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

1. On the Set Jennifer Jones on the set of “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”. Found here. 2. Colombia’s Casa en el Agua: A hostel you’ll never want to leave For about thirty bucks a night … a little piece of paradise in the middle of the San Bernardo National Park in the ocean off…

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

1. Elevated Railway design on Greenwich Street, New York City, 1867 Colorized Photo of Charles Harvey demonstrating his design. Found on Tumblr. 2. Vintage bus passes from the 1930’s & 1940’s Found on Pinterest. 3. The Texas state prison Rodeo, the only integrated sporting event in the South in the 1930s Before…

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

1. The Study Set from “The Haunted Mansion” The Haunted Mansion is a 2003 American fantasy comedy horror film starring Eddie Murphy based on the Disney theme park attraction of the same name. Found on Steampunk Tendencies. 2. The World’s Oldest hat shop: founded in 1676, created the Bowler Hat in 1849 James Lock & Co in London. Still in…

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

1. A Late Poet’s Houseboat for Sale A bohemian one-bed, one-bath Sausalito houseboat that once belonged to Shel Silverstein, the late author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, listed in March, now asking $390,000. The author lived on a former WWII military boat christened the “Evil Eye”. Silverstein moved into the converted wartime tub…

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

1. Found under the carpet “Pulled up the carpet at the house, and guess what I found”– submitted by Reddit user Nnewel. 2. Unseen Photos Of Rolling Stones Discovered At US Flea Market Lauren White, whilst rummaging around her local flea market in Los Angeles, California, stumbled upon a collection of 23 photographs…

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

1. The Floating Cabin of your dreams Claudius Schulze’s first attempt to get around Hamburg’s rising rent prices was a treehouse. He was met, however, with the gargantuan might of German building regulations, which led him to discover how much simpler it would be to build on water, where anyone can build a structure under…

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

1. French Facade Fakery Facades is an ongoing series by French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy (previously) which strips isolated buildings of everything but their forward-facing exteriors. It reminds me of another photography project that turned Paris into a giant film set. Found via This is Colossal. 2. A Peephole Cinema A tiny theater hidden in an alley in…

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

1. Underwater Works By photographer James Casebere. 2. Beneath Antarctica’s Sea Ice Whoever you are, whatever you do, your job is almost certainly boring as hell compared with the researchers who spent the last six weeks diving beneath Antarctica’s sea ice to study alien life forms on the ocean floor. Found on Earther. 3.…

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

1. Gustave Eiffel’s Swiss Villa Getaway Villa Claire, named after his daughter, was Gustave Eiffel’s preferred place of rest when he wasn’t building giant iron towers or attempting to engineer the Panama Canal. In Vevey, Switzerland. From a collection at Musée D’Orsay, prints for sale on Muzeo. 2. Just a Tennis Court inside a…

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

1. A meteorologist who has spent the past 30 years living alone at a remote Arctic outpost Vyacheslav Korotki, lives on the barents sea, in a century old wooden house that became a meteorological station in 1933, where he was sent by the russian state to measure and log climatic conditions and then transmit the…