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What The Perfect Home Looked Like From 1951 To 2000, According To Vintage IKEA Catalogs
If you’re like us, IKEA is probably your home’s best friend. Its father, Feodor Ingvar Kamprad, founded the company in 1943 when he was only 17. Even the iconic yellow-blue logo is an acronym, composed of his initials paired with the first letter of Elmtaryd, the name of the farm where he grew up, and…
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Behind The Scenes Of Salvador Dali’s Most Scandalous Photo Shoot
In 1951, Salvador Dali, everyone’s favorite mustachioed surrealist, teamed up with Magnum photographer Philippe Halsman to create one of the most enchanting, morbid and bizarre photographs of all time. Entitled “In Voluptas Mors,” or Voluptuous Death, the black-and-white photo stars a melange of women, expertly arranged to resemble a macabre skull. Dali stands next to…
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Enter “The Magazine Rack,” the Internet Archive’s Collection of 34,000 Digitized Magazines
Before we kept up with culture through the internet, we kept up with culture through magazines. That historical fact may at first strike those of us over 30 as trivial and those half a generation down as irrelevant, but now, thanks to the Internet Archive, we can all easily experience the depth and breadth of…
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Klimt’s Most Famous Paintings Recreated with Live Models
For the stylebible of this year’s life ball in vienna — an annual AIDS charity event — photographer inge prader has recreated the impression of the vienna secession by bringing the painted personages of gustav klimt to life. Carefully posed models and intricately crafted props duplicate some of klimt’s most iconic masterworks like ‘death and life’…
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If Music Gives You Shivers Down Your Spine, You Have a Special Brain
Do you ever hear a drum beat, a harmony, or a tweak of a guitar string that makes a pleasant chill run up your spine? Well, in that case, you may have a special brain. Alissa Der Sarkissian, a research assistant at the University of Southern California's (USC) Brain and Creativity Institute, noticed this strange feeling when…
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Voyeurism, Nudity and Art? The Life and Work of Conceptual Artist Milo Moire (NSFW)
Swiss artist Milo Moire is no stranger to controversy. She has sustained a career based largely on nudity and the controversy that comes along with it. When we first saw her, she removed all of her clothes and walked to Art Basel with the words of the articles of clothing she would normally be wearing…
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The Most Unconventionally Honest Valentine’s Day Cards For Your Lover
Looking for something a little unconventional for your lover this Valentine’s Day? For couples and romantic singles with a sense of humor or a more different approach to romance, there are fun and creative cards like these! Sure, some of them might not be the most romantic cards out there, but you’ve got to give…
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The World’s Coldest Village Has Temperatures of -62°C (-80°F), And the Images Are Spectacular
Welcome to Oymyakon, a village where students are expected to attend class till temperatures reach minus -52°C (-62°F). The remote Siberian village is considered to be the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world, and it has just plummeted into a -62°C (-80°F) winter, making our daily complaints about the weather sound rather silly. The…
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Costume Designer Performs Surgery On Monarch Butterfly With Broken Wing
Monarch butterflies can live from 2 weeks to about 5 months, but this guy’s time was threatened to be cut ever shorter. Romy McCloskey committed to raising these creatures some time ago, and after one of them came into this world with a wing defect, she knew something had to be done. McCloskey turned her…
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Trees with “Crown Shyness” Deliberately Avoid Touching Each Other
You learn something new everyday. From Robert Macfarlane’s fascinating Twitter account we learned about crown shyness, a phenomenon where the leaves and branches of individual trees don’t touch those of other trees, forming gaps in the canopy. According to Wikipedia, there are several possible causes of this phenomenon, including the inhibition of the spread of…