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I‘m the kind of person that would go to the cinema and watch two movies back-to-back (because I’m a rebel like that). I’m also the kind of person that can name any film ever made (this is a big lie but it demonstrates that I think I’m a film connoisseur, so let’s run with it). [...]
In 1908 Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism. The invention brought him international notability after he presented it at international expositions in Dresden, Frankfurt and Paris in 1909–1911. Spectators in Dresden could watch the arrival of the camera-equipped carrier pigeons, and the photos were immediately developed and turned [...]
Seen this guy somewhere before? Meet Adamson – Homer Simpson’s vintage doppelganger. This cartoon comic was published in an Icelandic paper called Fálkinn in July 1949. It is the creation of Swedish cartoonist, Oscar Jacobson who enjoyed relative success as an illustrator, even in America where Adamson was known as Silent Sam. Could it be that Matt Groening’s iconic cartoon [...]
This is a photo of an “elevator garage” taken in Chicago, 1936 by John Gutmann. It was part of a building that no longer exists on 33 W. Monroe Street and held up to 48 cars. It took 55 seconds for a car parked at the highest point of the garage to reach its owner [...]
They could be the work of a talented scuba diver using precise tools and measurements, but they’re not. Japanese underwater photographer Yoji Ookata, discovered these mysterious circles after almost 50 years of exploring our underwater world. Eighty feet below sea-level and approximately 6.5ft in diameter, Yoji, nor anyone else, had ever seen anything like it. So who [...]
You can find anything in stock imagery. For today’s weekend guide, I was originally going to suggest some wine tasting but then I thought, nah, let’s go for the kidnapping instead. A French company called Ultime Réalité is offering customers a ‘basic abduction package’, which involves your own kidnapping, ‘Taken’ style (à la Liam Neeson), for [...]
So remember that time a bunch of aliens crash landed into the desert somewhere in Nevada, a.k.a Studio 54 Area 51 (always get those two mixed up) … well it turns out the U.S. government actually went and plagiarized the aliens’ quirky style of air travel in the 1950s (not very successfully). Recently declassified records [...]
More peaceful than your average explosive, there’s something kind of great about a country introducing a weapon that tries to choke you, but wait; can be soothed with ice cream♥! The “bhut jolokia”, a.k.a ghost chili and technically the world’s 5th hottest chili as of February 2012 (still pretty hot) is now India’s prized weapon [...]
No Wine and Cheese here. Another gem from my (very unofficial) partner (so unofficial, they don’t even know it yet) VICE magazine, the lovely and bi-lingual Cleo Le-Tan bravely goes where most Parisians have never gone before and ventures into the suburban ghettos of Paris. Gaining an audience with underground rappers in the dark alleyways [...]
With the nights in Paris getting longer, the trees looking more naked and the cobblestones glistening with rainwater, I can’t help but be reminded of Brassai’s Paris de Nuit. The Transylvania-born photographer came to city of light in the 1920s to capture its notorious creatures of the night and what he found went on to [...]
I recently came upon an archive of Slim Aarons, the photographer who made his career out of
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I came across this photographer, there’s no hidden story, no lost secret as you might have
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I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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Tonight in Paris, tens of thousands of people dressed in white, will converge at a secret location,
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This is so brilliantly British, but I’m warning you now, you probably won’t be able to
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Charming eccentric or tolerated local boogyman? The townspeople of Kyjov in Czech Republic could
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I finally watched Life of Pi last night and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hero of the
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Promise you won’t tell anyone…! 1. L’Etage de Pastavino – Saint Germain’s
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Appropriately, his name was Dandy Wellington. There’s an exciting photographer on the
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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