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Name that Aesthetic: The Romance and Ruins of Lost Civilizations

Aug 30, 2024 | messynessychic.com | Liam Ward

If it took you this long to identify one of the most epic genres of art history, welcome to the club. We must have skipped class that day. The aesthetic: a lost civilization – its crumbling and vaguely familiar architectural forms dramatically lit by a sunset backdrop, and in the foreground, a congregation of folks are musing amidst the ruins.
How to Host the Olympic Games on a Shoestring Budget

Jul 5, 2024 | messynessychic.com | Liam Ward

As the countdown for the Paris Summer Olympics has begun and the excitement for the international extravaganza of athletic prowess mounts, few will now remember a past games that had a rather more frugal approach to the sporting proceedings. Compared to the multi-millions spent on the current games the 1948 London Olympics was the make-do-and-mend alternative that has been labelled by some as the ‘Austerity Olympics’.
Harlem's Horace Pippin

May 3, 2024 | messynessychic.com | Liam Ward

Horace Pippin was an artist who was gifted with the ability to express his work with an unrefined social realism and dreamlike playfulness of touch that in reality, would mask a darker narrative. The grandson of African American slaves and a decorated World War One veteran who was registered as disabled after being wounded in France in 1918, Pippin sought to express life through his painting, a life of hardship, of war and loss, segregation and belief.
A Brief Compendium of Lost Albums, Stolen Songs and Unreleased Music

Apr 25, 2024 | messynessychic.com | Liam Ward

If there is anything that can make a strident music fan salivate in anticipation, it’s the idea of an unreleased track or lost album from a favourite band. It’s like catnip for the musicologist and can become like a biblical quest for a lost chalice of sound for the collector of rare grooves and scrapped singles. There are many reasons why an album or song never sees the light of day.
The Best Tactical Flashlights of 2024

Apr 16, 2024 | outdoorlife.com | Liam Ward

Best Rifle Mounted Cloud Defensive Rein 3.0 See It Best Pistol Mounted Surefire X300T See It Best Handheld Surefire Stiletto Pro 2 See It We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Most crimes happen after the sun goes down, and being able to shine a light on things that go bump in the night is a great advantage. Lucky for us, tactical flashlight technology has come a long way from the old, 2-foot long Maglites. You can get...
The Making of the Nomadic King of French Swing

Apr 12, 2024 | messynessychic.com | Liam Ward

Django Reinhardt was a legendary jazz musician and considered by some the greatest guitarist who ever lived, even more so when you find out he did it all with two fingers. He began as a nomadic busker before becoming a virtuoso and then a romanticised Parisian sepia memory, who still calls out in rolling arpeggios from the grooves of a crackling wax disc.
Let’s Entertain the Theory of the Tartarian Empire for a Moment

Apr 5, 2024 | messynessychic.com | Liam Ward

What do you mean you’ve never heard of the lost civilization of Great Tartaria? It’s only one of the weirdest architectural conspiracy theories going. It seems there has been a monumental cover-up to hide the truth from us all about an ancient empire that’s hiding in plain sight all around us – or so a fast-growing group of pseudo internet historians would have us believe.
The Enchanting Genius of a Quietly Forgotten Midcentury Maximalist

Feb 2, 2024 | messynessychic.com | Liam Ward

Let us take a look inside the classical grandeur and neo-romanticism that flows through the oeuvre of Emilio Terry. A maximalist from the school of more is most definitely more; Terry was an artist, architect, interior decorator, and darling of French society. Parisian born, he would mix in the elite circles of artists and aristocrats, Salvador Dali would immortalize him in oil paint and devotees of his Baroque decorative flair would covet his architectural creations.
Paul Is Dead: The bizarre conspiracy that became part of The Beatles phenomenon

Jan 19, 2024 | messynessychic.com | Liam Ward

‘’Those freaks was right when they said you was dead” spat John Lennon in the 1971 song ‘How Do You Sleep?’ It was a venomous retort to his ex-bandmate Paul McCartney in an ongoing feud after the break-up of The Beatles. But what he meant by these caustic lines is a little more outré.
The Real Ziggy Stardust who Lost his Career to Acid

Jan 5, 2024 | messynessychic.com | Liam Ward

In 1966, David Bowie had a chance encounter with Vince Taylor an early exponent of the British Rock and roll scene. Taylor had been a leather-clad, chain-wielding rocker from the 1950s, a combination of Elvis, Eddie Cochran, and Gene Vincent. What now stood before Bowie in London’s West End was a bedraggled, wide-eyed religious zealot clutching a map that held instructions of what he described as the Alien’s secret bases on earth.