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He sounds more like a poet than a wood worker, but Josh Vogel of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co is a man of profound thoughts and words. (And I like his outfit too). The Scout magazine visited Josh in Kingston, New York in 2010 and stepped back in time with the wood sculptor to document [...]
Chris Zabriskie is the narrator, editor and musical composer of this beautiful short film that revisits a childhood VHS tape which ‘miraculously never wore out’. Despite having never met Chris, he succeeds in making his memories completely meaningful for the rest of us. With his heartwarming narration interpreting those moments, he captures the poignant simplicity [...]
I‘ve been clinging onto these old photos of an Automat diner in New York in the 1930s, thinking I would one day have a reason to show them to you. Having just returned from a long weekend in Amsterdam where I found this old-fashion fast-food style of dining still in existence, I think it’s time [...]
At 9 meters squared, Le Pt’t Bar is literally the most petit bar in Paris. Inside, a ninety-something year-old bartender, known as Madame Polo , her slightly over-fed gray cat and a cage of canaries are your hosts. Serving Belgian beer, Calvados and wine in her surreal post-war era time machine, Madame Polo squeezes in a [...]
I can’t help but notice a rapidly growing trend happening in architecture that involves giving new life to what may look like the most hopeless of ruins. Ever since I showed you the modern Scottish home built within a 150 year-old abandoned farmhouse, I’ve been hugely intrigued by these modern interventions of age old crumbling [...]
This wonderfully nostalgic photograph was taken in the backyard of a speakeasy club called the Krazy Kat Club in Washington DC, July 15, 1921. It looks like they might have decided to move their staff meeting outside to their treehouse in the heavy heat of July– and nobody is in the mood for business! Every [...]
Let’s take a moment to see how summer holidays have evolved; how much have things really changed? MessyNessy dives into some beach holiday archives to find out… Traveling then: Traveling Now: Tourists then: Tourists Now: Holiday Resorts then: Holiday Resorts Now: Watersports then: Watersports Now: Swimwear [...]
It’s Monday, so let’s contemplate time travel… 1. For the Cars (obviously) 2. We could have gone to a school like this: 3. Everything was Cheaper. 4. In the 60s Brigitte Bardot looked like this: Today she looks like this: Okay okay, so she aged naturally which is highly commendable of her [...]
The New York Times have been doing some great things on their website and Tumblr recently, and coming across videos like this is a real treat for me. I would pay good money to spend the day sifting through the newspaper’s old print archives, a department that used to be the heart of most publications [...]
A Parisian apartment left untouched for over 70 years was discovered in the quartier of Pigalle a few summers ago and I’ve been meaning to share the pictures with you. Time to unlock the vault … The owner of this apartment, Mrs. De Florian left Paris just before the rumblings of World War II broke [...]
Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack
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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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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is
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A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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