1. A Great name for a zine
Print of the postcard for sale on eBay.
2. Imagine this was your front door
In Provence, only 10 kilometres from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, this village is made up of two hamlets around the remains of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey. The house’s facade overlooks the main square of the village and the property includes a square stone defensive tower with a pointed-arched porch at its base. The tower overlooks the two-storey house, with a rendered stone facade beneath an almost flat roof of barrel tiles. The main entrance is via a door fitted with anti-mosquito and anti-insect netting, flanked by two windows, above which there are two others but offset in relation to their position. The house has a surface of approximately 110 m², to which future occupants could add the more than 70 m² of tower’s attic space after conversion. The courtyard is around 60-m² with an additional 30-m² terrace. The local community is actively involved in vegetable growing and handicrafts, with produce sold locally around its Romano-Byzantine church, schools, supermarket, bars and restaurants. A market with a typical Provence ambiance is held here every week. Asking 275K euros.
Found on Patrice Besse.
3. Inside a Gilded Age Mansion Designed to Hide Its Servants
4. Someone is scanning restrooms around the world, building the Restroom Archive
The internet still doesn’t disappoint me. Discover them via the random filter or search by location: The Restroom Archive.
5. Hop on a Train to Anywhere and watch the world go by
Railpass lets you stare out the window of an endless train ride anywhere around the world with real footage – with sound too! A little escape from the world.
6. Fun fact: Shell, the energy company, traces its origins to a London antiques business that began selling seashells in 1833
In 1833, Marcus Samuel decided to expand his London business. He already sold antiques but decided to try selling oriental seashells as well, capitalising on their popularity in the interior design industry at that time. The demand was so great that he began importing the shells from the Far East, laying the foundations for an import-export business that would ultimately become one of the world’s leading energy companies.
Found on Reddit.
7. Take a local discovery stroll with Walkipedia
Type in somewhere — a town, a street, a landmark, a postcode — or let your browser say where you are. Every Wikipedia article with coordinates inside a 30-minute walk goes on the map. Start here.
8. A font, designed by a Tree
Occlusion Grotesque is an experimental typeface that is carved into the bark of a tree. As the tree grows, it deforms the letters and outputs new design variations, that are captured annually. The project explores what it means to design with nature and on nature’s terms.
A project by Bjoern Karmann, and you can download the font here.
9. A trove of disturbing Halloween Costume Ideas
Found on Stiff Vintage
10. This Rare 19th-Century Nine-Piece “Prostitute Set” with Mother-of-Pearl Dagger, Revolver & Garter Belt
Dating to the 19th century, this fascinating nine-piece collection, historically described as a “Prostitute Set,” tells a story of glamour, temptation, deception, and self-preservation. An elegant mother-of-pearl dagger rests alongside a matching mother-of-pearl-handled revolver, perhaps offering protection in a world where women had few protections of their own. A delicate perfume bottle suggests femininity and seduction, while a mysterious sterling silver-capped glass vial leaves us wondering what secrets it once held. A floral garter, ornate trinket boxes, and a concealed card-cheating device complete a collection that seems almost too intriguing to be real.
Recently sold for $14,000 on the Estate Sale Edit.
11. An unusual periodical, written and produced by residents of the New Orleans state mental hospital in the mid-20th century
More about this historical newsletter published by the Louisiana Hospital for the Insane of Louisiana on the Historic New Orleans Collection.
12. I just love this and would love a miniature one, perhaps I should propose the artist
“The lost ones are whispering”, a multi-year performance project from 2015-2023: embroidery floss, linen, thread, notions (on dress form). Rare and endangered plant embroideries were stitched by performance audiences who participated in sewing circles in public spaces during 26 performances; additional embroidered imagery by the artist. .
The headdress is a separate piece, “Head Trip”, 2016-2023 using embroidery floss, embroidery hoops, hardware, organza.
Discover artist Liz Harvey’s website here.
13. Midnight Movie of the Month: A Forgotten “Rocky Horror” Sister Film
What’s your favourite midnight movie? That one totally weird film you tell your friends about at parties, a vintage masterpiece that slipped through the cracks of mainstream culture, because it was just too strange to find a traditional audience, and instead found an unlikely cult following elsewhere. We’ve discovered a midnight movie that’s slipped under our radar all these years. It’s just as retro, hypnotic, and freaky as say, the cult musical Rocky Horror Picture Show— but you might even say it’s a little more chic? It’s called Dr. Caligari (1989), and it’s going to be our new favourite Halloween classic…
The film basically revolves around Dr. Caligari, a sex-crazed mad scientist who performs experiments on her captive patients at the C.I.A (Caligari Insane Asylum). She swaps the mind of a cannibalistic serial killer with that of a nymphomaniac housewife. She’s prancing around in a shiny, bubble-gum pink ensemble on minute, and a canary yellow power suit with a Madonna-worthy wünder bra the next.
So where on earth was the idea for this gem born, and how has it fallen into obscurity for even some the biggest cinephiles we know? Travel nearly 100 years back to the 1920 release of the German silent film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), which played one Paris theatre for seven consecutive years. It’s definitely not the same comedy-erotica-surrealist-horror gem as its ’80s sequel, but it was a ground breaking work of German Expressionist Cinema, and is actually considered to be the world’s first real horror movie.
When you look at the 1980s version, you feel traces of that same spirit in everything from the set design, to the ability to push the horror genre into revolutionary territory. The latter reason of which, we might add, is why the Caligari sequel fell into obscurity: it was just a little too weird. And one midnight movie pioneer, Ben Barenholtz, once said: “You can’t make a midnight movie; the audiences make a midnight movie.” Over to you.
You can stream Dr. Caligari (1989) online on Shudder or via the AMC+ Amazon Channel.
