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The Great Parisian Waiters Race

If ever you’ve had an unpleasant experience with a French waiter (I’m guessing that’ll be just about everyone reading this), perhaps you might not be averse to some light entertainment at their expense. A bizarre sporting event that dates back more than a hundred years, the Waiters Race, better known to the French as the…

The Braided Rapunzels of Africa & other Tribal Trends

My early weekday nights are typically spent wandering the depths of Pinterest. On this occasion, I found a rather hypnotising pin board called Fashion Around the World, where I discovered these incredible African Rapunzels… The hairstyle currently making you do a double-take is known as Eembuvi Braids, worn by women of the Mbalantu tribes from the Namibia. It’s…

The Vintage Cigarette Machines now Coughing up Art

If you haven’t yet discovered these vintage vending machine with their kitschy graphics re-appearing across America, now is the time. Behold the Art-o-mat! Formerly the not-so-wholesome cigarette dispenser that lured teenage smokers with warm glowing lights, futurist artwork and steely knobs; today, a friendly little machine, rescued from its junkyard destiny to sell art, packed neatly into small…

Homage to the Man behind the Mountain

If you’re a seeker of the off-beat and the off-grid, you’ve probably come across Salvation Mountain on your internet or real-life travels. This ravishing burst of colour, a monument to hope, love and joy in the Colorado desert outside Niland, California, was built by one man over three decades, piece by piece. That man was…

The Deadly Art of Train Surfing in South Africa

There are not many places in the world where you could get away with something like this, but South Africa seems to be one of them. And for too many, the risk is far greater than prison time. They call it ‘staff riding’, a scarily common sport for dare-devil thrill-seekers which involves jumping aboard moving…

The Roving Typist (the True Story of a Hated Hipster Meme)

Christopher Hermelin is first and foremost a talented storyteller. He just so happens to tell his one-of-a-kind stories on a Royal Safari typewriter while roving New York City, trying to make a buck by selling them to passers-by. Before anyone starts hipster-shaming, let’s hold it right there, because this guy has already been called every hipster…

Trending in Tehran: Notes from an Iranian Street Style Blog

I‘m not sure what I expected Iranian street style to look like. Western media is so busy talking about the country’s political state of affairs and showing us just how much their government hates diplomacy, that not much tends to come our way concerning what the cool kids of Tehran are sporting these days– or…

Three Cities, Three Nocturnal Cultures

Europe is hardly a nocturnal place. Most cities seem to close up shop and tuck into bed by 10pm, unlike New York, where you can buy anything at any hour. But three different photographers, in three different European cities took to the streets to document the stand alone trades that operate after dark. These are…

Shoefiti: Behind the Modern Mystery of Shoe Tossing

Have you ever seen a pair of sneakers tied together and hanging over a power line? Chances are you have. The practice of shoe flinging, nicknamed ‘shoefiti’, is widespread and can be found the world over, from busy city streets to the loneliest desert highways. But for such a worldwide phenomenon, the strangest thing of…

Girls on Bikes

There aren’t enough girls on bikes. If I ever see one, I have to stop and wonder, sort of like when you see a female taxi driver. There is something seriously inspiring and powerful about a woman taking over what society still assumes is a man’s territory. Photographer and motorcyclist herself, Lanakila MacNaughton is looking for…

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