#ford changed elements of his home just so bill could have more access to his life?? i guess??

[dvsrlwvdd]

ok i MIGHT make a comic/write better about this later but i need you guys to see the vision

so yk how in the series a lot of the windows (and other elements) of the mystery shack are bill-shaped??

...and you know how before it turned into the mystery shack that was Ford's home? that he would add/redesign things to constantly???

the man was so obsessed with his "muse" that he literally surrounded himself with his image for when he wouldn't be asleep.

[wendip-week]

What If: Quicksand

It had been roughly seven years since that fateful summer in Gravity Falls when the second-generation of the appropriately-named Mystery Twins visited the town for the first time. For the next couple of summers, Dipper and Mabel Pines would visit their true-home at their Grunkle Stan’s infamous Mystery Shack and have plenty of grand and minor adventures.

A few years after the events of Bill Cipher being annihilated, Dipper and Mabel would come to an arrangement with their parents, allowing them to live and continue their education in Gravity Falls (an arrangement the two had kind of wished they had thought of on their first summer). They could live with the people and weird-elements that really helped them to thrive. After graduating high-school, the extended-family would continue their fun, dangerous adventures while pursuing their futures. Mabel would become a growing social-media personality. Dipper would finally begin his full-time apprenticeship under his great-uncle Ford. But before that, he’d make another endeavor, arguably harder than his pursuit of paranormal-science: Dipper would ask out his best friend and long-time crush, Wendy.

Yes, she shot him down when he was twelve, making it clear she wanted a platonic-relationship. However, over the years, things began to change. Puberty had been good to Dipper, making him much taller and far less scrawny than he had been. At the age of sixteen, having grown closer to the girl he never completely got over, he finally found the confidence to officially ask her on a real date. That time, she agreed. They’d been an item since.

Now, Dipper and Mabel were nineteen, Wendy was twenty-two, Soos was twenty-nine, and the Stans were old (they refused to give an exact-age at this point). Mabel was an online-college student and making a few bucks online, as well, while Dipper was in the middle of his studies. Wendy was enjoying being out of college, having gotten an Associate’s Degree in General Studies, and free to offer her assistance to the Pines-family whenever adventure called (or anything fun in general).

Currently, the family was doing a little of both. After the events of Weirdmageddon, Stan and Ford took to traveling across the globe and investigating paranormal mysteries outside of the valley surrounding Gravity Falls. If at all possible, they liked to travel by sea, like they’d planned on since they were young. Besides their investigations, it also presented opportunities to look for lost treasure or check out sea-babes (though they were cautious to avoid Sirens…).

Through some contacts of theirs, Stan and Ford had found out of a small, unmarked pocket of weirdness out somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. While they typically took a couple months of planning, this seemed doable without such extra preparations, especially since they had quite a few extra hands who were more than willing to come along. Of course, some only volunteered after they found out a certain arrangement had been made.

One enemy-turned-ally of the Mystery Crew (and a member of the failed Zodiac) was Pacifica Northwest, rich heiress of the semi-disgraced Northwest-family. After graduating high-school, she was immediately called to help her family restore their currently-meager fortune. Inexperienced though she was, she was still a Northwest, so she had some innate-talent for finding lucrative business-opportunities. In this case, she found out about this little trip from her ex-boyfriend, Dipper Pines, with whom she was still on good terms. Knowing that there was a small island in that area that was going to be explored, Pacifica saw an opportunity.

Her family had been forced to liquidate a number of assets (property, business-shares, etc.) to still live in relative-comfort, invest in the future, and not have to get day-jobs like most of their neighbors. One particular asset was that island that they had originally used as both a summer-home and a potential-means of business (if there was any oil or valuable-minerals). Unfortunately, they had not been able to sell or rent it for some odd reason. Most interested parties never even really got back to them after going to check it out. However, seeing as though she had connections in the form of paranormal-scientists and investigators, she might be able to turn this around.

That’s why the Mystery Crew were currently on an island. Pacifica offered to let them use it as a base-of-operations in exchange for a quick sweep of the area, just to check if there was anything wrong with it. Of course, there was other uses for it. It did, after all, have a beach and a well-furnished house (with plenty of natural power-sources for electric-appliances) not far from it. It would be an opportunity for a mini-vacation for both sets of twins, Wendy, and even Soos, who left the Mystery Shack in the capable-hands of his Abuelita.

  //

  Back at in Gravity Falls, the Mystery Shack was currently open, and boy, was business booming! Melody and her grandmother-in-law were at the register, making sales left-and-right while trying to keep the seemingly endless crowd of customers in order.

“Wow, Abuelita!” Melody stated, handing a customer the Shack’s newest piece of merchandise. “Who would have guessed tourists were such fans of your hand-made doilies?”

“Is gift of mine,” Abuelita replied. “Tomorrow, we sell pot-holders.”

  //

  For Dipper, however, this presented another opportunity…

Now, here they all were, relaxing on a small beach far from human-civilation. Soos was building a sandcastle, or rather, a sand-replica of the Mystery Shack. Stan and Ford were making plans near their anchored boat. Mabel and Wendy were hitting a beach ball back-and-forth in the water (and staying withing reasonable distance, as there was no lifeguards). And Dipper was recording their fun on his phone.

Well, he was mostly video-recording Wendy’s fun. He had always been crazy about her. How could he resist when she was clad in a bikini? After watching her splash a bit, the nerd decided he should probably make it look like he was interested in other things going on (which wasn’t entirely untrue). He came over to Stan and Ford, sporting tropical shirts and sun hats.

“Hey, guys,” Dipper said, pointing the camera to face his great-uncles. “So how are things looking?”

“Great!” Stan replied with a grin. “According to Pointdexter, the source of weirdness might actually be sunken treasure, after all. We’re gonna be rich!”

“Perhaps, Stanley. But bear in mind that we might not yet have the resources to retrieve such an item (if it is, in fact, treasure). It could require a submarine, of all things. And there’s the possibility of it being cursed. However, we can for sure locate it. And depending on the circumstances, even if we can’t clear out the weirdness here right now, we can still establish a safe travel-route for sailors everywhere.”

Stan groaned. “I’m just gonna say that it’s treasure,” he muttered.

After a bit of back-and-forth, Dipper decided he wanted to check out more of his girlfriend, who was laying back on an innertube, floating around with a pair of sunglasses (and an extra coat of sunscreen, considering she was a pale-redhead and a bit easier to burn). Dipper stood back at a reasonable distance, watching and recording. He was so fixated that he didn’t notice a body just beneath the surface of the water approach and slowly rise out of the water.

Before he could sense another presence, the young adventurer suddenly found himself splashed hard from behind. He turned and shouted in surprise: ��MABEL!”

His excitable twin gasped in faux-shock. “My goodness! Do my ears deceive me? Does my doofus-brother realize there’s other people on the island besides him and his not-subtle crush?” she asked with a smirk.

“Mabel, you made me drop my phone!” Dipper said in irritation. He looked around for a second before finally finding it in the water. He groaned, before turning back to Mabel, eyes rather cross. “And she’s my girlfriend. I don’t have to be subtle!” As he said this, he subtly patted the pocket on his trunks, making sure a certain object was still there.

“Yeah, Mabes,” Wendy said, as she approached, now out of her tube. “He doesn’t have to insert how much he loves me under his breath in our conversations. Now he can just say it in his normal voice.” Dipper blushed. “Hey, is your phone okay?”

Dipper looked at his wet phone. “I… think it still works? Oh, better turn off that recording!”

Wendy whistled. “You’re lucky, dude. I so hate waiting for my phones to dry in rice! It takes forever and there’s no guarantee it solves the problem.”

Dipper nodded. “True.”

“Hey, I’m kind of thirsty. Let’s go back to the house. I think we forgot the cooler,” Wendy told her boyfriend.

“Sounds good.” The young-adult couple, leaving Mabel behind. “Hey, I’m still here, you know!”

“Leave them be, Hambone,” Soos said, walking over to Mabel. “Let them enjoy this while they can. One day, they’ll probably be married. And after the honeymoon, it’s work-work-work.”

“… You say this from experience, don’t you?” Mabel asked.

“Yes, I do,” Soos told her. “And it’s totally worth it.”

Mabel just blew a raspberry. “Oh, Soos! That doesn’t make any sense.”

  //

  Sure enough, Dipper and Wendy found the large cooler on the porch. After lugging it to the beach, the two cracked open a couple of cold Pitt Colas.

“Mmm… I pity the rest of the world. They don’t have access to this kind of soda,” Wendy said with a burp. “Excuse me.”

“Tell me about it,” Dipper agreed. ���Of course, the occasional pit inside the can might be a bit of a turn-off for some people.”

The tall redheaded adult shrugged. “Whatever. So, what do you wanna do now?” she asked after finishing her soda.

Dipper smiled. This was his chance. “Want to go on a walk along the beach; just the two of us?”

“That sounds awesome, dude. Let’s just dump our trash first.”

The young couple dropped their now-empty cans into the trash bag the family brought along, and let Stan and Ford know what they were doing.

“Okay, but be careful,” Ford told them. “We haven’t scanned for potential threats like Ms. Northwest requested. Don’t go out too far.”

Wendy nodded. “You got it, Professor Pines. We’ll keep our eyes peeled. Come on, man,” she said, leading Dipper away.

Stan chuckled. “Ah, to be young and in love, then cheated out of your winnings… Think we still got a chance in such a game, Sixer?”

Ford looked at his brother. “I’d say our chances are very slim, Stanley (at least in this dimension). Even more unlikely is the possibility of kids. On the other hand, I don’t think that’s ever stopped you before…”

“Darn right, it hasn’t!”

  //

  Dipper and Wendy walked slowly along the beach’s shoreline, just enjoying the scenery around them, as well as each other’s company.

Wendy sighed. “I tell you, between twelve and fifteen, I would never have seen myself somewhere like this, at best, maybe a dirty, local beach. And between fifteen to eighteen, I could only see myself getting somewhere this nice by running away from home and hopping cars and trains for a while. I love how life surprises us…”

“I know,” Dipper replied, putting his arm around her. “I always imagined myself as an adventurer, but before Gravity Falls, I thought that would just stay a fun daydream. Now here I am, on a mysterious island with my family and the coolest, most-beautiful girl I have ever seen.”

“Oh, dude!” Wendy made a face. “That’s so mushy!”

“Sorry…”

“I didn’t say stop, though,” she said, grinning.

Dipper returned that expression, albeit blushing as he did so. After a moment he got bashful and looked forward. “Man, that is such a beautiful sunset, isn’t it?” he said, trying to change the subject.

“Hold it. Are you going to go with the ‘not as beautiful as you’ line? Okay, as much as I love cheesy romantic-talk in an ironic way, please don’t say that, of all things.”

“I wasn’t going to,” Dipper replied. “Even though it’s true. I was going to say that it reminds me of the moment I first really realized I was crushing on you. It was on the Mystery Shack roof.”

“That sounds about right, dude,” Wendy said thoughtfully. “Points for that line.” Wendy looked at the horizon, with the sun’s reflection across the water, the clouds and light across the sky making resemble an abstract canvas of orange and purple. “It is beautiful, though.” Wendy laid her head on her dork’s shoulder, admiring the view.

“We shouldn’t waste this opportunity,” Dipper said after a few minutes.

“Oh? What did you have in mind?” Wendy responded.

Dipper smiled. “Let’s get some selfies. We want to remember this moment, don’t we?”

“Yeah, let’s do it. And if Tambry reposts it online, practically half-the-world can see us and be totally jealous.”

Dipper pulled his phone back out and turned on the camera. He and Wendy got into position and Dipper started snapping away as they made various poses ranging from classic romance to fun summer-cruise themed ones.

They had just gotten into snuggle position and were about to take another pic when they felt the sand under their feet shift.

Dipper looked down, finding his feet had sunk beneath the sand. “What the-”

The couple let out a yelp as they suddenly began to sink rapidly beneath the sand. They were now up to their knees. It was so quick that Dipper lost his balance and dropped his phone. He was about to fall over into the sinking sand, too. Fortunately, Wendy was there.

“I’ve got you!” she shouted, holding his arm. “What is this? Quicksand?”

“I don’t know! The ground was relatively steady a second ago! I don’t think we moved too much while taking pictures!” he replied, rather worried.

“Dude, can you move your legs?” Wendy asked.

“No, I’m stuck!” He said, wiggling about. “What about you?”

“No good!” she told him. They were now nearly at their waists. “Wait! What if I-?” Wendy reached out (holding onto Dipper to avoid falling and going under), trying grab a stable patch of sand. Everywhere she reached, her hand just sank. “Drat! Dipper, you try!”

The young academic tried what his girlfriend did. He got about the same result. “This isn’t working. I don’t get it! What’s going on here?!”

“I’m what’s going on here!” a deep voice said out of nowhere.

Dipper and Wendy turned and discovered a humanoid-figure rising out of the sand… and was made out of sand, apparently.

“Who the heck are you?” Wendy asked the newcomer.

“Who am I? Why, I’m the Sandman! What else would I be called?”

“The guy who comes when people try to sleep?” Dipper asked.

The two of them, now up to their stomachs in sand, suddenly stopped sinking.

“No! (Why does everyone guess that)? I’m not that Sandman!”

“Oh, so you’re the bad guy from that movie with the Spider-guy, right?” Wendy asked.

“I remember that,” Dipper interjected. “It was like one of our B-movies, but with half-decent effects.”

“I know, right?”

“Yeah. Come to think of it, I wish there’d be a movie or show with the guy with the gas mask. He was a cool hero,” Dipper thought out loud.

“Huh?” Wendy replied. “What’s that got to do with sand?”

“I’m not either of those guys!” the so-called Sandman shouted. “I hide in the sand, waiting for creatures to come to my island. Then I slowly drag them under and feed on them slowly over the course of a thousand years! Of course, I don’t know that it’s a thousand years, but that sounds pretty ominous.”

“So, it’s like that monster from that movie?” Dipper asked.

“The one with the blind worms, dude? As far as PG-13 horror-flicks go, I kind of hate that series.”

“No-no! The scif-fi one. Remember? The third one from the original trilogy?”

“Eh, kind of…?”

“Hey, I’m talking here!” that monster yelled, grabbing their attention again. “Look, bottom-line: I’m the Sandman! I’m gonna suck you into the sand, and I’m gonna eat you slowly! Now, let’s get it over with before you start rambling again.”

Before Dipper and Wendy could respond, they found themselves sinking much faster than before.

“AAAAHHHH!!!” they shouted.

“BLEHEHEHEHEAUGH!!!” the Sandman cackled.

The young man and woman were now at their necks, looking utterly terrified. Dipper turned to look at the love of his life. It was now or never. “Wendy, I was planning on asking you this after we finished taking pictures, but if we happen to survive somehow… WILL YOU MARRY ME?”

“Yes! Dude, yes! I will… if we don’t get eaten, anyway!” Tears were in the girls’ eyes. They were happy tears, mostly.

“Wendy! I love-” Dipper didn’t get to finish his sentence, as they had finally gone under…

“Well, that was fun,” the Sandman said. “Time to sample the fresh stuff.”

      He didn’t get a chance to do so. A concentrated blast of energy suddenly hit the Sandman square in the chest, leaving a gaping hole in his chest.

“Augh!” the Sandman cried out. “Was that from a gun? Those aren’t supposed to hurt me-AUGH!” Another blast hit, taking most of his sandy-shoulder. “Where is that coming fro-?” This time, a heavy-volley of laser-blast hit the Sandman in rapid-succession, reducing him to a pile of sand before he could think of way to escape.

In the distance, an angry Stan and Ford were holding smoking proton-rifles and pistols, waiting for the Sandman to move again. When they saw no sign, Stan shouted back behind himself: “NOW! HURRY!”

Mabel raced past them, holding a shovel tied to a rope. Soos wasn’t far behind. He was holding the majority of said rope. When she got close enough, she threw the shovel into the loose sand where Dipper and Wendy just were. It sank in fairly quickly as Soos approached.

Not long after, he felt a strong tug on the rope and began pulling it back up. After a few hand-over-hands, the shovel came back up. Attached to it was a very dirty Dipper, who was desperately trying to suck in air. A moment later, it was revealed that in his other hand was his redheaded beloved. With one more tug, Soos pulled the gasping and coughing couple from out of the sand-pit.

The two were laid flat on their backs as Stan and Ford approached. Mabel hugged the two of them. “You guys are alive!”

“Yeah… Thanks to you all,” Dipper said between coughs.

“Got that… right,” Wendy added. “How’d you… find us?”

“Didn’t you guys know you were live-streaming?” Mabel asked them.

“Wait, what?” Dipper asked.

“Soos was looking at hilarious cat-videos when he saw you guys post.”

Soos nodded. “Good thing I wasn’t looking at one of the better ones.”

Stan chuckled. “We saw you lovebirds making all kinds of weird poses before you dropped your phone.”

“EEEE!” Mabel squealed. “I’m gonna have a sister soon!”

“And then we saw what might have been the reason nobody ever comes to this island come after you,” Ford added. “Kind of a shame we had to destroy it (or him?); I would have liked to have studied such a creature. I’m just glad my assumption about these guns against it was accurate.”

“Nah. I’m glad he’s gone-for-good. I mean, he was eating people,” Stan replied to his twin.

“Ergh…” Some of the sand started coming together, reforming parts of what vaguely resembled a human.

“AH!” Stan shouted, shooting his laser-pistol in response. The Sandman disintegrated again, and this time, he didn’t reform.

“Uh, back on topic…” Dipper started. “…Since when are we live-streaming?”

Soos brought Dipper his phone. “You still are, dawg,” he said in response.

“Seriously?” Dipper pressed a couple of buttons on his touch screen, only to get no response. “What’s going on?”

“Let me see,” Wendy took Dipper’s phone and tried to fiddle with it. “Oh… Here’s the problem: there’s water behind the screen. It must have actually been messed up after Mabel splashed you earlier.”

Dipper thought for a moment. “… So, when I tried to press the camera-app, it must not have registered right.”

Wendy shrugged. “Could be.”

Ford looked thoughtful for a moment. “Say, Stanley. Didn’t the Sandman say on the video that he devours living people over the course of a thousand years? I think the Northwests have had people on this island over the last half-decade or so. You know what that means?”

Stan groaned. “We have more work to do than a routine-sweep? That’s just great…”

  //

  Back at the beach-house, Dipper and Wendy were cleaned and patched up; now sitting together on the porch.

“Some day, huh?” Wendy asked.

“Tell me about it. It was not how I was hoping the afternoon would go,” Dipper said, shaking his head. “Still up for marrying me? I know it was kind of sudden, but…”

“Dude, I said yes twice. I think I’m sure,” Wendy replied with a smirk.

“Well, in that case…” Dipper reached into his pocket and produced a ring with a large diamond. Bordering the diamond was some kind of stone that resembled flannel.

“Wow… Dip! It’s beautiful! Where did you get this?” Wendy exclaimed.

“The, uh, diamond was from some time-travel adventure Mabel and I had with Blendin. Suffice to say, we’re secretly kind of rich… Oh, and the ring was actually crafted by some goblins that sort of owed me a favor.”

“Well, I love it. And not just because it’s unique.”

“I was hoping you would.”

“By the way, that reminds me…” Wendy punched Dipper on the shoulder.

“Ow! What was that for?” Dipper asked, rubbing his shoulder.

“For choosing a life-or-death situation to propose. I’d prefer a fancy restaurant, personally. It was also for proposing to me on your ex-girlfriend’s island, dude. Did you ever check to see who all saw that live-recording?”

“I… didn’t. Oh, boy…” Dipper rubbed his temple, realizing the worst-case-scenario.

“Ah, cheer up. You still got a fiancé, don’t you? Now, do me a favor and put that ring on my finger.”

“With pleasure.” Dipper took Wendy’s hand and slid it down her ring finger. He looked up, only to get a mouthful of his beautiful bride-to-be’s own mouth.

They stayed like that for a while.

[unitturkey39]

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. As well as Jaguar Landrover lorries with 'Protected' KVM modules. Reducing an automobile key is a reasonably very easy process when an additional working key exists and maybe a little even more time is required if no vehicle key exists in any way. The door lock requires to be decoded in order to get the exact suit and afterwards is continued to reducing the brand-new car key. The majority of vehicle keys have an integrated transponder chip that's utilized to shut off the immobiliser which suggests the key will need to be configured to the cars and truck.

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How much is a new front door UK?

On average, you can expect to pay somewhere between £500-£2500 for a standard front door and somewhere between £2000-£4500 for a custom-made door. If your front door is looking a little bit grimy or faded, then it may not be absolutely necessary to completely switch to a new front door.

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How do you pick a lock on a locked door?

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Tattly Talk: Q&A with Vogue’s Laird Borrelli-Persson

When Vogue called us to talk about a partnership, we said yes, and hung up the phone, high-fived everyone we saw. We eventually pulled ourselves together for a meeting at the Conde Nast offices. When we met Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue.com’s Archive Editor, we realized immediately that she was going to be our brain trust for developing our first collection together to commemorate the magazine’s 125th anniversary. The digital archive is an incredible resource of imagery and information, going back to day one of the magazine. If you’re into fashion, here’s the link and you’re welcome!

Borrelli-Persson sat down with Tattly’s Yng-Ru Chen recently at the Conde Nast library to discuss her work and to review some of the materials from the physical archive. Treat yourself and read on for more Vogue history and beauty.

The Vintage Vogue Collection is available for a limited time to U.S.-based customers. 

YRC: Thank you for sharing your work with Tattly! As the Archive Editor of Vogue.com, you have a unique role of using technology to expand historical knowledge. Can you explain briefly your role in archiving Vogue for the digital archive?

LBP: Sure thing: It’s a topic I never tire of returning to! It was decided that for the magazine’s 120th anniversary that we’d scan every page of every issue and tag them so that the incredible history of Vogue could be accessed by the touch of a button. The end result was a subscription based business-to-business product. There is also a version for libraries; magazine subscribers are able to view a selection of archival issues in addition to those from the current year.

As the subject matter expert, I helped to create the taxonomy we used to tag the pages and helped enhance the data, by adding information that was not printed, such as model names. Some of this information from the old marked copies in the physical archive. These are annotated in ink by hand, presumably by a glove- and hat-wearing former staffer. To me, this was heaven, as the discoveries they yielded were amazing. The most exciting was the revelation that the famous 1926 drawing of a LBD (little black dress), described by Vogue as “The Chanel ‘Ford’--the frock that all the world will wear” was drawn, according to the scribbled attribution, by none other than Mainbocher, an Chicagoan who went to Europe to study opera, lost his voice on the eve of his debut, became an illustrator for French Vogue, and then its editor, before leaving to become a self-taught designer and designing Wallis Simpson’s wedding dress.

YRC: It seems that your academic background set you up perfectly for what you’re doing now. Tell us how you came to work at Vogue?

LBP: I have an undergraduate degree in English literature from Boston College. While there, I had the good fortune to spend a year at Oxford University where I was able to take some art history classes as well, which I loved. When it came time for graduate school, I tried to pinpoint my passions in part by analyzing what I did on my free time. Realizing that my favorite things to do were going to art and fashion exhibitions, and magazines (the latter I read and then cut up filing some articles and images and pasting others into scrapbooks), I settled on the Museum Studies program at FIT, where I was mentored by the generous Dr. Valerie Steele. I analyzed changing styles of fashion writing for my thesis, which was titled “Dressing Up and Talking about It: Fashion Writing inVogue.” After graduation I went to work at the Museum at F.I.T. and, having been introduced to a publisher through Dr. Steele, started writing books, most of which are on another passion--contemporary fashion illustration. After about five years at the museum, I joined the staff at the old Style.com, not long after its launch.

YRC: Did you ever imagine that your career would take you into the world of digital?

LBP: It wasn’t my first thought. This was quite a while ago, in the age of flip phones! The (compulsive) impulse to organize and catalog images held me in good stead, however.

YRC: What is your favorite part of being Archive Editor?

LBP: That’s an easy one to answer: Being able to look at fashion in context of the history of fashion and of Vogue, hopefully in a way that makes it relevant and interesting to our online readers. In my opinion, our archive is one of our unique selling points.

This year, for the magazine’s 125th anniversary, we created a series of fashion by the decade videos, narrated by the stylish and savvy Sarah Jessica Parker. These trace the evolution of fashion as reported in our pages. On a more granular level, being able to expand our knowledge of the magazine’s past, by discovering nuggets of information in a biography, say, or reaching out to talk to past cover models, gives me a thrill. Being able to add an ID where there was none is a small victory. The goal is not to dwell in the past, but to bring it to life; as I see it, the more we are able to enhance our data, the more ways there are for it to intrigue, inform, and inspire readers and researchers today.

YRC: Let’s talk about the history of illustration at Vogue. Nowadays people associate photography with the imagery of the magazine. But illustration was really the driving visual force for many decades. Can you expand on this a bit?

LBP: In relation to illustration, photography is a relatively recent invention. For ages, information about fashion was communicated through fashion plates. (Small dolls were also used.) It wasn’t until around the 1920s that fashion photography, which Horst P. Horst credits publisher Condé Nast with helping to develop, emerged as its own genre. The first color photograph to appear on the cover of Vogue was published in 1932; illustrated covers continued to appear through 1958.  It’s been ages since photography became the primary way to communicate fashion. But, as the artist Mats Gustafson recently told me, drawing “doesn’t compete with the camera, it just adds something totally different.”

YRC: I was so excited to see the Salvador Dalí “Vogue” script [below, the April 1944 cover]. It’s incredible that people such as Dali were Vogue artists. Who were some other prominent illustrators who contributed to Vogue?

LBP: Some of the fine artists who have made work for the magazine are Giorgio de Chirico, Pierre Roy, Marie Laurencin, and Andy Warhol. (More recent contributors include Alex Katz and Francesco Clemente.)  Before the arrival, in the 1910s of a group of French fashion artists associated with the Gazette du Bon Ton and dubbed “Beau Brummels of the Brush,” George Wolfe Plank and Helen Dryden created many of Vogue’s memorable covers. In the ‘teens and twenties, Georges Lenape and Benito were among the most prolific cover artists, later Eric (Carl Erickson) would be. Though they had distinct styles, their subject was one and the same: the now mythical lady of leisure who seemed to have not a care in the world (save the occasional bill).  Supremely elegant she followed the sun, lived in beautiful homes, and was seen at all the right places.

YRC: The lady on a zebra illustration by André E. Marty is one of the most iconic covers. It’s an amazing world of fantasy! What do you know about this work, or about the artist?

LBP: Marty was one of Gazette du Bon Ton set. A Frenchman with a degree in philosophy, he would apply his art to fashion, the theater, books, and interiors.  His was a gentle take on Art Deco, and while he often stuck to a domestic milieu, this was certainly not the case when he drew the adventuress, known as the “Lady on the Zebra.” This stylish and surprising cover inspired an article in the New York Herald Tribune, which Vogue reprinted in its May 1, 1926, because the editorial note explained, the newspaper piece recognized “Vogue’s desire to promote all that is new in art (so long as it is inherently good and has the intangible quality of chic that characterizes all the material in the magazine.” The element of fantasy in fashion is what makes it endlessly fascinating, and here, Marty finds the perfect balance between convention and surprise.

YRC: Claire Avery was another regular contributor. It was interesting to learn that female illustrators were not a rarity during the early days of Vogue. We love that! What are these original illustrations that you’ve pulled? Did they run in the magazine?

LBP: There were many female fashion illustrators connected to the magazine, and their work appeared in feature stories, as spots, and as pattern drawings. Avery, nicknamed “Tassel” by her friends, was an American who studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and would live for a time in France. She was friendly with Edna Wollman Chase, the longest sitting editor of Vogue, who in her memoirs, recalled that Avery “bought Paris clothes when she could afford them and had her shoes made at Hellstern and loved the theater.” Both of these illustrations [pictured above], made for a long-running series on the history of costume, ran in Vogue in 1925. The fellow who looks quite like a Dresden figure is wearing “slim breeches and elaborated coat and gilet” and illustrates the mode of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. The other, showing Georgian style, is of “a great drum-shaped hat” favored by eighteenth-century ladies of style.

YRC: I loved learning from you about the Vogue Girl, the illustrations of women beautifully surrounded by a “V”. What is the story behind this “Girl”?

LBP: The Vogue Girl was the invention of Harry McVickar and she appeared in the magazine’s very first issue encouraging readers to take advantage of a special subscription offer. I don’t know why he dressed her in romantic 18th-century mode—to me she looks like she’s in shepherdess fancy-dress—but the Vogue Girl became a sort of mascot or logo, used on stationery and in publicity. Gale Porter Hoskins reimagined the lady, in color, as a 1909 cover; though Chase counts the second “official” version, as the one drawn by Frank X. Leyendecker in 1911. His version seems to have been inspired in equal parts by Marie Antoinette and an Age of Enlightenment coquette. Georges Lepape is credited with the Vogue Girl’s third iteration. His flapper of 1920 [pictured above], one of my favorite illustrations, wears a headband and a full-skirted robe de style, and she recently made a guest appearance on limited-edition wrapping paper distributed to Vogue VIP members. 

YRC: The digital archive is such an incredible resource. Do you know if the users are primarily fashion-industry types? For example, are they designers doing research for an upcoming collection? Or do you find that the users are just fashion-obsessed Vogue fans?

LBP: Of course I’m biased, but I think almost anyone could find something of interest in the digital archive, be it an old-time ad or an iconic photograph, whether it’s a couture sitting by Irving Penn or a select from Steven Meisel’s “Grunge and Glory” story.  

Among our subscribers are fashion designers, of course, but also industry executives including marketers and merchandisers, ad agencies, retailers, students of fashion and Vogue enthusiasts. It’s possible to search for so many things: the issue matching the month and year of your birth;  an item (miniskirts) or trend (athleisure);  a specific model, designer, photographer; or reference, like the date of the issue in which Dorothy Parker’s famous quip--“Brevity is the soul of lingerie”--appeared. (Answer: October 1, 1916.)

YRC: How does one get access to the digital archive?

LBP: Subscribers can access the past 12 issues of Vogue and selected archival issues; Archive Members can see, and search, everything. The details are here.

YRC: Two last questions! Which Vintage Vogue Tattly is your favorite?

LBP: Claire Avery’s “Blue Stocking” drawing of the woman reading Vogue [pictured above]. I like to think of as my (less harried and longer-haired) alter-ego. Fun fact: the covers Avery drew are real ones—and one shows the Vogue girl.

YRC: If we were to expand on our collaboration, what would you like to see made as Tattly?

LBP: You mentioned the possibility of creating scented Tattlys, and I’d love to explore that further, as well as a possible series with a spirited character from our past named Shop Hound aka Shoppie….

YRC: Thank you, Laird!

Image credits: All photographs of Laird Borrelli-Persson and the archival materials at Conde Nast by Ariana Bautista for Tattly. Other images are courtesy of the Vogue digital archive.

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Marriott Pits Amazon Alexa Against Apple Siri for Voice-Controlled Hotel Rooms

Last year, Aloft hotels began piloting using Apple's Siri technology to power voice-activated rooms. Marriott International

Skift Take: So, what happened to Google Home?

— Deanna Ting

Amazon.com Inc.’s battle with Apple Inc. over digital assistants is moving to a new venue: hotel rooms, where Alexa and Siri are both vying to be the voice-controlled platform of choice for travelers.

Marriott International Inc., the world’s biggest lodging company, is testing devices from the two tech giants at its Aloft hotel in Boston’s Seaport district to determine which is best to let guests turn on lights, close drapes, control room temperature and change television channels via voice command. In December, Wynn Resorts Ltd. became the first hotel company to install Alexa-powered Echo devices, starting with suites at its flagship Wynn Las Vegas property.

Technology companies are using hotel room as showrooms for new services and devices that can also control so-called smart homes. Amazon and Apple are competing for dominance in the nascent market, which promises to let consumers access and manage household systems such as heating, cooling, lighting and entertainment by speaking a request at home or using a smartphone from afar.

Marriott expects to decide whether to adopt the technology for one or more of its chains as early as mid-year, potentially boosting sales for the device of choice. More important, it will increase the winning company’s exposure in the market for voice-activated devices, which are gaining more mainstream traction.

“Those two players are in the game right now,” said Toni Stoeckl, who oversees the Aloft, Element, AC and Moxy chains as global brand leader for lifestyle brands at Marriott. There are almost 130 Aloft hotels in the U.S., and more than 100 additional ones planned.

Pioneer Gates

Two decades after Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates first installed smart-home software in his compound on Lake Washington facing Seattle, businesses from homebuilders and carmakers to hotel operators are adopting such technology for the average consumer.

Hotel rooms are an ideal place for Amazon and Apple to showcase their devices and let guests see how they can be used to make their lives more convenient, said Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at San Jose, California-based research firm Creative Strategies Inc. She likened it to hotel rooms installing iPhone docking stations years ago so people could enjoy their own music in their rooms.

A key question is whether the interaction will be personalized, allowing guests familiar with the devices to log into their own accounts, or instead use a standard set of skills relevant to a hotel stay, like getting news reports, checking weather forecasts or calling for an Uber — commands more appropriate for those unfamiliar with the technology.

“It will be interesting to see how much education they have to go through to get guests to use them,” Milanesi said. “This is not mass-market technology.”

Growing Market

Crestron Electronics Inc., a closely held residential and commercial automation company that enables technologies such as Alexa to work with various applications, says hotels are a newer market — and one it expects to grow. Lodging currently accounts for 5 percent to 10 percent of the firm’s annual sales of about $1.5 billion.

“You’re starting to see more of this home-automation technology being deployed in these spaces,” said John Clancy, vice president of residential systems at Rockleigh, New Jersey-based Crestron. “Initially, there was a big fear about whether it works and what the customer expects.”

The new Waldorf Astoria luxury hotel in Beverly Hills, California, operated by Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. and set to open in June, will have Crestron technology in iPads that let guests control things such as lighting, temperature, TVs, alarm clocks and room service, but the application relies on typing, not voice commands.

Being Considered

“We are currently working with various voice assistants and, while we do not have Siri integration at the moment, it is definitely something we continue to explore and consider,” Clancy said. Siri works on Apple mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads.

The JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa, a Texas property with 1,002 rooms, has installed Alexa devices in 10 of its most popular rooms, with plans to equip an additional 100 rooms next month. The digital assistant can be used to control lights in five of the rooms, but the focus is on using Alexa as a personal concierge for ordering room service, or requesting towels or toothpaste from housekeeping. The resort said it has been testing the Amazon technology since October.

Marriott’s Stoeckl said his company is “looking for the ideal solution to make this a global platform.” Aloft hotels act as a “tech incubator” for new concepts, and a successful test may determine whether digital assistants — and which ones — are installed at other Marriott chains, he said.

Concierge-Like

Eventually, the digital assistants will be able to perform more concierge-like services and connect with a guest’s personal device to do things such as set an automatic wake-up temperature or have the drapes open at a certain time, Stoeckl said.

Wynn Resorts has said it plans to equip all 4,748 rooms at the Las Vegas hotel by this summer. The company is considering installing Echo at other resorts, hotel spokesman Michael Weaver said in an email. The Vegas property is expanding the range of functions controlled by Alexa. It recently enabled guests to listen to music via most radio stations and is about to add a station of songs chosen by Chief Executive Officer Steve Wynn personally, Weaver said. Also in the works is an audio guest directory to replace the printed version.

Hotels are just one new avenue for Amazon to get its technology in front of more customers. Ford Motor Co. said in January that it plans to begin offering Alexa this summer in vehicles equipped with its Sync 3 infotainment system. An automotive version of the Echo assistant will let drivers order items on Amazon, listen to audio books, play music, check news, search for restaurants and get directions. Amazon also is working with BMW to integrate Alexa into its luxury cars. Alphabet Inc.’s Google has the Google Assistant, which powers its Home internet-connected speaker and Android phones, including its in-house Pixel handsets, and is collaborating with Hyundai Motor Co. on voice commands for its cars.

For Marriott’s Aloft, a decision between Alexa and Siri could come by summer.

“Probably by the end of the first half of this year, we’ll have a pretty good indication of where we’re headed,” Stoeckl said. “The race is still on.”

With assistance from Alistair Barr. 

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