Clik here to view.
“Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection…”*
Seigel & Stockman was founded in Paris in 1867 and began trading in London in the nineteen-twenties, manufacturing paper maché dummies for couture houses and dressmakers’ showrooms, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When good food and good company just aren’t enough…
Ithaa restaurant in the Maldives is located 5 meters (about 16.5 feet) below the surface and has 180-degree views of the vibrant coral gardens. The cuisine has a European slant, and is constructed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That’s right,...
source Actually, they do– and the British music retailer Rough Trade is betting big on them. Last week, Rough Trade opened a massive (15,000 square foot) store stocking some CDs and lots and lots of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Life is a desire, not a meaning”*…
larger version here Mashable created a map of what each state wants (according to Google’s Autocomplete). The resulting map reads like a list of New Year’s resolutions made by Civil War veterans. Did...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“A copy is a meta-original”*…
History tells us that Walter Benjamin, the influential German critic of literature, art, and culture, died more than seventy years ago. So how is it that he’s now out doing lectures and has published...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“I am the Ghost of Christmas Present”*…
The 13 most popular Christmas songs on Spotify, a music-streaming service, have amassed 1bn plays between them. The most popular of them, “All I Want for Christmas Is You”, written in 15 minutes and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical...
At 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, you’ll find a reconstruction of the legendary Sun Records studio (home to Howlin’ Wolf, BB King, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“A Room of One’s Own”*…
Interiors of real living and working spaces from an unusual perspective. It seems as if someone has lifted the ceiling and replaced it with a scanner. In fact, the photographs consist of up to a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.”*…
In 1995, “the Godfather of Punk,” Iggy Pop published a review in the scholarly journal Classics Ireland… In 1982, horrified by the meanness, tedium and depravity of my existence as I toured the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“There is nothing permanent except change”*…
Menudo has been ranked one of the Biggest Boy Bands of All Time by several publications (Billboard, Us Weekly, Seventeen, and Teen Vogue, among others)– the only Latin band on their lists. The Puerto...
View Article
