The Shining’s Hotel Is Hoping To Build Its Own Horror Museum

Aside March 9, 2022 Markozen.com Buildings, Movies

Stephen King was famously inspired by the Stanley Hotel of Estes Park, Colorado, and now, the hotel is looking to add on to their heritage as a horror destination: by adding on a museum dedicated to horror. The hotel was the inspiration for the Outlook Hotel in the novel, “The Shining.”

According to the LA Times, the hotel has issued plans to build a horror museum onto the premise, which would bring in traveling exhibits, and add on an auditorium and sound stage. The founding board for the museum includes some celebrities, such as Elijah Woods (Lord of the Rings) and Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead / Star Trek).

Before this happens, the state of Colorado must first grant the hotel $11.5 million from its tourism funds to help with the construction of the facility, which is expected to cost upwards of $24 million. The museum will operate as a nonprofit public-private partnership.

King stayed in room 217 in 1974, which helped to inspire him to write his famous novel The Shining, and serves as inspiration for the Overlook Hotel. The novel and subsequent movie adaptation have helped transform the hotel in to a tourist destination for horror fans. The hotel offers tours and hosts horror writers for workshops.

Ghost hunters trying to scare themselves in the Stanley Hotel.

According to King in later interviews, the Stanley served as his model for the Overlook Hotel, the ominous setting of The Shining, his third major work after Salem’s Lot (1975) and Carrie (1974). The hotel in King’s book is an evil entity haunted by its many victims. The main characters – Jack and Wendy Torrence and their young son Danny – are employed as winter caretakers. As the winter wears on, the hotel begins to exert its influence upon Jack, urging him to murder his family. Danny’s clairvoyant abilities – referred to in the novel as “the shine” – lend the book its title.

In 1980, the novel became the basis for an iconic film adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick’s vision for the movie differed from King’s significantly in many ways, including the portrayal of the Overlook Hotel. The exteriors of Kubrick’s Overlook were supplied by the Timberline Lodge on the slopes of Mt. Hood in Oregon. Inspiration for the interior sets (erected at Elstree Studios in England) came from the 1927 Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.

Timberline Lodge located at Mt. Hood, Oregon. Exterior shots in the movie “The Shining.”

Wild location for a hotel.

The famous maze in the movie was a studio construct.

There are no mazes at either the Stanley Hotel or Timberline Lodge. The maze was inside a studio in the U.K.

The set design for the interior scenes of the Overlook Hotel was modeled in large parts on the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite, California. Seen here is the Ahwahnee’s Great Lounge, which was recreated on the Elstree Studios set as the Colorado Lounge. Where ‘All work and no play make Jack a Dull Boy.’

The Stanley Hotel that inspired Stephen King to write “The Shining” is said to have many ghosts being labelled a 5 Star haunt.

The place is spooky looking:

Unusual Images

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Excessively Opulent Beverly Hills Mansion

Aside March 9, 2022 Markozen.com Buildings

In the United States, and the western world for the most part, if a person is very intelligent, ambitious, is a workaholic and has a burning desire to make tons of money, opulence can be achieved. A person can make many millions of dollars, or for that matter billions of dollars. What to do with all that wealth. The sky is the limit, i.e. private jets. But back on earth one can build or buy outrageously ostentatious mansions.

The mansion below is listed at 41 million dollars. It is 13,200 square feet and has everything a Saudi prince would desire.

A lap pool that runs around half of the house.

Glass walled garage

This is nuts!

The ramp leading up to a courtyard and the garage.

CF-18 Hornet Demonstration Jets with Super-Cool Paint Jobs

Aside March 9, 2022 Markozen.com Aviation

The CF-18 Hornets Demonstration Team of the Royal Canadian Air Force use different striking liveries year to year as they make stops at various airshows across North America. The paint schemes celebrate different anniversaries and milestones such as the 75th anniversary of the RCAF and the Battle of Britain. The paint jobs are extremely eye-catching.

Here the CF-18 is shadowed by a NATO AWACS and CT-133 Silver Star.

English/Anglais 409 squadron Demonstration Team pilot, Capt Adam Manik Runge, in the 2014 Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Canadian Fighter (CF) 188 Hornet demo jet on the 4th of April 2014 at 4 Wing Cold Lake. . This years demonstration jet marks 2 milestones for the RCAF. It is the 60th anniversary of 4 Wing, Cold Lake, and the 90th anniversary of the RCAF. The jet paint scheme was designed by Mr. Jim Belliveau, and unveiled at a ceremony in 409 squadron on the 27th of March. Photo: Cpl Stuparyk, Image Data Systems (IDS), AETE AE2014-086-02

Replica camouflage used by Spitfires during the Battle of Britain

Boeing officials delivered the first production aircraft from the Canadian Forces CF-18 Modernization Program, Phase 1, to the Department of National Defense in a ceremony at Macdonald-Cartier International Airport. The Phase 1 program will modernize the fleet of 80 CF-18 aircraft to the specifications of newer models through avionics configuration upgrades.

Cool Images

Aside March 9, 2022 Markozen.com Images

The line for Star Wars, 1977

Quiet highway in Hawaii

Sunflower field in France

Great waterfall

Bamboo forest Japan

cool-Beatles-Ringo-drummer-Paul-interview

This mans job is to deliver food to Siberian Tigers

The Mcdonald’s Worldwide Empire

Aside March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 Markozen.com Food

Countries with current McDonald’s locations in yellow, in black showing their former locations and in blue showing their military locations

Rank	Country	Number of Restaurants	Number of Restaurants per 100K People
1	United States of America	14,146	4.3
2	Japan	2,975	2.4
3	China	2,391	0.17
4	Germany	1,476	1.8
5	Canada	1,450	3.9
6	France	1,419	2.1
7	United Kingdom	1,274	1.9
8	Australia	920	3.7
9	Brazil	812	0.39
10	Russian Federation	645	0.44
11	Philippines	572	0.54
12	Italy	571	0.94
13	Spain	507	1.1
14	South Korea	450	0.87
15	Taiwan	413	1.8
16	Poland	403	1.0
17	Mexico	402	0.32
18	India	290	0.022
19	Malaysia	271	0.83
20	Saudi Arabia	263	0.79
21	South Africa	252	0.44
22	Turkey	250	0.31
23	The Netherlands	245	1.4
24	Thailand	240	0.35
25	Argentina	222	0.50
26	Sweden	202	2.0
27	Austria	195	2.2
28	Israel	185	2.1
29	Indonesia	170	0.064
30	Switzerland	167	2.0
31	New Zealand	166	3.4
32	United Arab Emirates	165	1.7
33	Portugal	148	1.4
34	Singapore	136	2.4
35	Venezuela	133	0.42
36	Egypt	100.0	0.10
37	Czech Republic	95.0	0.90
38	Guatemala	94.0	0.54
39	Hungary	89.0	0.91
40	Ireland	89.0	1.8
41	Denmark	88.0	1.5
42	Colombia	81.0	0.16
43	Ukraine	80.0	0.19
44	Chile	77.0	0.44
45	Belgium	74.0	0.65
46	Norway	73.0	1.4
47	Kuwait	72.0	1.7
48	Romania	70.0	0.36
49	Finland	65.0	1.2
50	Pakistan	60.0	0.030
51	Panama	57.0	1.4
52	Costa Rica	54.0	1.1
53	Bulgaria	42.0	0.60
54	Qatar	42.0	1.7
55	Morocco	41.0	0.12
56	Peru	40.0	0.13
57	Lebanon	33.0	0.54
58	Jordan	31.0	0.30
59	Dominican Republic	31.0	0.30
60	Serbia	30.0	0.43
61	Slovakia	30.0	0.55
62	Croatia	30.0	0.72
63	Ecuador	27.0	0.16
64	Greece	23.0	0.21
65	Oman	23.0	0.46
66	Bahrain	23.0	1.5
67	Uruguay	21.0	0.60
68	Slovenia	20.0	0.97
69	El Salvador	20.0	0.30
70	Paraguay	19.0	0.27
71	Cyprus	18.0	2.1
72	Vietnam	17.0	0.018
73	Belarus	14.0	0.15
74	Georgia	14.0	0.38
75	Lithuania	13.0	0.46
76	Latvia	12.0	0.62
77	Azerbaijan	12.0	0.12
78	Kazakhstan	11.0	0.060
79	Luxembourg	10.0	1.7
80	Malta	10.0	2.1
81	Estonia	10.0	0.76
82	Honduras	8.0	0.089
83	Mauritius	7.0	0.55
84	Sri Lanka	7.0	0.033
85	Trinidad and Tobago	6.0	0.44
86	Nicaragua	6.0	0.095
87	Moldova	5.0	0.14
88	Andorra	5.0	6.4
89	Fiji	4.0	0.45
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.0	0.11
91	The Bahamas	3.0	0.79
92	Suriname	2.0	0.35
93	Monaco	2.0	5.2
94	Brunei	2.0	0.47
95	Liechtenstein	1.00	2.6
96	Bolivia	1.00	0.00884
97	Gibraltar	1.00	49.6
98	Cuba	1.00	0.00891
99	Isle of Man	1.00	1.3
100	Jersey	1.00
101	Iraq	1.00	0.00254
102	Samoa	1.00	0.50
103	San Marino	1.00	3.0
125	Tunisia	0	0
129	Kenya	0

The french fries are good.

Ponyhenge

Aside March 8, 2022 Markozen.com Offbeat

Lincoln, Massachusetts

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

ON A SMALL SLICE OF wide-open pasture in the town of Lincoln, Massachusetts, broken-down rocking horses, plastic ponies and other assorted horse toys have been holding court. As if by magic, ponies have been proliferating along this winding country road, resulting in the peculiar “Ponyhenge.”

The plastic and metal horses started arriving anonymously sometime in 2010, with the placement of a lone hobby horse along picturesque Old Sudbury Road, about 15 miles west of Boston. How and why the rusty little fellow appeared is a mystery, even to Lincolnites who’ve been around a while. One story has the first horse hanging around after a kid’s short-lived lemonade stand, another that he was left over from a Christmas display.

Whatever the real story might be, after the first one appeared things started to get strange. More horses—hobby horses, rocking horses, and horse figurines—began appearing at the site. They are periodically rearranged, sometimes in a circle, sometimes in rows like race horses. Other times they are simply scattered and knocked around, as if they’ve come back from a long night of carousing.

The herd has been growing faster of late, with twice as many horses put out to pasture as there were a couple of years ago. Oddly, no one takes them away—the arrangement only morphs and grows, much to the delight of the family that owns the land. As the owner told the Boston Globe in 2015, “There was something lovely about it being anonymous, and now every time we go away, another one appears.”

Know Before You Go

Lincoln is about 15 miles west of Boston. Follow Rt-117 going west and turn left onto Old Sudbury Road. Ponyhenge will be about half a mile down on your left (just after you pass Boyce Farm Road). For GPS directions, set the address to “39 Old Sudbury Rd. Lincoln MA”.

While it’s on privately owned land, Ponyhenge is open to anyone who wants to visit.

Atlasobscura.com

Vintage Science Fiction Models

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Ship carrying thousands of luxury cars sinks in the Atlantic after burning for weeks

Aside March 2, 2022 Markozen.com Transportation

Smoke billows from the burning Felicity Ace car-transport ship as seen from a Portuguese navy vessel southeast of the mid-Atlantic Portuguese Azores islands. The large cargo vessel carrying cars from Germany to the U.S. sank in the mid-Atlantic 13 days after a fire broke out on board.

A large cargo ship that was carrying luxury cars from Germany to the U.S. sank Tuesday in the mid-Atlantic — nearly two weeks after a fire broke out on board, according to Portuguese navy officials.

Officials confirmed that the ship, Felicity Ace, lost stability and sank about 250 miles off Portugal’s Azores islands as it was being towed to land. The ship sank in a location outside Portugal’s economic zone in an area that’s nearly 2 miles deep.

In its statement, the Portuguese navy said that only a few pieces of debris and a small amount of oil were visible where the ship sank and that tugboats were breaking up the patch of oil with hoses.

One of the vessels that had been monitoring the Felicity Ace was en route to Ponta Delgada in the Azores to pick up pollution containment equipment, Portuguese navy officials said.

The 650-foot-long vessel is capable of carrying 4,000 cars. It is unclear how many vehicles were on board the ship.

European auto manufacturers declined to comment regarding exactly how many cars and what models were on board the ship, The Associated Press reported. However, Porsche customers in the U.S. were being contacted individually by their dealership.

“We are already working to replace every car affected by this incident and the first new cars will be built soon,” Angus Fitton, vice president of public relations at Porsche Cars North America Inc., told the AP.

The Portuguese navy rescued all 22 members of the crew from the ship, which was scheduled to arrive in Davisville, R.I., on Feb. 16. The crew was taken by helicopter to Faial island in the Azores, the AP reported. None of the crew members was hurt.

Volkswagen confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that insurance has covered the loss of its vehicles, which could be at least $155 million, insurance experts told the Journal. The total estimated loss for all the cargo, which included Porsches, Bentleys, Lamborghinis and Volkswagens, is close to $440 million, the Journal reported.

The Kubasonics

Aside March 1, 2022 Markozen.com Music

Tribute to our Ukrainian pals.

The Kubasonics are a Ukrainian-Canadian speed-folk band based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, The Kubasonics are honoured in the Ukrainian Canadian community for recreating traditional Ukrainian melodies, with a twist. Humorous or surprising alterations to time-honored songs create a sound that is often described as a “folk fusion.” To create their unique sound, the Kubasonics incorporate traditional Ukrainian instruments such as the tsymbaly, drymba and Hurdy-gurdy into the context of a western rock band.