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15 Reasons why ‘Black and WTF’ is my new Favorite Tumblr

There are a lot of Tumblrs out there that stick a bunch of pictures up and don’t tell you anything about it. Black and WTF is a fascinating photoblog that’s dedicated to doing its homework on some of the wackiest, most inexplicable black and white photographs from the past. Some of the images and the…

Versailles: A Portal to Another World?

Don’t remember seeing that other-wordly staircase or a never-ending library when you visited Versailles on your last trip to Paris? Are there secret parts of the palace they’re hiding from us?   Go on, click on the images for a closer look if you’re not sure… Photographer Jean Francois Rauzier says he waited 25 years…

This Girl’s Amazing College Dorm Room is depressingly NOT Yours.

Does this room not make you want to bathe in its warm cocoon of preppyness and revisit those college years once more with brand new stationary and unrealistic expectations for what life has in store ahead?  Yes! This is an actual college dorm room, belonging to a freshman no less, at the University of Pennsylvania.…

American Retro Time Capsule Homes

Kitschy design is being reproduced so much these days you can’t really tell if something is actually retro anymore. But what about the original retro homes that didn’t change with the fashion and stayed exactly the same since the day they were built when kitschy living was the future? MessyNessy did some digging on Retro…

The ill-fated Abandoned French Chateau: Before & After

  For those of you that have ever done any derelict digging of their own on the net, it’s likely you would have come across a photograph of this room with its impressive circular stained glass window and the decaying leather armchair sat facing it. This is the Chateau de Pont Remy Somme, also known…

10 Places in Paris for an Indian Summer

Feel like summer is slipping away all too quickly as September approaches? Nessy has compiled her list Paris’ best terraces and al fresco spots just when you need them most… 1. Secret Courtyard Dining in the Marais JAJA Tucked away in the vibrant streets of the Marais, just meters away from the Point-Virgule, Paris’ last…

That Time Marlon Brando Refused to Accept His Academy Award for the Godfather

On March 27th, 1973, actor Marlon Brando refused to accept his Academy Award for Best Actor for The Godfather. In protest of the treatment of Native Americans in film, Native American actress, Sacheen Littlefeather appeared on the podium in his place and refused to accept the golden statue. See the gripping moment in entertainment history…

Unrecognizable Paris: The Monuments that Vanished

What you are looking at is not Disneyland Paris. These are photographs colored by hand (a popular practice at the turn of the 20th century) of the Exposition Universelle in 1900 in Paris. It was the fifth one to take place in the city and centered mainly on the revolutionary achievements in electrical technology at…

15 Fashion Trends of the Past that Today’s Designers haven’t Copied … Yet

Fashion tends to repeat itself … a lot. In fact sometimes it’s seems that is all it does is ‘borrow’ from another decade, another era. But let’s take a gander at some very interesting styles that today’s designers haven’t yet sent down the catwalk…. 1. Embroidered Knee Highs Knee highs were like, so hot in…
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