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Every Picture Tells a Story: Sokos Department Store, Helsinki 1947

Downtown department store Sokos in Helsinki, 1947. Located at the junction between Mannerheimintie and Postikatu department store Sokos was still under construction and resembled a behemoth and imposing ship. Courtesy of the Yle Archives – Yle Elävä arkisto on Flickr

Every Picture Tells A Story: RUN DMC and the Beastie Boys circa 1985

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Setting Up House in the Manholes of Milan

Italian Street Artist Biancoshock has lived up to his name by creating a couple of stunning street art installments on the thoroughfairs of Milan in Italy. In a satirical way, this installment shows that when people are forced to seek refuge in foreign countries, with little other than what’s on their backs and when forced to liveContinue reading “Setting Up House in the Manholes of Milan”

Chasing fire and embers across the Californian badlands

Jeff Frost is a self-confessed fire chaser and photographer. Just like in Australia, California is prone to wild fires that rapidly get out of control. They are the natural peril that haunts the dreams of country dwelling people in both regions. Frost’s film is made up of hundreds of thousands of high-res photos compiled in stop motion.Continue reading “Chasing fire and embers across the Californian badlands”

Every Picture Tells A Story: Couple in Montmartre, Paris 1962

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The Last Dogs of Winter: A Beautiful Documentary about the endangered Canadian Eskimo Dogs

Watch the preview here In 1976, prompted by advice from Bishop Omer Robidoux (1913-1986), Churchill dog handler Brian Ladoon made it his mission to preserve and breed Canadian Eskimo Dogs also known as Inuit Dogs or Qimmiq, the rarest registered breed of dog in the world. His efforts have inspired both admiration and fierce criticism,Continue reading “The Last Dogs of Winter: A Beautiful Documentary about the endangered Canadian Eskimo Dogs”

Every Picture Tells A Story: Interstellar Cloud Trail in 1999

This spectacular cloud trail was generated by the lift-off of the Orbiter Discovery (STS-96) on May 27th, 1999. Courtesy of NASA on The Commons via Flickr

The lost art and history documentaries of YouTube

Forget Netflix, YouTube has some incredible vintage documentaries about art and history. Made during the days of analogue, these docos may seem pixellated and blurry by today’s standards. Yet if you persevere, you’ll be rewarded with terrific storytelling, great production values and enigmatic and fascinating subject matter. Here for you are some great documentaries about materialContinue reading “The lost art and history documentaries of YouTube”

Every Picture Tells A Story: Young Stanley Kubrik’s mysterious showgirl

Every Picture Tells A Story: Stanley Kubrik's mysterious showgirl series

As a young and upcoming photographer, Stanley Kubrik landed a job for Look Magazine in 1949. This meant he got paid to trail in the wake of stunningly beautiful showgirl Rosemary Williams through the rainy Gothic streets of NYC and to capture her in her intimate surroundings of home along walking the film noir streetsContinue reading “Every Picture Tells A Story: Young Stanley Kubrik’s mysterious showgirl”

The Vintage Restart Page

Are you lonely and nostalgic for all of the crappy, interminably slow and dull-as-dishwater computers that you have possessed in the past. If you answered yes then enter into the timewarp that is the Vintage Restart Page. This features all of the crappy clip art graphics and quaintly exaggerated shadowing on buttons that you haveContinue reading “The Vintage Restart Page”