VOL.01
No American road trip would be complete without a stop at a trailer park palace! So for those with a ‘kitsch itch’ to scratch (note to self: google and see if I just coined ‘kitsch itch’), Nessy has picked out three hotels in the great ol’ US of A for the ultimate vintage (and dare [...]
So remember that time a bunch of aliens crash landed into the desert somewhere in Nevada, a.k.a Studio 54 Area 51 (always get those two mixed up) … well it turns out the U.S. government actually went and plagiarized the aliens’ quirky style of air travel in the 1950s (not very successfully). Recently declassified records [...]
It’s all about taking that detour and finding the beautifully haunting moments of traveling through the unknown. Walker Pickering is a young photographer and photography teacher based not in his Texan hometown, but on the road. And you won’t find him on Route 66. He’ll be taking the back roads of America, where the kudzu* grows [...]
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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Everybody loves a good photo album, even the NSA! For their 60th anniversary last year, they put
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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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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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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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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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(c) El Toro Route 66; where all those wonderfully off-beat attractions of ‘Roadside
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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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Attention archive photography lovers! There’s a new Tumblr in town by National Geographic
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