I would love to get crunk with these guys. I wish they were my friends so we could sit around listening to ‘Bootie Bootie Everywhere’ and other classics all day long…
The New York Times have been doing some great things on their website and Tumblr recently, and coming across videos like this is a real treat for me. I would pay good money to spend the day sifting through the newspaper’s old print archives, a department that used to be the heart of most publications…
You probably heard about Mata Hari, the infamous courtesan and female spy who beguiled the men around her into allegedly betraying national secrets to Germany during WWI. She became an icon of feminine seduction, Greta Garbo played her on the silver screen in 1931, and her story has inspired countless tales of romance and espionage.…
Centuries before Betty Friedan and the sexual revolution challenged social mores in the West, the women of the Ouled Nail in Algeria enjoyed the freedom to earn their own fortunes, choose lovers and engage in sexual relationships outside of marriage in a society that placed no shame on these choices – and indeed valued these…
Sometimes, you just strike internet gold – ya know, those obscure little corners of the internet where you can fall blissfully down the rabbit hole. Today’s find is a free online library of unearthed and collected bartender books; rare volumes dating from the 1820s through the 1940s, faithfully digitised – every last page – by…
This is an example of post-World War social guidance films and golly jee whizz, is it a hoot! It can only be a positive thing that no one would ever make these instructional videos today. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqpe7Y_6rmQ&] Favorite moments: “Or if you’d rather go with the gang on a skating party and weenie roast. We’d…
Leonardo da Vinci‘s ‘The Last Supper’ Here at MessyNessyChic, we’ve looked at abandoned homes, castles, villages, towns, seaside resorts, even an abandoned human zoo! So how about some abandoned art?! This very clever idea comes from a Hungarian media student, Bence Hadju, attending the University of Fine Arts in Hungary. Hadju has taken a handful…
It’s all about taking that detour and finding the beautifully haunting moments of traveling through the unknown. Walker Pickering is a young photographer and photography teacher based not in his Texan hometown, but on the road. And you won’t find him on Route 66. He’ll be taking the back roads of America, where the kudzu* grows…
I‘ve been curiously following the work of Marc Johns for quite a long time and have recently noticed he’s sort of everywhere now– on Tumblrs, tattoos, iPhone cases etc. His humor is as dry as it comes and his drawings are wonderfully whimsical. “I like to create absurd situations by combining things together that don’t…
On my internet travels today, I came across an old American comic genre for young newlyweds. Young Brides and the Secrets of Young Brides, provide an eye-opening peak into popular culture before the sexual revolution. What strikes me the most about these cover pages is how laughably pessimistic the story lines are for a publication…
