#20th Century Ltd.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Ad for the 20th Century Limited by the New York Central RR from the February 1946 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.

Photo: tias.com

[disneytva]

The talented people at Laughing Place gave a look to the Disney booth at Lightbox Expo featuring Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Disney Television Animation, Marvel Studios, 20th Television Animation, LucasFilm Animation and Walt Disney Imagineering

Walt Disney Animation Studios

-Zootopia

-Moana

-Encanto

Pixar Animation Studios

-Inside Out

-Monsters Inc

Disney Television Animation

-Phineas And Ferb

-The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse

-Big City Greens

-Primos

Marvel Studios

-Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

-X-Men 97

Lucasfilm Animation

-Star Wars: The Clone Wars

-Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi 

-Star Wars: The Bad Batch

20th Television Animation

-Family Guy

-American Dad

Walt Disney Imagineering

ILM Immersive

-Toy Story Land

-Zootopia - Shangai Disneyland

-Star Wars Galaxy's Edge

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

This week we present some more non-Roman type from the 1908 type specimen book Some Specimens of the Roman, Oriental, and Foreign Types Now in Use in the Offices of William Clowes & Sons, Limited, published at the Clowes head office in London. Clowes was founded as a printing company in 1803 by William Clowes in London. By the early 1820s, Clowes became a pioneer in the use of steam-powered printing in England, and by mid-century William Clowes & Sons was one of the largest printing companies in the world, and is still in operation today. This specimen book presents all the fonts in use by the company at the turn of the 20th century.

View another post of non-Roman type from William Clowes & Sons.

View our other Typography Tuesday posts.

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Conroy took up several board positions, becoming a director, then in 1994 chairman, of Howard Smith Ltd, chairman of the Federal Airports Corporation and a member of various inquiries.

"Westpac: The Bank That Broke the Bank" - Edna Carew

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Jim Goldman, in 1989 managing director of Westpac Financial Services Group Ltd. With WFSG, Westpac was well on track to become more than a bank – to be a diversified international financial services group.

"Westpac: The Bank That Broke the Bank" - Edna Carew

[itsreaditandwow2]

And only through me can you master the dramatic rotating panning shot. Oooh!

🌌 Ross John Fearnley (The Unusual Suspect) ⚔️

[centuriespast]

A mask fashioned in the 20th century by Toussian communities in the West African country Burkina Faso that will be on display in Toledo next month.

Credit…Vincent Girier Dufournier/2024 Christie’s Images Ltd.

[fromthedust]

vintage corkscrew (two views) - brass & steel - 3"x 2½"x 5/8" - mid-20th century

In January 1933 the Pearson-Page-Jewsbury Co. Ltd. of Birmingham, England registered a design for a pair of terrier dogs as a corkscrew. The worm in the original design was somewhat more refined and heftier than the simple coil-type worm in this example, which suggests that this (pictured) example is a less-expensive knock-off (or re-strike) of the original Pearson-Page design.

[carloswartersson]

I'm huge fan of Star Wars!

Star Wars belongs to The Walt Disney Company, 20th Century Fox (20th Century Studios), Warner Bros. Pictures and Lucasfilm Ltd.

[imanibadillo]

Cushions

Synthetic fabric, clear vinyl

24" x 24" x 26"

2024

Experimental sculpture depicting a series of couch cushions turned flotation devices. Fabricated for Kelley-Ann Lindo's "Residue" exhibition at SPACES.

Encompassing both the Oracle and Gund Galleries, Residue consists of nearly 30 works ranging from sculpture, prints, textiles, and video. Exploring the artist's family history and hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, Residue brings into question the excavation of memory, mining personal archives, colonial echoes in the Caribbean, and the tensions between domestic interiors and architectural facades. The exhibition’s title repositions the term “residue” to cherish what remains rather than the negative connotations of tarnished or stained. The “residue” becomes a compass to help navigate the path forward.

The colors of the Oracle Gallery evoke commonly used house paint in Jamaica, specifically, those manufactured locally by Berger Paints Jamaica Ltd. — one of the largest monopolies on the island — which has its “colourful beginnings in 1760” and has operated in Jamaica since the mid-20th century. Designed to be affordable and durable, the “Magicote” line of colors offers a limited palette, resulting in color pairings that may seem odd outside of the Carribean.

The tapestries, textiles, and hair brushes evoke the intimacy of the domestic interior. The repeated use of imagery suggests a kind of personal iconography: portraits of loved ones, horses, and athleticism can be seen throughout the galleries. The artist’s father, grandfather, and uncle appear in multiple works based on a photographic reference, which remains some of the only images Lindo has left of her family. In exploring what has been lost in the family archives, a narrative of immigration, nostalgia, and collective memories unfolds.

[disneytva]

D23 Brazil 2024 Releases Event Floor Map

The floor map has been released for the upcoming D23 Brazil event, revealing that there will be a booth for Disney Parks & Experiences.

D23 Brazil takes place from November 8-10, 2024, in São Paulo. The schedule of panels and presentations has not been released, so it’s unknown if there are any parks-related events happening at this time.

It looks like there will be two presentation stages and a store in addition to the booths. At the back left of the map, we can see the Disney Moments stage, and at the back right of the floor layout is Arena D23. The D23 Store can be seen at the front left. Other booths, or pavilions, represented in the map appear to include:

Disney Experiences

Radio Disney

Pixar

Marvel Studios

Star Wars

Walt Disney Studios (Mufasa: The Lion King)

Walt Disney Animation Studios (Moana 2)

ESPN (soccer ball)

The Simpsons/Star (donut)

Percy Jackson And The Olympians/ Disney Branded Television

National Geographic

Disney+

Hey Disney, Bob Iger and Ayo Davis just a suggestion, you could greenlit Pedro Eboli and Mark Satterthwaite - Disney Channel series on this event..... just saying. (The concept art below ISN'T from this NDA Disney show, it's a pitch concept exercise by Eboli to get an idea on the overall style and humor that will have that NDA Disney show.)

[mote-historie]

Norman Parkinson, The Art of Travel, British Vogue, May 1951.

“The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin’s bullet,” the photographer Norman Parkinson once said, “or it can be the lotion of the heart.” Parks, as he is often called, was a leading figure in shaping the image of 20th-century fashion. After apprenticing with royal court photographers Speaight and Sons Ltd., he spent the rest of his life working at leading fashion magazines, including Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, where he photographed subjects ranging from the candy-colored ensembles of Dior’s New Look to the bold style of the 1970s supermodel Jerry Hall. A frequent collaborator of Grace Coddington, Parkinson pushed the limits of fashion photography by traveling to far-flung destinations and by infusing his work with an irreverent dose of British humor. (x)

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But the verdict of most in Westpac involved with the issue would appear to be that whatever went wrong in PPL in late 1986 and into early 1987 was due to incompetence rather that crookedness.

"Westpac: The Bank That Broke the Bank" - Edna Carew

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In May 1992 Frank Conroy wrote a 'comfort' letter on behalf of Rob Douglass:

To whom it may concern

As managing director of Westpac, I write to clarify certain matters which pertain to the reputation of Mr R.H.V Douglass and arise out of his position as managing director of Partnership Pacific Limited ('PPL'), a wholly owned subsidiary of the bank.

The bank employed Mr Douglass between May 1983 and December 1986 as general manager, merchant banking. One of his duties was to take up the position of managing director of PPL from late 1984. That role involved responsibility for the seven divisions of PPL. The divisions reported to Mr Douglass through the general manager of PPL. The board of directors of PPL met on a monthly basis. It consisted of senior Westpac personnel, the chairman being the then deputy managing director of Westpac.

Mr Douglass had the ultimate responsibility within PPL for a foreign currency product which involved the management of clients' foreign currency exposures and was in vogue throughout the banking community during the 1980s. As is now well known, banks and their clients had difficulties in coping with the market environment which developed after deregulation of exchange controls in 1983 and gave rise to extraordinary volatility of the Australian dollar. PPL experienced its own internal difficulties, both with staff and computer systems. In 1985, Mr Douglass engaged the bank's solicitors, Allen Allen & Hemsley, to advise on the procedures to be established and documentation.

In 1987, the bank asked Allen Allen & Hemsley to carry out a review of the foreign currency product marketed by PPL. The result of the initial review is reported in what later became known as the 'Westpac Letters'. It is wrong that Mr Douglass has suffered as a result of being named in these 'Westpac Letters'. I believe that Mr Douglass, in his administration of PPL, acted as a reasonable person of integrity could be expected to have acted in the current state of knowledge of the market. The opinions of Mr Douglass and his version of events were not available to the author of the 'Westpac Letters', but have been made available to me. They cause me to think that the wholly negative assessment of Mr Douglass's performance in relation to the foreign currency product presented in the 'Westpac Letters' is not warranted.

It is my earnest wish, both personally and on behalf of the bank, that Mr Douglass should continue his career free from any negative associations arising out of his time with the bank or PPL.

"Westpac: The Bank That Broke the Bank" - Edna Carew

[itsreaditandwow2]

Did Michael Jordan just go number two? 'Cause that was some bullshit.

Ross John Fearnley (The Unusual Suspect)

[solarpunkbusiness]

You’ve heard of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Shell Plc, BP Plc, TotalEnergies Se, ConocoPhillips and Eni SpA?

How about Tongwei Co., GCL Technology Holdings Ltd., Xinte Energy Co., Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Trina Solar Co., JA Solar Technology Co., and Jinko Solar Co.?

If the former names are familiar giants and the latter obscure, you might want to rethink how you look at the companies that provide the world with energy. On a reasonable accounting of things, the latter are just as significant — if not more so — than the powerhouses of petroleum.

That’s a remarkable shift. Around the middle of the 20th century, the predecessors of the major international oil companies attained such power that they were nicknamed the Seven Sisters, a group of energy producers with such global scope and influence that they could make or break governments. It took a wave of nationalizations and the 1973 oil crisis to end that model. A further disruption is now waiting in the wings, thanks to the unstoppable rise of China’s solar power sector.

A solar panel sold by Longi in 2024 will be generating electricity for decades. Most carry 25-year warranties. Oil and gas sold this year, however, will almost all be used up in a matter of months. If you look at the long-term flow of energy into the global economy that’s crystallized with each solar cell produced, it’s many times what’s being provided by Big Oil.