Leaf Through This

God bless Taschen books. Besides for providing the world with some of the most phenomenal fashion publications of all time, their website has this mindblowingly good feature where you can leaf through some of their ginormous tomes one page at a time. It is beyond wonderful. Here, give it a try with the amazing new 576 page Valentino: A Grand Italian Epic:

So yeah, I miss the feel of the paper on my fingertips, and the smell of the photo pages, and the sounds they make when they turn, but I'll get over it.

International Laundry Day

As I've posted before, I quite enjoy the sights and smells of laundry day. That combined with my ridiculously unending curiosity led me to ask this question: What is laundry day like in other countries? To find out I did some Sunday investigating. Here's a peak into the laundry rooms of some of the far corners of the world:

In Mumbai the hand washing operation is staggering:

They really beat the dirt out of those clothes.

Here's a drive by view of laundry time on the street in China:



Boys in Africa do some bucket washing near a watering hole:



In Iceland, white laundry blows in the wind.



Apparently, in Japan you hang your laundry on your roof with your children on your head.


Sun drying saves energy in Spain:

Such gorgeous colors in this video.

Finally, if you are Uncle Buck you do laundry in the microwave.

I'm pretty sure he would do that in any country.