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.

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

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 spouse so that he/she is pretending to hold up the tower with their hand.  That is a type of forced perspective. But another way that forced perspective is used is to give objects… Continue reading Forced Perspective at Disneyland’s Main Street: How Does It Work?

Hindenburg “A” Deck Walkthrough Video

Video Script The Hindenburg‘s “A” deck was the place where most everything happened–eating, dining, sleeping, lounging, sightseeing. Dining Area As we walk up the stairs from the “B” Deck, we go towards the Dining Area.  There were only a few tables in the Dining area, and meals were served in shifts, much on a train. … Continue reading Hindenburg “A” Deck Walkthrough Video

Office Ventilation Cutaway, ca 1940s

One of the great things about the old Fortune magazine was how it often treated extremely mundane subjects with great wonder and awe.  Not only would they profile the high-level anticts of John D. Rockefeller, William Randolph Hearst, and Henry Ford, but they would take things down to the opposite end of the spectrum and… Continue reading Office Ventilation Cutaway, ca 1940s