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Stop Everything, Check out these Miniature Mediocre Motels

Among my favourite things are mid-century American kitsch and teeny tiny stuff. Put the two together and you basically send me into overload. I’m not exactly sure why run-down vintage motels fascinate me so; perhaps that seedy glamour of America is much more appealing to a European road-tripper like me who hasn’t stayed in enough of them yet to have encountered bed bugs. But those pastel…

Art of the Damned: Sculptures made from Abandoned Spaces

Ian Strange isn’t your average sculptor. He doesn’t work with stone, metal, ceramics, wood or plaster to create his masterpieces. He uses abandoned buildings. From covering condemned facades in spray-paint or cutting out gaping holes in the roofs of homes destined for demolition to wrapping a historical building with 600 sq meters of gold wallpaper, Stange has used…

Step right up for the Amazing Time Travelling Photo Album

If this isn’t as close as you’ve come to stepping into a real time machine from behind your computer screen, well then … I’m guessing you probably have an actual time machine back there. “The Old New World” is a Photo-based animation project by a Moscow-based digital artist, Alexey Zakharov and by opening a peculiar steampunk photo album,…

Anonymous Places of the 20th Century

I found some very pretty pictures today. A scrumptious visual mash-up of 20th century art, design, architecture, photography and cinema, allow me to present a series called The New World, by artistic German duo Geebird & Bamby (great names, right?!). Using photorealism and graphic design, they create ‘anonymous’ buildings from what appears to be a…

Mona Lisa and Machine Guns: Was Leonardo daVinci an Aspiring War Lord?

When you think of Mona Lisa’s peaceful smile, you probably wouldn’t imagine it was captured by the same man who invented the world’s first machine gun. You knew da Vinci was a multi-talented visionary; free-thinker, architect, painter, scientist among many things, but aspiring war lord? Take a look through the blueprints of his lesser-known inventions, and it might start…

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…

The Swedish Subculture Hoarding More 1950s American Cars than the USA

I started this article because I was researching a Scandinavian subculture of ‘greasers’ said to be responsible for Sweden having amassed more restored American 1950s cars than the United States itself has today. The “Raggare” movement, which emerged from a post-war youth counterculture mainly in Sweden and parts of Norway, is known for its undying love of vintage American…

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…

An Epic Dinner at the Library

Make a toast to Tolstoy, order the chicken Kiev in honour Chekhov, let Stravinksy serenade you with every spoonful of caviar and Pushkin play host in his palatial library of gastronomic pleasures. For anyone who has a way with words or a weakness for a truly great story, it’s likely that the library is one of your…

For Sale! Rare Memorabilia from David Bowie’s Lyric Sheet to Notorious B.I.G’s Jacket

Just a quick heads up– there’s a legendary auction going on over at Paddle 8 right now that for anyone who’s ever waited outside a concert for an autograph, blown a week’s rent on a rare Beatles record or collected vintage tour posters of their favourite band, should probably go see what’s on offer. The auction is in…

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