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I found some rare autochrome photographs of Paris at the turn of the 20th century and thought you might like them. I was curious to compare each photograph with how it looks today so I’ve provided a link to most of them on Google Street view. Although much of Paris is still “old Paris”, not [...]
Because sometimes, browsing through pictures of celebrities looking stupid in the nineties is better than anything else in the world… 1. Sarah Jessica Parker Spread eagle. 2. Ryan Gosling Really working that indie “part-of-the-wallpaper” look. 3. Sandra Bullock Keep laughing Sandy, keep laughing. 4. Madonna Casually snacking on some goldfish [...]
A new HBO documentary that airs on Monday night in the states has managed to track down some of the original faces of the catwalks and see how they feel about getting old in an industry that basically looks at ageing like a bad disease. You can get an idea of some of their thoughts [...]
My mother still buys English newspapers even though we’re all living in Paris now, but I do love to nick them from her when she’s done. I wanted to share with you these touching ads I saw that The Times newspaper is currently running of photographs of Queen Elizabeth II from two different eras, beautifully merged [...]
I love looking at before & after shots so I was quite excited to find these photographs from the Parisian archives of streets as they were in the 19th century and how they are today. It’s comforting to see how little this city has changed over time… (1850 / 2010) – Rue Saint Séverin was [...]
Just a bit of fun, not intended to be snarky in regards to how they’ve aged. I’ve been posting a few vintage pictures of our favorite celebrities on my Facebook fan page and they always go down a treat! So here’s an entire post of them … Milla Jovovich Steve Martin Kim Basinger [...]
Okay, it’s true we’ve seen this concept done before, even the photographer Guiseppe Savini admits it: This is a series of photos I took in Bologna. I thought it was a good idea … then they told me that similar work had already been done … and then I gave up everything. How sad! Because the thing is, yes we have seen similar “then & now” [...]
In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon
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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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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart 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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Sometimes I wonder about things like, who’s going to know how to make a piano in twenty
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue
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I‘m just discovering I have a bit of a thing for vintage envelopes– I think it’s the
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No, this isn’t the rescue mission of a shipwrecked Porsche 911, this is a picture of a 911
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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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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be
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I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments
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