Food P*rn vs Street Style

Just a bit of fun today– I was a little bored staying indoors out of the rain yesterday and ended up pairing some food photography with street style photography inspired by fashion blogger Miss Moss. As I said, just a bit of fun— not much sense! So how did I do? …

The Cutest & Tiniest Cars Ever Made

Let’s talk cars. Cute ones. Like they used to make ’em. BMW Isetta, 1957 It’s said to be the very best microcar of its time. BMW teamed up with Milan-based refrigerator company, Iso Spa of all things on this one, thus the name “Isetta”, meaning “little Iso”. Probably the most unusual thing about it is the…

When Bardot Met Picasso…the Only Man Who Could Resist Her

Two great names, one very special meeting. Allegedly, Picasso refused to paint the French beauty, although he never said why. In this terrific picture above, it looks as if Bardot was pouting at Picasso because she’s not used to not getting her way with men! Brigitte visited Pablo Picasso at his studio at Vallauris outside Cannes during…

10 Incredible and Amazingly Bizarre Homes

Please note: Ikea will not make your house look like this. 1. Tribecca Wonderland Our first house belongs to Meghan Boody, a contemporary artist and photographer living in Tribecca New York. Her taste you will find is wild, and sometimes pretty hard to swallow… And by hard to swallow, I mean the very lifelike silicone…

The Story behind “Keep Calm and Carry On”

It’s one of the most recognizable posters in the world, an internet meme reinvented thousands of times over and yet do any of us actually know the story behind it? This excellent little video schools us on the origins of the wartime poster and how it was actually lost in history until 2000 when it…

“Girl Watching” in Paris

I stumbled upon something pretty peculiar today. This is an excerpt from a 1959 issue of Girl Watcher magazine. [Illustration 1] Considered one of the ‘creepiest and most perverted’ magazines of its day, the publication promoted randomly stalking and ‘collecting’ women as a hobby. What really caught my attention was this special guide to ‘Girlwatching’ in…

EXTREME LIVING: Turning Caveman in America

Sometimes we just want to get away from it all; make the great escape and reconnect with ourselves rather than our Facebook friends. But how far would go to get away from it all? Could you really switch off from the world? One woman did. And she found a few people to follow her too….…

The Zombie Mall Experience

I often wonder how it’s possible to be both obsessed with things like puppies, french cheese, floral print vintage dresses AND zombies. (Still working on an explanation). So anyway, deep down, we all really want a zombie apocalypse to happen. Just for a day or something. You know, to put our zombie survival skills to…

Who wants OUT of the Beauty Cult?

I‘m kind of excited about these videos I found today. By now, you probably know where I stand on beauty culture and body image and so I’ll let some other people do the talking this time round. This first video link is called “Beauty Culture”, a documentary that has been selected to appear at the…

Food P*rn vs Street Style

Brad Pitt Pringles Advert circa. 1989