13 Things I Found on the Internet Today CCLXXXIII)

1. India’s Wedding Wagons Photographer Sameer Raichur’s “Chariots of Frolic” documents the cars used in Indian wedding processions. Found on Ignant. 2. E. Lillian Todd, the first woman to design and build her own aircraft, 1906 Found on Wikipedia. 3. Chinese Ghost Village Captured by Drone Videographer Joe Nafis has perfectly captured the rare charm…

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

1. Frank Kunert’s Surrealist Miniatures His work is so good. Discover it all here (also find prints for sale). 2. How Medieval Churches will Improve England’s Wi-fi As part of an initiative to improve internet access in rural stretches of England, churches in remote areas will be outfitted with Wi-Fi connectivity. Following an agreement…

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

1. The Slate Guy Desilu Productions staffer Bill McGovern slating scene after scene of Star Trek with a nonchalance bordering on apathy. Some of the greatest scenes and most iconic characters in sci fi TV history, and McGovern, clapboard in hand, looks like he couldn’t care less if his life depended on it (Desilu was an…

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

1. The Apartment doors of famous Chelsea Hotel Residents for Sale Through exhaustive research, roughly half of these large wooden doors can be traced to the iconic individuals who lived behind them, including Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jack Kerouac, Bob Marley, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Humphrey Bogart. On April 12th at the Ricco/Maresca…

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

1. Little Houses on the Prairie A series on forgotten places around the world by Brendon Burton. 2. Abduction, Woodsen County, Kansas, 1897 Alex Hamilton of Woodsen County, Kansas, was awakened at 10:30 one night by the sound of a disturbance in the cow pasture on his farm. Peering into the night, he observed…

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

1. “University L”, somewhere in Belgium Captured by this urban explorer, with an excellent Flickr account of urban decay. 2. Karen Leadlay working on computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964 “Note to self: Invent printed circuits.” Via Straker’s World. 3. San Francisco’s 1940s Camera Obscura The Camera Obscura is a large-scale camera obscura,…

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

1. Camels crossing the highway in UAE desert Clean up duty post-sandstorm involves plowing the sand. Found on Reddit. 2. Chicago has a large pack of coyotes that patrol the city, hunting rats 60 Wild Coyotes Patrol Chicago (and occasionally stop at convenience stores). Chicago’s Cook County now has over 60 coyotes fitted with radio…

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

1. Japanese Secret Love Hotels looking like a Wes Anderson Set True to their moniker, pay-by-the-hour love hotels cater to millions of Japanese couples every year… With increasing life expectancies, the rising age of marriage, and high population density, multigenerational households are ubiquitous. When married couples live in close quarters with elderly parents and children,…

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

1. When Howard Hughes built the biggest plane in history (out of wood) Hughes’ H-4 Spruce Goose Because of wartime rationing on strategic materials such as aluminum, the plane was built almost entirely out of wood. A skeptical press dubbed it “The Spruce Goose.” Hughes hated the nickname. He felt it was an insult to…

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

1. The Hidden Pirate Tower in Laguna Beach In 1926 a senator from Los Angeles, William E. Brown, bought the property and built the tower to provide his family access to the beach. A (now rusted) spiral staircase leads from the cliffs above, down through the tower, and to the beach below. The design of the…