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Andrew Loog Oldham: forever unsquare
Freedom, the need of being ahead of your time, the constant impulse to think out of the box and be “something else” is timeless. And characters like Andrew Loog Oldham are the proof of this
Your daddy was way hipper than you are
Dads are the original hipsters collects photos submitted by users; every picture is a vintage portrait of a dad in all of his glorious, old school, pre-hipsterism coolness
The Single Lane Superhighway
The Single Lane Superhighway is a bizarre, super-nerdy website allowing you to draw (using a simple interface that allows you to draw moving the mouse) cars according to your fantasy
A style icon called Clint
Mr Eastwood is real maître à penser when it comes to style and fashion; he has long observed the edict “less is more”: less words, more action; less fashion, more function
1000 awesome things to do
In 2008 a blog called 1000 awesome things was launched. It’s updated every weekday and it’s one of the funniest, but also emblematic sites portraying our culture, aspirations and quality of our lives
Marlon Brando, the inventor of rock’n'roll
If Elvis was the king of charisma and of rhythm without a doubt, Brando preceded him of a couple of years when it comes to tossing the spark of a new, rebellious and tormented generation
Movie posters from an alternate universe
Sean Hartter re-invented iconic and classic movie posters with different actors, different layouts and different concepts. And a different time too
We can be heroes. In clubland
Unbound publisher asked interested readers to financially support a book before publication and succeeded. The result of this grassroots operation is an amazing book called We Can Be Heroes
Weird traveller’s guide: the world’s longest staircase
Jacob’s Ladder, in Jamestown, is known to be the world’s longest straight staircase, with its 699 steps