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The Holiday Party at Studio 54 Got a Little Out of Hand

Tod Papageorge was not your average lingering Studio 54 paparazzi, in fact, he spent three decades as a Masters professor and director of photography at Yale. Time magazine calls his photographs of bleary-eyed disco queens as “something akin to poetry“. I can’t decide if his poetry makes me feel uncomfortable and guilty for looking, or naïve and prude for thinking…

Fred and Myrtle’s Shell House

Fred and Myrtle Flutey are arguably New Zealand’s most beloved couple, best-known collectors, and are certified local celebrities. On top of it all, they were also warm and generous members of their community who loved sharing their passions with all who were interested. Over 30 odd years, more than one million people have passed through…

Big Pimping at Yale’s Pipe Smoking Contest, 1959

I dug this one out of the LIFE Archives today, simply labelled “pipe smoking contest”. Between the Ivy League pimp coats, tweed jackets and collegiate fonts in the background, I had some pretty good clues as to where this might have taken place. A quick Google later and I found myself on Yale’s alumni magazine, reading an article submitted…

Cancel Your Plans, Start a Fashion Comeback with Crocheted Can Apparel

“Nice enough for an evening out but still casual enough for that weekend get away,” promises a 1975 pamphlet featuring a variety of special crochet patterns using aluminum cans. Just when you thought your personal style was getting a little tiresome– Messy Nessy swoops in with the perfect seventies style comeback to save the day… But you…

Mystery Internet Cave House: Solved

I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to identify an uncredited viral photo from the internet. I must have come across this picture of an underground cave cottage/ hobbit house/ Flinstones shack – whatever the internet was calling it – more than a dozen times on my internet travels. It could have been located anywhere from…

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

1. Unsung Girl Groups of the 70s and 80s More big hair and lip gloss found on Dangerous Minds. 2. Tiny Mice Shops Appear in Sweden Inside a basement window in the neighborhood of Möllevången in Sweden, a tiny bakery and a “cheese and cracker” shop, just the right size for mice. Follow the…

Staying Classy with this Kinky 70s Underwear Brand

Disclaimer: These images cannot be unseen. But also, am I the only one that kinda wants to be at this roller disco party? In the name of good journalism, I decided to track down this “British Bulldog Ltd”, the company that produced these magical undergarments, and to not a huge amount of surprise, I found that the…

Bowling with Mr. President beneath the White House

If you’ve ever seen The Big Lebowski, you’ll recognise this photograph of President Richard Nixon bowling, which infamously loomed over the Dudes tiki bar in the cult Coen brothers film. It is in fact a real photograph of Nixon and as I recently discovered, in 1969 the former President added his own secret one-lane bowling alley in…

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

1. These Cartoon Celebrity Mash-ups Find all of them by Rui Pinho on Behance. 2. A Selection of Modernist Gingerbread Houses Compiled by Present & Correct. 3. This Fashion Shoot A Gucci editorial special for Commone&Sense magazine shot by Fanny Latour-Lambert at the France Miniature theme park. 4. Old Town Hall, Bamberg, Germany Found on…

Stop Everything, the Wes Anderson inspired Luggage Collection is Here

Seriously though, I don’t know why this took so long to happen. Ever since I first saw Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited and laid eyes on that beautiful luggage set that traveled through India with the Whitman brothers and almost stole the show, I’ve been yearning for a brown leather carry on with playful safari animals…

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