The Off Topic Topic

[Ed Anger]

Last day of school for the kids this school year. Yay I guess.

When do they go back?  In Canuckistan, summer holidays are usually from the end of June to Labour Day.

August 23rd. Just enough time to swelter in Ohio's summer heat in poorly air conditioned schools.

[Grey Fox]

Long summer!

[Oexmelin]

Reading more about Charging Bull and how it came about and what it meant for the artist, I think fearless girl is misplaced in her current location.

If you read the same article that I did (which, granted, made some good points), there is also a good rebuke floating around the tubes, i.e., the fact that fearless girl has been commissioned doesn't really undermine its actual power as art, and the fact that Charging Bull was independent doesn't make it a celebration of a certain form of aggressive capitalism, nor less dependent upon its own surroundings (i.e., Wall Street). 

[HVC]

Reading more about Charging Bull and how it came about and what it meant for the artist, I think fearless girl is misplaced in her current location.

Wasn't she a marketing or PR thing to start with?

[garbon]

Reading more about Charging Bull and how it came about and what it meant for the artist, I think fearless girl is misplaced in her current location.

If you read the same article that I did (which, granted, made some good points), there is also a good rebuke floating around the tubes, i.e., the fact that fearless girl has been commissioned doesn't really undermine its actual power as art, and the fact that Charging Bull was independent doesn't make it a celebration of a certain form of aggressive capitalism, nor less dependent upon its own surroundings (i.e., Wall Street). 

Yeah, I agree with that. Still, I think if feel better if it co-opted the bull by having its own bull with the girl somewhere else at this point.

[mongers]

Apparently part of the interior of a 1970s Pan Am 747.

[grumbler]

Apparently part of the interior of a 1970s Pan Am 747.

Yeah, that "hump" at the top was originally a first-class passengers' lounge, not seating.

[mongers]

Apparently part of the interior of a 1970s Pan Am 747.

.....

Yeah, that "hump" at the top was originally a first-class passengers' lounge, not seating.

I'm not convinced it's an actual interior, maybe a pre-production mock-up shot, but it gives the feel of some air travel in the 70s.

[grumbler]

I'm not convinced it's an actual interior, maybe a pre-production mock-up shot, but it gives the feel of some air travel in the 70s.

I am sure that that is a set (the lighting is too good), but that's what the lounges looked like, from actual pictures I have seen.  I don't know how they decided which passengers got to use it at any given time, and I think seats were installed pretty quickly (and maybe were always seats in domestic flight versions).

I will say that, from my memories of flying in the 70s, coach class had sufficient leg room, unlike today's planes.

[mongers]

I'm not convinced it's an actual interior, maybe a pre-production mock-up shot, but it gives the feel of some air travel in the 70s.

I am sure that that is a set (the lighting is too good), but that's what the lounges looked like, from actual pictures I have seen.  I don't know how they decided which passengers got to use it at any given time, and I think seats were installed pretty quickly (and maybe were always seats in domestic flight versions).

I will say that, from my memories of flying in the 70s, coach class had sufficient leg room, unlike today's planes.

Googling for PAN-AM photos is a window onto a rather different world, I doubt the some of the youngster here would believe it.   

[CountDeMoney]

I'm not convinced it's an actual interior, maybe a pre-production mock-up shot, but it gives the feel of some air travel in the 70s.

BBC and Smithsonian Channel has a great documentary on the development of the 747, with actual in-flight footage from the 70s.

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/747-the-jumbo-revolution-sneak-peek/31201

Best part:  when the first test crew was ready to take the first bare-bones frame wheels up, not all of them were convinced it was going to get off the ground. 

[CountDeMoney]

Googling for PAN-AM photos is a window onto a rather different world, I doubt the some of the youngster here would believe it.   

We flew to California in 1975 on a Pan Am 707;  looking at those photos, yeah, it's pretty much what you'd expect when you combine "Pan Am" and "1975".

[mongers]

Googling for PAN-AM photos is a window onto a rather different world, I doubt the some of the youngster here would believe it.   

We flew to California in 1975 on a Pan Am 707;  looking at those photos, yeah, it's pretty much what you'd expect when you combine "Pan Am" and "1975".

 

Oh and money, thanks for the above link. 

[Josquius]

I'm on the train to work and talking on WhatsApp to a  friend

Them : I'm at work now. But waiting for my mac to update before I can start. New Sierra thing.

... Now I can't help but think in this case "huh? You're playing games at work?"

Damn you apple. Damn you.

[Liep]

Is Sierra still making games?