(1) Fortune Cookie: “Appearance can be deceiving. Remember endurance makes gold.” (2) Happytime Pizza???? The Disney Feature Animation Bldg. includes a 1980s style arcade created by the studio’s set builders. The “pod” was built to inspire the animators working on Wreck-It Ralph Disney’s 52nd full-length animated feature. (2a) The arcade from the Disney Feature Animated [...]
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Yeah. I’ve added a category for tires/tyres because of my obsession with vulcanized rubber. Photographs of tires/tyres for me are like hi-res food shots to foodies. I watched Tokyo Story last night and Noriko [Setsuko Hara] was employed by the Yoneyama Trading Company whose business was tires apparently (?). Speaking of pron; here is some [...]
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(1) Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 (2) Fantastic hyperrealistic oil paintings by Steve Mills (3) Ways to Manage an Image (WSJ) (3a) The Art and Soul of Disney (4) Jean Nouvel: The Pritzker-winning French architect checks in on hotels, carousels and burning down the house (WSJ) (5) Nintendo Introduces Free Airport Hotspots For 3DS Users (5a) [...]
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(1) A Colorful Countdown to Christmas: A collection of Advent calendar cards sparks up Germany’s holiday season (2) The Secret World of Arrietty by Studio Ghibli Playmobil on Flickr (3) Ship off the coast of France (3a) Modernized castle (4) FedEx Ad: Enchanted Forest (5) Quotes The British Foreign Office characterized “Salazar the man” as [...]
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(1) Playmofan (2) The Original Disneyland Hotel (2a) Disneyland Hotel interior lobby area (3) Christmas and winter photoshop styles (4) “We are writing a primer on planning for the same people which probably is an indication that the American industrialists are replacing the intellectual liberal in whatever his role is as defender of the intangible [...]
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Someone once asked Goethe what color he liked best. “I like rainbows,” he said. That’s what I love about architecture: If it’s good, it’s about every color in the spectrum of life; if it’s bad, the colors fade away entirely. From the ruins of Byzantium to the streets of New York, from the peaked roof [...]
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“But if flight represents freedom, reinvention, and self-renewal—and barring all of that escape—then the terminal itself has evolved into something resembling a destination…They’re amnesiac places with no future and no past, only a continual present offering the same choices—flights, duty-free, and fast food—day after day after day. The reason we mourn that vanished era so [...]
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(1) Morris Mini Cooper S (Flickr) (2) The Terrifying Truth About New Technology: Do robots and Twitter make you nervous? Growing old is what you’re really afraid of (3) Kumho Tires 2009 Commercial “Missing Something?” (4) “…paving tarmac was never enough. There needed to be some kind of catalyst present, whether it’s the Warfare State, [...]
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I was finally able to ride this morning. It was blue and crispy and the five boroughs approach. I also have a new route this season which takes me away from the beach BUT it’s a little more challenging. I have three to-day from the Wall Street Journal and one fabulous quote (and one a [...]
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(1) In My Home Office: Maira Kalman (WSJ) – My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. (2) Microchips Are Old Hat. Can Tweets Be Far Behind? (WSJ) Related (2a) The Pencil (YouTube) (3) White Tulip
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