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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be yours … if you’re ready to cough up anything from $5000-$15,000 … for a bicycle. But it’s so much more than just a bicycle! Behold the holy grail of bikes, the Spacelander, a fiber-glass design by Benjamin Bowdon that [...]
(c) El Toro Route 66; where all those wonderfully off-beat attractions of ‘Roadside America’ culture first sprouted. By the 1920s, Route 66, known then as the National Trail, was fast-becoming the most popular road in the country for Westward pioneers travelling across the Diablo Canyon. A 19th century isolated trading post in Arizona suddenly became a [...]
I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments out there, so I went looking, which resulted in this little post dedicated to preserved moments of historical sass! Submitted by Lisa Warninger to The Sartorialist: ‘The sassy woman in the saddle shoes is my grandma Lois. This [...]
Attention archive photography lovers! There’s a new Tumblr in town by National Geographic called FOUND, set up in honour of their 125th anniversary. What better way to celebrate a birthday than to go digging through one of the most interesting photographic archives in the world…. ‘FOUND is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic [...]
You might have noticed that sneakers are back in style this year and designers are scrambling to do collaborations with all the iconic sneaker brands. But maybe Apple should think about bringing back these vintage Reebok-esque sneakers featuring the company’s iconic rainbow apple logo! Made available only to Apple employees in the early 90s, these sneakers were [...]
As if Google Street View wasn’t already cool enough, allowing you to virtually be in two places at once, there’s a new website in town that’s translocating you one step further– into history! You’ve probably looked up your street or your house on Google Street View already, right? What if you could also compare [...]
The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. New-York fashion photographer, played by Astaire, sets out to find a “new face” for the high fashion magazine Quality and soon enough discovers Audrey Hepburn working as a bookstore clerk in Greenwich village, [...]
This post is pretty much the result of me getting lost in the LIFE magazine archives again and coming across a bunch of mostly unpublished photographs of cowgirls that were too good not to share. These snaps are a melange of photo stories by LIFE photographers, Nina Leen, Peter Stackpole and Cornell Capa between 1947-48 at the [...]
In 1954, Edith Piaf would have been 38 years-old. It was a time when she was trying to beat her severe addiction to alcohol and was known to take morphine before going on stage to perform. Nevertheless, I think you’ll agree, her performance moves you, even through the grainy black and white recording of this [...]
Image via Jane Sanders Up in that impressive glass dome is where the projectionist would have originally sat in the late 1960s, when a fleet of seven of these custom mobile cinema units toured Britain, promoting modern production techniques to the industry. Britain’s then Minister of Technology, Tony Ben commissioned the customised Bedford SB buses to [...]
sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Sometimes I wonder about things like, who’s going to know how to make a piano in twenty
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Who will make the better Gatsby? Can DiCaprio pull off a pink suit as well as Robert Redford did in
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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I‘m just discovering I have a bit of a thing for vintage envelopes– I think it’s the
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No, this isn’t the rescue mission of a shipwrecked Porsche 911, this is a picture of a 911
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What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing
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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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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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I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments
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You might have noticed that sneakers are back in style this year and designers are scrambling to do
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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A few months back, I came across a website called Paris 1914, a collection of color photography
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Ski season is upon us and naturally it’s all about the sport, and not at all about
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