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

1. A Village in Provence, Abandoned over a century ago The Bories Village is nestled on a low mountain in the Vaucluse region near Avignon, now classed as a historic monument, giving a priceless account of the way of life in Provence. The group of 30 stone huts, called ‘Les Cabanes’ in local parlance, include…
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Inside the Beat Hotel of Paris

“I lay there on the floor, he makes love to Nanette all night, as she whimpers,” wrote Jack Kerouac, recalling the night he slept in Room 41 of a Parisian “fleabag” in the Latin Quarter that his friend and fellow poet had christened “The Beat Hotel”. Gregory Corso, the youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers,…
Francky Knapp

The Accidentally Couture Life of a Samurai

How do you dress for a dance with death? If you were a 14th century Samurai, the pressure was on to go into battle with a kabuto (helmet) that subscribed to a fiercely maximalist vision. These incredible creations varied in form and detail depending on the owner and era, but they were always big, bedazzled, and…
Francky Knapp

Night of the Living Painting

It was a flourishing trade in human flesh. A quest headed by art suppliers so ruthless in seeking out the perfect pigment, that it makes Dorian Grey’s creep-level look like amateur hour. It was the business of making “Mummy Brown,” a paint colour that quite literally required the ground up remains of mummies to achieve…
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House of a 1920s Lady Gaga

“Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, and partly, I think, because of that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and birthright of the British nation.“. ― Dame Edith Sitwell of Renishaw Hall Renishaw Hall may look like a very traditional English estate, but for the last four centuries it has been the ancestral…
Francky Knapp

Muse du Jour: Lady Miss Kier

Armed with a pair of hot pants and a Cheshire Cat grin, Miss Lady Kier became the lighting rod of ’80s and ’90s electro-pop. As the front woman for Deee-Lite, her intensity turned songs like “Groove Is in the Heart” into pure eardrum candy in the midst of a time when grunge was on the…
Francky Knapp

Were Romans the First Goths?

The good people of the Roman Empire tend to be remembered as gladiators and prodigious builders of roads, temples and aqueducts who loved to drink lots of wine and end up in bed with their siblings. It’s far less common that we think of Romans as a morbid civilisation, obsessed with their own death culture.…
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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCCLVI)

1. Extreme tree pruning in the late 1800s Found on Imgur. 2. The newly opened bookshop in the Chinese city of Chongqing The chongqing zhongshuge bookstore by shanghai-based firm X+living is located on the 3rd and 4th floor of zodi plaza. Found on Design Boom. 3. Square Ocean Waves The phrase “cross seas” refers to waves coming from two…
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It’s Time You Knew about this Middle Eastern Gang of Artists

Google “famous street artists” and you won’t find these guys on the list, but Broken Fingaz ought to be on pop culture’s radar. Our first introduction to them was this mural covering the side of a building in downtown Haifa, their hometown in northern Israel. It depicts an imaginary railway inspired by a forgotten train…
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