Laura E. HallHappy Friday! Here’s a thread for my cabinet of curiosities, a roundup of five cool links I enjoyed this week 🧵
Today: love letters, board games, monsters and a touch of retro 💌👹💥
#FridayFive #CabinetOfCuriosities #CoolLinks #Roundup #Links
1) Unread love letters
"A forgotten bundle of love letters sent to French sailors more than 260 years ago – but never before opened or read – has been discovered among British naval archives, revealing intimate details of 18th-century marital and family life"
2) A striking photo by Herbert List of Mostro im Garten des Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, taken in 1952
#Photography #BlackAndWhite #HerbertList #MostroImGardenDesPalazzoOrsini
3) A supercut video of an explosion sprite that appeared in—apparently—every 90s video game
The Most Popular Explosion Sprite in Retro Games! VCE Pyromania
4) On the origins of some of our favorite board games during the medieval period
https://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/games-of-thrones-popular-medieval-board-games/
5) This photographer shared a lovely series of Eastern Bloc rotary phones on his page
https://www.instagram.com/troylitten (scroll down a bit to find them in the feed)
And that's it for this week! Thanks for reading, happy Friday, and I hope you have a great weekend ✨
kaho@lauraehall these look like toys✨
the roamerI have List's book of portraits of writers, somewhere in an unopened removal box. Fantastic portraits. He's a true photographer.
Bret Mogilefsky@lauraehall You can't fool me, that's definitely a still from Zardoz...