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Upon learning of his muse’s engagement to the Prince of Monaco, Alfred Hitchcock allegedly said, “I’m very happy that Grace has found herself such a good part…” In 1956, just two weeks before her wedding, Grace Kelly packed up her life in Hollywood for good and made the voyage to Europe. These rare and unpublished [...]
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is pretty much the result of me getting lost in the LIFE magazine archives again and coming across a bunch of mostly unpublished photographs of cowgirls that were too good not to share.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 [...]
I‘m not used to seeing segregated America in pretty pastels. Typically, the civil rights photography we look at is in black & white and instantly disturbing. But these rare pictures, discovered after the photographer’s death at the bottom of an old storage box, wrapped in paper and masking tape and marked, “Segregation Series,” are unlike any [...]
In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a six-day period, 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured and over 3,438 arrests were made. In 1966, LIFE magazine revisited the site of the worst riots America had ever seen in its history. The photo essay depicting the [...]
With a nick-name like MessyNessy it’s probably not my place to be dishing out advice on getting organized, but I’ve gone and done it anyway…. De-Crapify. (Just Do it). When it comes to de-crapifying your life, no one knows better than MessyNessy that you have to be ruthless. Take no prisoners (literally). Stop lying to [...]
You don’t have to be a fashion die-hard to appreciate the magic of these photographs captured in 1951 at Paris fashion week by my favorite go-to archive, LIFE magazine. The late 1940s and 1950s was a time of intense interest in Paris fashion and haute couture. But even though some of the names of the fashion houses might [...]
Calm yourselves oh ye faithful Paris dreamers, after nearly two years and counting, MessyNessy can report that she is still, hopelessly in love and in no way tired of this city. Okay, so maybe the metro I once thought was so charming smells more like rotting eggs every time I go underground, taxi drivers are [...]
It made me tear up this one so get your hanky ready. There’s something about the innocence of this little kid, his proud and unassuming father, and the kindness of the guy who made this film that gets the tear ducts flowing. Faith in humanity restored. A beautiful little film. Social media is pretty awesome [...]
You’ve probably clicked on this article because at one point or another, you’ve feared life without your parents. Yes, I’m going there. This isn’t a topic I thought I’d ever be writing about either and I’ll admit I’m uneasy about whether it’s really appropriate here, on my blog. I had a choice either to keep [...]
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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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their
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Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect
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Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your
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“It’s not a symbol of harassment. It’s a symbol of a woman having an absolutely
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I‘m not an art buff. I just like what I like and save it as my desktop background image or,
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If you have typography skills, obviously the next logical step is to just start illustrating
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Waiter! There’s a Britney Spears in my coffee! (I knew that was going to be terrible but I
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Mixing Justin Bieber’s perfume and the scent of Jersey Shore’s Snookie with an Eau de
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Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue
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So painstakingly detailed, you could easily mistake these photographs for real life-sized rooms
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Upon learning of his muse’s engagement to the Prince of Monaco, Alfred Hitchcock allegedly
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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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Sometimes I feel like there’s just too much photography of Paris; images we’ve seen
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