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PhotoDave219

PhotoDave219

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Soarin' Over Pgh said:
Agreed. I'd like to throw mine into the mix...

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Any/All by Jim Korkis. He's long winded, for sure, but has very interesting insights and perspectives on the parks, the business itself, and the people who run/ran it.

I'd put Rolly Crump in this category too, but with a slight hesitation.

Also, I'd like to add:

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It's not a read, per say, but it serves as a fascinating look at what can happen when art and design collide. Maybe I'm biased, because I'm an art junkie and I love (LOVE LOVE LOVE) this book, but the attention to detail is the 'Disney difference' that seems to lack so much as of lately.
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I have those!
 
eastvillage

eastvillage

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Soarin' Over Pgh said:
You will love this book. Buy it from Amazon, it's slightly more affordable. (and preorder the Mary Blair one coming out in a few months as well) It took me a solid week to make it cover to cover through! Buy it, and let's compare notes. :)

By chance, are you a Phish concert poster collector? Their 'official' posters are fantastically detailed and the sold-by-the-artists lot posters are just as cool. My roomie has quite the collection!
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Thanks! Not a Phish fan, but can appreciate good artwork for sure. I love the old Bill Graham Presents posters from the 60s (there have been several exhibitions of these posters at famous museums in Manhattan). They really set the bar for concert posters. I started collecting in the 90s. My first real piece was a limited edition Smashing Pumpkins / Shudder To Think concert poster I found at an Anna Sui boutique in Soho (I actually bought it because I was/am a huge STT fan and finding their name in art like that was/is rare) . Over the years I've added a number of new pieces (mostly alternative/indie rock), including concert artwork by Tara McPherson (I discovered her work at a Harley Davidson concert poster exhibition). She has a bunch up online at: http://www.thecottoncandymachine.com/store/category/Rock Posters/

If I had more money to buy and the space to display (I'm sure you can imagine the space constraints in a NYC apartment), I'd love to really dive into collecting more pieces! At the moment I have dozens of prints/posters/etc. that need proper framing...and that too costs $$$. :)
 
eastvillage

eastvillage

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Soarin' Over Pgh said:
I know that feeling. There's quite a few prints floating around here that need framed but my god is that expensive. I found a cool frame at a thrift store and custom painted it (and resized) to fit my first Phish shows print the star lake '12 print. It's my personal favorite. There's a few disney prints from etsy that I have that also need frames but are strange sizes.

NYC? I'm going there at some point this summer. Let's do lunch!

I wonder if disney cares that people use characters from their movies as their own prints on etsy. Technically...legal?
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I stumbled upon a great framing store in midtown near an office I worked at...they really spend time working with you to find the best combination of mats, frame, etc. to pull and accentuate the colors in the prints. They are the only place I will go to now. But with that quality and care, comes cost.

And..sure! Let me know when you head to the city!
 
Figments Friend

Figments Friend

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Omnispace said:
You got me thinking -- this may be too massive but it was easier to clone the entire building. Fun to consider the possibilities though. ;)

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Ahhhh...now you are talking!
This looks infinitely better then that terribly distracting and out of place high rise condo tower.

Looking at this makes me so wish Disney went this route, but the costs today to *clone* the Contemporary would not be something today*s Disney would want to pay out for.
A shame, as this design still works today and is eyecatching and classy.
 
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crazynakedguy

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I can
Bairstow said:
I've seen multiple versions is why I ask. Some with a teeter-totter and backwards sections, others with drop elements similar to Verbolten or TH13TEEN.
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confirm it's got the drop like verbolten. Last year during grad bash they took us past the building while it was under construction
 
71jason

71jason

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Friday night anecdote making the rounds around the Orlando engineering community:

MagicBands were designed by a woman in Imagineering with a reputation for being able to work miracles once, but then not being able to replicate those miracles on a routine basis under real life conditions. She designed the MB and showed it to whatever corporate higher-ups approved it. Soon after, tho, she quit, leaving everyone else to make sense of the notes she left behind. To this day, Imagineering still has no idea what role half the circuitry in MBs plays.
 
bhg469

bhg469

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71jason said:
Friday night anecdote making the rounds around the Orlando engineering community:

MagicBands were designed by a woman in Imagineering with a reputation for being able to work miracles once, but then not being able to replicate those miracles on a routine basis under real life conditions. She designed the MB and showed it to whatever corporate higher-ups approved it. Soon after, tho, she quit, leaving everyone else to make sense of the notes she left behind. To this day, Imagineering still has no idea what role half the circuitry in MBs plays.
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With the abundance of rfid systems in use in phones, retail, and transportation I find it hard to believe they cannot find someone who can figure things out. Granted it may be a matter of all the systems working together which she may have never fully had working.. with the incompetence at play here I wouldn't be shocked if that story was true.
 
the.dreamfinder

the.dreamfinder

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TowerOfTerror said:
The important news is Universal opened up their official blog today. I wonder if we will experience the same level of ineptitude like the DPB.

Take a look at it here: http://blog.universalorlando.com/
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Doubt it. Comcast would never let them waste money like TDO does with The Celebration Place Social Media Cabal. I would imagine this blog is being run by a couple people in UNI PR and they won't post a lot, but when they do it will be for a good reason.
 
danlb_2000

danlb_2000

Premium Member
bhg469 said:
With the abundance of rfid systems in use in phones, retail, and transportation I find it hard to believe they cannot find someone who can figure things out. Granted it may be a matter of all the systems working together which she may have never fully had working.. with the incompetence at play here I wouldn't be shocked if that story was true.
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Yeah, I have to agree with this, what the band itself does is pretty straight forward and is not really something new, it's the systems that surround it that are complex. Also, I believe the band was developed by Synapse Product Development not my Disney directly.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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danlb_2000 said:
Yeah, I have to agree with this, what the band itself does is pretty straight forward and is not really something new, it's the systems that surround it that are complex. Also, I believe the band was developed by Synapse Product Development not my Disney directly.
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Stop it!!!! It's no where near as much fun to stomp on a company named Synapse as it is to beat on Disney.
 

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