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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 [...]
His novel is at the top of the Amazon bestsellers list, nearly 90 years later after it was written.
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I often wander into small bookstores in quiet neighbourhoods of Paris on Sundays and think,
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Hey crafty people, in case you haven’t already been trawling the tech blogs of the internet
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You might have heard of the cupcake vending machine in Los Angeles, but did you know Paris has
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Is it a movie set? An art instillation? Nope, this is a real home (within a home) built by
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Paris is just one of those places in the world where talented people get together and make magical
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Question: What does present day cell phone technology lack? Answer: “You can’t send
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In 1908 Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism.
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I‘ve been clinging onto these old photos of an Automat diner in New York in the 1930s,
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This may be teetering on the edge of inappropriate content but I’m presuming that’s one
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When I was a kid, I played Dorothy in a school play of The Wizard of Oz, so I like to think I know
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Ever since the first time I saw Michael Jackson do his infamous gravity-defying lean in Moonwalker,
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Every once in a while you stumble upon someone’s art work that makes you more creatively
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Written between 1935 and 1958, some are worse than others with blatantly discriminatory titles and
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Here’s a tip for any young creatives looking for some financing. Kickstarter is the
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