There’s an Alternate Universe of Pre-MTV Music Videos You’ve Never Seen
The birth of the music video is often credited to MTV. It was 1981 when…
Category Inspiration Vault
A Chat with the Van Gogh of Typewriter Art
Famous celebrities, historic English buildings and city skylines: What connects all of James Cook’s art…
Discovering Dalida, the Tragic Diva
Before living in Paris, I did not know Dalida, but this city was on a first-name basis…
The Secret Invention behind Michael Jackson’s Anti-Gravity Lean
Ever since the first time I saw Michael Jackson do his infamous gravity-defying lean in…
The African Women who dress like Victorians
Photo by Jim Naughten We’ve already met the Sapeurs, a subculture of extraordinarily dressed male dandies…
Paris’ Utopian Village of Concrete Cabbage
If Ernest Hemingway made Paris a moveable feast, architect Gérard Grandval made its Créteil suburb…
Weekend at Wallis & Edward’s Secret French Cottage
For the man who gave up the throne of England to be with the women…
America’s “Secret Sonic Weapon” Against Communism
This is the story of that time the United States decided to influence countries “at-risk” of falling…
Stolen Beauty of the Chin Girls
The isolated mountains of Burma’s Chin state are home to a number of hill tribes…
The Marvellous Mod World of Sci-Fi Supermarionettes
The last place we’d ever think to look for design inspiration would be the bygone…
The Muslim WWII Heroine that Time Forgot
Not many can boast to have made it to the top of the Nazis’ “Most…
Bar Murals of New York City
After a hard day’s toil, one of New York’s greatest pleasures is to unwind with…