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Still from Stanley Kubrick's film 'The Shining'

The Overlook Hotel is a fictional hotel from Stephen King’s novel The Shining. Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of the book used Timberline Lodge, a mountain resort in Oregon, as the establishing shot in his film, But all of the internal shots including scenes including the infamous carpet were shot on a sound stage in England.

Silhouette poster after an original by Fernando Tucunduva for Yatzer

From its original graphic meaning, the term “silhouette” has been extended to describe the sight or representation of a person, object or scene that is backlit, and appears dark against a lighter background. The term silhouette derives from the name of Etienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister who, in 1759, was forced by France’s credit crisis during the Seven Years War to impose severe economic demands upon the French people, particularly the wealthy.

Because de Silhouette was said to enjoy making cut paper portraits, his name became eponymous with these portraits and with anything done or made cheaply. Prior to the advent of photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person’s appearance.

The family name Silhouette is a French form of a Basque surname, Zuloeta; Arnaud de Silhouette, Etienne’s father, was from Biarritz in the French Basque Country; this surname, whose Standard Basque or Batua form is Zuloeta, contains the suffix -eta “abundance of” and zilho, Batua zulo, “hole” (possibly here meaning “cave of bats”). Extract from Wikipedia.org.

Ace of spades playing card reverse

Elements from the Leartset page ‘swirls’ used for a playing card design.

The Empire Strikes Back

Penguin - War of the Worlds

An imaginary Penguin book design based on the War of the Worlds original, more originals and re-workings can be found at
little pixel, and The Pelican Project and Joe Kral’s flickr set.

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