It’s common knowledge that the original Coca-Cola recipe had cocaine in it. And while it might seem obvious to us now to remove a hard drug from a soft drink, what was the actual reason? JSTOR Daily consulted a journal article by Michael M. Cohen where he claimed it was about aut … | Continue reading
The poster for Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage, a 1994 SEGA Genesis game starring Spider-Man, Venom, and of course, Carnage. The post Paint The Town Red appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Gentlemen of Bacongo is a photobook by Daniele Tamagni showcases the dapper styles of Congolese men who are part of La Sape subculture: Daniele Tamagni’s wonderful pictorial essay brilliantly manages to capture the ebullience of sapeur culture at its source in Bacongo, a sprawlin … | Continue reading
One Million Bones is a large-scale art project created by Naomi Natale. In 2013, a 3-day event at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. featured over a million handcrafted bones, collected over the space of 3 years. Natale used the project to raise awareness of genocides and warf … | Continue reading
Besides being a horror legend and part-time rapper, Vincent Price was a food lover, and in 1965 he co-wrote a best-selling cookbook with his second wife called A Treasury of Great Recipes. It was out of print but his daughter Victoria helped get it reissued for its 50th anniversa … | Continue reading
It’s a classic that I had to share and somewhat archive for myself since it wasn’t readily available on YouTube. Joanne the Scammer welcomes you to her Caucasian home for Super Deluxe (RIP) but it’s clear this is all a ruse and the lies eventually unravel at the end. Honestly (tr … | Continue reading
Last December, the Chengdu 2025 Organising Committee opened a contest for entrants to create the logo for The World Games 2025. Out of over 3,500 entrants came a winner and, at first, I couldn’t see see what was so special about it… until I saw the panda! The winning logo was des … | Continue reading
Zeinixx is a Senegalese graffiti artist and the nation’s first female professional graffiti artist. In the video above, she spoke about her activism, how she started graffiti, her inspirations, and what graffiti means to Senegalese people. The post Senegalese graffiti artist Zein … | Continue reading
Tina Bobbe and La Marzocco collaborated on a series of coffee machines and this is one of them. A swirling blue metal behemoth capable of making whatever hot beverage you desire. The post What if Gyarados was a coffee machine? appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Many department stores are lying empty across the US as more of us shop online. One school found a unique use for one of them when they urgently needed a new home. (via BBC) The post The Vermont school in an empty shopping mall appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
The Democratic Republic of Congo (or DR Congo or Congo-Kinshasa) is diverse nation with rich cultural heritage, heavily influenced by war and colonisation, and areas of stunning natural beauty. It’s important to remain aware of warfare and systemic exploitation of the Congolese p … | Continue reading
A different kind of anime list from CBR where they picked their 10 best short(er) anime series, including Yuri!!!, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, and my all-time favourite, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Here’s what they had to say about FMA: […] Determined to fix what they have done, … | Continue reading
Karl-Henning Seemann is a German sculptor who made this really cute and useful handrail sculpture. It depicts a dog pulling against his lead, held by his owner. The tension of the lead acts as the handrail in the most whimsical of ways. Now that’s what I call German engineering. … | Continue reading
A district judge in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was astonished when a man with a suspended driver’s license joined a court Zoom call while driving a car […] The judge revoked Harris’s bond, and he was ordered to turn himself into the local county jail by that evening. The judge said “I … | Continue reading
I watched this clip of Star Wars: A New Hope and, despite having an idea of what might happen based on the video’s title, I didn’t expect that: When the Star Wars films aired in Chile, instead of cutting away from the movie for commercial breaks, the TV station “seamlessly” inser … | Continue reading
The Afghan afghani is Afghanistan’s official currency. It was introduced in 1925, replacing the Afghan rupee, but was reformed in 2002 after years of financial instability caused by the Taliban and major destabilization in 2001–2002. Bank notes feature a variety of Afghani cultur … | Continue reading
We’re not gonna fight racism with racism, we’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with black capitalism like some of these punks in the city of Chicago want to do, we’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Fred Hampton quote from a speech at … | Continue reading
LogoArchive analysed Adidas’s Trefoil logo design and its logotype as part of its “Logo Histories” series. Something I didn’t know: Dassler first registered the company as ‘addas’ and printed business cards with that name, before changing it to ‘adidas’. The post LogoArchive on A … | Continue reading
Thirsty Thursday Toys is back with another cocktail (see my last post about his “Tyrani-Tart” cocktail), this time inspired by Godzilla. ‘Tequila Breath’ includes a homemade habanero-infused tequila, pineapple juice, and grenadine, this drink is designed to have a vintage-comic-c … | Continue reading
In 1888, French inventor Louis Le Prince used his patented single lens camera to capture the movements of a group of people at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, UK. This motion picture was the first of its kind and he called “Roundhay Garden Scene”. It is also believed to be the oldest … | Continue reading
From Wikipedia: Whit Monday, the day after Whitsun, remained a holiday in Britain until 1971 when, with effect from 1972, the ruling Conservative Government decided to permanently replace it, following a five year trial period, with a Spring Bank Holiday on the last Monday in May … | Continue reading
Dublin Zoo’s newest hippo Ernie has sadly passed away. The zoo is awaiting results of an examination to determine why he died. 🦛 🥀 The post Dublin Zoo’s newest hippo Ernie has sadly passed away appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading
Bullets & Blockbusters looked at the original and ill-fated Superman V script that would have featured Christopher Reeve had Superman IV not been so bad and the whole franchise collapsed into itself. Although I knew about the weird journey that Superman IV’s sequel took from the … | Continue reading
Palestine is the name of a village in Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 Cencus, it had a population of 1,233 (~95% white), and the median income per household was $41,700. But why is it named Palestine? Well, according to an archived page from Pioneer City, it looked like Palestine: … | Continue reading
Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday celebrated predominately in the US by people of Mexican heritage. It takes place on 5th May (hence the name—Cinco de Mayo is Spanish for 5th of May) and commemorates Mexico’s victory over at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It’s important to note t … | Continue reading
For me, nothing beats people thinking they’re superior and then falling back to earth—or in this case eventually under the earth (RIP). The supercut (above) shows the classic trope of “what are you gonna do, shoot me?” followed by getting shot. The video opens with Columbo, follo … | Continue reading
Feedme.Design conducted a study on the ‘minimalist perfection’ of Sony’s VAIO logo: The deceptively simple VAIO logomark is a masterclass in minimalist expression and brand storytelling, and it’s one of my favourite logo designs of all time. The post Feedme.Design on the ‘minimal … | Continue reading
The video above shows some early footage of Akira, per-colorisation: One of the most notable tools used in the production of the film was the use of the Quick Action Recorder. The quick action recorder allowed the animators to take pictures of individual frames (like a down-shoot … | Continue reading
Grace Jones was filming the James Bond classic ‘A View to a Kill’ in the adjacent studio at Pinewood whilst Tim Curry was filming ‘Legend’ during 1984. Jones used to hang out with Tim whilst he was having his prosthetic makeup applied for the character of Darkness. Tim’s makeup t … | Continue reading
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Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (or Armenian Genocide Memorial Day), a day commemorating the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915. It’s said that 1.5 million Armenians were starved and murdered. It’s tradition for people to walk to the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memo … | Continue reading
Shot, a specialty coffee bar in Mayfair, is charging £265 for a cup of coffee using Japanese Typica beans. This makes it the most expensive in the UK by a long way. In this economy? Disgusting. (via Secret London) The post The most expensive cup of coffee in the UK can be found i … | Continue reading
Tempelhof Airport was one of the first airports in Berlin, Germany, operating from 1923 until 2008. It was known for its iconic pre-World War II architecture, its role in the Berlin Airlift, and for having the then-world’s smallest duty-free shop. The airport closed in 2008 after … | Continue reading
I’ve seen Angostura bitters bottles from time to time and never knew why their labels were bigger than the bottles. Until now: The label on Angostura bitters is larger than the bottle. When company founder Johann Siegert died, his sons planned to enter the tonic in a competition … | Continue reading
With it being 1st April, The Criterion Channel has announced its April 2024 lineup and it’s a scorcher. Amongst the many titles available to watch, we have: Criterion related: Ashley Clark’s Afrofuturist film series on Criterion Channel and Black titles from a Criterion Collectio … | Continue reading
I’m on a heavy Square Enix tip at the moment (which you can read all about on our sibling site, Distant Arcade) and I noticed the logo for their music label/channel/section of the business (above). It’s… beautiful. The simplicity of it and the colours. There is a slight caveat to … | Continue reading
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“The wait is almost over”, as it says on the movie poster, and we now have a trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Not much is given away (thankfully) but we do get to see Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz, Jenna Ortega as Astrid Deetz, Lydia’s daughter, Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz, … | Continue reading
I saw an image of a leopard, covered in mud, with an equally muddy catfish in its mouth on Tumblr earlier. Having read about Kotaku’s slow demise, and having a digital existential crisis, seeing this felt fitting. Maybe we’re all just trawling through the mud looking for sustenan … | Continue reading
We’re getting a new Alien movie this year and it’s called Alien: Romulus. The trailer shows the franchise’s signature alien ship claustrophobia, blood, blood-curdling screaming, tentacles coming out of mouths, and… you’ll have to watch the rest to find out. Alien: Romulus is due … | Continue reading
I’ve been growing a collection of wild Mountain Dew-related foods on this blog (unintentionally) and this one might be the wildest. Golden Hive Mead made Mountain Dew wine (specifically mead, which is a honey wine) and about 5 seconds in he said he couldn’t promise it’d taste goo … | Continue reading
Last week, I found out about an interestingly named village in Jamaica: Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come is a village in the Cockpit Country of western Jamaica. It is now a part of a district called Aberdeen, Jamaica, in the north-east section of Saint Elizabeth Parish, and is not extinct, … | Continue reading
Tatreez is a form of traditional Palestinian embroidery, originating from rural areas of Palestine but now commonly seen and made in the wider Palestinian diaspora. The practice of tatreez originated in Palestine over 3,000 years ago […] Motifs were area-specific, as well as symb … | Continue reading
I don’t know who John Pittman is but I do know he’s the Number One Nut Man and he seems proud of that fact. I found this hilarious screengrab on an Instagram account called 80s News Screens where they post random scenes from 80s news shows. Everything about it, from the weird lig … | Continue reading
Today is the 15th March and that means it’s time to settle your debts, be merry, and watch your back! Wait, we aren’t in Roman times anymore. And what the hell are “ides” and why should I beware? What are the Ides of March? The Ides of March was a day in the Roman calendar, … Con … | Continue reading
Before milkshake machines—in and out of order—people in the 1890s had their milkshakes shook with a hand crank device. Fun fact: you could buy milkshakes in drug stores as these machines used to mix liquid medicines before they started making sodas and then milkshakes, all as alt … | Continue reading
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For Polygon, Patricia Hernandez wrote a really insightful peace on MrBeast, his symbiotic rise with YouTube, and how he warped YouTube in his image — but YouTube is warping him back: MrBeast embodies this ostentatious era of YouTube so fully that some, like Smigel, consider the p … | Continue reading