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THE REMARKABLE STORY OF THE 1924 LA BEAUTÉ In 2025, in a small thrift shop in Namibia, I found something no one expected to exist here — a nearly intact 101-year-old Parisian photogravure art portfolio, La Beauté, Album X from 1924. What looks at first like an old booklet is actually a rare survivor from the early modernist art world of Paris — the same era that produced Man Ray, Josephine Baker, Picasso’s atelier period, and the birth of Surrealism. Albums like this were never mass-market magazines. They were professional tools used by artists, sculptors, photographers and art students as anatomical and lighting references before photography and printing became widespread. Most of these portfolios were: (a) torn apart in art studios, (b) lost in the chaos of WWII, (c) sold plate-by-plate for profit, (d) thrown away as “indecent,” (e) or simply disintegrated over a century of poor storage. Yet this one survived. It travelled from 1924 Paris — a city buzzing with modern art, the Olympic Games, early photography studios, and bohemian life — all the way to southern Africa, crossing continents and generations with no record of how it got here... It lost its cover, but kept what mattered: 31 intact photogravure plates, clean, undamaged, and printed in the same workshop district that produced some of the earliest modern artistic photography. The statistical odds of such a piece surviving — and then appearing in Namibia — are absurdly small. These albums almost never leave Europe or the US. Many collectors look for years and never find early issues like this one. Whether or not another copy exists on the continent is unknown — but realistically, this may be the only surviving Album X (1924) in Africa. For 225 Namibian dollars, I rescued a cultural artifact that carries: (a) the faces and forms of women who lived a century ago, (b) the craft of early photogravure printing, (c) the history of Parisian art education, (d) and the improbable journey of an object that should not have survived. This tiny portfolio is a reminder that history doesn’t always sit in museums...Sometimes it hides on a dusty thrift shop shelf, waiting for someone paying attention. And now it’s preserved — properly, respectfully — for another hundred years. Hopefully.

When things settle down, the world will realise that Iranian toll over the strait is way cheaper than the rent extracted by the petrodollar.

It costs N$ 1,300.00 to rent a ghetto in Windhoek. We must address the national housing crisis—our population is too small for us to be struggling like this.

Three brothers moved from India to South Africa. They started a small tech company. Then they befriended a man named Jacob Zuma. When Zuma became President in 2009 the brothers stopped being businessmen. They became the people behind the President. They picked his ministers. A politician confirmed under oath that the brothers called him to their house and offered him $44 million in cash to become Finance Minister and fire the officials standing in their way. He said no. They found someone who said yes. They took control of Eskom, the company that powers South Africa. They took control of Transnet, the company that moves South Africa's goods. They put their own people in charge of both. $3.2 billion in government money flowed to their companies. Zuma's son sat on their boards. Zuma's daughter was made a company director. They secretly bought a house for one of Zuma's wives. In 2013 they flew 217 wedding guests from India and landed the plane at a South African military air force base. Not a civilian airport. A military base. Nobody stopped them. When Zuma was finally removed from office in 2018 the brothers were already on a plane to Dubai. They were arrested there in 2022. The UAE refused to extradite them. They are still in Dubai today. $3.2 billion taken. Nobody has gone to prison. 💀🇿🇦🇮🇳

Actually, we don’t have to.

Africans don't have time to rest even after kukufa they work as ancestors

That hair that defies gravity is good hair. We should unlearn that texturism nonsense

Traditional Sámi storehouses, known as njalla or ájtte, which are raised on a single, high tree stump or several to protect food from predators, creating a striking resemblance to the folkloric «hut on chicken legs»

"Only bring the bare necessities to this expedition" "What about my dog's giant gramophone?":

Notice how quickly all that bullshit about liberating Iranians disappeared, and now it's all about bombing them back to the Stone Age, destroying their bridges and universities, poisoning their air and water, and stealing their oil.

A policeman stops traffic to let a mother cat carry her kitten across the road. Circa 1925.

This picture is so sick !! She really took the Ghana flag with her 🥺

Iran is on a civilising mission.

and when we’re talking about idgaf mindsets in figure skating, let’s not forget mf princess surya bonaly.

India and Indonesia are setting the pace; using natural materials like stone and wood, with strong landscape integration. This is the direction for serious tropical design.

Venus

Next time you want to crash out, remember that Elijah wanted to die and God told him to eat and take a nap. You should try that.

International Space Captures Breathtaking Pink Moon Over Indonesian Skies

Mozambique has paid its $701 million debt to the IMF.

🚨 BIG BREAKING Donald Trump is reportedly dead, according to several sources close to the President.

BREAKING: Speculation is rising that Donald Trump is at Walter Reed Medical Center.