Jenn Brown Captures Gorgeous Abandoned Places in US

Jenn Brown is a multi-talented self-taught photographer, artist and designer currently based in Randallville, New York. Jenn is obsessed with abandoned places, she captures urbex spaces of all sorts: crumbling paper mills, factories, synagogues, theatres, rooms and farms.

- Photogrist

The Supercharged Art Of Walter Molino

Walter Molino was born in 1915 and died in 1997 at age 82. He began working professionally as an illustrator and caricaturist in 1935 for a newspaper and two children’s magazines, followed by a satirical magazine and several comic strip series.

In 1941 Molino became the chief cover illustrator for La Domenica del Corriere, an Italian weekly newspaper. His work for this paper supplies most of the incredible scenes in this post. One can only imagine the stories behind these images. Almost all of them depict life and death situations. They’re like freeze frames in the midst of extreme action. And they move. His style is kinetic and electric, vivid and cinematic. You can feel the energy. Many depict women and children at risk, fires, explosions, and calamitous crashes. He seems to have a thing about falling, usually from great heights.

- Design you Trust

How North Korean hackers became the world’s greatest bank robbers

The Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea’s equivalent to the CIA, has trained up the world’s greatest bank-robbing crews. In just the past few years, RGB hackers have struck more than 100 banks and cryptocurrency exchanges around the world, pilfering more than $650 million. That we know of.

- PRI GlobalPost Investigations

If the Flintstones Vacationed in France: A Guide to the Cave Villages

If a French chateau is a little out of your vacation budget, why not consider a cave house? Unforgettably unique and even more historic, the “troglodyte” homes of France; those ancient rocks dwellings dotted along quiet country roads of the Loire, or deep in the basin of Dordogne; were built 100 millions years ago by our planet’s first humans. This is the Flintstones à la française…

- Messy Nessy Chic

The 14 Toughest Kids’ Questions Guaranteed to Stump Any Adult

Little explorers often ask questions that leave adults scratching their heads. The only thing you can do in such a situation is to pick your jaw up off the floor and google it. We at Bright Side have decided to help you out. So here’s how to answer 14 of those tough questions.

- Bright Side

The Man Who Cracked The Lottery

WHEN THE IOWA ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE BEGAN INVESTIGATING AN UNCLAIMED LOTTERY TICKET WORTH MILLIONS, AN INCREDIBLE STRING OF UNLIKELY WINNERS CAME TO LIGHT - AND A TRAIL THAT POINTED TO AN INSIDE JOB.

- NY Times

'What do you want for breakfast?' 'A divorce!' From affairs with nannies and NUNS to cash hidden in a Jacuzzi - the craziest stories of marital breakdown, from a divorce lawyer who's seen it all

Secret fetishes. Hidden finances. Younger mistresses. Affairs with interns. And nannies, nannies, nannies … When it comes to the shambolic collapse of marriages, New York divorce attorney James J. Sexton, Esq. has seen it all.

He’s come out with a book outlining some of the more unusual cases, in addition to the run-of-the-mill – offering, from his wealth of experience, some advice about marriage (though, for transparency, he admits he’s divorced himself.) If You’re In My Office, It’s Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer’s Guide to Staying Together is Sexton’s first book – but one chat about his reminiscences makes it clear that it’s probably not his last.

- Daily Mail

Old Tunisian Village Turned Into Outdoor Art Gallery

Er-Riadh, a small village off of the beaten tourist path on the island of Djerba in Tunisia, was paid a visit by an unlikely bunch of guests – 150 street artists from 30 countries around the world. These descended on the town to participate in Djerbahood, a massive public street art exhibition that displayed their 150 street art pieces on the walls of this old multicultural village.

- Vaultrion

The Mystery of the Killer Vacation

He’d sold his company, chartered a yacht, and set off with his model girlfriend to see the world. Finally, it seemed, Chris Smith was living the life he’d always wanted. But back home there was trouble: missing money, unraveling secrets, and a sudden question. Where the hell was Chris Smith, really?

- GQ

What Sleeping With Married Men Taught Me About Infidelity

I’m not sure it’s possible to justify my liaisons with married men, but what I learned from having them warrants discussion. Not between the wives and me, though I would be interested to hear their side. No, this discussion should happen between wives and husbands, annually, the way we inspect the tire tread on the family car to avoid accidents.

A few years ago, while living in London, I dated married men for companionship while I processed the grief of being newly divorced. I hadn’t sought out married men specifically. When I created a profile on Tinder and OkCupid, saying I was looking for no-strings-attached encounters, plenty of single men messaged me and I got together with several of them. But many married men messaged me too.

- NY Times

The Misunderstood Science of Sexual Desire

In contrast with the notion of lust as a spontaneous drive that hits us out of nowhere — the sudden I-need-to-get-busy urge familiar from passionate Hollywood make-out scenes — Basson had noticed over the decades that her patients, particularly women in long-term relationships, often take a while to get warmed up. Although it was consensual (they were indeed interested in slowly initiating sex with their partner) they didn’t feel physical, sensual desire until some sufficiently pleasant erotic talking, cuddling, touching, or even fantasizing was under way.

“We see women who say, ‘When I get into (sex), everything’s fine. I just don’t have that hunger that makes me yearn for the next time,’” says Basson.

- The Cut

Exploring Creative Intimacy In Photographer Chill’s NSFW Shots

Art in and of itself is an intimate activity for any practitioner; we take our emotions and bring them out of ourselves, putting them into physical form as an expression of how we see and feel the world around us. One of the most classic and inspiring muses that has continued to titilate artists of every generation is the female form.

- Design you Trust

The Floating Houses of IJburg, Amsterdam

The IJburg neighbourhood is the latest district of Amsterdam built over a number of artificial islands which have been raised from the IJmeer lake. The ambitious project is still under construction, but more than 20,000 people have already moved in. When complete, the neighbourhood will have 18,000 homes for 45,000 residents as well as schools, shops, leisure centers, restaurants, and beachs. One of its many innovative housing projects is taking place in Waterbuurt or Water District.

- Amusing Planet

Scenes Unseen: The Summer of ’78

Long-forgotten pictures capture escape and discovery in the city’s parks.

Six months ago, a conservancy official cleaning out an office came across two cardboard boxes that had been sitting around for decades. Inside were 2,924 color slides, pictures made in parks across New York City’s five boroughs late in the summer of 1978. No one had looked at them for 40 years.

- NY Times

Weed Porn: How Two Taboos Became Popular Bedfellows

As marijuana becomes increasingly legal, it's finding its way into other booming industries – like porn

As weed legalization sweeps across America, state election by state election, the popularity of cannabis products has kept pace. But while marijuana flower, tinctures, oils and more are all becoming commonplace, another, less talked-about product of the weed revolution is also blossoming: Weed porn.

- Rolling Stone

In a forgotten town by the Salton Sea, newcomers build a bohemian dream

When ecological disaster hit Bombay Beach, a resort town marooned by a dying lake in California’s desert, the result looked apocalyptic. Birds and fish died. Toxic dust swirled. The air stank. Tourists and most residents fled, leaving a virtual ghost town of abandoned, decaying homes. For decades the only regular visitors were film-makers who came to shoot horror flicks about zombies and Armageddon. Now, Bombay Beach, population 295, is enjoying a rebirth of sorts with an influx of artists, intellectuals and hipsters who have turned it into a bohemian playground.

- The Guardian