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“La Cabande du Sucre”, built by Richard Greaves in Quebec. “I don’t like concrete. A tree moves and also I’m silent. With a nail or a saw. you’d know I was there. I am like a raccoon” – Richard Greaves Greaves makes inhabitable structures out of garbage that look pretty impressive if not confusing. Having [...]
When she died, her husband Diego Rivera ordered her clothes be locked up for 15 years. When Diego passed three years later, a philanthropist, art collector and old friend of the couple, Dolores Olmedo became the manager of their houses. She kept all of Kahlo’s belongings secretly guarded under lock and key for decades until [...]
Photo below: “I took this pix in the 1970′s. It is on Choteau Ave. in St. Louis, which was famous in the early 20th Century for Brain Sandwiches (use a lot of mustard). It was not uncommon for dolts to be told to take a quarter down to Choteau to get some brains. Sadly, the [...]
1. Brain-boggling Salt Mazes Hundreds of hours of pouring salt on the floor– it must be back-breaking work but the result is certainly something quite astonishing. Fourty-six year old Japanese artist, Motoi Yamamoto works on an almost entirely improvised basis, often leaving any imperfections in the pouring to be part of his work. Yamamoto began [...]
No, Pixar is not promoting a sequel to Up, set in Paris (sadly), this is the work of French photographer & artist Laurent Chehere. Inspired by the architecture of the 19th and 20th arrondissements of Paris– mainly Belleville and Menilmontant, Laurent isolates his urban houses from the hustle and bustle of the diverse Parisian neighborhoods [...]
Don’t remember seeing that other-wordly staircase or a never-ending library when you visited Versailles on your last trip to Paris? Are there secret parts of the palace they’re hiding from us? Go on, click on the images for a closer look if you’re not sure… Photographer Jean Francois Rauzier says he waited 25 years [...]
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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Charming eccentric or tolerated local boogyman? The townspeople of Kyjov in Czech Republic could
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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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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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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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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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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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Today I thought we could make a quick stop at Villa Pausa on the French Riviera, the former
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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue
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Sometimes I feel like there’s just too much photography of Paris; images we’ve seen
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