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		<title>Hidden Cell Phone Towers?  Try To Beat This One.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times has a photo essay about cell phone towers being cleverly disguised as palm trees. I think the best thing about Emily Shur&#8217;s photo essay is its title:  Nature Calls. But come on, I&#8217;ve got this one beat.  For years, my parents in Medford, Oregon have had a church down the street with a cross that doubles as a cell phone tower&#8230;or cell phone tower that doubles as a cross.  However you choose to view it. According to Hi-Tech Composite Structures, the company that built the cross: This cross at a church in Medford is doubling as a cell tower. Verizon Wireless approached the First Christian Church and the congregation agreed. So the church got permission from the city and built a new cross that connects people&#8217;s faith and their phone calls. The church receives a monthly stipend from Verizon, which parishioners say will allow them to do things they could not otherwise afford.]]></description>
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		<title>American Suburbs As Cultural Trope:  Any Juice Left?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I read an Associated Press assessment of how the American suburbs are no longer &#8220;your father&#8217;s suburbs of the 1950s and 1960s&#8221; and have become educated communities with vibrant arts scenes, and where Brazilian grocers and Vietnamese nail salons reside joyfully next to one another. Civic leaders in the city of Shawnee and county of Johnson Kansas are planning a National Museum of Suburban History. Naturally, this leads to wild speculation.  Wise-ass commenters at Gawker provide some of the funniest takes on what this Museum of Suburban History might look like: &#8220;Au Bon painkillers&#8221; &#8220;The grinning, waving fireman from the beginning of Blue Velvet&#8220; &#8220;The last decent high schools in America&#8221; And my favorite, &#8220;a desk with a guy from Countrywide Mortgage approving 12-year-old museumgoers for $600,000 balloon mortgages.&#8221; I wonder if there is any more juice left in this cultural trope.  In order to experience the glee of tearing something down, you need to have something to tear down. A Very Short List&#8230; In film, American Beauty, The Ice Storm, and Blue Velvet showed how the American suburbs, perfect and placid on the outside, are crumbling and corrupt inside. In literature, anything from John Cheever, anything from Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubber Tanks and U.S. Army&#8217;s 23rd Special Troops</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great book called Secret Soldiers:  How a Troupe of American Artists, Designers, and Sonic Wizards Won World War II&#8217;s Battle of Deception Against the Germans is about&#8230;well, just that.  It covers the U.S. Army&#8217;s 23rd Special Troops and how they waged surreptitious &#8220;battles&#8221; against the Germans using deceptive techniques. These techniques were sometimes as simple and time-tested as camouflage.  Other techniques involved creating the impression of battles with carefully orchestrated sound effects. But one thing always stands out:  those inflatable rubber tanks.  As the book puts it: In pitch dark, often in rain or snow, they would inflate each dummy as close to the desired position as they could, use muscle power to finish the setup, stake it down against wind, and them camouflage it.  There was an art to making a fake tank appear to be a real, hidden tank&#8211;especially in the dark, when it was impossible to stand back and eyeball the setup to determine if it looked real and also remained just visible enough to be spotted by an alert enemy. It was a delicate business, because they could not camouflage the tank too well.  Yet if the tank were too visible, it would arouse the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disneyland Main Street:  Fake, Well-Done, Increasingly Insignificant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most prominent, yet ignored, features of Disneyland is its Main Street. Even though thousands of people walk through Main Street every day, it is vastly ignored.  Too bad, because Main Street is one of the best features of Disneyland. The main elevations for Main Street were drawn up by a former art director at 20th Century Fox named Marvin Davis. In 1953, Davis produced drawings for the Main Street buildings that would eventually become the core of Disneyland. Most of these buildings are either two or three stories with mansard roofs and false fronts.  This is the architecture of many small towns from the turn of the 20th century. Sources of Inspiration for Disneyland Main Street It is often said that the Main Street of Disneyland, and perhaps the entire concept of hearkening back to some nostalgic idea of the past, is based on Walt Disney&#8217;s memories of growing up in Marceline, Missouri. While this may be true, it is worth noting that much of the inspiration came from other artists and art directors. One of the Disney art directors, Harper Goff, contributed additional pencil drawings that expanded Main Street’s size and looked remarkably like the downtown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Volcano Redoubt&#8221; &#8211; Short Movie about You Only Live Twice Set by Ken Adam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Volcano Redoubt in You Only Live Twice (Film &#8211; 1967)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The true face of the James Bond series, at least throughout the Sixties and Seventies, isn&#8217;t Sean Connery.  It&#8217;s a German-born set designer named Ken Adam. Born in Berlin in 1921, trained as an architect in London, Adam&#8217;s hand has influenced film style through movies such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Ipcress File, Goldfinger, Dr. Strangelove, and countless others.  But his greatest, or at least his most costly, achievement was the volcano redoubt in the 5th offering of the Bond series:  You Only Live Twice. From Fleming&#8217;s Pen to Pinewood In the movie version, James Bond infiltrates evil villain Blofeld&#8217;s secret hideaway located inside of a hollowed-out volcano in Japan.  Complete with a sliding door on top. Published in 1964, Ian Fleming&#8217;s novel had nothing of the sort.  It wasn&#8217;t a volcano, and it wasn&#8217;t Blofeld&#8217;s.  It was a castle that belonged to a Doctor Shatterhand.  In the novel, Bond views the castle: &#8230;the soaring black-and-gold pile reared monstrously over him, and the diminishing curved roofs of the storeys were like vast bat-wings against the stars. Clearly, Adam and film director Lewis Gilbert had to come up with something that would better appeal to late-Sixties sensibilities.  Something bigger.  Something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fake White House in Suburban Maryland &#8211;  James J. Rowley Training Center</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2009/06/fake-white-house-in-suburban-maryland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an April 5, 1982 TIME magazine article, it was mentioned that a fake White House and Blair House (the little auxiliary house across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House) were going to be built in Beltsville, Maryland: Thomas Jefferson, the architect President, designed parts of the White House. Now with Ronald Reagan, the thespian President, there are plans to build a movie-set White House in the Maryland suburbs. The Secret Service plans to put up the mock White House (and a false-front Blair House, the nearby VIP guest quarters) so that its burgeoning presidential security force can properly learn the particulars of the presidential mansion. With 3,000 recruits being trained this year, maneuvers are difficult to conduct around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Explains Special Agent Mary Ann Gordon: &#8220;It&#8217;s better if you know the lay of the land.&#8221; The new project at the Secret Service&#8217;s training center in Beltsville, Md., may not be finished for years. Nor will a full-scale chimera come cheap. The Hollywood White House is budgeted at $381,000—just about as much as it cost to build the original 182 years ago. Pulling up a map on Microsoft&#8217;s Bing search engine, I find this Secret Service training area&#8211;it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matterhorn &#8211; Disneyland June 14, 1959</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say right off the bat that it&#8217;s not the &#8220;Matterhorn.&#8221;  Official term for it was &#8220;Matterhorn Bobsleds, because the included roller coaster was a big deal.  Such a big deal:  the first steel roller coaster in the world. But we&#8217;re less interested in the bobsleds than in the mountain itself&#8211;a 147 foot fake mountain rising out of long-disappeared Southern California orange groves.  The snow, according to John Hench in Designing Disney, is an &#8220;astonishingly realistic silvery-white blue-shadowed snow.&#8221;  The designers nudged the peak to make it a bit more lop-sided than the original, creating more of a shadow effect on the side of the Disney mountain.  The &#8220;real&#8221; Matterhorn is 14,700 feet, which makes the Disney version about 1/10th the size of the original. Before the Matterhorn The Matterhorn (let&#8217;s just call it that) began as a 20-foot mound of cast-off construction dirt.  Walt Disney eventually sculpted the mound to make it more attractive and called it Holiday Hill.  But still his imagination couldn&#8217;t rest.  After a 1958 trip to Zermatt, Switzerland to observe filming of the Disney movie Third Man on the Mountain, Disney came up with the idea of building a scale replica in Anaheim. Building the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fake Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fake Iraq, by Maria Schriber.]]></description>
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