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The First Miss Universe Pageant, 1952

Beauty pageants are a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. We all know they’re silly and superficial but does anyone else here count Drop Dead Gorgeous as one of their favourite comedies from the 90s? What I like about this photo series that I pulled out of the trusty LIFE archives, is the behind-the-scenes element…

The Lost Desert Libraries of Chinguetti

The sands of the Sahara have all but swallowed Chinguetti, a near ghost town found at the end of a harsh desert road in Mauritania, West Africa. Its majority of abandoned houses are open to the elements, lost to the dunes of a desert aggressively expanding southward at a rate of 30 miles per year.…

The Prada store that got Lost in the Desert

If you were stuck in the desert, what would you need to survive? Water, food, a Prada handbag perhaps? On Route 90 in Texas, 60 km from the nearest town of Marfa with just 2,500 residents, like a mirage in the desert, you’ll find Prada Marfa, a permanently installed sculpture built to mimic the luxury…

Unmasking the Parisian Phantom of the Opera

What if I told you there is a lake under the Paris Opera House, just like in The Phantom of the Opera? Down, down, down, deep underneath the Garnier Opera in a dingy room with a square-shaped hole in the middle, I found it. Resting in the hole was a ladder that seemed to be descending into…

North Korean Interiors Looking Suspiciously like a Wes Anderson Film Set

I‘m quite sure this room reminds me of a new design restaurant I went to recently and thought was so cool, that I didn’t really care what the food tasted like or how much they were charging me for “locally-sourced rice”. Slowly but surely, we seem to be moving from the old world Parisian café replicas and small town general…

The Art of Squatting in Underground Paris Galleries

I first met one of the founders of Madame Lupin in the Paris catacombs on Halloween one year, sharing a bottle of red wine, squatting on some ancient limestone. He told me about the secret gourmet picnics he liked to organise in abandoned chateaux around the city. He then met a girl who worked in…

The Real Downtown LA Murder Hotel that Inspired Lady Gaga’s American Horror Story

You don’t need to have watched the new season premier of American Horror Story Hotel to be fascinated by the chilling real-life location that inspired it. I was instantly hooked on the setting for this season: a haunted Art Deco time capsule in Downtown, Los Angeles. The fictional Hotel Cortez is a budget hotel turned residence for transients where a…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXLI)

1. Inside Salvador Dali’s Surrealist Funhouse from 1939 “Dream of Venus” was Dali’s pavilion for the World’s Fair to be held in Summer of 1939 in Flushing Meadow, Queens. As you entered the pavilion you had to pass between twin pillars that were fashioned in the image of female legs that were protruding from a…

Fancy Junk Food prepared by Chef Jacques La Merde

Introducing the esteemed Chef Jacques La Merde, he’s basically full of merde, sort of like all those pretentious foodists. So he has an instagram account where he plates junk food as if he were competing on Top Chef. It’s pretty hilarious … not to mention, strangely appetising?! “Pogos with Marble Cheeze slices, Honey Ham Rosettes, Spongebob Squarepants Zoodles…

Is this the Best Website ever created since the beginning of Internet?

Is it just the tiny hands or the fact that it’s famous people with tiny hands? I just don’t know. One Tiny Hand is a buzzing new Tumblr on the block, taking “one tiny step for hands, one giant leap for mankind“. From Lindsay Lohan to Snookie to Oprah, this website satisfies all your tiny…

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