Weekend 577.1
(1) Four good documentaries: Atari: Game OverSpecial When Lit: A Pinball DocumentaryThe Bug: Life and Times of the People’s Car30 Bikes: The Story of Homestead Bicycles (2) Finished my ATARI® Continue Reading →
Month: July 2023
Weekend 577.0 (README.TXT)
Blog maintenance this weekend as we get closer to the 20th Anniversary of Limestone Roof on August 21st. (1) On Museums and Windows (The Imaginative Conservative) “So a knowing eye Continue Reading →
ATARI® Retro Box
Inspired by the ART OF ATARI® and Sim Train World 3 to create some original retro box artwork. I think something related to Kingdom Hearts is next. Atari brings a Continue Reading →
Weekend 576.0
“One realizes oneself only one piece at a time.” — Marcel Proust, The Fugitive Palisades Park by the Counting Crows “The future sounds so crazyWe all heard that song beforeTomorrow’s Continue Reading →
Weekend 575.0
(1) More quotes from On Modernism’s Ruins: The Architecture of “Building Stories” and Lost Buildings by Daniel Worden: “For Samuelson, as for Ware, history is present through objects, and the Continue Reading →
Weekend 574.0
I got starry-eyed on the coaster rideAndy said, “Man, I need a break from the world outsideThese days, my life just careens through a pinball machineI could do so much Continue Reading →
Anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles
Railfan, train buff, railway enthusiast, railway buff, trainspotter, or ferroequinologist? Watch ‘Railways for Ever’ (1970) by Sir John BetjemanVisit the National Railway Museum in YorkFind ‘Waterloo Station’ (1967) by Terence Continue Reading →
Weekend 573.1 (Earthly Pilgrimage)
These were sophisticated refinements of symbolism, but the religious dimensions of bridges and bridge-building were accessible even to the unlettered. Many bridges had small hermitage chapels built on or by Continue Reading →
Weekend 573.0
Artists specialize in designs. God is the greatest artist of all. This is evident in nature, but also in the designs that He has for His creatures. He has a Continue Reading →