By Sunil Rampersad
It’s not often that I make the long commute to Pasadena, and even much less so to La Canada-Flintridge, but I did it last week. The reason for the long commute was this year’s Pasadena Showcase House of Design, held at one of the amazing creations of architect Paul Williams (the subject of my last article).

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The event itself boggles the mind. Firstly a historic building is chosen. Then if there are residents (as with this year’s house) they are moved for several months – …

When Walt Disney first designed Tomorrowland for Disneyland in the early 1950s, the
concept of tomorrow generated the idea of a far-off future filled with new technology and
endless possibilities. Now, the idea of Tomorrowland is obsolete.
“When tomorrow is literally tomorrow, how do you update the [theme] park that fast?”
asked Scott Bukatman, a Stanford professor of Film and Media Studies and one of a
panel of visual artists, production designers, studio heads and academics brought together
to discuss the creation of transmedia content at the Transmedia, Hollywood 2: Visual
Culture and Design (http://legacy.tft.ucla.edu/transmedia/) conference …