Lilly Belle
Just as he loved to play soda jerk, he loved to play engineer. He would don an engineer’s cap and a plaid shirt, straddle the tender behind the engine, which Continue Reading →
Month: August 2011
Weekend 194.1
“Perhaps the hard truth was this: New Yorkers had never come to really love Penn Station. Charles Follen McKim, an architect rankled by the very skyscrapers, crowds, and cacophony that Continue Reading →
Deconstructing 194X, Part I of X
Quote 1 …only revolutions offer up spontaneous futures like 194X, and usually at the cost of great memory loss – heads must roll in order to usher in Véndemiaire, the Continue Reading →
Weekend 194.0
(1) Kay Kamen is on a list of people I would like to interview. (posthumously of course) Through all their adversity, all the economic ups and downs, they (Walt and Continue Reading →
D23 Post Script
Just returned from D23 in Anaheim and it was AWESOME. Here were some of the highlights: (1) Pavilions: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (Carousel of Projects), Disney Interactive Media Group Continue Reading →
194X
Planning in this sense is analogous to historical fiction, but unlike the backward-looking literary genre, its clipped narrative creates an anticipatory endpoint. It romances the nostalgic future, a potential urban Continue Reading →
Weekend 193.1
To put this in plain terms, Americans and their institutions have tended to choose the self-interest and individualism of the free market over the nationalized model more prevalent in postwar Continue Reading →
Weekend 193.0 (Planes, Trains and Automobiles)
(1) Window of the World (2) FIAT Drive In (3) Ryōmō Line (3a) East Japan Railway Company (3b) Iwafune Station (3c) Tribute to Makoto Shinkai (Part III) (4) Tony Parsons Continue Reading →