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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…

Abandoned London Corner Store Revived with Squishy Cadburys and Fluffy Crisps

When I was a kid, I used to set up a make-believe grocery shop in my bedroom and have a whale of a time for hours on end, selling imaginary products to imaginary customers. Artist Lucy Sparrow has pretty much taken this childhood fantasy and made it real (and I’m pretty damn jealous). Meet Lucy,…

Stop Everything, Allow Your Inner Child to Enjoy these Adorable Felt Sculptures

Nope, there was absolutely nothing that was going to stop me from dedicating an entire post to these soul-wrenchingly adorable little fluffy felt sculptures. I don’t know about you, but me and my inner child really needed this today. We’re looking at the work of Cat Rabbit, the creation of a Melbourne-based textile artist who’s…

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

1. Turn-of-the-Century American Postcards That Hint At Having Sex The series called “It’s Easy To Say, But Hard To Do,” is a double entendre reference to a man asking a woman to get married. “Ask, and you will get it,” a not too subtle hint – ask me to marry you and then we can…

A Brief Compendium of the American TV Dinner

It could be said that Thanksgiving gave birth to the American TV dinner. The executive of Swanson TV dinners, Gerry Thomas, claimed he conceived the idea after the food company found itself with a huge surplus of frozen turkeys because of poor Thanksgiving sales. In 1952, Swanson introduced their first dinner consisting of a turkey, cornbread…

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

1. Women sit for a portrait in Salzburg, Austria, 1929 Found on Nat Geo Found 2. These Eggs The latest chef d’oeuvres by jeweler Ananov, one of the main exhibits he made for the “400 years of the House of Romanov” at the Historical Museum of Moscow in 2013. Ananov’s Easter egg caught the eye of…

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

1. A list of Pet Peeves about Secretaries from 1945 From a brochure about how to be a “super secretary” created by Remington Typewriters… Find the full brochure on the Hagley Digital Archives found via Slate. 2. The woman who was told she couldn’t eat at NYC’s fanciest restaurant, so she brought her whole squad Deny her…

The Heavy Metal Subculture of Botswana, Africa

The heavy metal cowboy get-ups sported by Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider and Mel Gibson in Mad Max are probably best left somewhere in the 1980s. But in Sub-Saharan Africa, the art of dressing like you’ve just stepped out of a Metallica concert is still very much alive. South African photographer Franck Marshall found the unlikely subculture in the…

House Hunting like a Russian Millionaire is seriously Entertaining Stuff

I can’t believe I never googled Russian real estate before! We all know our friends from the former Soviet Union have a special kind of taste when it comes to interior design, but with a limitless decorating budget, it just gets even better. I decided to window shop with Sotheby’s Realty, which has a colourful…

An Insider’s Guide to the Unknown Kingdoms

One of my first ever published articles back when I was writing for a local magazine in London, was about a street in Notting Hill called Freston Road, which declared independence from the United Kingdom in 1977. Frestonia, essentially a community of squatters who had come together to secede from the UK after the local council threatened to evict them, had their…

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