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

1. Spiffy 70s Suits Ideal for ‘bring your kid to work’ day. Found on Grooveland. 2. Japan’s Ivy Rebel 60s Style Subculture The Miyuki-zoku were devotees of classic American collegiate style. The uniform was button-down oxford cloth shirts, madras plaid, high-water trousers in khaki and white, penny loafers, and three-button suit jackets. The group’s…

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

1. Photoshop from the 1930s Beauty retouching has been around a lot longer than we thought. The side-by-side images above from the early 1930s show what a glamour portrait looked like before and after manual ‘Photoshopping.’ Photographer George Hurrell shot the portrait of actress Joan Crawford as a publicity shot for the 1931 film Laughing Sinners. A retoucher named James…

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

1. Hitchock’s Bates Mansion on an NYC Rooftop British artist Cornelia Parker has created an installation based on the mansion from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho for this year’s Roof Garden commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. PsychoBarn was built by reusing materials from a dismantled red barn in upstate New York.…

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

1. SAIL Amsterdam, the largest free nautical event in the world More photos found on Imgur. 2. Parisian Café Neons Find the work of Blaise Arnold here. 3. These Letter Club Boards Available to buy from Etsy via Miss Moss 4. The James Dean Fan Club HQ A photo story on what looks…

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

1. The Green Line The Green Line demarcation zone, Lebanon by A.Abbas, 1982, during the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990 Wikipedia: It separated the mainly Muslim factions in West Beirut from the predominantly Christian East Beirut controlled by the Lebanese Front. The appellation refers to the coloration of the foliage that grew because the space was uninhabited.…

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

1. The House Donald Trump couldn’t Buy Vera Coking’s Atlantic City, New Jersey, home, which Donald Trump attempted to acquire through eminent domain to build limousine parking for his casino (photo by Jack Boucher/Historic American Buildings Survey). Find the full article on Holdouts: The Solitary Resisters of Real Estate, found on Hyperallergic. 2. Liveable Manholes…

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

1. This Secret Trash Collection in a New York Sanitation Garage On the second floor of a nondescript warehouse owned by New York City’s Sanitation Department in East Harlem is a treasure trove—filled with other people’s trash. Created entirely out of objects found by Nelson Molina, a now-retired sanitation worker, who began by decorating his locker.…

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

1. A Couple Dropped Everything to Open a Pizza Boat in the Caribbean Now they run the best rated restaurant in St. Thomas and the hottest pizza joint in the Virgin Islands. Fresh baked pizza served on delicious made-from-scratch slow-fermentation New York style crust, each pizza is made to order with fresh local ingredients. They offer a…

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

1. These Neatly Organised Film Posters Available to buy as prints by Jordan Bolton. 2. A Hula Hoop Contest on the Champs Elysées, 1958 Found on SimplyMagdorable. 3. This Side Saddle Superstar This picture shows what an equestrienne, a female horse rider, had to cope with in 1910. Not only did she have…

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

1. Arsenic Wafers, nibbled on by Victorian women to get a very pale skin tone Say the word arsenic and most people think “deadly poison.” Arsenic was the poison of choice for murderers up through the latter part of the nineteenth century, and it is still used for homicides up to the present time. It…