Ephemeral
e·phem·er·al
/əˈfem(ə)rəl/
adjective
lasting for a very short time.
Disneyland, 1963
This is a stub that is part of my ongoing efforts to digitize old family slides. I recently found this group of nine photos of Disneyland taken back in 1963.
Dismaland
In July of 2015, I was sitting in a hotel room in Melbourne, Australia, watching the news, as I prepared to go out for the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, when I saw news confirming that Banksy was building Dismaland.
Drone footage displayed the tattered castle and the tweaked tractor trailer. Right then and there, I decided I was going to go
At Home With Monsters
Guillermo Del Toro makes movies that make money, and so, Guillermo Del Toro makes money, and when you make money, you can start collecting things, and so, Guillermo Del Toro did that. He collected the hell out of things from Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, and action films, along with a trove of related art and literary works, and he then proceeded to create a retreat for himself in California called Bleak House in Southern California which he filled with the stuff.
The Creature Effects Shop StudioADI
When I was 12, I attended a showbiz expo in LA where one of the exhibitors was Cinefex Magazine. Their current issue showcased the work of two incredibly talented effects artists, Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. and their company Amalgamated Dynamics Inc.’s work on David Fincher’s Alien3. I still have that issue of Cinefex and have been fans of their exceptional practical effects work since. In 2018, they opened their facility for a small tour and I got to see firsthand the scope of their incredible work in person, including pieces that figured prominently in Alien3. It was a pilgrimage to say the least and an experience I’ll never forget.
The MovieLand Wax Museum
In celebration of Flashback Monday (which isn’t a thing) I wanted to look back on the final days of the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, California.
The Daft Punk Pop Up
About a year ago, the electronic music group Daft Punk opened a pop up shop at Maxfield Gallery in Los Angeles. In addition to offering ridiculous apparel that only trust fund hypebeasts would be caught dead in, the pop up also served as a museum, displaying an astonishing array of artifacts from the duo’s creative output over the past 25 years.
