Are we looking at a Madman’s Doodles or Messages from another World?

By the time he was out of primary school, Augustin Lesage was sent to work deep in the coal mines of France, which to be fair, would probably be enough to render anyone mad. In 1911, when he was 35 years-old, Lesage claimed he heard a voice speak to him in the darkness of the…

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

1. The Speakeasy Nightclub hidden in an Abandoned NYC Water Tower “The Night Heron was an invitation-only nightclub held illegally in a water tower atop a vacant building in Chelsea.” Guests had to make their way through a deserted building, then climb up a ladder to reach their destination. New York Times photographer Benjamin Norman captured the scene, which has…

Twerking, Kim Jong Un and Fellati0 Chic at Paris Fashion Week

Another season, another Paris Fashion Week! MessyNessyChic presents a new episode from the web series, Fashion 4 Dummies. Nessy and her pal Kath couldn’t resist getting in on the action, so off we went to ask some fashionistas more of those hard-hitting questions…

A Naughty Pool Party, circa 1939

This is another one of those gems that I found digging deep in the LIFE photo archives with very little information to go with it. Photographed in 1939 by David E. Scherman and simply titled, “Too Many Girls swimming party”, I’m going to take a wild guess and say this might have been some sort…

The Not-So-Fairytale Castle of New York

Bannerman’s Castle might look like a medieval European storybook setting, but these American ruins have seen their fair share of disaster. The only real occupants of the castle were weapons of war and temperamental explosives, housed in this elaborate military surplus warehouse built in 1901. Just 50 miles North from New York City, located on…

Stop Everything. It’s a Teeny Tiny Trailer

Just stop what you’re damn well doing and look at this tiny pink vintage trailer. Just look at it! It’s basically better than the real thing. Because, cupcakes. That’s it. I want tiny balloons for my birthday and will not accept anything less. So who is the tiny magical leprechaun behind all this? A talented little…

Oh, just a Miniature Global Village in China

Hey, you know what’s better than actually travelling the world and seeing its wonders and historic sights first hand? Hitting up a Chinese miniature theme park, of course … ‘Windows of the World’ is a 480,000 square-meter global village theme park in Shenzhen, China, accommodating over a hundred miniature replicas of world famous historical sights. A fantasy…

Blondie, the Living Room Lion

In 1955, LIFE photographer Joseph Scherschel spent a day shooting a rather unusual subject for a spread in the magazine entitled, “Living Room Lion – Blondie, A Docile 200-Pound Texan, Becomes A Member of the Family.” The oversized house cat belonged to Charles Hipp, an oil businessman based in Graham, Texas. You’re probably thinking, ‘another bored…

The Kowloon Walled City Replica: Historical Accident turned Amusement Park!

If you’ve been following this blog for a while or have had the chance to dig through the archives, you might remember we looked at Kowloon “Anarchy” City, the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century that belonged to no country and where law had no place; an interconnected urban enclave that was for…

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

1. An Abandoned Victorian Treehouse A two-story, child-size replica of a Victorian-style home photographed by Florida-based photographer Drew Perlmutter. The article, found on Huffington Post Home, does not reveal the exact location or a story as to why the treehouse was abandoned. The photographer will only reveal that the treehouse is in South East Florida, to…