During his lifetime, Frank Lloyd Wright built 532 homes, museums, and office buildings. Many have been demolished, but more than 400 Wright-designed buildings still stand. This page is a complete listing of intact structures designed by Wright and built during his life and under his supervision — via Architecture Blog
Dogs’ sniffing powers have helped to detect bombs and smell signs of cancer. Now they’re being used to track down endangered wildlife — via redwolf.newsvine.com
My pal and fellow Rolex fanatic from Italy, John Goldberger recently sent in these stunning photos of his Ultra-Rare 39.5mm Rolex Yacht-Master Chronograph Prototype [Reference 6239/6242] the dial of which was made in 1967 and the watch in 1969. How rare you ask? It is one of only two known examples. I know Eric Clapton owned one — via Jake’s Rolex World
A World War II Spitfire which became the tomb of an Australian pilot missing for almost seven decades is expected to be transferred to Melbourne’s Point Cook RAAF Museum — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Ancient stone faces carved into the walls of a well-known limestone cave in East Timor have been discovered by a team searching for fossils of extinct giant rats — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Special Photograph no. 86. The precise circumstances surrounding this picture are unknown, but Ellis is found in numerous police records of the 1910s, 20s and 30s. He is variously listed as a housebreaker, a shop breaker, a safe breaker, a receiver and a suspected person. A considerably less self-assured Ellis appears in the NSW Criminal Register of 29 August 1934 (no. 206). His convictions by then include goods in custody, indecent langauge, stealing, receiving and throwing a missile
. His MO includes the entry seldom engages in crime in company, but possessing a most villainous character, he influences associates to commit robberies, and he arranges for the disposal of the proceeds
. It adds that he has the nicknames Curley
– his hair is thinning – and Deafy
, as he is by then quite deaf. He is seen leaning heavily on a walking stick in the later image.
This picture is one of a series of around 2500 special photographs
taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930. These special photographs
were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station, Sydney and are, as curator Peter Doyle explains, of men and women recently plucked from the street, often still animated by the dramas surrounding their apprehension
. Doyle suggests that, compared with the subjects of prison mug mug shots, the subjects of the Special Photographs seem to have been allowed – perhaps invited – to position and compose themselves for the camera as they liked. Their photographic identity thus seems constructed out of a potent alchemy of inborn disposition, personal history, learned habits and idiosyncrasies, chosen personal style (haircut, clothing, accessories) and physical characteristics.
Published in: Peter Doyle with Caleb Williams City of shadows: Sydney police photographs 1912-1948 — via Historic Houses Trust
Designers and design historians told me over the years that they had heard about the existence of a Nazi graphics standards manual. No one could say they actually saw it, but they knew of someone who had. So it grew into something of a Big Foot or Loch Ness Monster tale, until one day I actually saw it too – and it had been right under my nose the whole time — via Design Observer
Captain Robert Maloubier’s life story reads like an action thriller that makes James Bond look like a milquetoast, and his exploits launched a chain of events that would result in the creation of the mechanical diver’s watch as we know it today. This is his story — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Charlie’s Angels
star Farrah Fawcett would have turned 64 yesterday, and to celebrate, her iconic red bathing suit and the poster that launched a million adolescent boys’ fantasies were given to the Smithsonian — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An amateur wine group has paid a record $77,000 for a 237-year-old bottle of wine from France’s eastern Jura region at a local wine festival auction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The current events in Egypt leave me very uncomfortable. Not the pro-democracy demonstrations — I support that in soul, mind and action — but the fact that the repressive regime is using surveillance technology developed by Western companies, mandated by Western authorities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Therese of Earth and Living figured out how to construct shoes like those worn by Medieval Scandinavians. It’s not as simple as you might think, but it’s a quite feasible craft project for the non-professional leatherworker. She provides step-by-step instructions with pictures from start to finish. Once you’re done, grab a sword and go raiding — via Neatorama
A retired chocolate factory worker who took an old vase to a provincial auction house in a cardboard box is in line for a million-pound bonanza after being told it was a Ming moonflask — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists in New Zealand say they have found part of the famed Pink Terraces which were feared destroyed in a volcanic eruption 135 years ago — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Awful Library Books is a blog where Michigan public librarians Mary and Holly discuss outdated books that are getting pulled from the library shelves. One of their picks is Macrame Accessories, from 1977.
I’m not sure the belt for shy hot pants wearer would really work as advertised — via CRAFT
A team of five amateur divers have discovered the wreckage of a UC-42 submarine which sank while laying mines during the First World War off the Cork coast — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A spectacular haul of stone tools discovered beneath a collapsed rock shelter in southern Arabia has forced a major rethink of the story of human migration out of Africa. The collection of hand axes and other tools shaped to cut, pierce and scrape bear the hallmarks of early human workmanship, but date from 125,000 years ago, around 55,000 years before our ancestors were thought to have left the continent — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As Geoff mentioned here on BLDGBLOG a few weeks ago, we spent our last full day in Australia touring the Li-Sun Exotic Mushroom Farm with its founder and owner, Dr Noel Arrold. Three weeks earlier, at a Sydney farmers’ market, we had been buying handfuls of his delicious Shimeji and Chestnut mushrooms to make a risotto, when the vendor told us that they’d all been grown in a disused railway tunnel southwest of the city, in Mittagong — via BLDGBLOG
Paleontologists said Thursday they discovered the 85-million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown squid species from the Cretaceous era in the high jungle region of northeastern Peru — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian National University in Canberra could soon house artefacts from Washington’s Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after a landmark agreement between the two institutions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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