Weekend 181.0
(1) Knuffingen Airport, World’s Largest Miniature Airport, Goes On Display In Germany (2) Sherwin-Williams “Daybreak” Commercial 2011 (3) Felipe Neves Photography (4) Riding the Rails of Locomotive Maps (WSJ) (5) Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Books
Weekend 177.0
(1) Best feet forward: Fairfield forum for cyclists, walkers (Fairifeld Citizen) (2) The Sleepless Elite: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done (Wall Street Continue Reading →
Weekend 176.0 (the Bilbao Effect)
(1) Found – The Comics Of Chris Ware: Drawing Is A Way Of Thinking I just finished Makeshift Metropolis by Witold Rybczynski so the timing of this “find” is serendipitous. Continue Reading →
Weekend 175.2
“Decaying and dilapidated architecture resonates as loss, as evidence of the irreversible passage of time, yet architectural ruins emanate past grandeur.” — Daniel Worden, On Modernism’s Ruins: The Architecture of Continue Reading →
Weekend 175.0
“One realizes oneself only one piece at a time.” — Marcel Proust, The Fugitive (1) Christo Without Jeanne-Claude – Where monuments pretend to endure, their work suggests the fleeting nature Continue Reading →
Weekend 172.0 (Aerotropolis Edition)
Ready…Set…BUILD! (1) I am recycling a link from INSTAPUNDIT about photo-blogging an abandoned theme park because it reminds me of Spirited Away. (2) Cities of the Sky – From Dubai Continue Reading →
Miniatures
“The trains were also a bridgehead of a much larger scheme that was organizing itself in Walt Disney’s mind. At least as early as 1947 he had begun collecting miniatures—furniture, Continue Reading →
Weekend 171.1
(1) Stained glass in an 18th century library (2) Faith is an attitude; it is saying “Yes” when reason might well suggest “No.” Yet reason itself is without tone and Continue Reading →
Weekend 162.0
The blinking of its ruby lights could been seen at dusk from Windsor Castle, the terminal’s forms giving shape to the promises of modernity. – Alain de Botton (1) Airport Continue Reading →
Resplendent
The blogger with many visions™ is thawing. I just finished The Fighting Temeraire by Sam Willis. This book is more than a dry historical reprint; it is a graphic re-telling Continue Reading →