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All the Colour they Left Behind

Man oh man, do I need to get a look at this photographer’s address book. Mattias Haker is up there with the best abandoned photographers I’ve seen. And I like that he’s not shy with the saturation, highlighting all those vibrant colours that were left to fade over time. You can tell he spends a lot of…

Giant Pink Lily Pads & other Epic Projects

You might have mistaken these images for the extraordinary phenomenon of earth’s pink salt lakes. But upon a closer look, it becomes clear this alien sight is very much man-made and created by some very big dreamers… We’re looking at the incredible artistic project of husband and wife team, Christo and Jeanne Claude. They met…

The Lost Art of Street Typography

I wonder if in the old days, they found their hand-painted typography and artisanal signs as charming as we do today? Maybe they found it a nuisance; all those different fonts competing for attention as you walked down the street. Personally, I’d love nothing more than to time travel down my local high street and see…

Benin’s Amazing Technicolor Voodoo Cloaks

Voodoo has gotten a bad rap. Typically associated with the fear of someone sticking needles into a tiny doll that looks like you, it is widely stereotyped as a black magic cult. But did you know that in the West African country of Benin, believed to be its place of origin, voodoo has been recognised as…

World War II Stories of a Cult Fashion Jacket

Isn’t she gorgeous? I was taking my morning roam around the internet when I stumbled upon this vintage embroidered silk jacket for sale online at Etsy. Unfortunately, when I clicked the link, I was told, “Sorry, this item has been sold”. Of course it had. But I never give up that easily. And, just as all great and…

Honk if you Love the Subculture of Indian Trucker Art

I‘ve been itching to do something on the marvel that is the subculture of Indian Trucker Art, but I’ve been waiting for just the right reason to do it– and today I found it. Horn Please is a stunning documentary that encapsulates the kaleidoscopic age-old Indian folk art that found its way into the modern-day…

Presenting the Pussycar, the Maddest Cars to ever Hit the Streets of Paris

“In this world where everything is banal and ugly, we must know how to create the beautiful and unusual.” These are the words of Jean Pierre Ponthieu, quite possibly the maddest French inventor of the 20th century. In the 1960s, Ponthieu embarked on a new career in car design and created more than 200 small cars, given the highly unfortunate…

What Paris Metro Workmen Found Sealed behind the Walls

When your walls start to look outdated, there’s always the option of just painting over them, which is a little bit like what the Parisian metro has done over the years to update its stations. When the old white tiling of yesteryear needed a revamp, they simply covered them up with more modern materials. A quick…

Unfinished Hotel Ruins of the Egyptian Desert

In the heart of the Egyptian Sinai desert, concrete carcasses are rising from the sand. Sultan’s Palace, Pharoah’s Resort, Coral Beach; these are the dreamt up names given to the abandoned hotels by the German duo of photographers that captured them in their unfinished limbo, Stefanie Zoche and the late Sabine Haubitz. I’m new to the…

Who Knew Candy Could be So Damn Sexy?

“I had a dream when I was 12, that if I buried my mixtapes in the ground, they would turn into candy”, remembers Mayaan, who used to be the Creative Director of a lingerie brand and now makes candy for adults. Maayan’s candy line, Sweet Saba, is named after her Hebrew grandfather with whom she spent years…

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