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I Have this Thing with Floors: An Instagram Dedicated Entirely to Looking Down

Living in Europe, we’re a little spoilt for beautiful mosaic/ tiled flooring found in cafés, museums and historic buildings, and of course here in Paris, with all its charming architecture, the eye is almost trained to constantly look up. But a newly discovered instagram account has reminded me just how much I’m forgetting to do one very important…

Kangaroo Bathtime at a New York City Madhouse

Anyone who has a pet knows that bathtime can be a rather tricky affair. But after discovering this photo story deep in the LIFE archives, giving a thorough scrub to my oversized pup now seems like a breeze, in fact, I’m rather looking forward to it! I found these photographs without any accompanying information other than…

Monsieur Hulot’s Parisian House

There are some things that just make me tick. I can’t exactly explain why; what first catches my eye, but it seems we have quite a few of these things in common, you and I. I’d like to share with you this very short and simple clip from a 1950s French film that for some reason…

Beat Boxing in a Condemned Paris Train Station

Where the smoke rises into the Paris night by the old sleeping railway tracks and crumbling walls blanketed in graffiti, the sound of music pumps from beneath us, luring our ears underground… Let’s slip behind the fence (the flimsy string is just begging to be untied). In a shivery and dark old storage facility, strange things await… Mysterious…

The Shoreditch Live Animal Market, 1946

Once upon a time, you could purchase a lion cub on the streets of Shoreditch. At the Club Row Animal Market, just north of Bethnal Green Road, every Sunday the cobblestone road would transform into a theatrical scene where the whoop of monkeys, the howling of dogs, the singing of exotic birds and the hissing…

This Vintage Trailer King lives on a 1920s Fish Farm

I came across this guy when I was discovering the incredible retro photographs of Ryan Schude last week and immediately had to know more about him. Johnny Agnew is not your average vintage collector. Nope, Johnny is what you might call an urban archeologist extraordinaire; the King of junk hunting. His “backyard”, which also happens to be an…

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

1. A family bicycle equipped with a sewing machine for mom Found on Distractify 2. London’s Hidden River If you listen carefully just above this unassuming grate you can hear the ripple and splash of flowing water. This is the sound of the River Fleet, London’s largest subterranean river. Urbex images by Sub-Urban.com…

The Moving Houses of San Francisco

It’s moving day for MessyNessyChic. Today we’re carrying furniture up the winding Parisian staircase, unpacking boxes and settling into the first official MNC hub in Paris– or as I have taken to calling it, “the MNC Parisheadquarters!” Now usually, this whole moving malarkey is supposed to be impossibly stressful, even potentially disastrous they say; but late last night as I…

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

1. A Rolling Stones Gig, 2 days after the death of their founding member On July 5, 1969, the Rolling Stones played to over 250,000 people in Hyde Park. The festival was an important one for the Stones. They had not performed a public concert since their 1967 European Tour, and in 1968 had only performed at…

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

1. Yarn Bombs Collector’s Weekly found the 35 grooviest yarn creations on eBay. 2. A Real-life ‘Jetsons’ Housekeeper Robot, invented in 1966 Tinker the remote-controlled robot was the work of inventor David Weston from Yorkshire. His metal friend could wash the car, take the baby for a stroll down the road, go…

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