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

1. Experimental Utopias in America Dacha/Staff Building, Gesundheit! Institute, Hillsboro, West Virginia Dome Village, Los Angeles, California The Farm, Summertown, Tennessee Ruins of Drop City, Trinidad, Colorado Paolo Soleri at Arcosanti, Cordes Junction, Arizona Seaside, Florida “Sweet Earth” is a series of photographs and accompanying texts that chronicle experimental utopias in the United States, in…

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

1. Driving Lesson, East Africa, 1943 Askaris of the King’s African Rifles learning how to change gear at a Motor Transport Depot. Note the stones on their heads to stop them looking down. An askari was a local soldier serving in the armies of the European colonial powers in Africa. Found on Reddit. 2. The…

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

1. Turn-of-the-Century American Postcards That Hint At Having Sex The series called “It’s Easy To Say, But Hard To Do,” is a double entendre reference to a man asking a woman to get married. “Ask, and you will get it,” a not too subtle hint – ask me to marry you and then we can…

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

1. Women sit for a portrait in Salzburg, Austria, 1929 Found on Nat Geo Found 2. These Eggs The latest chef d’oeuvres by jeweler Ananov, one of the main exhibits he made for the “400 years of the House of Romanov” at the Historical Museum of Moscow in 2013. Ananov’s Easter egg caught the eye of…

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

1. A list of Pet Peeves about Secretaries from 1945 From a brochure about how to be a “super secretary” created by Remington Typewriters… Find the full brochure on the Hagley Digital Archives found via Slate. 2. The woman who was told she couldn’t eat at NYC’s fanciest restaurant, so she brought her whole squad Deny her…

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

1. The Ruins of this Ancient Roman Library The library was completed in 135 AD and was built to house 12,000 scrolls and to honor the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, whose tomb is below the entrance. Photos found via Travel Junkies and Flickr 1, 2, 3 2. This Building in Macau Found on…

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

1. Abandoned Detroit Ballroom, host to Jazz Royalty, may get a second chance… The Vanity Ballroom hosted jazz greats including Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. The venue, on Detroit’s East Side has been closed for years now. This is what it looks like…. Now another one of these “impossible” projects looks…

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

1. A Time Capsule of Medical History Discover this amazing little museum in Indiana, found on Thought & Sight. 2. The Streets of San Francisco Found on this instagram account via This isn’t Happiness. 3. London’s Abandoned system of Elevated Walkways A fascinating documentary well worth your time… 4. Miniature Facades by Drew…

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

1. Documenting the unseen designs beneath book jackets A collection by Nick Ceglia of books that have a “Cover under Cover”. 2. There is an art museum on the moon, and one of the artworks is a penis drawn by Andy Warhol Moon Museum is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters of an inch by half an…

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

1. London Underground Posters from the 1920s From Bonhams and Library of Congress, via IO9 2. England’s 35 acre, secret subterranean Cold War City Deep beneath Wiltshire lies an abandoned fortress, strewn with old bedding, rusting machinery and stationery marked ‘top secret’. This is the Corsham bunker, where the nation’s elite would have retreated in…