Cumulus

Quotes…


Edison "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
Thomas A. Edison

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson

Pascal "Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

'An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.'
Repoman

Sobchak “You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in ‘Nam’ of course.”
Walter Sobchak

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Berenson "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
Bernard Berenson

"The best is the enemy of the good."
Voltaire

King "The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
Stephen King

Bacon "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
Sir Francis Bacon

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby

Army "You will not rise to the occasion, you will sink to the level of your training."
US Army

Pascal "I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
Fred Allen

'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pascal 'I am a Doctor, not a Bricklayer'
Doctor McCoy

'A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.'
Segal's Law

Army 'In command and out of control.'
US Army

'It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.'
Abraham Lincoln

Army 'If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.'
George S. Patton

'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'
Lewis Carroll

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
A. J. Liebling

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
William Gibson

Color Motion Pictures… 1922


Made in 1922 at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It was another 13 years before a feature film arrived in color. This is some of the earliest color motion pictures that you will ever see.

Source: Kodak


Fear Mongers

Great Editorial:

Whenever America faces her toughest challenges, you can always count on the right to be there. Sowing hate, stoking fear. So it’s no surprise that in the midst of a great economic catastrophe, the right would search for scapegoats instead of answers. And so we have the fabricated crisis of the “Mosque at Ground Zero.”

Leave aside the fact that it’s not a mosque and it’s not at Ground Zero. This is really about hate and fear, the right’s old friends.

For the last 45 years, at least, no matter who the Republican candidate has been, hate and fear were really at the top of the ticket.

Recall that in 1968, Richard Nixon won the presidency by stoking fear of Negroes and hippies. The vaunted Southern Strategy of the Republican Party was at its core a campaign of fear. What a ride it’s had.

It’s no longer fashionable to be officially afraid of blacks, but there is no shortage of substitutes. Who is the right afraid of now?

Source: Market Watch


Conscious is the Operative Word

“Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.”

Victor Papanek


Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon LAPV

It is a sign of our times.
Features include a diesel engine, a payload of 1.3 tons, a steel body, a mine deflector plate, a tire inflation system, and all kinds of other paramilitary BS. It is a great look for middle America and all those returning GI’s.

Source: Uncrate


20 Foot Long Lego Yamato

Why this was built?..I have no idea. 100,000 lego bricks.

1960 from 1939


Philppe Stark on Buildings

“Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.”
Philppe Stark