Too Many Ideas - Archive for August, 2015
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Review
Thursday, August 27th, 2015This film is everything that The Man from UNCLE wasn’t last week. Its grounded in the franchise that its grown out of and has a clear respect for the original source even if much of the audience won’t have seen the 60s original. We kick off with an action sequence that has more to do […]
Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015As with last weeks photograph of the Lewis Building entrance this is another picture that slipped through the net. The imposing Anglican Cathedral in 2010.
1920 New England Road Trip
Monday, August 24th, 2015I’ve just added The Ideal Road Trip a 1920 driving tour of New England to my Trail of Cthulhu resources page. I’ve assembled the scans of the out of copyright book into a PDF for ease of reading and printing. I’ve also done a rather rought and ready job of assembling two maps in the […]
The Man from UNCLE Movie Review
Saturday, August 22nd, 2015The Man from UNCLE opens strong with a nice sequence set in Berlin – a bit Funeral in Berlin. It then strings together a series of well executed scenes mixing thriller and action to a climax. And then it tacks on a second climax. And then it tacks on a foundation story for UNCLE suggesting […]
Lewis Building, Main Entrance, Liverpool
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015Digging around on my website I found this picture, uploaded but never posted of the entrance to the Lewis Building, Liverpool, taken back in 2010.
A second set of 1930s Film Star Photos
Tuesday, August 18th, 2015I’ve added a second set of 1930s film star photos to my Trail of Cthulhu resources page. Lots of them handy for NPC portraits.
Pocket Junk and a little Light Reorganising
Friday, August 14th, 2015I’ve been moving some of my pages round over the last few days to try and make some of them a little less buried away. So all the pages that used to be under other peoples’ games are now just under games. I’ve also merged two blog posts about pocket junk into one and made […]
Three Graces at Night
Wednesday, August 12th, 2015Another photograph of the projections onto the three graces during One Magnificent City in May.
Gaming the Heist Movies
Monday, August 10th, 2015You’re Only Supposed to Blow the Bloody Doors Off appeared in Valkyrie Quarterly issue 25. I’m posting the original article online but I plan on adding to it and expanding it.
Oriel Chambers
Wednesday, August 5th, 2015The Oriel Chambers by Peter Elis completed in 1864 was the first building anywhere in the world to feature a metal framed glass curtain wall. It and 16 Cook Street are the only known building by Elis.