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The Met Museum has a Serious Shoe Fetish

If you think you or a girlfriend have an out of control shoe collection, check out the Museum of Metropolitan Art and think again. Comprised of more than 5,000 examples, the Met’s permanent collection of shoes should probably have their own museum. Boasting some incredibly rare and unusual styles from around the world and dating from the fourteenth…

The Last Movie Palaces of Yesteryear

The glowing neon marquees with readerboards announcing weekly features, the box offices not manned by machines, the stage that could have just as easily been the setting for an opera as it could your Friday night film– these are things we can rarely expect from ‘movie night’ anymore. Above: Roxy, Northampton, Pennsylvania/ Below: Tampa, Tampa, Florida Before flicking through NetFlix takes over…

Room with a View: The 900 year-old Tower that can be your Private Hotel Suite

Why sleep under the stars when you can sleep among them? In the Italian city of Bologna, (yep, that awesome place where spaghetti bolognese was invented), there’s a 900 year-old tower with panoramic views over the cityscape and come nightfall, it turns into private hotel for two. Taking hospitality to new heights, literally, the Torre Prendiparte can all…

Stop Everything and Check out the new Wes Anderson Bar

If you’ve ever dreamt of being on a Wes Anderson film set (like, all day long), I’m bursting to inform you that now is your chance. Sip coffee amongst his signature pastels (personally chosen by Wes), listen to the jukebox wailing out tunes that would appear on his soundtracks and play the part of a Royal…

The Floating Straw Islands of Uros: An Ancient Tribe Surviving in a Tourist Hub

Once again, today the internet has taken me to a place no geography or history ever did. Floating out into the middle of the Lake Titicaca between Peru and Bolivia, figures are seemingly drifting amongst the reeds and mythical creatures guarding what look like islands made of straw on the water… (c) Suzanne Preston (c) KeelyNYC On my internet wanderings,…

The Ghost Army of WWII that Duped Hitler

This is not a photograph of a strong man contest. That tank weighs about as much as an inflatable dingy. But what were World War II U.S soldiers doing clowning around with a blow-up tank? Actually, there was nothing funny about it; these were the brave men of a unique secret mission to intimidate and deceive…

Pull up a Seat at this Teeny Tiny Tiki Bar

Among my favourite things are tiki bars and teeny tiny stuff. Put the two together and I’ll basically explode with happiness. Not to mention that now I know how to make miniature cocktail umbrellas, should the situation ever arise where I might need one (ya just cut the original-sized ones down). And finally, yes, that hamster…

Paris Then & Now: A City on the Edge of Freedom

Being able to walk around Paris with window vision into the past is probably up there with my top three wishes. A Parisian photographer and art director, Julien Knez, made it a reality with his remarkable before & after overlays. Tracking down the exact location of vintage photographs taken in the 1940s, Knez gives us a glimpse into Paris on…

Remembering Hindenburg at the Zep Diner, Los Angeles

Seventy six years ago on this day, May 6th, marks the anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster and the end of an era for the giant airship. But rather than re-visiting those tragic photographs, I thought I’d share something a little less sombre that I happened to stumble upon while looking through some old photographs of Los Angeles today … …

Muscle Beach Girl, 1954

She was dubbed the “strongest seventh grader” in the world. In the mid-1950s, April Atkins was a regular at California’s muscle beach and routinely blew spectators away with her unbelievable strength and generally kicking strongmen’s butts. If you’re looking for a little motivation to tone up for summer, these photographs I dug up in the LIFE…

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