterns Enough said. Found here.   2. Giant extinct sea turtle called an Archelon A genus of extinct sea turtles, the largest genus of sea turtles that has ever been documented, and the second-heaviest turtles documented behind Stupendemys. Archelon lived at a time when a shallow sea covered most of central North America. Most of the known remains have…

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

1. Forgotten Bollywood Film Sets “When I went back to Kolkata in 2013 a few years after photographing the cinema halls there, it was evident to trace the footsteps of film backwards from the cinema hall to film studio. The old filmmaking gear was stored in corners of the shooting floors and in dark rooms…

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

1. The ghostly remains of a failed techno-utopia “Restricted Areas” is a stunning photography series by Russian visual artist Danila Tkachenko, who traveled to secret cities in the former Soviet Union to capture everything from an abandoned diesel submarine (the world’s largest) and a concrete sarcophagus that seals a mysterious 2.5-mile-deep hole–at the time, one of the…

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

1. Frida Kahlo meeting Josephine Baker, Paris 1939 Frida, having recently divorced from her husband, Diego Rivera, came to Paris to showcase her work at the Louvre. Josephine Baker was, at the time, under the employ of French Military Intelligence as an “honorable correspondent.” She would try to tease out information about German troop locations and…

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

1. Declassified Photos of Atomic Tests in Colour Declassified photos from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Archived Images of Atomic tests by artists Greg Mac Gregor and Clay Lipsky. Taken at the Nevada test site in the 1950s, when the US army put mannequins within the radius of nuclear test explosions to see what would…

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

1. What Ali wore. Berlin’s 83 year-old dandy. “This is Ali. He walks past my work every morning wearing great clothes,” explains photographer Zoe Spawton, who works in a cafe in Berlin and began noticing Ali as he walked passed every morning at 9:05am, impeccably dressed. She began to take his photo and launched What Ali Wore in…

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

1. A Drowned Church: Before & After A severe drought in Venezuela exposed a Gothic church that had been underwater for more than two decades (pictured before the drought in 2008 and after the water receded in 2010). The 82 foot tall church in the town of Potosi was drowned when a hydroelectric dam was built in…

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

1. The Last House on Holland Island “Built in 1888, this Victorian home from a different era has braved the elements and fought shoreline erosion on Holland Island in Chesapeake Bay for well over a century. Despite former resident and owner Stephen White’s best efforts to save the house and protect the island, the waters…

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

1. A Payphone Graveyard in New York Payphones are disappearing little by little, but where are they going? Photographer Dave Bledsoe found a veritable payphone graveyard underneath the elevated West Side Highway at 135th and 12th Avenue: “At least one hundred old, battered pay phones were locked behind a fence near the Park’s Department building.” [Upper…
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