Weekend 240.0

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Winston Smith

(1) Playmobil Collectors Club launches worldwide (1a) The official PLAYMOBIL Collectors Club! (2) A Day Alone With Other People (WSJ)

Weekend 214.0 (Almost)

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Winston Smith

(1) The scan is from The Art of the The Secret World of Arrietty. I can’t scan the entire book BUT will add the abandoned gazebo (not tea house) in Continue Reading →

Weekend 212.1

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Winston Smith

(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 209.1 (Tires/Tyres)

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Winston Smith

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 Continue Reading →

Weekend 206.0

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Winston Smith

(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

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Winston Smith

(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 →

Thanksgiving 2011

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Winston Smith

(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 190.1

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Winston Smith

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 Continue Reading →

Weekend 187.0

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Winston Smith

“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 Continue Reading →

Weekend 186.0

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Winston Smith

(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 Continue Reading →

Limestone Roof

Our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust.

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