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I've often admired St Olaf's House, an Art Deco building near London Bridge, but today I had an exciting opportunity to go inside it.

Designed by H.S. Goodhart Rendel and built for the Hay's Wharf Company in 1931, the building now houses the admin departments of London Bridge Hospital. On the inside, there are lots of stylish Deco fittings, a cool stairwell, and a beautiful high-ceilinged boardroom that looks out onto the Thames. From its little balconies, you can get a close-up view of some of the decorative ceramic panels on the riverside facade.

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Catherine Deneuve & Françoise Dorléac in The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), dir. Jacques Demy

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Jon Foreman

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BORN WITH TEETH dir. Daniel Evans (London Wyndham’s Theatre — 13 August to 1 November 2025) ››› Ncuti Gatwa as Christopher Marlowe ››› Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare

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This uniquely shaped gold crown was first worn by Christel Bodenstein as The Princess in the DEFA produced fairytale movie 𝑫𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆, 𝒌𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆 𝑩ä𝒖𝒎𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒏 (𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒆).   Three years later, it appeared again in 𝑹𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒛𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑫𝒂𝒔 𝒁𝒂𝒖𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒎ä𝒏𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒏 (𝑹𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒕𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕), another DEFA production, on Karin Lesch as Marie.   Learn more at Bit.ly/Acces202    

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Watch Hank Green's full Smartypants presentation on "How to Fix Grocery Stores" on YouTube now!

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Playmobil, Joy Division, Transmission, 1979

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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Pages from Patrick Syme’s wonderful Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814), one of the first attempts to standardise colour description. For each colour there’s examples given from the kingdoms of animal, vegetable and mineral. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/werner-s-nomenclature-of-colours-1814

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The lack of muppet show in our society is so upsetting I want to see Chappell Roan backed up by chickens in sparkly outfits

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Cinematic parallels

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JOSH HARTNETT & ELIJAH WOOD

THE FACULTY (1998) dir. Robert Rodriguez

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You ever see a thing and know with bone deep certainty, and a little bit ferociously feral-ity(is that a word?) that you need to make the thing?

How FREAKING COOL and ON BRAND for me too???

Linked below for the written article and charts.

A genius, stunning, so freaking cool. Insert Lady Gaga gif here.

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THE HOUR (2011-2012) Episode 3