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

1. Baghdad, Iraq, 1965 Not the South of France. Here’s a current photo of the bridge in the background… Found on Reddit. 2. The Isolator The Isolator is a bizarre helmet invented in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, and limiting their vision…

For Sale: Burt Reynolds’ Rolodex and other Awkward Stuff He’s Selling

So here’s a unique Christmas gift– Burt Reynolds’ Rolodex! You could own BR’s very own “little black book” from his home office, including the (possibly/ very likely out-of-date) contact information for his groovy celebrity friends, restaurants, and business contacts. It’s basically priceless (but last time I checked it has a current bid of $900). Burt Reynolds was…

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

1. The Highly Questionable Advertisements of Newport, 1970s-80s “Alive with pleasure!” adverts that were in magazines everywhere in the 70s and 80s, found on Vintage Everyday. 2. The Museum of Endangered Sounds Yep, a place on the internet where sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment are being preserved. Click…

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

1. The Secret Apartment in the Eiffel Tower Now I know I’m that last one you’d expect to be recommending a trip up the almighty tower of mass tourism, but even I didn’t know about this… Within a year of the completion of the Eiffel Tower, it was reported by writer Henri Girard that Gustav…

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

1. The Original Batmobile you never Knew Existed is up For Sale The 1956 Oldsmobile 88, the first car DC Comics ever licensed, now for sale in an upcoming Heritage Auction in Dallas…. Here’s the history: What is believed to be the world’s first car that became an officially licensed Batmobile was conceived and customized starting…

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

1. A Melting Wax House Artist Alex Chinneck, who created the sliding house, upside-down house, and the floating piazza in Covent Garden, has unveiled his latest creation – a two-storey house made almost entirely from wax. Using 8,000 wax brick, Chinneck built the house on Southwark Street in London, where it will gradually melt over…

I Have this Thing with Floors: An Instagram Dedicated Entirely to Looking Down

Living in Europe, we’re a little spoilt for beautiful mosaic/ tiled flooring found in cafés, museums and historic buildings, and of course here in Paris, with all its charming architecture, the eye is almost trained to constantly look up. But a newly discovered instagram account has reminded me just how much I’m forgetting to do one very important…

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

1. Sophia Loren making Pizza cira 1950s, photographer unknown found on Felina Von Crop 2. Last House Standing Photographs by Ben Marcin of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Jersey, full photostory here. 3. Vino Loco Creative agency LOLA Madrid is the behind the creative straitjacket packaging of Vino Loco, a “crazy” white wine produced by Bodegas…

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

1. Smokin’ Garciela It’s possible you may have seen this face before, perhaps in a photo album of someone that travelled to Cuba. This is the famous cigar lady from Havana, Garciela, in her late 80’s. She lets tourists take photographs of her for a few pesos. Found on the Flickr group, Smokin Garciela …

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

1. An Abandoned Victorian Treehouse A two-story, child-size replica of a Victorian-style home photographed by Florida-based photographer Drew Perlmutter. The article, found on Huffington Post Home, does not reveal the exact location or a story as to why the treehouse was abandoned. The photographer will only reveal that the treehouse is in South East Florida, to…

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