(1) “What other commute can compete with the sights of the limestone Landwasser Viaduct and the Piz Bernina peak?” – MONOCLE, February 2012 (2) Kibun is NO Toast but he’s squishy nonetheless (2a) PRICELESS: “Botan! Plushie mode. This is one of Botan’s seven tricks. When she’s like this people will think you’re a plushie enthusiast [...]
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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) 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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Found a pamphlet from the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair at the Housatonic Model Railroad Club / Fairfield Historical Society train show this morning. From the pamphlet Retracing The Growth of a Nation As American railroading has grown so has the nation. Steel rails have been the veritable backbone of our country in its development from [...]
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(1) Magnetic Color Cubes® by The Orb Factory (2) Festival of colors (Design You Trust) (3) Birth by Sleep (KH 358/2) (3a) Disney Epic Mickey Digicomics (4) Television: Pan Am Promo Trailer (4a) Community without propinquity: Communities without a sense of place formed by professional, familial, and recreation ties, bound by avocation instead of location. [...]
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(1) Model Train Collector’s One Track Mind (2) Now Arriving: A Giant Toy-Train Offering The Greenes want the collection to go to a single buyer who will leave it intact. They can also reject a bid in favor of someone who pledges to build a museum for the collection, which they say is their preference. [...]
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(1) An exceptional PLAYMOBIL display at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA. Arranging PLAYMOBIL tyres in a pile makes me a bit giddy. Daran habe ich gar nicht gedacht. I got a serious thing for PLAYMOBIL tyres. (2) “We dreamed dreams and the dreams all came true. We stimulated the world. We did our [...]
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Right on Kalidor. I like the Maison de campagne and the Caravane.
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(1) Villa Sibi Modernist Dollhouse (2) A-FRAME (3) Xtreamliner Cab (4) Domus Stone Scale Structures (5) Anker Construction Kit (6) ArcheToys
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Neat. The Fisher Price airplane is featured in the AT&T BlackBerry Torch commercial. Some related links… (1) History of the Fisher-Price Airplane (2) An original Limestone Roof project On the periphery… (3) Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age (4) Information Overload Is Nothing New (Wall Street Journal [...]
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