Alexa Chung style

Because which young blogger hasn't admired Alexa at some point?

Still thought her book was atrocious. All these people praising it, it was quite void of any real reflection? Fashion has so much potential to do so much more, but it likes its place in the ivory tower, looking down at the unstyled masses

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Step back in time

SJP

Bianca Jagger

Winona Ryder

John Waters and Iggy Pop

Mariannae Faithfull

Bjork

Raquel Welch and Ringo Starr

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Victorian era headless photography

A fun trend for Victorians in the 1800's, with trick photography

Brilliant!

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10 for today

A German Danse Macabre from the 18th century. Everyone is taking part in the 'Danse Macabre' (dance of death) from the lowliest peasant to the royal family. No one escapes the dance of death.

A clock from the German town of Augsburg, 1640. The figure is wearing a funerary wreath, and is holding an arrow, the tip of which displays the time.

News from Nowhere. William Morris is pretty kickass

Mihoko Ogaki site here brilliant sculptures releasing starlight from corporeal forms, so beautiful

Michal Trpak sculptures. Truly brilliant! More here at his wonderful website

BRILLIANT!!! See here! Edible delicious Momento Mori's! What more could you want in cake?

In Finnish, Northern lights are called “Lights of the Fox”. It comes from the old beliefs, that says the lights come from the fox tail hitting the snow.

Artist: Linda Piekäinen, Link on artist's page: https://www.facebook.com/artbypiekainen

Read more about the brilliant Beltane here we need more festivals and feast days, they should be brought back! Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler and writer of some of my favourite books, champions the treasuring of old world customs and festivals. If I lived in the UK, I would never stop obscure festival-ing.

The strange tale of the green children of Woolpit, folklore? real? Decide for yourself here

And the dancing plague of 1518! What a brilliant piece of history this is! More here. History that seems to border on the edge of myth and myth that seems to have genuinely been a part of history, is one of my favourite spheres to exist in mentally!

What about you? :)

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Tell me where, I'll meet you there

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

Possibly the greatest quote from The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

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Nibbled to death by an Okapi

The first time I listened to the entirety of Machine Gun Etiquette by The Damned, the track loop at the end of Smash it up confused the crap out of me, but I knew I'd hear it somewhere before

The above animal is an Okapi, Arthur Dent brother was nibbled to death by one in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy!

Well arthur isn't talking about his brother in the GIF below, but who doesn't love the Hitchhickers guide! What a series! (book, radio, tv and movie)

Culturally, I think I should just start identifying as British! 

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Listen below!

Manny from Blackbooks best GIF

Big and Beardy! ^_^

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Blackadder vs. Mr Bean

Rowan Atkinson, what a talent! The faces, voices, inflections, everything= perfection!

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Absolutely Fabulous

Gin and Tonic is the way to go!

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Marianne Faithfull

Cemented in history, embodiment of the 60's couple

What style!

Marianne Faithfull truly has a beautiful voice!

Here is her famous performance of As tears go by, she looks like a living doll!

And of course, she is much revered in the blog-o-sphere because of her wardrobe!

Shift dresses, low heeled sandals, flats, bangs, knee high boots, paisley! Perfect!

Her hypnotic voice has kept many people company, it does seem to speak to only you

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Pink

Terrible movie with terribly selfish characters, all of them were awful! The only thing really that did stand out was the candy pink wig, and when that's the only thing that stands out??...

Ashes to Ashes

Douglas Reynholm in what might be one of the best IT crowd moments

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