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

1. Elevator Girls, by Miwa Yanagi, 1994–8 For Japanese artist Miwa Yanagi, “elevator girls” (the hostesses employed to greet shoppers in department stores) have proved a potent means of exploring the role of women in Japanese society. Her first solo show featured various uniformed models standing beside fake elevators, performing ritualised actions. Yanagi expanded upon…

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

1. The Last Glimpses of California’s Vanishing Hippie Utopias Half a century ago, a legion of idealists dropped out of society and went back to the land, creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Here, the last of those rogue souls offer a glimpse of their otherworldly residences—and the tail end of a…

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

1. This little House with a Courtyard for Sale in Paris Asking 411K Euros. Found on Espaces Atypiques. 2. London Streets In The 1980s Found on London Inheritance. 3. Regency London’s Forgotten Museums of Piccadilly Ashton Lever, an English collector, was born Mar. 5, 1729. In 1760, Lever bought a large collection of shells and…

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

1. London’s Prop Houses, photographed by Jasper Fry Joseph Fry’s exhibition is on show from Friday 27 August until Sunday 5 September (10 am-4 pm daily) at Act One Cinema, Acton High Street, London W3 6NA. Good to know: We’ll be covering some of London’s most atmospheric prop houses in the upcoming Don’t be a Tourist…

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

1. Before photography took over, French astronomer E.L. Trouvelot created breathtaking celestial artwork (1882) Discover the Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings on Public Domain Review. 2. Banksy’s Great British Spraycation The artist spray paints England’s favorite summer holiday destinations… 3. A faux magazine (and tribute to The New Yorker) that celebrates Tokyo Found on Instagram. 4. A…

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

Hi there! If you’re not subscribed to our newsletter, you might have been wondering why we skipped a week of 13 Things recently. You’ll notice the website might be a little quieter than usual over the next few weeks as I dedicate the month of August to making a real crack at finishing our next…

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

1. Inside America’s Largest Abandoned Mansion with over 110 rooms 2. What the Leaning Tower of Pisa looks like Inside Totally empty! More found here. 3. Sylvia Plath’s recipe cards for Sale Including Fish Chowder, Cherry & Cottage Cheese Cobbler, Drop Molasses Cookies, Carrot Cake, Beef Stew and a much-coveted recipe: ‘Ted’s Mother’s Scots Porridge…

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

1. East Brother Island, in the San Francisco Bay, is hiring an innkeeper It’s been called a “dream job”, earning $140,000 a year — housing and health benefits included — to live on your own private island in the San Francisco Bay, one of the most expensive and spectacularly beautiful places in the world.   If…

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

1. Once upon a time, you could ride a train right through the orange groves in Southern California The Super Chief was one of the named passenger trains and the flagship of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The streamliner claimed to be “The Train of the Stars” because of the various celebrities it carried between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California. Florida had one too:…

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

1. The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be They may be vine-smothered ruins today, but the lost cities of the ancient tropics still have a lot to teach us about how to live alongside nature. Not only did societies such as the Classic Maya and the Khmer empire of Cambodia…
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