“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.” WayChildrenBookDreamLightBlackWhiteCitiesDarknessFortuneScreensSingersComedianFlashMagicianCastlesGood FortuneVegasLas VegasUfoPyramidsBeamLandingPicture BooksOraclesNeonResidenceWhite LightSphinx Book:American Gods Source: American Gods
“The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.” HumansDreamFilmHuman BeingsFortuneIntuitionHardestRealmsSuperstitionsHardest ThingInner LifeCinematicFilm DirectorsFortune TellingRelay Races Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
“The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.” DreamAgePastCitiesCenturyBuildingFortuneArchitectureTallArchitectTwentieth CenturyPast And PresentLandmarksSkyscraperTall Buildings Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change