An Ill-assorted Imbroglio of Interesting Items

by the Boy With a Monocle

guardian:

Signs

1. ‘How convenient: signs that transcend the language barrier at the Cinémathèque Française, Paris’ Photograph: Linda Wride

2. ‘A fabulous shop sign in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex’ Photograph: Nick Dawe

3. ‘I saw this in Muswell Hill, North London, and noticed how serious they are about discouraging access’ Photograph: Stephen Rank

QI: The average lifespan of a website is 44 days - the same as that of the common housefly.

life: In the spring of 1963, Steve McQueen was on the brink of superstardom, already popular from his big-screen breakout as one of The Magnificent Seven and just a couple months away from entering the Badass Hall of Fame with the release of The Great Escape. Intrigued by his dramatic backstory and his off-screen exploits — McQueen was a reformed delinquent who got his thrills racing cars and motorcycles — LIFE sent photographer John Dominis to California to hang out with the 33-year-old actor and see what he could get. Three weeks and more than 40 rolls of film later, Dominis captured some astonishingly intimate and iconic images Pictured: McQueen works out at the gym at Paramount Pictures while he was making the movie Love With the Proper Stranger opposite Natalie Wood. 

life:

In the spring of 1963, Steve McQueen was on the brink of superstardom, already popular from his big-screen breakout as one of The Magnificent Seven and just a couple months away from entering the Badass Hall of Fame with the release of The Great Escape. Intrigued by his dramatic backstory and his off-screen exploits — McQueen was a reformed delinquent who got his thrills racing cars and motorcycles — LIFE sent photographer John Dominis to California to hang out with the 33-year-old actor and see what he could get.

Three weeks and more than 40 rolls of film later, Dominis captured some astonishingly intimate and iconic images

Pictured: McQueen works out at the gym at Paramount Pictures while he was making the movie Love With the Proper Stranger opposite Natalie Wood. 

(via hotphotography)

If I knew how I knew everything I knew, I’d only be able to know half as much because it’ll be clogged up with where I know it from.

I cannot always cite my sources. I’m sorry.

David Mitchell

Believe it or not, there are many terrible things about being famous and many wonderful things, too.

In the end, the good things are better than the bad, so if you have the chance, it’s better to be famous.

Woody Allen

The Telegraph: Surreal workspaces have tongue-in-cheek names such as the Velourmptious snug, a green, padded homage to the traditional British pub. (Inside Google’s quirky new London headquarters.)

The Telegraph: Surreal workspaces have tongue-in-cheek names such as the Velourmptious snug, a green, padded homage to the traditional British pub. (Inside Google’s quirky new London headquarters.)