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Sunday, November 29, 2020

The origin story you didn't know you needed

 

[VIDEO] Found this at random this morning, Eleanor from The Simpsons is the crazy cat lady. We see her as a child ready to take on the world to a courtroom where she wants to go on recess to deliver a baby and then we see the start of her becoming crazy cat lady. The comments to this video are very interesting their own analysis of her psychology.

I won't try to analyze because she's a cartoon, but who knows how many people out there have this type of story. You never know where someone is coming from in their lives. Who knows what they've been through in their lives or psychology.

However, this video is hilarious and fitting of The Simpsons. 😛

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Amtrak iconography

 

[VIDEO] This video explores Amtrak's brand identity. I remember the reverse arrow and often tried to recreated it by hand even just drawing lines as opposed to the blocks the logo represents to show my interpretation of Amtrak's logo.

I remember my first trip by train most Amtrak trains were in what they call phase three livery. Seeing that takes me back to the 1980s at least. Of course times change and the Amtrak I rode in the last two decades carries the "travelmark" logo. It's an abstract version of the rails trains are transported.

I really got to do some research on Amtrak uniforms what they had for Amtrak personnel in the 1970s seem very far out. It sees as if they tried to do that reverse arrow on everything including uniforms. Imagine that arrow on your shirt cuff or on the skirts the women wore as part of their uniforms.

I hope you enjoy this presentation by AmtrakGuy365. As you may discover in this video Amtrak and perhaps other businesses continue to move forward and get with the times.

BTW, Amtrak will celebrate 50 years next year. It's unbelievable that it's been that long since the National Passenger Rail Corporation was created to take over passenger rail operations from the railroads. I hope they do what they did after 40 years which is create heritage livery for their locomotives. Perhaps even reactivate those iconic EMD F40PH locomotives. Those are the engines I remember from the 1980s also.