Weekend 213.0 (Arrietty)
My one sentence review of Arrietty. “Arrietty is adorable, diminutive, and special and the last scene features a tea house with stained glass windows.” I can’t draft anything that isn’t Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Disney
Weekend 212.1
(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. Continue Reading →
Weekend 212.0 (“time stays around us like pools of color”)
(1) The Pursuit of Presence (WSJ) “All of his poems are inextricably linked to the places where they were written. For much of his adult life, Mr. Bonnefoy spent his Continue Reading →
Christmas 2011
Just back from Austin… (1) China’s Abandoned ‘Wonderland’ (1a) Pictures of the new Fantasyland at Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom (2) Go analog at Lomography [@lomography]! (3) Frankincense threatened by Continue Reading →
Weekend 206.0
(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: Continue Reading →
Weekend 205.0
(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) Continue Reading →
Miniatures
“The passion for tiny things–and miniatures were as popular among ordinary dads and secretaries as they were with royalty–is explained by the customary reaction to these dollhouses for grownups. How Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving 2011
(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 Continue Reading →
Weekend 202.0
(1) Great quote from a commenter on NRO: My point is that here’s a guy who might be amenable to a pro-business conversion, if someone would explain it to him, Continue Reading →
Weekend 200.1
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 Continue Reading →