Rare sightings of cigarettes being smoked in these pulp fiction versions of classic novels – check out Marilyn Monroe with a pipe. No wonder we no longer see smoking in the media when it looks this cool. Spotted on Imgur, a photo sharing site.
BalconyTV films bands from balconies around the world. The Black Cab Sessions films from black cabs. Fittingly for Scotland, Tenement TV is recorded in a tenement flat. In 2011, aged 23, Chae Houston, started filming bands from his flat in the west end of Glasgow with the help of his flatmates – cameraman Jamie Logie and Paul McJimpsey. At the start, Paul, who has a promotions company, used his contacts
We knew this. We knew that if for one moment celebrities ceased their plucking, extracting, lifting, coiffuring, tanning, whitening, tightening, training, dieting, styling and general burnishing, they’d look just like the rest of us. The images here, the work of artist Danny Evans under the name Planet Hiltron, nail celebrities’ real world looks. Evans cleverly recognises that the very beautiful and the very young – Angelina Jolie, Rhianna, Kristen Stewart
Those guys on The Sartorialist aren’t even trying. Check out ‘What Ali Wore‘, an affectionate record of what Ali, an 83 year old tailor who lives in Berlin, wears every day. Australian waitress, Zoe Pawton, 29, started to look forward to seeing the outfits of the immaculately dressed man who passed her cafe at 9am every morning. Eventually she asked if she could take his photo and the Tumblr blog,
Molly Erdman reveals the true silliness of the over-decorated interiors styled for magazines and catalogues by writing funny captions and featuring them in her blog Catalog Living. ‘Who actually lives that way?’ was the question asked by Erdman when she was pushed too far by a photo depicting a plate of figs placed under a table. As well as captioning the photographs she created Gary and Elaine, a well-heeled and
You may, like me, have to force yourself to keep calm whenever you see this overworked wartime mantra, particularly in its many bastardised forms, but this is a sweet little film about the origins of the original poster and the lovely looking bookshop where it was found and brought back, spectacularly, to life…
At the end of last year the National Library of Scotland ran a competition asking people to Scotify famous lines from the movies. Over 2000 entries were received – one smart alec even Scotified a line from Braveheart. ‘Corpse Bridie’ is a favourite but maybe that’s just a fondness for bridies. Here’s a selection but there are more on the Library’s facebook page. Famous songs next?
Ok so I’ve become even more of a dog-sentimentalist since I found out that the beloved Abby needs a hip replacement, but these beautifully painted portraits – posted daily on Facebook by artist Sally Muir – must surely bring a ray of pleasure to even the grimmest of mornings. Muir’s Dog A Day project began on 19 February and will run for a year. The paintings are for sale with
Detroit is a city built for 2 million people. Less than a third of that number lives there now. Houses, public buildings, churches and schools stand empty and are crumbling into dust. Detroiturbex chronicles the unique experience of this once great American city including these ‘then and now’ images of Cass Tech – once a thriving focus of inner city education, now a picture of utter dereliction. Images of school days
These days beards are ever so fashionable but will we ever be able to say the same of moustaches? We had Movember when celebrities and ordinary blokes wore a moustache for the month of November to raise awareness and money for testicular cancer. The morning of the 30th saw all these moustaches swiftly removed. May be there just aren’t any role models – when was the last hero with a