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

1. When People Accidentally Found Their Doppelgängers In Museums Found on Bored Panda. 2. This Fantabulous Forgotten Boy Band The Fantabulous Jags ladies and gentlemen. Have a listen. 3. Matching Family Sleepwear of the Seventies Found on Grooveland. 4. Lights made from real French Bread A bread has some interesting charms. There’re potentials…

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

1. Mr & Mrs Karsy’s Giant Myriphon From the Byron collection but little more information is given on the photo other than “Musical act” penciled on the back. The unusual contraption depicted was probably the centrepiece of a musical act at Coney Island or at Union Square circa early 1900s. Found on the Museum of…

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

1. Art Deco Details of LA’s Union Station Photographed by Dean Cheng, found on Flickr. 2. The Anonymous Key Window on 13th between Chestnut & Market You approach, and there is little to no dialogue. He knows what you want. You want keys made. This is all that is available Smaller than a food…

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

1. This Sunken 200 year-old Swedish Cabin (for rent on Airbnb) In the early 1800s a man named Little Jon lived in this so called earth cabin (swe. ‘backstuga’) … In Sweden earthen cabins was common in the forests from the 1600s until the late 1800s and was inhabited by poor, old or sometimes criminal people… During the…

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

1. Victorian Living Rooms Found on Dusty Old Thing. 2. The Other Cleopatra Sometime between the 1st and 5th centuries there lived another extraordinary Egyptian woman called Cleopatra, who practiced alchemy. Known today as Cleopatra the Alchemist, she wrote The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra which focuses on theories on the transmutation of gold. For a woman to…

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

1. A small town that escaped destruction by New York City “The doom of Katonah is sealed,” began a column on the front page of The New York Times on April 8, 1893. The town of Katonah, New York, about 40 miles north of Manhattan, was slated to be demolished—washed away, really—to make way for New York City’s expanding…

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

1. This Abandoned Japanese Love Hotel By photographer Bob Thissen, more found on Creative Boom. 2. People in a 1920s Berlin Nightclub Flirting via Pneumatic Tubes “It was the Tinder of the early 20th century.” Two nightclubs in particular—the Resi and the Femina—pioneered the trend. At the Resi (also called the Residenz-Casino), a large nightclub…

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

1. Roald Dahl’s pocket-sized writing shed at the Roald Dahl’s museum in the UK Supposedly Roald Dahl‘s books continue to sell at the rate of 12 a minute every day of the year… Gipsy House in Great Missenden, England where the author lived from 1954 until his death in 1990 still remains in his family. So…

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

1. The Mansion where the Psychedelic ’60s took off Owned by one of America’s richest families, Millbrook in Upstate New York hosted Timothy Leary (and his followers), the infamous psychologist best known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. Along with the residents came a rotating cast of celebrities, thinkers…

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

1. Turn-of-the-Century Women in Autochrome Cowgirl 1910 Dancer wearing Egyptian-look costume with wings reaching to the floor, 1915 Woman in pink cape and bonnet, 1915 Woman in Oriental inspired gown, sitting in wooden throne, 1915 Woman posed as sphinx, 1910 Girl with a Collection of Dolls, 1910 Woman in…