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
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.
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 building cutaway has the roof popped off. Almost as if a giant lifted it off and left everything else intact. This great cutaway comes from the October 1956 Popular Mechanics–always an abundant source… Continue reading Ranch House Cutaway Drawing, 1956
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