This is one of the big shops, there was a bit of animation, pretty nice. I wonder what happens to the snowflakes, for i am sure it will be different next year. What do you do with 40 giant snowflakes? There were queus to see the other windows at some of the other stores, and barriers erected for the purpose.
Monday, January 23, 2006
New York, Rockefeller Centre
I was told the story of Rockefeller Plaza recently, but it didn;t have a good ending becasue the guy who told it just loved the sound of his own voice, and didn;t think about the composition of the story, boo!
So, John D Reckefeller built the central Art Deco tower and complez starting in 1929, he was going to build a huge theater, but the MET pulled out when the depression struck, but JDR continued employing many men for a long time. It contins the US's largest indoor theater, Radio City Music Hall, and the headquarters of NBC, SNL is also performed there. The Christmas tree was first erected by grateful construction workers during a particularly hard year. They stole it from woods near where Will now lives!
So, John D Reckefeller built the central Art Deco tower and complez starting in 1929, he was going to build a huge theater, but the MET pulled out when the depression struck, but JDR continued employing many men for a long time. It contins the US's largest indoor theater, Radio City Music Hall, and the headquarters of NBC, SNL is also performed there. The Christmas tree was first erected by grateful construction workers during a particularly hard year. They stole it from woods near where Will now lives!
Homer C. Godfrey
Bricks, millions of them, and the ruler of their domain. Behold! Will, king of bricks! and brick related products and services. From hand made ones at a dollar twenty a pop to the ugly uniform ones at much less each. Also featured is Janae, Will's girlfriend and Kris, who thinks bricks are just fine.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
the beach in connecticut and Buffy
On our way to New York we spent the night with Buffys Brother, in Connecticut, this is the beach just down the road. He and his lovley grilfriend Jenae were wonderful hosts. I am looking out over the atlantic ocean, Europe is roughly that way.
The rising Bridge, Duluth
As the title suggests this bridge rises, one of the more extravagant solutions to getting a bridge out of the way of ships, but a wonderful landmark none the less. The river it traverses was frozen at the time of our visit, rendering the bridge temporarily un-necessary, but not diminishing the ownderful play of shadows through the steelwork, which I was trying to capture through the windscreen of a moving Pontiac Bonneville, wonderfult where life takes you.
Duncan the Newfi
We took Buffys Gram to visit her daughter andson in Law, Buffys aunt and uncle, they are involved in UMD, such that we had dinner with a wonderful spectrum of the staff of the university, and some other fun charachters, the 'leftovers' were superb. In the picture is Duncan, the Newfoundland dog, who as you can clearly see is huge, and nice, and very interested in wildlife, an interest he shears with his owners father, who is wonderfully placed to see all sorts of creatures, long may he continue. The weather was cold, and about as cold as I have ever been, ever in my life, it was a revelation, but not at all unpleasent, as a swedish fitness instructor once told me, 'there is no bad weather, only bad cloths' this was shortly before she told me my shorts were slightly too short and I was over-exposed in quite another fashion.
Jess, in a supermarket
They say lifestyle is a matrix of choices, and the choices are bewildering here, so much effort put into every brand, and logo, and package, and all presented so well it seems wrong to disturb the perfect array of pomegranet juices, you can see where Andreas Gursky gets his inspiration from.
Happy Honeka!
We had a lovely meal, and lit the Menora, a modern trendy menora, not the traditional shape, which was a surprise to me, a Honeka newbie, but I was touched by the prayers, which were good, after the meal we played video games and watched TV while the girls chatted, ah.. the life of men.
Jess Jill and Buffy
Surprisingly it was not Jess, or jill, (both pregnant here) that made the massive leap forward for the 'Bring Buffy Home' Campaign but a trip to Target, where she was heard to exclaim "Its so cheap....and so BIG!" well done target. This was a whiel into the trip, sorry these are not in order.
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