Photograph of day : Gregory Colbert

Today let’s discover an extraordinary talented and adventurous photograph : Gregory Colbert. What is absolutely astonishing with him is his sense of poetry, it is obvious with his project called : Ashes and Snow. Indeed the theme in this project is the relation between human and animals. it’s an ongoing project comprised of photographic artworks,…

Billy the kid, the Old West outlaw and folk hero

Henry McCarty (1859 – 1881), better known as Billy the Kid. He was a gunman who is famous because he participated in the Lincoln County War. He also became an outlaw in the Old West. It is said that he killed between 8 to more than 20 men; never the less what is certain is that his first…

Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse

Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (1901 – 1966) was an American business magnate, cartoonist, animator, voice actor, and film producer. The great-grandfather of Walt Disney was a descendant of Robert d’Isigny, a French who came in England with William the Conqueror in 1066. From D’Isigny it became Disney in english. Disney passion for drawing came in 1906…

From Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel to Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was the founder of the French Chanel brand. Chanel, 37 years old Her mother died in 1895 when she was only 12. Channel’s father placed her and her 2 sisters in an orphanage where she developed her mythomania, indeed she invented a life concerning…

The Inventor of Bulb Light, Joseph Swan

Joseph Wilson Swan born in 1828 died in 1914 is the inventor of the incandescent light bulb. He demonstrated the light bulb in 1878 but received a patent only in 1880. His house in England was the first to be lit by light bulb in the world. The first public building to be lit…

Charles Baudelaire, by Étienne Carjat circa 1862.

Born in 1821 and died in 1967 at 46 years old. Charles Beaudelaire lost his father at the age of 6. He had an agitated life. Indeed, he failed in high school, was even expelled from college. After that he was addicted to drugs, and had major debts, so many that he lived in more…

The Oldest book of the world

This is the Oldest Book of the world, The Etruscan book of gold, written 2673 years ago. Etruscans were an ancient group who moved from Lydia (now in Turkey) to central Italy nearly 3 thousand years ago, which gave the name of the city Toscana. The book was made for the funeral of an aristocrat…

Edgar Allan Poe, and the mystery of his death

Edgar Allan Poe, 40 years old, “Annie” daguerreotype, 1849, the year he died. Intelligent and feroce at the same time, Poe wasn’t appreciated by everyone. His friends were often shocked by his clothes excessively neat and his excellent elocution. He officially died on 7th of October 1849 due to a “congestion of the brain”. But the cause…

Victo Hugo and rebelion

Victor Hugo, Jersey in 1853, By Auguste Vacquerie Born in 1802, Hugo was a successful writer of his time and a political personality. His strong opposition to Napoleon III and his “coup d’Etat”offered him popularity in France but at a price of an exile.