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“La Cabande du Sucre”, built by Richard Greaves in Quebec. “I don’t like concrete. A tree moves and also I’m silent. With a nail or a saw. you’d know I was there. I am like a raccoon” – Richard Greaves Greaves makes inhabitable structures out of garbage that look pretty impressive if not confusing. Having [...]
“What brings us together and what keeps us apart” “All Star Nobody” “Play Fighting” You might find Slinkachu, an artist in his mid-thirties from London, crouched down on all fours on the pavement, and mistake him for someone that has keeled over in distress. In fact this once happened to him in the middle [...]
1. The totally insane Marie Antoinette Helicopter Had the helicopter been invented during the reign of Marie Antoinette, artist Joana Vasconcelos decided to imagine what the French Queen’s would look like. Using a Bell 47 helicopter, the artist decorated it with ostrich feathers, thousands of rhinestones, interior woodwork, gilding and lavish pink upholstery for a 2012 [...]
1. Couples that should have been… Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway via here Elvis & Sophia Loren via here Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe via here 2. Just a 1980s Hairdryer I found one available on Etsy for a whopping $475, images via here. 3. Baguette Tables Made out of actual pieces [...]
1. Alfred Hitchcock being Alfred Hitchock… Hitchcock with his kids. In the Thames. Who’s looking forward to seeing the new biopic starring Anthony Hopkins?! via Pinterest 2. Michael’s rock is an island in the Atlantic Ocean 12 km off the coast of south-west Ireland. Perched high at the summit of a 230-metre-high rock is an ancient [...]
It was once known as the “Paris of the West”, the birthplace of the middle class, one of the fastest growing cities in the world, an industrial utopia. The Detroit we know today is an American city so broke that last year half of the street lights in the city’s sparsely populated communities were [...]
Yep, it’s that time again for me to open up my bag of treasures from the depths of the internet… 1. Hole n’ the Rock Roadside America is full of fascinatingly bizarre attractions, and Hole n’ the Rock is no exception. Carved out of 50,000 cubic feet of excavated sandstone in Utah’s Canyonlands country, Hole n’ the Rock [...]
1. A Weapon of Mass Instruction Artist Raul Lemesoff, who took an old military 1979 Ford Falcon and gave it a bit of a make-over, says it’s his “contribution to peace through literature”. The tank-shaped mobile library that carries over 900 books, known as “Arma De Instruccion Masiva” – Weapon of Mass Instruction, cruises the [...]
I had often seen the above image floating around on the internet on various Tumblrs and always mistaken it for a photograph. But I’ve finally discovered the artist behind these oil paintings; American realist painter, Lee Price. I suppose you could look at these works and say they’re a little sad, but I prefer to think [...]
They say that when Frida loved, she loved hard and passionately. There’s no question that hers and Diego Rivera’s union was unconventional. He, the husband who flaunted the diagnosis of his doctor that declared him “unfit for monogamy,” and her, the volatile, often obsessive but equally adulterous wife. Ironically, the footage you are about to see [...]
They met in Paris in 1932. Both already married, American novelist Henry Miller and Cuban diarist
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When she died, her husband Diego Rivera ordered her clothes be locked up for 15 years. When Diego
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Sometimes you really think you know the internet. You learn how to research the furthest corners of
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When in Paris, you might as well do things the right way; drink at the bistros of the belle
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The woman who practically invented the romantic comedy, the woman who brought us Sleepless in
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No matter how much I like to deny it, I’m a sucker for romantic stuff like this. Sophie
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Fifty years too early, here I am dreaming about my retirement; sleepy days, rich foods, peaceful
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This has happened to me [the picture above is a slight, perhaps huge exaggeration but whatever].
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I‘ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The problem is however, when you try to
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You’ve probably clicked on this article because at one point or another, you’ve feared
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As yet another year comes to a close and we wonder where the time went, I thought this photostory
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Two male buddies of mine recently had the unfortunate experience of being blindsided by the fairer
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Spectators watch quietly, listening to the dragging of tango feet on the stone quai. Beautiful
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Summer has arrived here in Paris, which means, so have the American girls. For twenty-something
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I did the unthinkable last weekend. I organised a double date. Oh the horror I experienced, I
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