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

1. These Kitschy Jell-O molds are actually Lamps Made by mixed media artist Elrod (aka Mexakitsch.com). Found via PeeWee Herman’s blog! 2. Billy Meier’s UFOs Eduard Albert Meier, commonly nicknamed “Billy”, is the founder of a UFO religion called the “Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien” (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual…

What We Can Learn from a Bollywood Blockbuster about Periods

“The curse. Bloody Mary. Time of the Month. Shark Week. Code Red. Aunt Flo.” All over the world, euphemisms exist to discretely convey those four simple words: “I have my period”. In the media, the word ‘period’ was not mentioned on television until the 1980s and it seems the western approach for combatting period stigma is…

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

1. This Dreamy Paris Artist Atelier For Sale The 38m2 space in the 11th arrondissement is asking 435,000 euros. Found here. 2. Edward Hopper in Paris Unbeknownst to many, Hopper moved to Paris in October 1906 where he found a room in a widow’s apartment at 48 Rue de Lille in the seventh arrondissement. These…

Curiosity du Jour: The Talking Victorian Bouquet

The Victorians loved their secrets. They hid them in the details but wore them on their sleeve with the help of a few small but elaborate accessories. The nosegay, also known as a posy or a “tussie mussie”, was one of the more discrete lady gadgets of yore that had multiple uses… For one, if…

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

1. Drive & Listen (a website you never knew you needed) Drive through your city of choice, with all the ambient sounds of the street, while also having the option of listening to the city’s local radio station. Start cruising on Drive and Listen. 2. London’s Thinnest House is for Sale The two bedroom on…

10 Virtual Gifts Your Valentine Didn’t Ask For

So Valentine’s Day is going to be a little different this year, but can we really remember a time when taking someone out for dinner on the 14th of February didn’t feel awkward, cheesy and generally kind of awful? Conveniently, we’re all seemingly living in a virtual world this time around, so when you’re sending…

The Great African American Escape to Soviet Russia

In pursuit of the African American story abroad, we often look to 1920s Paris, where jazz was first introduced to the French and Black culture was embraced with open arms. It’s a more familiar story than the one about Soviet Russia opening its doors to thousands of Black Americans in the 20th century, where they…

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

1. In southern Japan, there’ a train station in the middle of nowhere, with no entrance or exit.. You get off at Seiryu Miharashi Station, but you can’t go anywhere and, to leave, you have to wait for the next train. This station has only one function: to remind men of the importance of stopping,…

A Love Letter to the Lost World of the Parisian Pneumatic Post

Years before the Paris Métro opened, there was another subterranean transport system rattling away beneath the city streets. Instead of messages floating around in the internet ether of apps and social networks, if you wanted to send a note to someone in your city in the 19th century, you tube. A network of sealed lines…

This Dark Age of Disco and the Brave New World of Nightlife

Did Covid really kill the disco? Or was it just the nail in the nightclub’s coffin? Some would argue the clubbing era officially died near the end of the 00’s, and that it was the age of social media that pulled the trigger. It’s a nostalgia-driven debate that can be found thriving in the comments…
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