Showing posts with label Malls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malls. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Chopping Mall (1986)

Film.


"A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, The robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. One by one the three bots try to rid the mall of the "Intruders." The only weapons the kids can use are the supplies in other stores. Or . . . if they can make it till morning when the mall opens back up" (imdb).

Monday, January 20, 2014

Things Imagined for Malls

Source



Queens, NY. "Grace explained to me that the bronze statue we admired in the Mall “represents the Chinese cowboy. He’s depicted as a gentle, playful child, much different than the Macho Men of the American West.” Source.


Part of Mamilla Mall's Biblical Series. Source.

Source.

 Living Statue. Source.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

The Mall

Curious Malls
Parkview Green, Beijing
Dream Mall Shopping Mall Kaohsiung, Taiwan



Dead Malls
The Ghosts of Shopping Past: Abandoned malls and big-box stores
Dead Malls
Dead Mall Dictionary
Dead Malls on Labelscar
Completely Surreal Photos Of America's Abandoned Malls
The World's Largest Mall has a less than 1% Occupancy Rate | Messy Nessy Chic
An abandoned shopping mall full of fish 
In Berlin, a Shopping Mall's Flop Leads to Schadenfreude

General
Labelscar: The Retail History Blog
The Mallmanac
The Shopping Mall Museum
Victor Gruen Malls
Malls - Wikipedia Entry
“Malls Across America” | Retronaut


Historical
The Crystal Palace
Poem The Crystal Palace by John Davidson
How the Cold War Shaped the Design of American Malls

Largest Malls
1 New South China Mall
2 Golden Resources Mall
3 SM City North EDSA
4 1 Utama
5 Central World
6 Persian Gulf Complex
7 Mid Valley Megamall
8 Cehavir Mall
9 Sunway Pyramid
10 Mall of Asia
11 Jamuna Future Park
12 The Dubai Mall
13 West Edmonton Mall
14 SM Megamall
15 Berjaya Times Square

Underground
The Path (Toronto)
Wikipedia entry on the Path

Other
The Father of the Shopping Mall, Victor Gruen, was an Urbanist | Reurbanist

Documentary on New South China Mall "They built it, but they didn't come.":

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Selected Stories of Agnes Boulton



His Former Wife - 10 Story Book, May, 1910
With Eyes of Flesh - Young's Magazine, May, 1913
Out of the Past - Breezy Stories, January, 1917
In Bohemia - Breezy Stories, July, 1917
Oh, La-La! - Breezy Stories, January, 1918
Only a Shop Girl - Breezy Stories, March, 1918
The Snob - The Smart Set, June, 1921


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