21 images apocalyptiques de Disney et de son royaume abandonné

Life After Disney, a commencé en 2010 après avoir été inspiré par la série Life After People du History Channel, dans laquelle des scientifiques et des ingénieurs prédisent à quoi pourrait ressembler la Terre si les humains avaient soudainement disparu.

-JDM

A Confederate Flag-Fanned Playboy Model Gore Fest: Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)

Two Thousand Maniacs! is the 1964 Confederate Flag-fanned gore fest brought to you by  the makers of Blood Feast. Said to have been inspired by the 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon, the story records Yankees being killed by ‘Rebels’ in imaginative fashion: Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town’s destruction during the Civil War. You want gore? You can’t handle the gore.


-Flashbak

Scènes de crime : la preuve par l'image

 

A l'aube du XXe siècle, Alphonse Bertillon, père des relevés anthropométriques, et Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, son élève, font entrer l'appareil photographique sur les scènes de crime. Leurs clichés saisissants sont exposés en ce moment à Paris.

-Le Monde

Les nouveaux modes de cuisson de l’été

Contrairement aux pays nordiques, où l’on utilise le barbecue toute l’année, le Québec est plus frileux sur l’utilisation de cette cuisson durant l’hiver. De nombreux pays s’en servent pourtant à longueur d’année. Par exemple, la Corée a élevé le gril au rang d’art et en a fait une pièce maîtresse de sa cuisine traditionnelle.

-Le Devoir

Chef's Table - Season 1 - Francis Mallmann - Netflix

From isolated Patagonian islands to French Michelin three-star restaurants, chef Francis Mallmann celebrates his wild, open-fire cooking style.

How the Potato Changed the World

 

When potato plants bloom, they send up five-lobed flowers that spangle fields like fat purple stars. By some accounts, Marie Antoinette liked the blossoms so much that she put them in her hair. Her husband, Louis XVI, put one in his buttonhole, inspiring a brief vogue in which the French aristocracy swanned around with potato plants on their clothes. The flowers were part of an attempt to persuade French farmers to plant and French diners to eat this strange new species.

-Smithsonian

Soulmates Have Worst Relationships

“Our findings corroborate prior research showing that people who implicitly think of relationships as perfect unity between soulmates have worse relationships than people who implicitly think of relationships as a journey of growing and working things out,” says Lee.


-Psych Central

Inside Paris’s Kinkiest Sex Club

 

It’s the favorite libertine haunt of Dominique Strauss Kahn and a number of French politicians and celebrities. A peek inside Les Chandelles, home to chic orgies and blue steel. Hidden beneath Paris’s historic cobblestone streets lies an underground world where hedonism is king. Inhibitions are thrown to the wind as champagne bubbles over glass flutes and the immaculately groomed eye fuck one another while nuzzling their dates.

 

-The Daily Beast

ISIS and the Lonely Young American

Alex, a 23-year-old Sunday school teacher and babysitter, was trembling with excitement the day she told her Twitter followers that she had converted to Islam.

For months, she had been growing closer to a new group of friends online — the most attentive she had ever had — who were teaching her what it meant to be a Muslim. Increasingly, they were telling her about the Islamic State and how the group was building a homeland in Syria and Iraq where the holy could live according to God’s law.

-NY Times

North Korean mashups: Kim's shiny happy people go walkabout – in pictures

Alice Wielinga had seen the guidebooks full of permagrinning workers toiling away for their supreme leader Kim Jong-un. But when she travelled all over North Korea, real life looked shockingly different. So she superimposed state-supplied images on to her own shots and made eerie mashups of lives not lived.

-The Guardian

5 Troubling Vintage Adverts Featuring Children

5 Troubling Vintage Adverts Featuring Children.

-Flashbak

The Poison Garden of Alnwick Castle

You can’t say the people behind the Poison Garden didn’t warn you. The only way into the noxious nursery is through gates emblazoned with skulls, crossbones, and a warning: “These plants can kill.”

-mental_floss

Why Does the Mob Want to Erase This Writer?

When he took on the Mafia in his best-selling book, Gomorrah, they took out a hit. So for almost ten years now, author Roberto Saviano has lived in disguise, on the run, protected by his wits and a security detail. Now he’s zeroed in on his next target—the worldwide cocaine trade—and he’s left to wonder: Who will be coming for him next?


-GQ

The Zero-Armed Bandit

“I don’t think it belongs here.” Such was the assessment of Bob Vinson, the graveyard shift supervisor at Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The “here” Vinson referred to was a nook just outside the telephone equipment room in the employees-only portion of the second floor of the hotel. The “it” was a curious piece of equipment of unknown origin loitering conspicuously in the cramped side room. It was a metallic gray box about the size of a desk, with a smaller box attached on top near the rear right corner. The front face of the smaller box was an incomprehensible control panel occupied by 28 metal toggle switches in five neat rows, each labeled with a numbered sticker. All of these switches were situated in the down position except for #23, which was toggled up—an oddly ominous asymmetry.

-Damn Interesting

Paperback Tramps: A Vintage Bad Girl Library

To list every vintage paperback featuring husband chasers, saucy secretaries, and teen temptresses would fill up the internet.  Suffice it to say, the bad girl paperback was a genre unto itself in the 1950s-1960s.  It’s interesting to note that for a time when feminine modesty and prudence were held in such high esteem, there sure was a lot to read about trashy women!


-Flashbak