Incredible Vintage Photographs From The Gibson Archives Of Ships Wrecked On British Coasts
1874, Minnehaha: St Mary’s, Isle of Scilly
The Gibson family’s photographs of shipwrecks were taken in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Four generations of the Gibson family (1872 to 1997) photographed over 200 wrecks along the coasts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in south England. The Gibsons also compiled telegraph messages of the human and mercantile cost of ships running aground off the hazardous coast. Some of these are also featured below. The Royal Museums Greenwich bought the family’s work for £122,500 ($158,000). Continue reading »
Green Leaves Powered Writer’s Shed By Matt Gibson Architecture + Design
Tiny shed designed for a writer by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design, located in Melbourne, Australia. Continue reading »
Gibson Girls: The Sexiest Women Of All Time
The Gibson Girl began appearing in the 1890s and was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness portrayed by the satirical pen-and-ink illustrations of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th century in the United States and Canada. The artist saw his creation as representing the composite of “thousands of American girls.” The Gibson girl’s neck was thin and her hair piled high upon her head in the contemporary bouffant, pompadour, and chignon fashions. Continue reading »
Seren Gibson Outtakes for Nuts Magazine
When 25-year-old Seren Gibson was enrolled in media studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London she got herself into major debt because of tuition… and clothing expenses. Naturally the Welsh bombshell turned to modeling to pay the bills and it seems to have been a very wise decision. Continue reading »
