8 Off-beat Museums in Paris (for people who don’t like museums)

I‘m not the kind of person you’re going to catch waiting in a museum queue that goes round the block to get my fix of history and culture. So here’s Nessy’s pick of museums off the beaten path in Paris… 1. Musée des Arts Forains (The Fairground Art Museum) Images by Julie Lefort Little-known even…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Volume VII)

1. Alfred Hitchcock being Alfred Hitchock… Hitchcock with his kids. In the Thames. Who’s looking forward to seeing the new biopic starring Anthony Hopkins?! via Pinterest 2. Michael’s rock is an island in the Atlantic Ocean 12 km off the coast of south-west Ireland. Perched high at the summit of a 230-metre-high rock is an ancient…

Screen Testing with Pacino, Brando & De Niro: The Godfathers that almost Never Were

If someone ever admits to having never seen The Godfather (it happens more than you would think), I instantly get dramatic; widening my eyes, dropping my jaw with a gigantic gasp and other over-the-top gestures. It’s obviously a pretty obnoxious reaction but one that I feel is apparently appropriate for describing how I feel about…

Survival through Art? Finally, someone made a Film about what is going on in Detroit

It was once known as the “Paris of the West”, the birthplace of the middle class, one of the fastest growing cities in the world, an industrial utopia. The Detroit we know today is an American city so broke that last year half of the street lights in the city’s sparsely populated communities were…

American Psycho vs Pokemon: The Deleted Scene

That famous business card scene as the director really intended it… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M83-stGDR6E] ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .

The Forgotten Villas of Italy

Thomas Jorion has been exploring abandoned buildings since he was a child and he’s one of those lucky people who managed to make a career out of it. His series, Forgotten Palaces, is mostly comprised of extraordinary villas taken in northern Italy which have been left to decay for a variety of reasons from financial ruin and…

30 Secret Doors to Hidden Places

From mysterious doors and secret rooms to hidden passageways and nature’s portals, my sense is that you and I have an unquenchable thirst for this stuff, so here are 30 of my favourites that I’d like to show you, freshly fished from the rabbit hole that is the internet… Behind the bookshelf 1. via Bookshelf…

Literally the Best Shop on the Internet: Society6

There’s so much wonderful artwork on the web, shared on various blogs, in memes and on social networks, but the trouble is, it’s always on a computer screen. Until now. Society6 is a new kind of online shop that’s taking that supercool graphic you saw on an art Tumblr once, the quirky illustration you’ve been…

Let’s Snoop around these Luxury Paris Homes for Sale

For dreaming purposes only… (a bit of real-estate p0rn never hurt anyone). The Aristocats are house hunting again … A seven bedroom apartment near Avenue Foch More details here … A Five bedroom townhouse in the 16th arrondissement More details via Sotheby’s … A modernised 4 bedroom Private townhouse in the suburbs More…

Shark Observes an Underwater Ping Pong Match

(c) Bettmann/Corbis. The New Yorker magazine put together a slideshow of historical exercise photos. The bizarre line-up includes this underwater ping pong match (being observed by a sand shark at the marine studios in Orlando, Florida, 1947), playing golf in medieval armour and making the bed on one leg. See the full slideshow here.