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A Paris Movie with Messy Nessy

Et voilà. Oh boy. This is happening. Messy Nessy is officially making the leap into the realm of video. It’s been months in the making and it’s with slightly sweaty palms that I present to you the very first episode of our new web series, “Don’t be a Tourist in Paris”. Come hang out with me…

She Was Surrealism’s Black Sheep

“Pure psychic automatism.” That was Ithell Colquhoun in a nutshell, according to fellow Surrealist André Breton. The flattery is a bit of a suprise, given that Breton – one of several founders of a movement that has made little room to uplift its women – was somewhat of a vocal hater of women in the…

Someone Reinvented the Futuro House and put it on Airbnb

In 1968, a Finnish architect designed what would become a controversial but iconic example of mid-century architecture, inspired by the post-war futurism and space exploration. The Futuro house was all set for mass production around the world, marketed as the ideal “portable” ski chalet or beach house, promising to change the way we lived. Some…

Peter Pan’s Hideout is Now Available to Rent on AirBnB

Once upon a time, there was a house in the trees, surrounded by the lights of the forest fairies, where the lodgers never grew up… and it came with wireless internet for a minimum two night stay on AirBnB! Okay so Peter Pan may not exactly be renting out his Neverland lair on AirBnB but there…

10 Awesome Airbnb Trailers for your next Weekend Getaway

Before you start wondering whether Airbnb has sponsored me to write this post, they haven’t. This is just me, lost in Airbnb and their endless roster of dream homes to stay in. Summer might be behind us but I’m starting to think just one last getaway before the weather turns sour could be good for…

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

1. This Restaurant in Nice, Then & Now Occupying an iconic location in Nice, hovering above the sea on the famous pillar of rock and the base of the diving boards themselves, the restaurant welcomes you in this most unusual setting, steeped in history. Le Plongeoir. 2. Nessie hunter looks like someone from another time…

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

1. Ukranian Railroad Ladies Like something out of a Wes Anderson movie. Ukrainian Railroad Ladies is a series of portraits of women who work as traffic controllers and safety officers at railroad crossings in Ukraine. The women spend their long shifts in the little houses built specifically for them along the tracks … They are a…

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

1. A forgotten 300SL ‘Gullwing’ sitting in a garage in Jacksonville, Florida Entombed in the dark, dusty, and rat-infested garage was a spellbinding 300SL, sitting silently, caked in dust and desperately lifeless, its once-glimmering chrome trim demounted and stored inside the musty cabin. Just the 43rd ‘Gullwing’ to leave the Mercedes-Benz factory in Stuttgart and…

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

1. A rain forest. Inside a volcano. With a lake at the very bottom. Location: Terceira Island, Azores Archipelago, Portugal. Found on the instagram account of Nate Dodge. 2. The Sweet Nostalgia of Opening Day at Disneyland, 1955 Full photostory on The Atlantic. 3. Acceptable and unacceptable hair styles for men from The Disney Look (1977) Found on…

The ’80s are Still Alive & Well at this Totally Ace Airbnb

Jauntily hung Friends posters, VHS movies, gel pens, furniture that looks like it’s been taken straight off the set of Saved by the Bell, and nonsensical – but absolutely necessary – squiggly lines on every surface. We love the 80s and 90s more than Cher Horowitz loved her Alaia handbag, so naturally, we lost it…

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