Source: yes.thatcan.be
Wonderful series of interior shots and brief history of The Divine Lorraine, the luxury apartments cum hotel cum cultish religious center located on North Broad Street in Philadelphia. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places for both architect’s Willis G. Hale’s lavish Late Victorian design and for being the first hotel in the U.S to be fully racially integrated, it is beautiful, falling apart, and right out my window.
Hat tip to Paula for the link!
Source: kingstonlounge.blogspot.com
Pastry porn in Naples (via luxirare)
It comes as no surprise, in the world of always-on information, that fake facts are on the rise.
John Hodgman has set the fake trivia world ablaze with two books, an NPR exploration of the comparative benefits of flight and invisibility, even putting the President in his place with Dune trivia and more consequential, but completely false, true facts.
Look Around You points the lens of mid-century science education films at, well, absolute nonsense. Bless you, ants. Blants.
And, now, FakeScience tumbles these wonderful posters explaining the senses, animals, geologic features, and modern energy production. They even boldly take on the universe’s greatest question: Fucking magnets, how do they work? The answer may suprise you.
For When The Facts Are Too Confusing, Fake Science (via Coudal Partners)
Creepy/cool biological specimen assemblages from etsy artist Brian Booker
I think the handmade ethos dovetails nicely with the medium of assemblage, which is about altering our attention to the world of small objects that surrounds us: noticing, gathering, re-combining. Partly by design and partly by chance, we create new things, which are, in a sense, unique environments where the old and the new cohabitate.
A little pricey for me ($250-$1000+) but fascinating curiosities from a true artisan of the eerie.
