Tag Archives: the wizard of oz

ephemeral tomorrows

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) In the spring of 1939, the World’s Fair opens in New York City—at Flushing Meadows, Queens to be exact, also the site of a later Fair in 1965. The 1939 … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged 1939 World's Fair, Art Deco design, Dawn of a New Day 1939 World's Fair, gemloid company n.y., henry dreyfuss, j. andrew fouilhoux, the wizard of oz, trylon and perisphere structures, wallace harrison | Leave a comment

listening to the weather on the jersey shore

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Dave

Good men in a storm. Our relationship with the weather is in general ambivalent, but obsessional. The revenge of nature; the risk of apocalytic violence reducing all to rubble, the end of time and a nihilistic promise of a spanking … Continue reading →