Weekend 665.1
(1) Entrance Building (Flickr) Continental’s Big City HO kits were a short line of vintage injection-molded plastic structure kits for model railroads (HO scale, 1:87), produced in the late 1950s Continue Reading →
Weekend 665.0 (Shark-Bodied, Triple-Tailed Ship)
“And I come to the fields and spacious palaces of my memory, where are the treasures of innumerable images brought into it from things of all sorts perceived by the Continue Reading →
The Crown Beneath the Waves Project
“Good design is good business.”Collaborating with AI on this project and world-building at a torrid pace. It’s a brave new world for creators. (1) Finding and Losing Train Culture (The Continue Reading →
Weekend 664.0 (Football Edition)
(1) Survival to spotlight: How MLS built a more than 30-year run to 2026 World Cup with risks, a plan and hope (CBS Sports) (2) I Visited Britain’s Most Miserable Continue Reading →
Weekend 663.1 (…falling down a spiral, destination unknown)
I’ve been using ChatGPT this weekend to revisit Playmobil365. There’s a beautiful book on my desk called Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth by Catherine McIlwaine and AI is giving me Continue Reading →
Weekend 663.0
(1) Art Is the Signature of Man (The Imaginative Conservative)
Revisiting Playmobil365 I
I always intended to come back to this project at some point. When I initially posted the photos, I had stories for many of them, but nothing fleshed out. I Continue Reading →
The Business of Sports
(1) An era may be ending as Bridgeport Islanders face reported move (Greater Long Island) “One part of sports that often gets overlooked is that it is a business,” said Continue Reading →
The Hinge
“He took the title Emperor not because it was higher, but because it did not pretend the work was finished. While he crossed the sea, Amelie stood in his place, Continue Reading →
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland: Hero or Villain?
(1) A quote from The Brothers York: An English Tragedy: “Back in I483, Northumberland’s military might had been instrumental in Richard’s rise to power. But, with Richard refusing to hand Continue Reading →