 Hey, kids... collect 'em all...!!!
posted: May 14, 2009
On June 7th, the US Postal Service will dedicate this stamp, my fourteenth (if you don't count versions with different colors or denominations) and the sixth in this series of animals. Kind of an odd series since they are for all sorts of amounts. The last was postcard rate and this is... two ounces?
Anyway, it's lots of fun to line the different species up on an envelope, I highly recommend it..!! 24 comments |
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Sculpey Play
posted: April 28, 2009
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My take on the world right now.... I'm left holding the steamy stuff. Ha, ha...!
Tennis in Grand Central
posted: April 20, 2009
New York Magazine published an article decades ago stating that there were two tennis courts in Grand Central Terminal. Ever since, I have wanted to see them. The thirty-year lease held by Donald Trump is going to be over in another month or so. Reports are that the area will be used as a break room for Metro-North employees. Others say the lease will be taken by someone else at a more competitive rate (Trump was paying $4 a square foot). Whatever the fate of the courts, fortune struck and I was asked to sub at a doubles game there this past Saturday.
The courts are on the third floor and sad to say they are pretty unimpressive in their current condition, but this online article by the Municipal Arts Society tells of some previous uses of the space that are. CBS studios taped Edward R. Murrow's news broadcasts, including the McCarthy series, in this space. There once was an artificial ski slope there, too. 
This isn't exactly how it is. (Artistic license at work.)
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The interior of the tennis club was so drab that I didn't take any photos, plus there wasn't time. On the way out I snapped a picture of the adjacent staircase. Opposite that was an eye level view of one of the chandeliers, its glamour undiminished by the chicken wire embedded in the window. These were from my iPhone, so please forgive the exposures. Folded Paper
posted: April 16, 2009
Inspired by Leo's article on his own paper toy, I dug out some paper folded things from what was once becoming a collection. Not my best photography session... it's hard to see the dimension here, but the card folds out to have a backdrop of buildings (far away orangish ones) with the larger Radio City complex in lighter colors closer to the frame.
This flat cocoa "tin" opens to reveal a breakfast table set with dishes and a tiny tin of the same cocoa dead center.
The car here was from a French paper toy page titled Garage from the mid-1930's. I didn't want to cut up the original print, so I scanned and printed it out... and then misplaced the page.
Another French car cut-out book.
And an airplane.
This was put out by Kellog's when the Queen Mary was launched. Sorry, the photo is a little confusing with the Titanic smokestacks behind. ** Warning: this depiction is NOT historically accurate.**
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