This is a pretty cool CGI video completed by the Urban Simulation Team at UCLA. Click on the link and take a ride on a gondola at the Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Also, check out more videos and photos here: http://www.ust.ucla.edu/ustweb/Projects/columbian_expo.htm
I want to goooooo!
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The Colonnade inside the Peristyle, 1893, Columbian Exposition, Chicago.
Whooooaaaaaaa.
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A brilliant fireworks display closes out the Century of Progress World’s Fair, 1934, Chicago.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love fireworks?
(Ohmygosh, the silhouettes of the spectators at the bottom just make this.)
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Color lithograph, France at the Great Exhibition. Yes, I have World’s Fair fever today.
New post! Teasing: The second best part
Now, of course, the real work comes, because while I’ve had the beginning minutely envisioned for a while, the lumpy middle now stretches before me. Now comes the fun part! (She says, semi-wretchedly, laughing as she does so.)
In the spirit of experimentation, and also of my love for previews, teasers and trailers, I’m kicking off what should be a weekly feature, in which you all get a glimpse of what’s going into the writing and — oh yes — the seat-of-my-pants research. (Wikipedia, let me love you.)
Let’s hit it, Magpie & Whale.
The natural magpie impulse is, of course, to grab shiny things and hoard them in one place.
Hi, I'm Esther, and I run Magpie & Whale, currently steampunking Shakespeare and the Roman Empire in the weekly serial Innogen and the Hungry Half!
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