The East Cut, San Francisco: When a PR Agency Renames Your Neighborhood

Imagine that the name of your neighborhood, which has been established for over a century, doesn’t sit well with a local business association. To drum up more interest in the area–to clean things up and make it spiffy–they change the name. That’s what has happened in San Francisco, where an area was recently rebranded “The East… Continue reading The East Cut, San Francisco: When a PR Agency Renames Your Neighborhood

Incredibly High Guiyang City Skyscraper Fake Waterfall

A new waterfall cascading down the side of a skyscraper in China’s Guiyang City falls an amazing 108 meters (or 354 feet). This is nearly the same height as Zambia’s famous Victoria Falls (354 feet) and higher than Lower Yosemite Falls (320 feet) and Yosemite’s Vernal Fall (318 feet). Costing about 800 yuan ($118) per… Continue reading Incredibly High Guiyang City Skyscraper Fake Waterfall

Alex Prager’s Cinematic Dreamspaces

Alex Prager Compulsion

I will not name the well-established artist who I’m sure Alex Prager’s work is often compared to, but I will say that, like that artist, she does spin off of vintage cinematic ideas.  As MOMA’s bio says, she takes cues from Douglas Sirk and Alfred Hitchcock. Great access point to her work, but she takes it… Continue reading Alex Prager’s Cinematic Dreamspaces

Disneyland Matterhorn Cutaway, 2012

A nice, recent cutaway drawing of the Matterhorn at the Anaheim, CA Disneyland.  This graphic, from the February 8, 2012, Orange County Register, shows remodels to the Bavarian-influenced concrete “rock.” One of the most notable and largest changes was filling in many of the large openings, including the large one that allowed passage of the… Continue reading Disneyland Matterhorn Cutaway, 2012

Kim Jong Il Houses and Compound

Even to me, it seems funny that you can locate the house of a feared dictator and killer and all-round Bad Boy merely by entering a few coordinates into Google Maps: Coordinates:  39.199569,126.020501 Google Maps