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Self-taught French photographer Franck Allais‘ mission is to put things in a new perspective– things like an impending apocalypse maybe? I promised myself I wouldn’t jump on the end-of-the-world Maya bandwagon but I couldn’t help myself with these whimsical photographs from a lost world… Happy Fin du Monde everybody! ::: MORE STUFF LIKE THIS: .
Gift giving can be a little tricky because you don’t want to give mediocre presents to your loved ones, but if you find something really special, chances you’re probably going to feel tempted to keep it …. right? But I don’t want to encourage you or anything… Look at these shoes. They’re beautiful. And you [...]
Paris is just one of those places in the world where talented people get together and make magical things. Filmmaker Spike Jonze and one of the few handbag designers in the world I actually think is worth raving about these day, Olympia Le-Tan, got together to collaborate on a short film set in one of [...]
I stumbled upon a great little website dedicated to collecting old pin-ups and found they had a wonderful archive of La Vie Parisienne, a French erotic magazine that was founded in 1863. And of course with Parisian pin-ups, you know the fashion is going to be pretty fabulous… Also found these sketches by Jacques Le [...]
Produced on the a small farm in Serbia, donkey cheese has made appearances in a $4,800 hamburger at a restaurant in Las Vegas and a $1,10o caviar-coated omelette at a plush New York hotel. Reigning tennis champion Novak Djokovic has just bought up the world’s annual supply and it is said that Cleopatra maintained her [...]
Everyone loved Up. Even grown men wept within the first 20 minutes (and then had to rip up their man cards into pieces). It’s a movie that really hit home with people, including a group of home developers in Utah… Bangerter Homes has recreated the Pixar house down to every last detail. They even had [...]
Here on MessyNessyChic, we’ve seen quite a few obsolete buildings given new life through ambitious architectural projects, but none have been quite as astounding as this one. The Water Tower, an 1870s Venetian Gothic building in South East London in its own league. The 99 ft-high Grade II listed building was once as part of [...]
I‘m the worst in bookstores. It’s kind of like witnessing someone choose the last book they’ll ever read. So when I heard about a bookshop in Toronto by the name of Monkey’s Paw with the world’s first “antiquarian book randomiser”, essentially a literary vending machine that dispenses books like a lucky dip, the idea really spoke [...]
Okay, comparisons are cheesy but I do like to get your attention! Wild Belle is a brand new indie band from Chicago on the scene that I’m expecting will garner similar Lana Del Rey-esque attention with their new track, “Keep You”. The duo is made up of 23 year-old Natalie Bergman on vocals and her [...]
I found photographs of this house from a Hungarian blog (don’t ask) but even with the help of an internet translator, there was absolutely no information about it; no name, no location, except for the mistaken assumption that it was in Paris. A fair bit of research later (just call me GoogleGirl) and I’d finally found [...]
The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their
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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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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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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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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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