Amazing Detailed Carved Model of Midtown Manhattan by Michael Chesko

Artist Michael Chesko has been lovingly carving a true-to-form model of Midtown Manhattan. This scale miniature of Midtown took 2000 hours to complete. As reference, he used blueprints, old photographs, digital reproductions and satellite images. On a good day, he’d work his way through four city blocks. The entire model is 36″ x 30″… a good deal smaller than most office desks. At the 1:3200 scale, the Empire State Building Chesko’s favorite skyscraper) roughly reaches the dizzying height of a Campbell’s Soup can.You can read more about it HERE.

 

 

 

 

Forbes Ranks Stephen King The Third Highest Paid Author

Coming in third: Stephen King who earned $45 million over the course of the year.

 

The king of horror was scraping by on a schoolteacher’s salary before his novel Carrie came out in 1974. Since then, he has published more than 40 books and sold some 350 million copies. He’s also made his mark on the big and small screen as well as in comic books. Since 2003, the avid Boston Red Sox fan has offered his pop cultural insight in his regular “The Pop of King” column for Entertainment Weekly. You can read the full article HERE.

 

 

The CW Readies Pre-Robin Graysons

The CW is readying a series based on Batman sidekick Robin’s early days, called The Graysons, Variety reported. Smallville executive producers Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson, as well as Supernatural executive producer McG, are behind The Graysons, which has landed a put pilot commitment at the network. Just as Smallville focused on Clark Kent in the years before he became Superman, The Graysons will follow the world of Dick “DJ” Grayson before he takes on the iconic Robin identity and aligns himself with Batman. It’s the latest DC Comics franchise to be mined for the small screen by Warner Brothers TV. McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision label is also attached. The Graysons is seen as a potential replacement for Smallville should that show end its run this season, which has been speculated. In the original Batman mythology, Grayson was a young acrobat and part of the family act called The Flying Graysons. He was orphaned when a gangster sabotaged his parents’ trapeze equipment. Bruce Wayne took him under his wing and trained him to help fight crime. Grayson later morphed into the character of Nightwing, as part of The New Teen Titans, and a series of new Robin replacements were introduced.

 

The Woman Whisperer

The Devil Is In The Details – Mini Cooper Ad

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Grazia Magazine Hanger

To celebrate Fashion Week, Grazia Magazine is packaged to look like designed clothing and mailed to its subscribers. Please click on the image to make it larger.