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Here on MessyNessyChic, we’ve explored a variety of different and unusual subcultures, from the dandies of the Congo and the Elvis Presley copycats in Switzerland, to the women in Asia going to extremes with their makeup. Today’s subculture that I’d like to introduce to you is one that I think most of us can relate [...]
What if we did have superheros? What if they had been there to help us (or turn on us) when the world most needed superheroes to stamp out the villains of the real world? What may have been just a fleeting thought for us has become an artistic fantasy for Indonesian illustrator Agan Harahap. Merging [...]
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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In Paris, every first Wednesday of the month at noon, without fail you can hear the eerie wail of
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Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue
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Attention archive photography lovers! There’s a new Tumblr in town by National Geographic
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As if Google Street View wasn’t already cool enough, allowing you to virtually be in two
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High heels were not originally intended to be worn by women. In fact, the coveted red-soled
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Unbeknownst to the thousands of passengers that pass through the station each day, right under
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I‘m not the kind of person you’re going to catch waiting in a museum queue that goes
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I‘m not used to seeing segregated America in pretty pastels. Typically, the civil rights
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There is no feeling quite like it, when you realize you’ve discovering something that’s
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The luxury French resort of a different variety … Photo source: Flick User An Agent Like a
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Behind the number 12, rue Chabanais, a typical building on a typical back street not far from the
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Just a photograph of your average Nazi rally in Hitler Germany. Or is it? At the launch of a German
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