Muscularity and Humility: From 1935 to 1968
Popular Mechanics April 1935. It doesn’t get much better than this. I could write a dissertation about the Popular Mechanics style circa […]
Author: Lee Wallender
Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.
Faux Sixties Humility: Charlie Brown vs. Gen. Montgomery
How to find that exact apex of U.S. culture? Let’s go a little farther out, bracketing it with two extreme points, one […]
Kahn, Khan, and Thermonuclear War
This is more about words than it is about nuclear war. But it’s trivia that has been lodged in my brain for […]
Where Is the Missing $3 Million From the Lost Hawaii Clipper?
It’s strange enough that a boat-plane with $3,000,000 in cash would go missing. It’s also strange that it would be so underreported. […]
PanAm Yankee Clipper Cutaway Drawing, ca 1930s
This cutaway drawing shows the PanAm Yankee Clipper (B-314), which was built by Boeing on the base of an XB-15 bomber […]
POM Juice and the Vietnam War
POM pomegranate juice has become popular due to research about the health benefits of pomegranates (it might help with erectile disfunction) and […]
Frank Soltesz, King of Cutaway Drawings
Not just cutaway drawings, but king of practically all other areas of commercial illustration through the 1930s-1960s, it seems. Soltesz’ life is […]
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 […]
Ranch House Cutaway Drawing, 1956
I love this kind of house cutaway. Unlike one of our hotel cutaways that had the front end removed, this type of […]
Forced Perspective at Disneyland’s Main Street: How Does It Work?
Forced perspective is one of those common photographic illusions. Let’s say you go to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and position your […]