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The Sleazy 70s Game Show for Husbands Sleeping with their Secretaries

If you were watching American television between 1979 and 1980, you might have heard of a little game show called “Three’s a Crowd,” whose tagline was “Who knows a man better: his wife or his secretary?” The implication was always that the men were sleeping with their secretaries. Hosted by Jim Peck and packaged by Chuck Barris productions,…

Meet Slavik, the Homeless Ukranian Fashion Icon

As men’s Fashion Week is upon us and once again the fashion capitals fill up with the well-dressed elite, I would like to remind everyone that style isn’t synonymous with snobbery by introducing you to a homeless man so creative, the whole world is his runway. Meet Slavik, Ukraine’s most fashionable citizen. He once wandered around the city…

Take a Tour of a 1964 Underground Fallout Home

I found this little gem of a photo series on my weekly fish through the LIFE archives, accompanied by just a few clues to the full story behind it. Filed under “Underground House in Denver, photographed in 1964 by Robert W Kelley”, I did a quick Google search of underground homes built or exhibited in 1964. The most…

The Curiosity Museum with Cocktails, Taxidermy Classes & Cuddly Crawling Chameleons

“I’m so bored of contemporary museums and their desperate attempt to classify and make sense of everything. The world is one big, glorious mess and we should celebrate that.” – Victor Wynd. Oh, I couldn’t agree more Mr. Wynd! This may come as a bit of a surprise, but you’ll rarely find MessyNessy in a…

Bowling in Antarctica

As blizzards rage on in the darkest of winters at McMurdo Station, the isolated home base for American researchers on the southernmost continent of the planet, surrounded by snow-covered ice fields and an active volcano smoking in the background, one might wonder, what do they get up to in their downtime? Well today I learned there is…

Solving My Mystery of the Arkansaw Travelers Saloon

I found this picture on Pinterest a while ago and it’s always struck me as a little odd. Was it a real bar? First I searched “Arkansas Travelers Saloon” and began finding dozens of other photographs of people posing in front of the same backdrops. That’s bizarre, I thought with narrowed eyes… But then today I found my answer, along…

The Grandmothers Graffiti Gang

So you think your grandparents aren’t “street” enough? Too set in their ways to get down with the kids? Meet the granny graffiti gang of Lisbon, Portugal, pioneered by an unusual initiative giving graffiti workshops to senior citizens. LATA 65 (lata means “can” in Portuguese) is an urban art workshop that teaches the basics of street…

Helping Nature Re-decorate the Abandoned Homes of Detroit

Nature is always happy to take over the places we’ve discarded. She’s the first one to reclaim it, curling up around old drainpipes, making herself comfortable in between the cracks and decorating crumbling brick with her own wild wallpaper. In Detroit, a city where vast urban abandonment has been part of the landscape for decades now, a group of…

Dolce Vita Villas For Sale on the Forgotten Italian Riviera

Sprawling over several small bays with clear blue waters peppered with fishing boats, is a dormant paradise of the dolce vita years. A forgotten “St. Tropez”, where movie stars, artists and writers once flocked to the scenic beaches of Tuscany during summer. Whereas most of us think of Tuscany for its rolling hills, scenic countryside and…

Two Strangers, One Year of Postcards sharing the Hidden Patterns of their Lives

I remember when I had a French pen pal in school. My teacher had chosen her at random from a hat and we exchanged maybe three or four letters before our correspondence fizzled out, most likely due to prior playground commitments– which I now deeply regret prioritising. In an age where sending and receiving mail…

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