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Lost Films: Hitchcock, Gatsby and Oscar-winning Movies that Vanished

Who made the better Gatsby?  Did DiCaprio pull off a pink suit as well as Robert Redford did in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 adaptation? There is another version of The Great Gatsby, although we won’t be making any comparisons with it because the 1926 silent film by Paramount Pictures has simply ceased to exist. Very few are even…

Moving Day! The House that was Sawn in Half and Shipped across the Bay

Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina Green and moved across the bay to Belvedere– it’s safe to say it was no ordinary moving day for the Knowles-Moffitt Mansion on July 3rd, 1962. Sawn in half, the Victorian mansion sits on a barge waiting…

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

1. Spotted! Mona Lisa at the Louvre (waiting for the bus) (c) Clémentine Mélois via here   2. An art gallery filled with pink balloons by Martin Creed    3. A Retro TV Memo holder Shop here   4. Five Generations of Batman via here    5. Vans I ♥ NY sneakers Available from April 19th…

Anywhere but Here: Ponte Tower

When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always something disgruntling about where we live (I’m currently annoyed with the workmen in the building who keep blanketing my mobylette in dust), but then you read about a place like the Ponte Tower and suddenly, wherever you’re shacked up doesn’t…

The 1950s Nightclub hidden inside an old Food Depot

It was known as the ‘Party Pad’, a clandestine bring-your-own-bottle establishment occupying the upper floor of a deserted produce warehouse on Davis Street, downtown San Francisco. The underground hipster hub was run without a license by a beatnik generation actor and poet known as Eric “Big Daddy” Nord, a well-known figure of the bohemian scene in California…

Skiing down Five Floors of an Abandoned Building

Talk about skiing off-piste! Combining one of my favourite sports with our fascination for abandoned real estate, professional skier Logan Imlach tackled a less traditional terrain– the 1960s abandoned ‘Bucker building’ in Alaska. Once called ‘the City under one roof’, it was used as an army base, in anticipation of a Soviet invasion during the…

Instagram: You’re Doing it Wrong

Maybe a year ago, I opened a MessyNessyChic instagram account and never shared a single photo since. I figured I already annoy the people I’m with enough, taking pictures for the blog. But then I realised that I take a lot of snaps that never end up in my articles and just sit in my…

The Girl who Mapped Manhattan’s Memories

Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky Cooper discovered she had a ‘thing’ for cartography after she was hired to help map all of Manhattan’s public art. Soon enough, she was inspired to embark on her own idea– to map Manhattan’s memories. Becky hand-printed a few…

Knock Loud, I’m Home

It’s still a work in progress so I don’t have a whole stack of images but I really wanted to show you this photo manipulation series by Daniel Barreto, a 21 year-old Boston-based artist. From miniature dive bars with lights to cozy apartments built inside forest trees, it reminds me of a grown-up version of…

Preserved Moments of Historical Sass (Vol.2)

The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting photos on the internet, as well as submissions from readers who rifled through their attics to help me compile more preserved moments of historical sass! Found in Good Housekeeping, June 1952   Found here   Reader submission from Peggy…
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