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(c) Matt Green Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them… On a street in Brooklyn that takes you towards the river, where the cobblestones begin paving the road, there is a townhouse that deserves a second look. Despite its impeccable brickwork, number 58 Joralemon Street is not like the [...]
Is man faster than the metro? Obviously not … right? Vincent Mulard took upon the challenge to exit a Paris Metro train at Cluny La Sourbonne, then run to the next subway stop at Odeon and get back onto the exact same train. I used to take this exact metro train and it seems pretty impossible [...]
What the heck is The No Pants Subway Ride you ask? I Well it’s a not so prestigious (at least not yet) annual event that was started by a group of people called Improv Everywhere on the New York City subway. What started as a small prank by a couple of guys has turned into [...]
Thank God it’s Friday. Because if you were on your Monday morning commute in Tokyo right now, the day probably wouldn’t be getting off to the greatest start. I had never before seen this practice of “stuffing” people into subway cars. I also had no idea subway staff are hired to do just that… This [...]
If you had the misfortune of being a staircase, what other kicks could you get out of life than tripping people up as they climbed you? The staircase of the 36th Street subway station in New York thought he could get away with it until filmmaker Dean Peterson came along… (notice how most people run [...]
“Seeing these massive mechanisms being tossed into the ocean like a toy in the bathtub is a ping in my heart.” Award-winning photographer Stephen Mallon captured these incredible pictures over three years as he documented the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s recycling program retire the remains of obsolete New York subway cars into the Atlantic ocean. Over [...]
I recently came upon an archive of Slim Aarons, the photographer who made his career out of
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I came across this photographer, there’s no hidden story, no lost secret as you might have
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I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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For many years, these bizarre buildings on the isolated southern tip of Marco Island in Cape
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Charming eccentric or tolerated local boogyman? The townspeople of Kyjov in Czech Republic could
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For the last thirteen years, he’s been busy digging up a lost underwater civilization the
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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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When I was a kid, I was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz for my school musical. I was a very
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So I went sniffing around the LIFE Archives again and this time found some rather unusual
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It was an ambitious, otherwordly idea, dreamt up by American military physician, Dr. Bond, deemed
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Appropriately, his name was Dandy Wellington. There’s an exciting photographer on the
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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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