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I‘m not claiming to have flawless taste in film, here are just a few of my favorites, a few I’m interested in seeing, and I’m hoping it’s useful in inspiring your Monday night movie rental… Ghost World (2001) In a nutshell: A quirky comic book adaptation about social outsiders. Why should you care: Scarlett Johansson, [...]
This whole blogging thing is clearly overrated. Where are my invites to the ping pong pool parties of the world? (Note to self: order large amount of ping pong balls for the bathtub). With an aim to impress the pants off everyone (mission accomplished), event organisers Urban Daddy recently challenged Brookyln-based art and design studio [...]
If you’re a Parisian, or have ever lived in Paris, or even if you just know good design, this animated graphic short will hit the spot. Brought to us by global communications group, Havas as a welcoming into 2013, the simple but stunning graphics delve into the historical and contemporary personalities of Paris’ most iconic [...]
Okay come with me, we’re going to explore every inch of this hotel built inside the deserted grottos of an Italian mountain village from the Middle Ages. The cliffs of the Gravina River Valley in Matera Italy are believed to be the site of the first human settlements in the country. So let’s begin our [...]
“Atelier Nο5″ This is the beautifully bohemian (and slightly mad) small world of French artist Ronan-Jim Sevellec. At 80 years of age, his most recent exposition was in 2012 and saw his boxes of tiny artist’s workshops and old antique rooms displayed in various eccentric and romantic locations around Paris. Ronan spent much of his [...]
Art these days often seems to be about something impossible to understand, something abstract, something symbolic, something that doesn’t look like any of the simple, pretty things there are to see in our daily lives. But French illustrator Matthieu Forichon, who also doodles for Marie Claire magazine and aperitif wine brand, Lillet, captures exactly that, [...]
Like me, I’m guessing you were instantly drawn to the juxtaposition of this warm, feminine pink and beautiful embroidery against crumbling ruins and monotone austerity in the urban background. In the 2007 Sharjah Biennale, Egyptian artist Amal Kenawy exhibited her award-winning “Non-Stop Conversation.” She sewed a bubblegum pink quilt and wrapped it around an abandoned [...]
The talented film-making duo behind Tiger in a Jar have struck again, this time they’re in France, filming the culinary workshop, The Cook’s Atelier in Burgundy. It prompted me to find out a little bit more about the dreamy workshop, and if you’re looking to try out some authentic cook thrown in with a [...]
If you were to draw everything little thing you consumed, would you be able to stomach it? Kate Bingaman Burt is an illustrator based in Portland, Oregon who has been documenting all her purchases everyday for the past six years. From everyday purchases to one-off finds or pricey indulgences, it’s all there, chronicled on her treasure [...]
Is it a movie set? An art instillation? Nope, this is a real home (within a home) built by quirky architect Adam Kalkin in suburban New Jersey. It’s called the Bunny Lane House and was built around the original traditional two-storey house you can see in the photograph (which sadly does not have yet [...]
Ever since school, I feel like I’ve been continuing my own education; on the internet, with
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Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their
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Today I thought we could make a quick stop at Villa Pausa on the French Riviera, the former
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If you have typography skills, obviously the next logical step is to just start illustrating
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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Shabby chic; it’s a style you either love or hate, but once you get over the copious amounts
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So painstakingly detailed, you could easily mistake these photographs for real life-sized rooms
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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be
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Looking at these installations, I imagine they are like clues indicating a secret trail somewhere
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Forget the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Chartres Cathedral, I’ve got some alternative
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It could be the house of a pirate king who keeps his treasure buried in the waterbed beneath, but
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1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it
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As Spring approaches (it’s actually pretty far from approaching but it makes me feel better
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