The 1970s Political Activist Who Invented Penis Pants

Introducing Eldridge Clever, Presidential candidate, writer, political activist, a prominent early leader of the Black Panthers, oh and inventor of the penis pants. The fashion statement the world never asked for, solved all sorts of problems according to their late inventor, Eldridge Cleaver, such as ‘fig-leaf mentality’… “Clothing is an extension of the fig leaf –…

The Lost Art of the Movie Title

Movie title typography is a lost art in my opinion. Hollywood today just doesn’t put that same pizazz (yeah I’m gonna use that word) in to their opening or ending title sequences anymore. Christian Annyas designs websites in between in his morning coffee and his evening movie and boy, has he watched a lot of…

Invasion of the Hippies

A pretty interesting insight here on how some people saw the blossoming counter-culture of hippies in the 1960s as a serious threat to the younger generation, or mankind even. The 1967 report by Harry Reasoner talks about hippies as if they were some kind of alien species attempting to take over the world and infect its…

This is what Two Graphic Designers Dating each other Looks Like

Meet Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman, both designers living in New York. They are good friends with opposite relationship problems and recently found themselves single at the same time. As an experiment, they are dating for 40 days and documenting it for us on a blog. Jessica is a “is a hopeless romantic who jumps…

That Time Mickey Mouse Was a Drug Dealer

In the 1950s, non-medical use of stimulant and sedative drugs was widely accepted and promoted in the mainstream media– so widely in fact that they even made it into a children’s Walt Disney 1951 comic book starring Mickey Mouse as a speed dealer who just loves his own product. In ‘Mickey Mouse and the Medicine Man’,…

The Summer before the Storm: Paris, July 1939

In July 1939, Paris was just as it should be during the height of summer; the avenues inviting you to get lost in them and the night seeming as if it may never come. LIFE photographer, William Vandivert captured the calm before the storm in these stunning colour photos that have recently surfaced. Eleven months later, more than…

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

1. A young (and rather strapping) Prince Charles Found on Pinterest 2. A Ghost Development on Private Caribbean Island for sale at $45m. Set to become an ultra-luxurious hotel under the Mandarin Oriental banner, the development on Dellis Cay in the Turks and Caicos fell victim to the financial crisis in a big…

Tagging along with an Underground NYC Urban Explorer

Feel as if you’re tagging along right behind urban historian and photographer, Steve Duncan on his nocturnal exploration of the underbelly of New York. It’s exciting and tense as Steve guides us through the unknown while desperately trying to avoid getting caught: “It’s very worrisome to get caught doing something like this because a lot of…

The Real-Life Waterworld Project

Remember that Kevin Costner movie from the 90s, Waterworld, ‘the most expensive film ever made’, that everyone hated? Well it’s kinda one of my favourite movies (ever). And when I stumbled upon these wild photographs by Tod Seelie, needless to say I got pretty excited. A real-life waterworld, just like the floating islands and make-shift sea…

Country Bumpkin Lane in Paris

Okay, so that’s not its real name, but they should just call this place what it really is– a countryside paradise in the heart of Paris. A zippy ten minutes from the Eiffel Tower on my mobilette and I had putt-putted my way to Pernety in the 14th arrondissement, a very family-orientated neighbourhood with lots…