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Ever since school, I feel like I’ve been continuing my own education; on the internet, with people I meet, around my city; mostly picking and choosing what I want to learn but often re-learning about stuff they tried to teach us in the classroom, stuff that somehow, never really seemed to stick. I suppose learning [...]
Matt Groening is the American cartoonist behind the successful television series, The Simpsons. A recent article in a Portland, Oregon obituary for a certain Margaret Ruth Groening has revealed a few familiar names, including her husband Homer and her children, Matt, Lisa and Maggie. via Reddit ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .
Take a Parisian tour with Mickey as Disney accurately depicts what rush hour is like in this city and addresses the highly important issue of croissant shortages in cafés after 11am. I mean, what is that? Who runs out of croissants?? No, I don’t want a tartine, I NEED MY F***… sorry, enjoy the video [...]
Long before today’s design festivals were exhibiting the latest prototypes for modern family homes featuring mechanised floors and furniture that emerge from walls and ceilings at the touch of a button, Mickey, Daffy and Goofy were already a step ahead. Mickey’s Trailer is a 1938 animated short film produced by Walt Disney featuring Mickey’s highly [...]
‘Destination Earth’ is a 1956 promotional cartoon created by John Sutherland that depicts a civilisation of Martians that come to Earth (the United States). They discover that they are actually inferior and less advanced than the American earthlings, who benefit from an endless supply of petroleum that enriches their everyday lives in a free market [...]
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, [...]
I remember every detail as if it was yesterday that we would put on the VHS tape on Christmas day after opening presents. I also remember at the time having no idea who David Bowie actually was, just that he was the man that introduced the Snowman in his attic. Here is the full animated [...]
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 [...]
Seen this guy somewhere before? Meet Adamson – Homer Simpson’s vintage doppelganger. This cartoon comic was published in an Icelandic paper called Fálkinn in July 1949. It is the creation of Swedish cartoonist, Oscar Jacobson who enjoyed relative success as an illustrator, even in America where Adamson was known as Silent Sam. Could it be that Matt Groening’s iconic cartoon [...]
Last year Vahram Muratyan came out with his wonderful book of graphic illustrations comparing Paris and New York side by side. I have a copy lying around somewhere in my mess. But to my delight, I’ve just come across an animated video version of his work. It’s a little fast and should be about half [...]
I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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Everybody loves a good photo album, even the NSA! For their 60th anniversary last year, they put
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Tonight in Paris, tens of thousands of people dressed in white, will converge at a secret location,
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Ever since school, I feel like I’ve been continuing my own education; on the internet, with
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Charming eccentric or tolerated local boogyman? The townspeople of Kyjov in Czech Republic could
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I finally watched Life of Pi last night and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hero of the
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Promise you won’t tell anyone…! 1. L’Etage de Pastavino – Saint Germain’s
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In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon
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Appropriately, his name was Dandy Wellington. There’s an exciting photographer on the
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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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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