A Brief Compendium of the Most Excellent Walls

In my ideal home, if I had enough wall space (and enough of a budget), each and every room would probably have walls like the ones in this post. This is exactly what it says on the tin, a brief compendium of the most excellent walls, found on the internet, compiled here for my own decorating daydreams… At the Ettore…

Who wants to Help Build the Largest Art Car in Burning Man History?

Who wouldn’t want to ride into America’s largest occult festival on the biggest, baddest float in town? Better yet, what if you could say you helped build it? This week in completely average volunteer recruitment news, a non-profit organisation is calling for volunteers to come and join them in the Mojave Desert to help create the largest art car in…

What History Didn’t Tell Us about the Nazi “Super Baby” Breeding Program

If there was one subject that could ever truly capture my attention at school, it was the monster story that was Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. I’ve admittedly always been a ‘bad reader’, but outside of class I devoured books on the war as a teenager and still to this day, there seems to be no end to its disturbing secrets…

Inside the 150 Year-Old Skeleton of an Unfinished Octagonal Palace

She’s a beauty isn’t she? Pictured here after she was abandoned in the 1930s by a cotton baron’s family that were never able to finish their dream home, Longwood mansion is an extraordinary antebellum plantation house that still stands to this day in Natchez, Mississippi. It’s the largest octagonal house in the United States and despite the ornately-finished…

Postcards from a Seaside Village of Upturned Boat Homes

There’s a sleepy seaside village in France with a small fishing port, a population of less than 3,000 and some very peculiar-looking houses. At a moment’s glance, they could almost appear to be an unfortunate pod of beached orcas, but look again carefully at those unusual roofs. Yes, those are boats … upside down! Local fishermen of Équihen-Plage have lived under scavenged boat hulls here…

The Ultimate Gypsy Wonderland Motel

Paradise comes in many shapes and forms for different people, but give us a country ranch with 18th century barns, vintage neon signs, Frida Kahlo-influenced folk art and outdoor porches decorated with salvaged antiques and string lights? Let’s just say, we’d be making ourselves quite comfortable… Behold Rancho Pillow, a 20 acre compound that rests near the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXXIX)

1. Post-Industrial England’s Boarded-Up Houses There are over 600,000 unoccupied homes in England. In times past, these historical houses symbolized the collective past of a flourishing industry and a strong working-class community. Nowadays, hundreds of houses in fairly good condition within former industrial cities stand abandoned and boarded-up awaiting demolition. A look inside the changing…

Abandoned Toys ‘R’ Us Stores are Kind of a Thing Now…

They say kids only play with iPads and smartphone applications these days, but is that entirely true? The best-selling toy of 2016 was a furry mechanical robot creature called Hatchimal that arrives in an egg, hatches and then evolves as you play with it. So kids still want toys, but do they value that experience of buying them…

Twisted Love Affairs of the “Lost Generation” of English Eccentrics

We’ve all heard of Hemingway and his band of literati’s and artistes that shook up Parisian society throughout the 1920’s, whom we nostalgically call the “Lost Generation”. Lesser-known to us however, is the “Bloomsbury Group”, a collection of talented bohemians across the channel who were pioneers of their time in British art and literature and openly rejected…

The Tin Can School ‘Buses’ of India

You may be used to seeing the big yellow buses that bring kids back and forth before & after school everyday, but in India the daily commute to school has its own unique little mode of transport. Each day primary school children, from as young 4 years old cram into these makeshift school buses composed of not much…