That's Good Spam: May 2014

Monday, May 26, 2014

Disney Parks Blog - Banner Headers, part 2

In part one, way at the bottom following all 70 wallpaper images, I gave the collection a Disneyanadocious rating of only 7 out of 10. What does it take for them to earn a perfect 10 you may wonder? Well to start with, how about more of the most iconic structures in the parks: castles?

Here are 23 more headers precisely on that subject:

– SLEEPING BEAUTY CASTLE, DISNEYLAND –

- Disneyland Resort, CA -

– CINDERELLA CASTLE, MAGIC KINGDOM –

- Walt Disney World, FL -

– EXTRAS –

- Tokyo Disneyland -

- Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty (1959 Animated Feature Film) -

- Something from EPCOT -

- Beast’s Castle from Be Our Guest Restaurant, Magic Kingdom -

- Walt Disney World -

Disneyanadocious rating so far (8/10): D D D D D D D D - -

[read part 1: Standard Banners]

[read part 3: Cars Land]

[read part 4: Star Wars Weekends]

[read part 5: Disney’s Art of Animation Resort]

[read part 6: New Fantasyland, WDW]

[read part 7: Fireworks]

[read part 8: Disney Animal Kingdom]

[read part 9: Anniversaries]
[read part 10: 2014 Events]

All images ©Disney Enterprises.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Solar Freaking Roadways - Why Are We Not Funding This?

posted on Loiter.co
http://loiter.co/v/why-are-we-not-funding-this-2/

Interlocking hexagonal solar panel units with LED’s, which if replace all the roadways, parking lot, and paved public surfaces could supply 3x the nation’s current energy consumption!

[read the indiegogo proposal]
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways

Invented by engineering couple Scott and Julie Brusaw.
http://solarroadways.com/about.shtml

Belle

Belle [PG] - Drama

2014 Fox Searchlight Pictures

Directed by Amma Asante

Grade: A-

Up-graded from B.

+1: Cast including Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Dido Elizabeth Belle), Tom Wilkinson (Lord Mansfield).

par: Sister relationship.

par: Historical context.

+1: Inspirational story.

par: Costumes (Anushia Nieradzik) and Production Design (Simon Bowles)

[synopsis on IMDB]

Disney Parks Blog - Banner Headers, part 1

If you’re any kind of Disneyphile and a fan of the Disney theme parks, then I don’t need to tell you about Disney Parks Blog, the official blog for Disneyland Resort, Walt Disney World and Disney Cruise Line. It simply fulfills its social media role of bringing official and semi-official news about what it claims.

By its archive, the blog has been active for nearly five years since September 2009. Perhaps it is the beautiful professional photography, and not the latest Disney Parks news, that has you returning to the blog, enticing you to get up and go there, “there” being one of the parks, attractions, cruise ships or special events covered by its dedicated team of blog authors and contributors.

At some point, I became mesmerized by the variety of photographs cropped and used for the banner header, which randomly changes with every page refresh. Some times the headers are themed to special events like yesterday’s 24-hour “Rock Your Disney Side” celebration, or the opening of new attractions like the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, or Star Wars Weekends. After near on five years, I bet that there have been over two-hundred different header images, many of which I’ve missed or just haven’t had the luck to see by the grace of the randomizer.

So taken by the images have I been that I put them up as computer display wallpapers, completed with captions. Here, I share what appears to be the main set of 70, which share the aesthetic of having round corners.

Enjoy.

–DISNEYLAND (The Original), DISNEYLAND RESORT—