‘While preparing for his role as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, De Niro obtained a cab driver’s license, and when on break would pick up a cab and drive around New York for a couple of weeks’ – Wikipedia
Watch this amazing short film about a garage in Los Angeles that takes abandoned classic cars and restores what’s under the bonnet while keeping their uniquely rustic exteriors nature has given them over time. It takes a minute to get used to the idea of driving a car with a brand new engine albeit a…
You’ve been looking at the home of actress Tippi Hedren in California, photographed by LIFE magazine during the early 1970s. Best-known for her role in Hitchcock’s The Birds, Tippi is also the mother of actress Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), who is the little girl you just saw lying in bed with a lion, and also above with her head…
Did you know that for almost a decade (9 years to be exact), the Citroën car company ‘rented‘ the Eiffel Tower and had it’s brand name emblazoned on it with 125,000 glowing lights? The sign was erected in 1925 and remained there until Citroën went bankrupt for the first time in 1934. The ironic thing is, their bankruptcy…
What are the Swiss known for? Beautiful skiing and great chocolate? Handy pocket knives and offshore accounts? Founding the Red Cross and being the only country in the heart of Europe to resist fascism? All good points. But did you know that Switzerland was also the birthplace of an extreme rebel youth subculture, based on an…
With stomach-turning wall-papers, nightmarish polyester fabrics and psychadelic nonsense, seventies décor is supposed to be impossibly tacky… isn’t it?! Browsing through these photos however, of 60s & 70s decor from the Encyclopdia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, I couldn’t help but fall in love with every single overly-textured, madly accessorized, color-blinding décor style. They…
It’s come that time for me in Paris when the charm of the metro has been replaced by lingering unpleasant smells, usually coming from the crazy people trying to approach me almost every time I use it. I think it’s a rite of passage that comes after living in Paris for over a year. And…
Now you may think I’m compromising the integrity of my blog by doing a mindless celebrity post like this but you’d be wrong. This is just the kind of post that makes the internet great. So sit back and enjoy, minimal brain-power required… Cary Grant – George Clooney … Helena Christensen – Cameron Diaz ……
It’s a well documented concern that hipsters are running out of ideas of how to differentiate themselves from the average joe these days. And so as I happened to be stumbling upon a gallery of Dolly Parton’s fashion choices today, it made me wonder. Most of the style that made neo-hipsters ‘hip’ was actually the…
You’ve probably clicked on this article because at one point or another, you’ve feared life without your parents. Yes, I’m going there. This isn’t a topic I thought I’d ever be writing about either and I’ll admit I’m uneasy about whether it’s really appropriate here, on my blog. I had a choice either to keep…
