When we throw our clothes away in the West 100,000 tons of them make their way across the ocean to India. UK-based filmmaker Meghna Gupta shows us where our discarded clothes end up and the people who turn our waste back into thread. The thread then ends up as cheap imported clothes. And the cycle begins again.
Unravel from Aeon Video on Vimeo.
Read more: Open Culture
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Skeleton bursts through a Mexican street
In celebration of Día de Muertos on November 1, Raymundo Medina built a massive skeleton that appears to be lurching out of the pavement on a street in Santa Cecilia Tláhuac, Mexico.
Medina is part of the Jaén Cartonería collective and works in collaboration with Yaocalli Indians.
Read more: Colossal
Medina is part of the Jaén Cartonería collective and works in collaboration with Yaocalli Indians.
Read more: Colossal
The Making Of An Itty Bitty Museum
Mozu Studios produce miniatures, trick art and video works for advertising and promotion. This video shows the creation of a tiny museum with several exhibits.
Via Boing Boing
Via Boing Boing
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
From the #EasyFire in Simi Valley - this thoroughbred goes back into the blaze to get his family. Not all heroes wear capes...💪🐎😍 pic.twitter.com/BsU6PlBq8R— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 30, 2019
Sometimes, BethAnn, to get a historic home at such a steal, you have to take a few lumps and bumps. Or rashes. Or unexplained bite marks.
The husbands from every haunted house movie ever made think their wives aren't giving the new house a chance:
More: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Sherrilynne, I’m sorry to hear that you feel “on edge.” And “trapped.” And “like the wallpaper of your psyche is peeling back in ribbons.” That’s heavy. It sounds like you could use some more self-care, darling. Like when I go to the basement in the middle of the night and stare at the furnace with no expression. That’s my “me time.”
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Okay, I admit it, Angela: the space gets a little drafty. And the roof leaks into the attic when it rains. And all the water stains look like faces. Buyer beware, I suppose! I’ll go to Home Depot tomorrow.
More: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Buy Your Own Tiny Village For The Price Of A Toronto House
You need this: Own your very own small historic town. It's only an hour north of Toronto and is just $1.6CAD! It's set on 10+ acres with an historic log home, 1890 barn, silo, shop, 1895 church with parish hall and original Town Of Mono town hall which was moved to this location.
See more here
See more here
SONITA
I just watched a 2015 documentary about Sonita Alizadeh, a young Afghan refugee in Iran, who dreams of becoming a big-name rapper. For the time being, her only fans are the other teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. Her family has a very different future planned for her: as a bride she's worth $9,000. Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, an Iranian documentary filmmaker, filmed her remarkable story over three years.
Here's a trailer:
Here's a trailer:
The Legend of Niagara Falls Fear Factory
This is the site of the old Cataract Coffin Factory on Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, Canada. People come here to scare themselves silly.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Need some last-minute advice to make a costume so good, no one will recognize you?— CIA (@CIA) October 28, 2019
Check out these 5 tips to remain incognito this #Halloween with the help of our spy dog, Calliope.https://t.co/JZNiqiU9kN#SpyKids pic.twitter.com/1F8Zc6ihzq
Monday, October 28, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Via Hal, NOTL reader and Facebook friend.Ambiguous grid by Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University in Japan. A mathematically calculated combination of perspective and the physics of reflection produce this striking illusion that works in many configurations https://t.co/PCrqmzmpLs [more: https://t.co/EDIrJfukaN] pic.twitter.com/GdBr7aTjUT— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 27, 2019
Japan’s "Mundane" Halloween Party
For the past five years a Halloween event in Japan has featured people dressed in everyday “mundane” costumes instead of witches or zombies. It's called called "jimi halloween" (地味ハロウィン).
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| Guy who spotted a cockroach right before going to bed and grabbed whatever he could find (@allfortomorrow) |
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Bathroom Choreography at ‘Hamilton’
Future Perfect
A child's drawing of their parents is placed in a time capsule. After the end of the world as we know it the drawing is found by aliens who use it as the blueprint for a new version of humanity.
Future Perfect by Sean McKenna from RANDOM ACTS on Vimeo.
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Future Perfect by Sean McKenna from RANDOM ACTS on Vimeo.
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MONTANAS
Bolivia's Climbing Cholitas - a group of indigenous women scaling the Andes Mountains, some of the highest peaks in the world.
MONTAÑAS from yumna on Vimeo.
Previously
MONTAÑAS from yumna on Vimeo.
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Architectural Miniatures Of a Wartorn Land
Connecticut-based Syrian-born artist/architect Mohamad Hafez uses found objects, paint, and scrap metal to create architectural dioramas that send a powerful message about the atrocities plaguing his homeland.
More: Colossal
Previously
More: Colossal
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Sunday, October 27, 2019
Sunday Links
How to create a tunnel of pears in your garden I'm tempted to rip everything out and plant one of these.
This lengthy post from The Bohemian Blog takes us on a 45-mile tour of occult London, inspired by From Hell written by Alan Moore. The pentagram-shaped route hits lesser known occult locations spread across the British capital.
Buyer Beware: The Weird World of ‘Haunted’ eBay
Colouring London is a knowledge exchange platform collecting information on every building in London, to help make the city more sustainable.
2019 Photomicrography Competition It's a small world.
What Scottish singles used to do on Halloween: Kale Divination
Looks somethin' like a turnip green, and everybody calls it polk salad When life hands you pokeweed, make polk salad? No way! It's growing in a wild corner of my garden but I have murder on my mind, not eating.
The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855: No one seems to agree on exactly how the fight at the brothel got started. Some blame a particularly loudmouthed clown. Thanks Bruce!
West is best, east is a beast: Why does jet lag feel worse travelling from west to east?
How to unknot a knotted plastic bag (You're welcome.)
The Boulevardier Cocktail, a rich, complicated cocktail that’s easy to make and perfect for fall.
The Blob, a slime mold “capable of advanced decision-making, learning, and long-term memory storage.”
“Warren Zevon’s ‘Werewolves of London’” by James Joyce
How to be a perfect '50s housewife Via
12 Halloween Candy Copycat Recipes No tricks here, just treats.
Art Biotop Water Garden by Junya Ishigami This wonderful garden is intended as a place for meditation and contemplation.
Spoko Meditation Stool
Driving an asylum-seeker to the airport The effects of this White House’s suppression of asylum never felt quite as real as they did hearing the granular horrors of them from someone sitting shotgun in my station wagon.
The dead don't rest in peace at Savannah Airport
Satan's Cinema: Five underappreciated horror movies to thrill and disturb you this Halloween season.
A Greenhouse for Extinct Flora Michael Wang’s installation resembles an assisted living facility for plants.
The Bilbcast - A good boy purring to calm you down. Soothing, as advertised. Via Blort
Where the Sun Rises: The Films of Alanis Obomsawin
A Vintage-Style Kitchen Remodel I'm posting this mainly because I'm intrigued by the radiant-heated floor made of slate chalkboards rescued from a derelict school.
Samurai Street Cleaners
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Isse Ichidai Jidaigumi (“Once in a lifetime, on a big bet”) is a one-of-a-kind club that reimagines traditional samurai sword skills as a theatrical means to pick up trash in Hokkaido and Tokyo.
— 【公式】一世一代時代組(ゴミ拾い侍) (@jidaigumi_tokyo) March 7, 2016
Via Everlasting Blort
Google Street View Trip Around the World
Maria Constanza Ferreira made this video using screen grabs from Google Street View.
Maria Constanza Ferreira on Vimeo.
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Maria Constanza Ferreira on Vimeo.
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Saturday, October 26, 2019
‘Birds of America’ Now Downloadable
The entire collection of “Birds of America” watercolors by19-century wildlife artist John James Audubon are now available for free, hi-res downloading.
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Friday, October 25, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Viaat no point in this video did i know what was coming next pic.twitter.com/XXaIlfc4bk— ً₂₄ (@ELMXRIACHI) October 24, 2019
Watch A Supermassive Black Hole Destroy A Star
On January 29 NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) captured a black hole destroying a star, a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. The blast, named ASASSN-19bt, was found on Jan. 29 by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), a worldwide network of 20 robotic telescopes.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Adds Yayoi Kusama Tentacled Sun
This large-scale floating artwork “Love Flies up to the Sky” measures 30 feet long by 36 feet wide and 34 feet tall and is covered (of course) in more than 300 white polka dots, a Yayoi Kusama signature.
(Previously)
Via COOL HUNTING
(Previously)
Via COOL HUNTING
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Cats Vs Plastic Wrap Force Field
These seven kitties aren't going to let an invisible wall get the better of them, or are they?
Via Geekologie
Via Geekologie
Exclusion Zone
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Three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster forced the evacuation of 300,000 people, Canadian photographer Robyn Von Swank documents the daily lives of those who remained.
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Via English Russia
Tweet of the day
Apparently Canada is an expat dystopia. Good thread.
As an expat living in Canada, the more I live here, the more I'm convinced I'm actually stuck in some kind of cryptic horror nightmare country that's subtly and slowly eating away at me.— 将司 (@Kavaeric) October 22, 2019
The world's loudest bird
Scientists in the Amazon have recorded the world's loudest bird. The mating song of the white bellbird hits a painful 125 decibels. Ouch!
More here
Via Boing Boing
More here
Via Boing Boing
Deciphering Commodore 64 code planted in 1984 record
In 1984, the Christian rock band Prodigal hid a Commodore 64 program on their album "Electric Eye".
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Tiffany's Advent Calendar
Each of the compartments of the four-foot-tall calendar contains a signature blue box with a bijou. There's a full-size sterling silver "paper" cup, an 18k gold Tiffany T True bracelet, an 18k rose gold Tiffany Smile pendant with diamonds, and 21 other treats.
It's a big calendar with a big price tag (starts at $112,000 US)
Link
Via
It's a big calendar with a big price tag (starts at $112,000 US)
Link
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Seven friends dress as a different celeb each year.
There's nothing like a good annual tradition. Each Halloween these friends get together dressed as a different celebrity. Over the years they have dressed as Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Robin Williams, Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey and Johnny Depp. This year they will be inspired by Ben Stiller.
More here
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| 2013 Jim Carreys: Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Dumb & Dumber, The Cable Guy, The Mask, The Grinch, Ace Ventura, Batman Forever |
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| 2014 Will Ferrells: Elf, Blades of Glory, Zoolander, Anchorman, Night at the Roxbury, Semi-Pro, Talladega Nights |
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Yellow Pages Dress
I'm posting this Yellow Pages Dress because it reminds me of my own experience as a Yellow Page. After high school I took a job as a Bell Canada directory assistance operator. It was a boring job and I was pleased when I was chosen to be one of a group of young ladies who would represent the company at conventions and trade shows. We wore custom-made yellow A-line dresses made of a stiff uncreasable fabric called crimplene. The outfit was completed by a capelet. My career as a Yellow Page was cut short when I decided I was not cut out to wear yellow crimplene and returned to school.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Tom Waits Tribute Album
Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits is a new project featuring Tom Waits songs interpreted by a group of amazing female artists. Listen to Corinne Bailey Rae singing Jersey Girl:
Aimee Mann, Roseanne Cash and Iris Dement are a few of the other featured artists. (I ordered mine today.)
Aimee Mann, Roseanne Cash and Iris Dement are a few of the other featured artists. (I ordered mine today.)
The Love Car 2018
It all started almost 3 years ago when digital artist Felix Hernandez was asked to do a project for a magazine...
I found this behind-the-scenes video via Things Magazine
I found this behind-the-scenes video via Things Magazine
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash’s Original Demo for ‘Wanted Man’
Bob Dylan’s archivists have released the original demo for “Wanted Man,” a song Dylan wrote for Johnny Cash in 1969.
More: Rolling Stone
More: Rolling Stone
Tweet Of The Day
Hunters in the 13th century preferred to hunt with pocket beagles - beagles about half the size (and twice the adorableness) of modern beagles. pic.twitter.com/hAUvylip8T— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) October 21, 2019
Monday, October 21, 2019
OuijaZilla Unveiled In Salem
“OuijaZilla,” as it’s affectionately called, weighs 9000 pounds and covers 3168 square feet—as big a footprint as five 18-wheelers. According to Popular Mechanics, the board took 99 pieces of plywood, 20 quarts of black paint, several gallons of deck stain, and one whole year to complete.
More: Mental Floss
Tweet Of The Day
Seen this a few times - it’s bang on. pic.twitter.com/nwxVASyK41— Mike P. "Ontario Dad" Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 (@MikePMoffatt) October 21, 2019
The Ikea Tarot
Discover the key to inner wisdom with this Ikea tarot deck designed by Akiva Leffert. The deck contains the four suits of the minor arcana: sofas, lamps, dowels, and allen keys as well as a full set of major arcana.
Via Boing Boing
Via Boing Boing
Stunning Woodblock Prints
These Japanese illustrations are from the original edition of Bijutsu Sekai (1893–1896), a collection of woodblock prints from Kacho-ga artist, Watanabe Seitei (渡辺 省亭, 1851 in Edo – 1918).
More: Flashbak
More: Flashbak
Why are these Indian students wearing boxes on their heads?
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Sunday, October 20, 2019
This man has eaten only mac and cheese for 17 years
Austin Davis suffers from Selective Eating Disorder, a refusal to eat specific foods or refusal to eat any type of food due to a negative response from certain sensory characteristics of that food.
Via Doobybrain.com
Via Doobybrain.com
Music For Sunday Morning
Sony will be releasing Leonard Cohen's final album, Thanks For The Dance, on 22 November 2019.
Sunday Links
Halloween Eye Pies Thanks Bruce!
When Christie’s and Sotheby’s Played Rock, Paper, Scissors for a Modern Art Trove True story.
But, I hear you shout, this is all too early: shut up about Christmas, as you thrash about in denial. I’m afraid it is not too early. Some monsters who walk among us are really very organised. More here
Can You Draw a Perfect Circle? No I can't.
Miniature Dive Bars
The FBI Lost Our Son FBI agents came to the Reilly family's door twice. The first time, they enlisted Billy Reilly in helping the agency. The second time, he'd just gone missing.
Our Type documents the disappearing shopfronts, signage and typography of Ireland's towns and villages. All photos by @trevorfinnegan Via
Jim Beam Airbnb rental to cost the price of a bourbon bottle Wow, what a deal!
Every Single Person Who Has Resigned or Been Fired From the Trump Administration
‘Transformer Table’ More than meets the eye.
For those who crave over-the-top opulence: Versailles palace in France is getting a hotel next year
People Keying Teslas
A look at an edition of the London Review of Books coming together
I CHUSE NOT TO CHANGE. Inscriptions found in 17th century wedding rings
The Ford Family Dynasty This dysfunctional bunch is a blight on the province of Ontario.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Did millennials kill the dinner party? If the new dinner party mindset is embracing the messiness of real life and abandoning perfectionism I was way ahead of the curve.
perfect for roquefort cheese explains why the numbers on your cheques look the way they do. (American translation: checks)
How to Make Cocktail Bitters
A Moose’s “Mid-day Swim” Turned Into A Scary Situation
An interactive way to see what words were first used in print in a particular year
I love these moody paintings by Kim Cogan - Via
Farrah Fawcett Lookalike Contest Winners (1977)
Coming across the first official Burning Man: “There were no designated areas, no fees. You could just camp anywhere.” Via
1923 Road Trip Ned and his wife Golda, sister-in-law Josephine "Josie" Landon, and brother-in-law Lloyd Landon set out in Lloyd’s Case Six automobile on a cross-country road trip to Tacoma, Wash. Thanks Bruce!
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Space Is Hard
Are you ready to meet the unknown? Artemis will send the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024, preparing for missions to Mars and beyond.
Via Miss Cellania
Via Miss Cellania
An interactive 360° video of a Dalí-inspired dreamscape
Salvador Dalí’s painting Archeological Reminiscence of Millet’s Angelus is a surreal reimagining of Jean-Francois Millet’s famous artwork. Dreams of Dalí is an interactive video that allows you to click and drag your cursor on the video player to explore the scene.
For the an optimal viewing experience, maximise the YouTube player to full screen, and set on the highest quality setting.
Aeon Videos
For the an optimal viewing experience, maximise the YouTube player to full screen, and set on the highest quality setting.
Aeon Videos
Friday, October 18, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
It’s true. pic.twitter.com/r189ipd9ta— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) October 19, 2019
Give The Pelican A Fish, Mate!
So a pelican wandered into a fish and chip shop in Kiama, Australia and waited politely in line but no one gave him a fish.
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A dreamy animated tale of grief, friendship and a road trip to David Hockney’s house
You were too young to lose your mum. And we were too young to be organising a funeral.
Hunting for Hockney from Alice Dunseath on Vimeo.
Aeon Videos
Hunting for Hockney from Alice Dunseath on Vimeo.
Aeon Videos
70 Hours of Oceanscape Nature Videos
These salt-water themed 10-hour playlists from BBC Earth are the ultimate stress reliever. Chill out while watching coral reefs, coastlines, deep ocean, open ocean, frozen seas, ocean surfaces, and sea forests.
Here are some coral reefs to get you started:
Via Open Culture
Here are some coral reefs to get you started:
Via Open Culture
Make a $13 kitchen knife cut like an expensive one
Learn how to give a cheap knife an edge so fine you can split atoms with it (or at least slice paper).
Boing Boing
Boing Boing
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Sanctuaries of Silence
This immersive video by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee takes you on a virtual journey. Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton explores the mossy, green heart of silence in one of Earth’s last remaining bastions of true quiet — the Hoh Rain Forest, in Washington State.
Via TwistedSifter
Via TwistedSifter
Edible Cocktail Dresses
Korean artist Sung Yeonju’s ongoing series, Wearable Foods, combines edible materials with digital editing to form cocktail dresses, shorts, and blazers.
Via Colossal
Via Colossal
The Film That Launched Margot Kidder’s Career
Margot Kidder died a little more than a year ago. Many people remember her as Lois Lane in the Superman movies. I remember her from her first film. The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar(1968), an award–winning drama that she made at the NFB. The screenplay was written by Joan Finnigan as a drama,telling a story about poverty in the Ottawa Valley.
Read more about the film: NFB Blog
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Gun Shop
This film by animation Director Patrick Smith shows 2,328 firearms, out of the 393 million currently in the US.
Via Pasa Bon!
Via Pasa Bon!
The Professional 'Pigeon Spookers' Of Chiang Mai
I bet this is a profession you haven't considered: Many tourists who visit the Tha Pae Gate in Northern Thailand want to capture photographs of themselves in front of the wall with pigeons flying through the frame. That's where the 'pigeon spookers' come in. They charge about 20 Thai Baht (the equivalent of $0.65) to help stage the shot by stamping their feet or waving their arms to scare pigeons into the air.
More here
More here
Decaying Tokyo Storefronts in Miniature Scale
TokyoBuild is a project by Stockholm-based designer Christopher Robin that recreates Tokyo’s fading storefronts in miniature. He begins each project by going on Google Street View and clicking down the side streets of Tokyo until he finds a storefront that he likes.
More: Spoon and Tamago
The Abandoned Mansions Of Billionaires' Row
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
How To Move a 4000 sq ft Home
Christian Neeley wanted a mansion by the water in Maryland. He finally found the ideal house but it was 50 miles away. He decided to move the home to his property by boat. The whole process took about 19 days from start to finish.
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The reflections in your eyes in photos may reveal more than you think.
A man who attacked a pop star in Japan reportedly managed to find out where she lived by studying the reflections in her eyes in photos she posted to social media. The attacker observed a train station reflected in her eyes, found that train station using Google Street View, waited for her at the train station, and followed her home. (The eye above is mine but you won't find a reflection that will let you track my whereabouts)
More here
The Passion of Andalucía
The passion of flamenco echoes through Andalucía in this film by Brandon Li.
The Passion of Andalucía from Brandon Li on Vimeo.
The Passion of Andalucía from Brandon Li on Vimeo.
Fred Herzog, Vancouver’s Beloved Street Photographer
Fred Herzog, a pioneer of colour photography and chronicler of life in mid-20th century Vancouver, died last month at the age of 88.
Read about him here
Read about him here
The Chinoiserie Pumpkin
These beautiful painted pumpkins by Karolyn Stephenson look just like my good dinner dishes.
More: The Relished Roost
More: The Relished Roost
The Art Of Stacking Wood
Cottage Life has posted photos of woodpiles that are also works of art. Gary Tallman of Montana cuts his wood in the spring and separates it by color and size. It took him about twenty hours to build the owl woodpile below.
I like these woodpile cottages:
More here
I like these woodpile cottages:
Monday, October 14, 2019
CAT S**T ONE
Cat Shit One is a three volume manga series written and illustrated by Motofumi Kobayashi. Botasky and Packy are bunny rabbits. They are also private contractors, working in the Middle East, with support from a distant helicopter-mobile base.
Via Facebook friend and Nag follower David.
Via Facebook friend and Nag follower David.
Can you provide a home for 8,000 country music records?
What began as a Nova Scotia teenager's modest library of 20 or so country music records grew over the next six decades to roughly 8,000.
The family of the late Murray Deal was left with one question: what to do with their dad's impressive collection?
More: CBC News
The family of the late Murray Deal was left with one question: what to do with their dad's impressive collection?
More: CBC News
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Once Upon A Time In Brick Lane
Photographer Paul Trevor captured the east London of the 1970s and 80s, a world cigarette smoking, hardcore perms, laundrettes and mac wearing wheeler-dealers.
Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane by Paul Trevor, published by Hoxton Mini Press, RRP £25
More: Londonist
Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane by Paul Trevor, published by Hoxton Mini Press, RRP £25
More: Londonist
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