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Through the Eyes of a Boat

I came across this photographer, there’s no hidden story, no lost secret as you might have come to expect from this blog, just pure appreciation for the habit of looking out of windows, especially round ones, on boats. Photographer Luke Casey has traveled the world by sea and found it looked very different through the…

The Chained Books of Zutphen

A spot of ‘book p0rn’ for you on this fine Friday, which takes us to the 16th-century chained library of Zutphen, in the east of the Netherlands. Photos by Eric Wakkel No need for a library card here, the Zutphen hasn’t updated its system for more than 550 years! Each book is fitted with a metal…

The Girl who Mapped Manhattan’s Memories

Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky Cooper discovered she had a ‘thing’ for cartography after she was hired to help map all of Manhattan’s public art. Soon enough, she was inspired to embark on her own idea– to map Manhattan’s memories. Becky hand-printed a few…

12 Things I can Find at my Local Parisian Bazaar

I love my local Bazaar. It has everything, it’s all so mind-blowingly cheap and I could spend hours in there discovering all the random oddities stacked on their shelves. So today I thought I’d take you on a little tour inside with me and perhaps you might understand why it’s one of my favorite shops…

The Renaissance of a 1920s Abandoned Parisian Cinema! Before & After Photos

Young people in the neighborhood had never known a time when the doors of the old Louxor Movie Palace were ever open. Barricaded behind wooden boards, possibly the oldest surviving movie palace in Paris was abandoned for more than 20 years, gathering dust and standing lifeless and ignored at a busy cross-section in Barbès, a…

FOUND by National Geographic

Attention archive photography lovers! There’s a new Tumblr in town by National Geographic called FOUND, set up in honour of their 125th anniversary. What better way to celebrate a birthday than to go digging through one of the most interesting photographic archives in the world…. ‘FOUND is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic…

Good Bones for an Apartment in Paris

A little fixer-upper in Paris– isn’t it what most of us dream about? Okay okay, so this 300m² Belle Epoque apartment just minutes from les Places Vendome and Place du Marché Saint-Honoré, may just be a little out of budget, but alas, it’s not for sale– it’s for rent! As in, rent it out for the…

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…

The Secret Magic Library of Manhattan

Nestled in a hidden location in midtown Manhattan, the Counjuring Arts Research Center is ground zero for illusionists and historians alike. Bill Kalush, the center’s founder and director, explains how he built the collection piece-by-piece and shows us some of its highlights…. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/24630376] Film by Cool Hunting, subscribe here. ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: . …

The Bric-a-Brac Palaces of France

Forget the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Chartres Cathedral, I’ve got some alternative French attractions to see… La Maison Picassiete- “The House of the Plate Stealer” Built entirely by one man, it took Raymonde Isidore more than 25 years to complete his impressive Maison Picassiette. In 1936, the middle-aged Frenchman began covering his house located…

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