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By Peter Kerr,
I hope I'm wrong about Callaghan Innovation, and for our country's and industry's sake that it is a roaring success when it stumbles into life on February 1.
But the portents aren't good – and as a solution in search of a need, instead of the other way round, we'll end up with a couple of years of bureaucratic confusion before eventually going for a form of the Advanced Technology Institute as originally proposed by IRL.
In the meantime we'll have a Callaghan Innovation Agency (CIA), and all the bumbling that's implied in that.
Why the glass half empty viewpoint?
Among the things that have happened, the common knowledge at IRL and further afield, are the following:
- An ATI Establishment Board (before it morphed into CI), whose chair, Sue Suckling, reported only and directly to Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment super minister, Steven Joyce. Not through MBIE (who weren't involved), only to Joyce
- A chief science adviser (Sir Peter Gluckman) who hasn't been able to talk to Joyce
- An October command that no member of the ATI establishment team or board was to have anything to with the senior management of IRL. (Odd, presumably you'd expect such people to have the best knowledge/overview of requirements to promote high value manufacturing)
- An as yet non-public business plan; and no idea how any sort of transition/transformation takes place between IRL to Callaghan Innovation
- A management and governance structure that merely transfers the original ATI establishment team to new positions – let's call it jobs for the girls and boys…..never, ever a good look
- Total and utter disregard for transparency, democracy, clarity of (desired) outcome – and the trust that goes with those processes
In short, what we have with Callaghan Innovation is a secret, ill-conceived creation of a model that's been disproven overseas.
We don't have anything like Taiwain's ITRI – which has an extremely strong industry/research group hug and development of science/engineering platforms that will strategically support a future.
Nor Switzerland's, nor Singapore's, nor especially Denmark's – whose research institutes must be wondering how we got so far away from their own model.
Now, Joyce is well-known for forming a point of view and pulling all the levers to achieve an outcome – it's something you can do in business (more or less).
How much has his notion that 'innovation' (and let's not even begin to try and define it) is a command and control activity intersected with the law of unintended consequences?
Wow, we've ended up with 'tell me exactly what it's meant to do' Callaghan Innovation?
CI will be much more hands-on from Joyce's point of view, but I'm afraid Steven, that's not how innovation works.
CI as a model is much more sand in the gearbox.
Whether it is because her background's as an economist, but Sue Suckling's viewpoint seems to be that inventors/innovators/ideas people have had trouble accessing the IRL (and other university/CRI) brains who could help with their industry challenge. We'll call it a supply problem.
That's not the case – anyone with even half and idea can relatively easily, today, get the help and R&D expertise they need.
Providing a 0800 'Callaghan Innovation' number addresses a problem that doesn't exist. It will simply be another bureaucratic layer of frustration for science and industry.
But, prove me wrong CI – I'll be happy to admit my error.
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I hope you are wrong also, but hope is never an effective strategy.
On a somewhat related note - has anyone actually got _data_ on the dollars going into CRI projects, and the commercial products and services coming out? I'd have thought that this would be public information somewhere?
Great read, Peter. Definitely agree with everything you've said, particularly your healthy yet hopeful scepticism.
What I find most troubling is how many organisations seem to be doing the same thing in New Zealand. While merging several organisations to form CI is a good step, why can't we just use a single Ministry (like the Japanese used to with MITI during their glory years) to co-ordinate between Government, business and the education sector across not only science and innovation but also exports and national champion subsidies?
Grant, Sir Callaghan's book 'From Wool To Weta' had some excellent analysis on the dollars and ROI of state-funded innovation of the Labour Government's approach. I haven't got a copy of the book, but I'm sure that data is publicly accessible online. Incidentally, he had a lot of criticisms


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These two are so adorable! Brandon insisted that he wanted to get photos over and done with, but I know he secretly had a good time.
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You guys. My first-born niece just went to prom. Seriously!? She's supposed to be as small as my child — five or six years old, running around, being goofy. She's growing into a beautiful, strong, amazing young woman now and I'm so proud to call myself her aunt.
Also, her prom date is adorable. Look at those dimples!
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Okay, whoa. Before you take me seriously (because I know some of you were about to grab your pitchforks and come change my mind), I don't really hate Christmas. In fact, it ranks up there as my favorite holiday, right after the unnamed first-day-where-it-really-feels-like-fall holiday (yes, that's a holiday… says me, right now). However, being a photographer has really ruined my outlook on Christmas. Where I used to get excited for December to roll around, now I am thoroughly sick of Santa before November is even done. Why? Well, because I have to start thinking about Christmas in September. I know, right? Most of you are complaining about Christmas decorations being pulled out in the stores before Halloween has even happened, and I wholeheartedly agree, but from a business standpoint it just has to be done. You see, in order to get those Christmas cards that you tell yourself every year you're going to send out (oh, because you got Susie's in the mail and it was ADORABLE and you curse yourself for not remembering to get your family's pictures done soon enough!), I have to think of packages to offer for you. I then get out all of the Christmas decor, because it's just a cliche' and wonderful thing to do to offer Christmas mini sessions… right? You don't want a big session; you just want a few shots of your family in their Christmas sweaters so that you can send out that *one* shot on a Christmas card.
I don't hate that. I really don't. It just seems so… blah. Everyone does Christmas mini sessions. I can think of 10 photographers in my area alone who are offering them this year. That's WONDERFUL! I think it's a blast to go see Santa, get your pictures with him, yaddayaddayadda. However, when I became a wedding & lifestyle photographer, it was so that I could showcase your family's love… not to show them perfectly posed in front of a fake fireplace (pretty as it may be). For this reason, I've changed Christmas. Yes, I'm still thinking of it in September this year, but now it will hold much more meaning for you.
After all, would you rather have a cookie cutter image of your family, or a custom video showing off your sentimental ornaments, family traditions, and yes, goofy personalities? (I'd rather have the latter.)
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I know I say it quite often, but I truly have one of the coolest jobs in the world. How many jobs allow for traveling and meeting so many interesting people!? Okay, probably a lot. Let's narrow that down… how many allow for travel, meeting interesting people, and are actually FUN jobs to do? MY JOB!! ;)
Meet Tami! She's a businesswoman who is, I'm sure, a whiz in the office. Like most of us, Tami has a love that rarely gets seen. I'm so glad that she allowed me into her home for her headshots so that I could see the "other side" of her personality! I love, love, love Tami's artwork. It's evident that she pours her heart into each piece. I can only hope I gave a little of that back to her with these portraits!
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This past summer was such an incredible time for me, in business and in my personal life. I traveled to several different cities for work and met some amazing people.
One of the most amazing and inspirational people I met this summer was Reba. While en route to Memphis for a wedding, my husband & I passed a biker. No, not a motorcyclist — an honest-to-goodness bicyclist. She appeared to have some serious gear, both on her person and on her bike. We were intrigued, and since we had some time to spare I pulled over and got out my camera. As she got closer, I waved her down. We introduced ourselves and spoke briefly about her mission work. Let me tell you, this is a woman you want to follow! Visit her website HERE, and be sure to check in often because she updates daily with her travel stories!!
Reba, thank you so much for allowing me to take these images. I hope you love them! I pray that all of your travels are fun, safe, and full of love.
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At some point, my baby grew up. She went from this little squishy thing to a short human being who has full conversations, her own opinions, and her own sense of style. I've noticed these things individually over the past couple of years, but now that they are compounded into this GIRL (not baby!), they're all painfully obvious.
This year, my girl began kindergarten. The first year of 13+ that she'll sit in a school desk, learn from hundreds of books, and have many influential teachers & friends. We're only two weeks into the school year and I'm already loving her stories about her new friends, the classroom rules, and the playground design (clearly the most important aspect of kindergarten). She is also a self-proclaimed animal lover and has decided that she will be a zookeeper when she grows up. Nothing new there, as she's always been intrigued by animals. She also still hates my camera, as noted by the images below. Oh well; I tried. ;)
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Laura + John | New Orleans Engagements
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These two were SUCH a blast!! I'm so honored that they chose me for their engagement session in Nawluns. For those of you who don't speak the dialect, that's New Orleans. ;) From shooting in John's grandmother's old house to eating at one of their favorite restaurants, we had a great afternoon & evening together.
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OK, let's get one thing straight. I don't actually like Valentine's Day. I don't like the commercialism, the tacky (and potentially fire-hazardous) cuddly toys, or the restaurants that charge double the price for a table 'cos it comes with a plastic red rose. Humbug…humbug I say…
However, do as I say, not as I do, and to avoid a spell at your local A&E department, it's probably a good idea to make an effort. Here follows a few ideas on smart bottles that really go beyond mainstream pink stuff and show that you care…or at least like a decent glass of wine.
Champagne should be in the mix somewhere and we use Taittinger here as the quality has always been consistent and erring towards the fuller-bodied style. Their Rosé is fantastic, loaded with all that strawberry/brioche character, and has beautiful length. Pink bubbles are a reliable, if not a safe choice, but this one will make sure you get a really decent glass. Doubtless, you'll be having a few Oysters as a starter (Helford Natives worked for Mrs Hocking), so bring out the Chablis. Raveneau or Dauvissat are the best producers – more body and elegance. Main course? Well protein man here suggests beef, but that could well be because of all those top-flight Californian Cabernets that work as an amazing match. This year, Moone-Tsai Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon will be the bottle. New to us and loaded with a core of ripe fruit, vanilla, cedar and just a hint of cigar box. Sensational.
Dessert gives you the chance to clean up with something chocolate to "seal the deal". Not the easiest thing to match with wine but I've got a plan. Justin Vineyards in Paso Robles make half bottles of a wine called Obtuse. It's a Cabernet Sauvignon that's been late-harvested and has a great deal more residual sweetness than normal red wine. It's slightly lighter than Port and is just beautiful with chocolate or cream desserts. The other bonus is that it's a tenner for a half bottle and you can buy it from your favourite (and only!) Californian wine merchant.
One last thing. Don't forget the card and present. Experience dictates that it's the kind of thing you only ever forget once…
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New book details Hope Solo's struggles, achievements
New York, NY, United States (4E Sports) – After leading the US women's soccer team to an Olympic gold medal, goalkeeper Hope Solo embarks on a new career as author when her much-anticipated book entitled "SOLO: A Memoir of Hope" hits book shelves Tuesday.
The book contains details about Solo's years of "erratic, self-destructive behavior" and several much-publicized incidents in her career, about the death of her father two months before the 2007 World Cup and her subsequent benching by US coach Greg Ryan.
In the book, Solo revealed that she played her matches during the World Cup after spreading a tiny bit of her father's ashes on the field that she hid in her goalie gloves.
With Solo guarding the net, the Americans tied their first game with North Korea and won their next three via shutouts. But Solo was replaced by Brianna Scurry for the semifinal game against Brazil, which the Americans lost 4-0.
In the book, Solo did not hold back sharp criticisms against Ryan, who she claims decided to bench her against Brazil after consulting with team veterans including Kristine Lilly and Abby Wambach.
She detailed that during a meeting, Ryan pushed her back onto a couch as she tried to leave. She also described how she confronted Lilly and Wambach, the rest of her time in China and the events that happened after she returned home.
Also included in the book are Solo's feelings about the 1999 U.S. team, which won the World Cup and was regarded as the foremost American women's soccer team in history. She explains the long shadow that team cast, and the split she felt between players from that era and her own, some of which she believed fueled her benching in China.
During the London Olympics, Solo Solo criticized Brandi Chastain, a member of the 1999 team who was doing color commentary for NBC, for not supporting the American team enough and for being too negative.
The book also chronicles Solo's several stints outside the football field, including a photo shoot in ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue" and her appearance on "Dancing With The Stars".
The book also details Solo's preparations for the 2012 Olympics, which ended last week with a 2-1 win over Japan for Solo's second Olympic gold medal.
"We felt like a team," Solo said after the Olympic final. "Everybody felt like they could contribute. Everybody. Honestly, it's the first time in my athletic career that I felt like it was a true team."
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Holiday rules would be in effect during the following periods:
-The week before and week after Easter
-The Friday before Christmas to the Sunday after New Years
-President's Weekend
-The week of July 4th
I think trying to do something is going to cause more bad than good. One thing you did mention was the extra ticketed/VIP events. Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party is an excellent example. Plus, I think it is worth the extra ticketed price for what you get.
One of my favorites (and I am not sure if they do it like this anymore) is the Candlelight Processional Priority Dining/Seating. For a little extra, you make Dining reservations for an EPCOT restaurant and get front seating for the Candlelight Processional. Its a similar concept to Fantasmic Dining, but it works better because its EPCOT, the park with at least ten restaurants where you can get an excellent meal. I also recall that you used to get 10% off in the stores. While that isn't much, its something! I really enjoyed it because you can make a nice evening out of it.
I guess charging more might be acceptable. But there are so many people who simply cannot travel except over holidays and making them pay more seems like poor business.
That's why I voted to keep things as they are.
Id be quite alright with the most extreme form of variable pricing, the yield managment system used by low cost airlines (minus the hidden cost aspect ofc). Either way, for profit companies will never ever set a welfare maximicing price levels for any product with high fixed and low variable costs, even before considering that humans are no perfect informed homo oeconomicus.
Many thanks
I think they can do plenty to alleviate the situation like you said, close gates early, and sell appointed tickets, but you're still dealing with high demand and low capacity. The park should simply lower expectations of guests. Tell them hours waits are typical. Come back another day if possible.
For those of you who don't see a problem with the current situation, I'd be willing to bet you're a local and/or you're an AP holder, and you don't deal with the situation like the vacationers have to. It's also easy to say that people should know better and should expect the crowds and the corresponding degraded park visit at that time of year, but that's a callous attitude that still doesn't properly address the problem.
Disney is providing an experience, and when the expectations of that experience are not met then they have failed; especially when they have a great deal of control over the situation. To blame the patron for the problem is patently ridiculous, and a complete denial of reality.
Since I view Disney in the same way that I would a fine restaurant or a top-notch hotel or a first run Broadway show, here's what I would do to make the peak seasons more fun.
1. Double the prices during the holiday seasons
2. Exclude the holiday seasons from the APs unless they pay a huge premium.
3. Require people to make reservations for park entry.
4. Ban park hopping during the peak time periods as it overloads the transportation system.
5. Allow early entry to all Disney hotel guests. The lodging prices are so jacked up during the holidays, there should be some benefit to staying on site.
6. Lower the max capacity of the parks - period! I think I read somewhere that the max capacity for the Magic Kingdom is 75,000 which is an insult to the patrons. Put a reasonable cap on it.
Disney might also want to consider building a third resort somewhere in the US. The population has grown somewhat since 1971, and it is time to see a third venue somewhere other than Florida and California. For those of you who say that would be brand dilution, I disagree. If enough of the rides are different, Disney patrons would travel from all over the country and the world to visit.
No complimentary (non-work shift) cast member entry for them or their guests or family from Dec. 15 to Jan. 7. If they want in, they need a regular paying-guest ticket. I don't know what current restrictions are, this may be in place.
No day of visit ticket sales (close the ticket booths) from Dec. 23 to Jan. 3. Only people with tickets purchased ahead of time (regular, MYW or AP, etc.) can only enter the parking lots and parks.
And as an AP holder this hurts a lot. No free AP parking Dec. 24 to Jan. 2. A large segment of the crowd is only 2-4 hour locals wanting to see parades or fireworks. Make parking less for AP, maybe $10. Keep it simple.
"1. Double the prices during the holiday seasons
2. Exclude the holiday seasons from the APs unless they pay a huge premium.
3. Require people to make reservations for park entry.
4. Ban park hopping during the peak time periods as it overloads the transportation system.
5. Allow early entry to all Disney hotel guests. The lodging prices are so jacked up during the holidays, there should be some benefit to staying on site.
6. Lower the max capacity of the parks - period! I think I read somewhere that the max capacity for the Magic Kingdom is 75,000 which is an insult to the patrons. Put a reasonable cap on it."
Number 1 and 5: Holiday season pricing should reduce demand, yet now you want compensation to increase park attendance with early entry. Will hotel guests get priority with early entry? Thus park admission is already impacted.
Number 2: Premium APs get no block out days. They already pay a premium. What premium are you referring to?
Number 3: Reservations is not how special event ticketing works. They could consider special event ticketing during Christmas and New Years.
Number 4: Perhaps the only practical advice so far.
Number 6: That maximum capacity is based on some formula. The park is never completely full at any moment. People are coming and going. They should stop with fast pass when the park is at capacity to reduce traffic and crowd flow. Keep the excessive crowds in the standby lines. They must add extra shows and parades to soak up the crowds.
In the future, they need to add more rides and attractions. Tell guests to visit alternative parks.
Anyway, here's the reasoning behind my proposals which I should have put in my earlier post, but I heard breakfast calling me (gotta have your priorities) and I got a bit hasty.
1. Double the prices during the holiday season - (I really should have said that Disney needs to double the gate prices during the peak holiday season.) The impact of this would be to discourage attendance and push more people with the capability of visiting the parks while they are decorated for the holidays into the time period after Thanksgiving and before the schools go on Christmas break. Obviously this hurts the people who have kids who are in school, but the locals and the day-trippers can visit on the weekends before the peak season kicks in, so the only people this impacts are the folks considering a fun, family vacation to Disney World during the holidays.
2. Exclude the holiday seasons from the APs unless they pay a huge premium. - Unless I'm mistaken, the Premium Annual Pass and the regular Annual Pass for Florida residents do not exclude the peak holiday season. There's a $130 difference between the Seasonal Annual Pass and the regular Annual Pass, but that excludes the summer months as well, so my guess is that far more people opt for the regular pass over the seasonal pass. The peak holiday season needs to be excluded from the regular Annual Pass or the difference between the passes needs to be increased. Either way, the desired impact would be to encourage the AP holders to visit at other times during the holiday season.
3. Require people to make reservations for park entry. - Disney has got to stop treating the Magic Kingdom like it is a Tokyo subway car at rush hour. Even though we all may want to be in the Magic Kingdom on Christmas Day or New Years Eve, we all can't be there and still preserve the ambiance of the moment. Let people pick their days that they plan to be at a particular park with the folks staying onsite at Disney getting first shot and/or guaranteed access to the park of their choice. They are the ones putting the dollars in the register at Disney.
4. Ban park hopping during the peak time periods as it overloads the transportation system. - I think park hopping is a bad idea - period. Maybe one day we can all debate it on another thread, but I think park hopping should be discouraged during the rest of the year and banned outright during the peak holiday season.
5. Allow early entry to all Disney hotel guests. The lodging prices are so jacked up during the holidays, there should be some benefit to staying on site. - Maybe I think differently than some people, but I feel that early park entry for Disney hotel guests would reduce the crowding in the parks. Hotels guests would get to the parks early get in a few rides on the premium attractions and then gravitate to the lesser attractions as wait times for the premium attractions increase. In a best case scenario, they would end their day around dinnertime and return to their hotels to enjoy other activities on Disney properties and leave the attractions in the parks more available to other visitors.
6. Lower the max capacity of the parks - period! I think I read somewhere that the max capacity for the Magic Kingdom is 75,000 which is an insult to the patrons. Put a reasonable cap on it. - I don't know how Disney comes up with their max capacity figure, but it is ridiculous. Lower it and enforce it and give the patrons the experience they pay for and deserve.
I also like your idea of special event ticketing, as long as the locals and AP holders don't monopolize the tickets and shut out the true vacationers who have paid big bucks to travel to Disney, stay on Disney property, and are looking for the full Disney experience.
It appears that the new strategy is to get yourself a stroller and push it through the crowd ramming everything in your path in order to get where you want to go and be first in line.
I actually stood still for 2 minutes and was run into 7 times in that 2 minutes. (Apparently I have the "cloak of invisibility")
This is not on the park to rectify, this is on the people whom choose to be rude and obnoxious to resolve...
Passholders are not the problem in Orlando. Passholders make up the minority of the attendance at Walt Disney World. Furthermore, Disney already blocks annual passholders from accessing the parks during busy periods unless they pay a premium. The lowest priced pass is a "Seasonal Pass" available only to Florida residents with 100 days of the year blocked including the Christmas holiday period. The "Annual Pass" and "Premium Annual Pass" with no blackout days are appropriately priced at a premium to reflect the fact that there are no blackout dates.
Park hopping isn't overloading the transportation system either. The transportation system is overloaded simply because there is so much demand and not enough capacity. This is a week where all of the hotels are at 100% occupancy. It's also a fact that park hopping declines during busy periods because it's harder to move from park-to-park. The solution is to increase capacity of the transportation system, not ban park hopping, which again is a ticketing option that Disney charges extra for. During busy periods I would actually discourage purchasing park hopping option as you're better off staying in one park for the entire day.
Reservations again isn't going to solve anything. It would just assure your admittance, but it wouldn't reduce the crowds as it doesn't address capacity.
Doubling the prices is just a ridiculous suggestion. Disney essentially charges full-price, year-round based on what they think they can charge for what they deliver. If you raise prices during the holidays then you're essentially discounting your admission the rest of the year. Disney for the most part doesn't discount.
The real issue is just the excess demand during the holidays and that leads to the real culprit park capacity.
Park capacity is based on the number of operating attractions, length of the operating day and a goal of having the average visitor experience so many attractions. Disney doesn't reveal the actual capacity largely because it fluctuates based on the number of operating attractions and a target of having the average guest experience X number of attractions during their visit. I've heard that 10 attraction experiences is the goal and when it falls below that survey scores decline and guest complaints increase.
To accomplish this goal and to meet demand during peak periods Disney increases the length of the operating day and they make sure attraction refurbishments are done during other periods of the year so all attractions are open and operating at maximum capacity.
Yes, Disney could lower the park capacity, but that would angry those who plan a trip to Orlando and then are declined access to the parks.
I've been at both Disneyland and Magic Kingdom on days when they've closed the gates and I've still had a great time. Yes, the walkways are crowded and lines can be rather long, but if you go with the expectation that it's going to be crowded and you plan your day wisely you can still have an exceptional experience. On one of the busiest days I've ever seen at Magic Kingdom I still got on 29 rides and attractions between 7:00 am and 1:00 am.
If you're one of those people who hates the crowds then I have to ask why are you visiting at this time of year? Spare yourself the agony and pick another time to visit.
The difference between the Florida resident Seasonal Annual Pass and the Florida resident Annual Pass is about $134 per year. If you pay the $134 extra for the regular pass, you get 15 additional weeks during the peak times of the year. I'm not sure which type of pass most Florida residents purchase, but I'd pay the extra amount for the 15 additional weeks just so I could go whenever I wanted to.
On the issue of whether or not the AP holders are contributing to the crowding in the parks, I tend to agree with you since the population within easy driving distance of Disney World is nothing compared to the population within easy driving distance to Disneyland. However as a resident of Florida, I have a hard time remembering a Christmas or Thanksgiving when I haven't had out of town visitors staying with my family for the holidays. Since I live in NW Florida, my visitors can't stay with me and visit Disney World during the day, but I'd be willing to bet that a not inconsiderable number of AP holders in central Florida go to the parks during the holidays with visiting family members. I'd be willing to bet that these day trippers contribute considerably to the attendance figures in the parks. How that fits into the argument, I don't know, but it is worth considering.
Limiting park hopping may not make a huge difference, but anything that helps an overloaded transportation system is a good thing.
Despite what you may think, reservations would make a huge difference. Airlines require reservations. Hotels require reservations. Top notch restaurants require reservations. Why can't Disney World? A Disney vacation is one of the most desirable things to do in this country, and you shouldn't just show up at the gate and expect to be let in like Clark Griswold. Many of us on this site emphasize the importance of educating yourself about the parks you're going to visit, so why can't that education start with how to get in the front gate?
Saying that doubling the prices for three weeks out of the year is equivalent to discounting the other 49 weeks is silly. Disney doesn't discount? Are you kidding me? The prices for the hotel rooms on Disney property go up drastically during the peak periods; does that mean that we are seeing a discount during the non-peak periods? However you may label it, Disney adjusts prices according to demand with the hotel rooms, and the same process should take place with the park admissions.
You're also killing me with saying that you visited 29 attractions between 7 AM and 1 AM on one of the busiest days of the year at the Magic Kingdom. While I applaud you on your ability to hang in there for 18 hours, how many families are going to want to spend more that 8-10 hours fighting through peak holiday crowds? I also suspect that a disproportionate number of those attractions were visited before 10 AM and after 8 PM when the crowds were thinner. Visiting a Disney resort should be about having fun and not comparable to Hell Week in SEAL training.
You have nailed the most important issue in the situation though - lack of capacity. Disney needs to add more attractions, build more parks, and even go to the extent of building a new resort somewhere else in the United States. There's too much demand and too little capacity.
I think the key to managing crowds is through information. Many Disney fan sites have crowd expectation meters that let you estimate the intensity of crowds on given days based on past attendance and experience. Disney should provide their own crowd estimates to guests who may not know about these websites ahead of time to temper their expectations or at least make them reconsider taking a Holiday vacation to the Disney Resorts. If more families know how crowded the parks were this time of year, I would expect a small percentage (10% or so) may shift their vacation to another time of year.
The other means that would be reasonable to control holiday crowds would be to increase the stringency of blackout rules on passes and older non-expiring park hoppers. Regardless of how much someone wants to pay for an AP, there should be days that they are just not allowed in the park. You would think AP holders with half a brain, especially those shelling out nearly $1,000 a year, would avoid the most crowded days of the year, but they spend that kind of money for the exclusivity of being able to jam the park on those days just to sit around and people watch. Afterall, the price of the Annual Pass is paid for if you go to the park for just the days between Christmas Eve and New Years Day.
Another way to control without raising the price would be to institute blackouts for non-expiring park hoper passes over a year old. This would directly affect someone like me who buys Disney Days in bulk (10-day non-expiring hoppers), and uses passes that I bought 10+ years ago. Now, you don't necessarily need to turn guests like this away at the gate, but shift them to customer service and force them to pay the price differential between when they bought the pass and when they use the pass, so someone who bought a 10-day hopper 10 years ago would have to pay somewhere around $20-30 premium to enter the park during this week.
What these types of policies do is to allow the resort to more accurately judge and control the number of guests coming into the parks. Essentially the only people showing up this week would be guests who are taking a Disney Vacation and likely staying on-site or paying current ticket prices. Not only that, but by making it more difficult for AP holders and ticket squaters to get in this week, those guests would be more likely to visit in the first 2 weeks of December to experience the Christmas decorations and special holiday events, boosting attendance on those less-crowded days early in the holiday season.
I would gather that most Florida locals avoid the theme parks during the holiday periods. My cousins lived in Orlando for a number of years and they avoided the parks during peak periods unless they had out-of-town visitors. Regardless, it doesn't really matter because passholders aren't causing the overcrowding.
Once again you tout reservations, but you've failed to provide any explanation on how this will help with overcrowding. A reservation policy is only going to be favored by the visitor who showed up at 2:00 pm and was turned away because the park was at capacity. Reservations do nothing to alleviate overcrowding.
Lastly, Disney has built parks in the two markets where the weather is favorable to supporting year-round operations. The only other market I can think of that Disney might look at would be Texas, but I don't think another resort is necessary because demand will always exceed capacity for peak periods. If you get to the point where you have overcapacity or just the perfect amount during your busiest weeks then you have way too much capacity the rest of the year.
The problem is simply that demand really exceeds capacity for several weeks of the year, but for the rest of the year Disney has few issues with accommodating the demand. Clearly, you shouldn't visit the parks during these busy periods because it really bothers you personally.
Russell, blackouts on non-expiring park hopper tickets. Are you kidding? A few pay a significant premium for the no expiration option and in some cases it nearly doubles the per-day price of the ticket. Again, this is not a problem. Most people don't pay for the no expiration option and we know that a large majority of the no expiration tickets end up never being used. I can guarantee you that very few tickets purchased a decade ago are being redeemed frequently at the park.
A wise person once said that buying Disney days in bulk, as you suggest lots have done, is a horrible investment. That person who said that was right on.
Also your suggestion that all AP's should be banned from the park on some days is as well ridiculous. Disney charges a premium price for full access. Maybe they should raise prices more if passholder crowding becomes an issue, but I would gather that the usage data suggests that passholders aren't overcrowding the Florida parks on peak days and thus the current pass pricing is appropriate.
Your suggestion is basically saying that Disney should eliminate the expensive passes and only sell discounted ones and if a passholder wants to go on a blackout day they can just purchase a one-day ticket. It's a lousy suggestion and here is why.
Disney is taking a gamble with the higher priced passes. They charge more for it up front, thus collecting more revenue and the gamble is the chance that the passholder won't even use the pass on those days when the lesser pass is blocked out. Personally, Disney is wise to get the extra revenue. I was a passholder for 19 years and never had anything less than a premium or premier pass, but I rarely used it on the peak days. In fact, I would've saved a lot of money buying the cheaper passes and paying for a one-day ticket or the blockout day charge. I'm the perfect example of the person who pays the premium for the privilege but rarely uses it! You want to take advantage of people like me.
The passes are very lucrative, not only for the lack of blackouts, but also because of the increased discounts. However, I don't think Disney would lose a lot of money if they eliminated the no-blackout passes, because those guests that really wanted to visit the parks during peak times would just buy regular admissions. Common sense would dictate that AP holders would avoid these weeks like the plague, but they don't because not only do they pay extra to visit during peak times, but they don't feel like they're being ripped off visiting on a day when they can only get on one ride and see one show because they can always come another day for free. From what I can tell, AP holders are a strange breed, and visit Disney on peak days like moths to a flame, and if Disney wanted to make the parks more accomodating for those actually paying money to visit on specific days during holiday season, they should consider further limiting AP access during this week.
I think you're also gravely mistaken about non-expiring passes. DVC members, another large group of guests that flood the parks during the holidays, buy Disney tickets like a commodity. Again, Disney wouldn't offer the upgrade of the non-expiring option if people didn't buy it. Your suggestion that people buy non-expiring passes and then let them rot is pretty far fetched. DVC members usually visit the parks at least once a year, and these non-expiring passes make the trips far less costly than pay ala carte.
All I'm suggesting is that instead of letting people walk into the park at $30 or $40 on tickets bought years ago, force them to pay the price differential during the holidays to discourage those visitors from coming or make them pay the going rate to get in the park on those days buy purchasing a new ticket. They may just increase admission sales during this time of year, because many DVC members are programmed to purchase 10-day non-expiring park hoppers, and would just buy a new one of those instead of a 1 or 2 day pass to cover their holiday visit.
The point is that people who are using premium APs and long-ago non-expiring passes aren't as concerned about the crowds as new visitors. Those new visitors could be soured by their first visit to Disney if they visit during these peak times. Disney should work hard to hook these guests and make them want to come back, and not just because they weren't able to get on an E-ticket ride because it was too crowded. If you weed out the guests that don't care about the crowds and are not paying full fare to enter, you not only make the park more managable to new potential fans, but you increase your profitability during the busiest time of the year, and it doesn't require raising general admission prices or shifting to a variable pricing scheme.
I think you're an extreme anomoly Eric. In general, I believe the average Disney visitor is a very value-focussed consumer. They are not interested in paying for something they are not going to use. There are dozens of websites devoted solely to maximizing your Disney vacation, and some have even created businesses around the fact that people paying $100+ a night and $80+ admission want to get the best bang for their buck, and that extends to the AP holders and DVC members. I'm sorry that you don't take advantage of things that you purchase, but I think a majority of Disney guests do.
If Disney wishes to improve the patron experience during the holidays (which I seriously doubt that they do) and maintain the same cash flow, they are going to have to reduce the number of daily visitors or add capacity. Since it is fairly obvious that they are not extremely interested in increasing capacity and adding attractions, I went with the reduced number of visitors and increased gate entry price approach.
You're right that I did a poor job of explaining my thoughts on requiring reservations. What I failed to say was that gate resrvations would:
1) spread the visitors out between the parks,
2) be automaticly given to patrons staying on Disney property (and assigned to specific parks at the time of room reservation),
3) be available in a limited number to the general public, and
4) hopefully keep people from showing up at the park and be denied entry since the reservation requirement will be widely publicized.
I'm also not sure why you find it necessary to comment on my personal feelings about overcrowding in Disney World during the Christmas twice in this thread. Wasn't that the whole intent of the thread? Making comments like "Clearly, you shouldn't visit the parks during these busy periods because it really bothers you personally." is condescending. I let the first one pass, but the second time you threw it in there crossed the line, and you really need to stop doing it.
Enough said! Back to debating the issues!
Not only that, what do you do when guests don't show up for reservations? Do guests pay a reservation fee like you do for dining now, and is it refundable if you cancel within a certain period? You would likely end up with the same problems that the dining system is wraught with, lack of available tables at the most desirable restaurants and a bunch of annoyed guests that don't understand how people can plan their vacations to the t 180 days in advance.
The real problem is that there are too many people entering the park and too few things to do. So, the only ways to fix these problems would be to add more things to do (very costly) or to discourage people from coming to the park on the high volume days. If you start with the people that are paying the least to enter the park on these days (AP holders and older non-expiring tickets), that would cost the least amount of money and ultimately get the biggest reward.


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The feed is gone
Over the weekend, I added my Ma.gnolia bookmarks feed to my blog post template, such that every post would be followed by links to and descriptions of the last five external web pages to have caught my fancy. Inserting the feed into the template was easy and took all of three minutes.
This morning, I removed the feed.
Why I inserted the feed
From 1995 until around the time Happy Cog worked on the Ma.gnolia design project, one of the things I wrote about here was other people's websites. I did it because I was passionate about web design, and so were the people who read this site. And of course, writing about other people's sites also provided a ready form and steady stream of content. From 1995 until about 2001, I wrote here several times a day, and had millions of readers.
Then married life, and a business that grew in spite of my lifelong effort to avoid commercial success, ate into my blogging time. Today I write less frequently and have fewer readers. In an effort to provide linkage even when I don't have time to write posts, I added my Ma.gnolia feed to my site's sidebar in 2006. (It's still there, on my front page. You may need to scroll down to see it.)
A flaw in the design
Not everyone notices the Ma.gnolia feed in my sidebar, due to a flaw—one of many—in the way I redesigned zeldman.com in 2004. (I used to redesign this site several times a year, but haven't touched it since Spring of 2004.)
When I redesigned zeldman.com in 2004, I thought it would be "neat" to make my sidebar's linked text almost the same color as the background until you hovered over it. The idea being that the focus was on the site's content, not all the little crap in the sidebar. The sidebar was like sand, and you, the reader, were like a beachcomber with a metal detector. Hover the metal detector over the sand, and you might find a quarter. Hover over my sidebar, and you might find additional content.
Like most "neat" ideas that aren't entirely practical, this one required compromise in the execution. The result is a conventional sidebar with low-contrast text. Because of the low contrast, lots of people (including people with certain kinds of dyslexia) pay little attention to the sidebar's content. So I need to redesign.
But meantime, slipping the Ma.gnolia feed out of the sidebar (on blog posts) and into the body of posts itself seemed like another neat idea. People who'd ignored the Ma.gnolia feed in the sidebar would now, finally, bask in its glory. Every post would end with the last five third-party links I'd reviewed. Neat, neat, neat.
Why I removed the feed
This morning I removed the feed from the body of the blog posts for a technical reason and a design/usability reason.
Technically, as we all know, it's not a great idea to pull content from a third-party site. The third-party site can be slow. It can get hacked. It can even go down, causing one's own pages not to finish rendering. (As I write this, Ma.gnolia's server appears to be taking a little nap—an infrequent occurrence, although the server is often slow. As for my embedded Twitter feed, like yours, it suffers from near-constant narcolepsy.)
And from a design usability perspective, the idea just didn't gel. For one thing, people would dig up old posts and write comments on them about sites newly added to the Ma.gnolia feed. Owing to the age of the posts, those comments were unlikely to be found by other readers. And as soon as the feed updated, the comments would become nonsensical, because they discussed content no longer found in the post.
So the feed is gone.
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42 Responses to "The feed is gone"
j. rainsford said on 15 April 2008 at 8:11 am:
Hi Jeffery,
are you planning on redesigning you site completely or are you still happy with your design?
Michael Nutt said on 15 April 2008 at 8:21 am:
It sounds like the ideal situation would be a wordpress plugin that attached Ma.gnolia links to the post at the time you wrote it. The links would be the same age as the post, and you wouldn't be dependent on an external resource.
Kari Pätilä said on 15 April 2008 at 8:32 am:
The sidebar is almost invisible until you really focus on reading it. I don't see that as a problem, but then again, I can see the text on it.
The content from 3rd party feeds are often not worth the trouble they cause, especially when one has any difficulties serving content in the first place. This is something that's become quite clear to me during the last couple of days.
David, biologeek said on 15 April 2008 at 8:42 am:
The web you describe is not Web 2.0 but Semantic Web and it already exists, we just need tools in order to use it, really.
John Lascurettes said on 15 April 2008 at 9:24 am:
I have not been following your Ma.gnolia feeds from here because I follow them from Ma.gnolia. But you're right, I don't think I even noticed they were there in the sidebar.
As far as your time-related association goes, I think this is just fallout from the "fresh is better" primary attitude that blogging has made pervasive. Fresh can be great but so can useful content be good. The time-ordered organization of blogging has kind of turned the taxonomy of subjects on its head – despite the associated tags.
I think it's simply time for products like Word Press to grow up a little more and go to the next level.
Erik said on 15 April 2008 at 9:32 am:
Thanks, as usual, for your insight. I've been wondering the same thing about contextual (content- or time-based) relationships between different streams, Twitter, Flickr, what have you. If you figure out a workable solution, please share! (I'll try to do likewise in the unlikely event I beat you to it.)
Neal G said on 15 April 2008 at 9:51 am:
I've been in the same boat as you in a way. I'm debating on redesigning my site (which entails probably 60-70 pages). My main reason is when I designed my site a year and a half ago, I was only shooting for html transitional but since then, I have designed all my sites to validate as Strict. I guess time is the only thing stopping me, and a lack of inspiration for a new design.
I like the design of your site but it probably could be freshened up a bit. Perhaps it's time to switch to a 960px wide layout? You could give your content a bit more room to breath that way. I would continue to use all the same colors since you've sort of branded yourself with these for so long now.
David Sleight said on 15 April 2008 at 10:11 am:
Smacking my forehead right now for not thinking up that "time-associated" plugin idea for third party content. Love the concept of going back to a previous post and having all the included Flickr/Twitter/etc content be from the time the post was created, not the most current items. Historical context, and solves a very mundane issue of content repetition to boot.
Jeff Croft said on 15 April 2008 at 10:51 am:
The solution is to cache the content you pull from Ma.gnolia. Speed problems — resolved!
Erik said on 15 April 2008 at 11:45 am:
Another thing that could help (along the plugin front) would be to aggregate the feeds you want into database tables. That way you could more carefully control how old entries access the data (by timestamp, keywords, or location, say).
And if you're storing this content directly (albeit redundantly) you wouldn't have to worry about the state of Twitter or Ma.gnolia when it comes to your site loading.
Kari Pätilä said on 15 April 2008 at 12:28 pm:
Personally, for caching RSS feeds, I use the PEAR package called Cache Lite.
Dan Wilkinson said on 15 April 2008 at 12:29 pm:
I've followed your "Outside Reading" links for years. They're always carefully selected, relevant AND interesting. The color scheme never bothered me, but my eyes are pretty good. I did find the inclusion of the feed within the main posts confusing and distracting, especially since I already followed them on the sidebar.
Whatever you end up doing as far as redesigning/reformatting your site, I hope you do keep some kind of "Outside Reading" list.
phil said on 15 April 2008 at 2:22 pm:
I think you should at least put them back in the sidebar. I've often found those links to be interesting and informative, and there's no reason not to include them on the post pages as well as the main page.
I like the idea of being able to gather up a temporally-appropriate selection of feed items per post as well though. As Erik said, it seems like it would be a reasonably simple task to create a local table (feed date/URL/title/description) and then throw an appropriate query at it to pull entries from a preset window either side of the post date.
Jeff Croft said on 15 April 2008 at 2:53 pm:
Well, I do exactly that on my site (all of my links come from Ma.gnolia), and I just store them in my database permanently. I query Ma.gnolia's API every 10 minutes for additions to my bookmarks, pull the data down, and save it in my database.
But, that's a bit of a heavy solution, because I want to save the data permanently — something lighter might work for you. You could set up a cron job to grab the feed every x number of minutes and save it locally — then include that file in your site, rather than the remote copy from Ma.gnolia. That's what I'd suggest! :)
Dan Johnson said on 15 April 2008 at 10:49 pm:
First I must say that my wife and I love the Mr. B Natural short (re: your current ma.gnolia.com links). MST3K has been one of our favorites for years.
As for relating social bookmarks to dates or date ranges, the information seems to be available (posting dates are on your ma.gnolia.com page, as on my del.icio.us page). Now if I could make a nice little PHP script to scrape the data and get it into WordPress… I've never created a plugin before. Might be time to try.
David Sleight said on 16 April 2008 at 12:20 am:
Gak, you're right. Apologies. Present conditions have rendered into swiss cheese what was once a glittering pile of crackling synapses. I'd take a crack at it myself if my back-end skills were beyond their current "Wicked Training Wheels" phase.
Hanan Cohen said on 16 April 2008 at 1:08 am:
For me, the important part of your post is:
people would dig up old posts and write comments on them about sites newly added to the Ma.gnolia feed.
When there is a website hosting content from "outside", it is important to make it very clear to the reader.
For example: I run a site that enables NGOs to open a page about the organization. Often, readers of MY site contact me, the webmaster, about ANOTHER organization that they found in my site.
Since people see only an inch around the mouse arrow, they don't understand where they are.
Hank Lynch said on 16 April 2008 at 10:27 am:
wow, wish you were using a .Net platform….I could gin this up in a minute for ya. Payback for years of entertainment.
Great idea though, since work blocks twitter, magnolia etc at the firewall, alot of the pages I read just fall apart when rendering. Pain in the A!
cannboys said on 17 April 2008 at 8:35 am:
It's over 3 years since this design? Feels like no more than 2. I still remember the spaceman and the orange…and when you had a photo of you looking slightly manic, with long hair.
Beth said on 18 April 2008 at 6:59 am:
Besides the Mag.nolia feed, your blog RSS feed appears to be down.
Peter Urban said on 19 April 2008 at 7:54 pm:
Hey man, I've been following your site since… gosh think it's 1996 – first from Germany and now from Canada. I used to love you frequent re-designs and all the struggles that came with them. Especially when I was still coding html and css almost every day. I understand the commercial (and personal) constraints but I wish there was a little more time to follow our passion. Maybe there will be a retired coders club at some point in the future ;-)
mario said on 22 April 2008 at 6:06 am:
Please put the Feed BACK!! Tnx
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Snow White meets the White Hart
The parts of this that were basically CLAMP's Rg Veda + Juuni Kokki were good, and it certainly looked gorgeous, but, like. I REALLY WANT TO REWRITE THE SCRIPT OF THIS MOVIE, GUYS. It took pains to set up a whole bunch of complicated themes, then didn't develop any of them properly. Possibly related to the fact that the writers clearly had no idea what an actual conversation sounds like.
* If the point of Evil Queen Ravenna is that she only turned into a witch because she is trapped by the literal curse of her magical beauty in a brutal patriarchal system (not a subtle reading, btw: this nail was hammered in), then she ought to be redeemed. Or freed from the system. Or, IDK, realize before she dies that she's been thinking about it the wrong way??? Or else what is the point??????? #moviesthatturnoutnottobeUtena
* If the point of Snow White is that she is the special summoner unicorn who will heal the land through her purity and innocence, then she should… do that? And not resolve the story by being like "Welp gotta go stab a bitch." Either the king or the kirin, goddamn, get your story sorted.
* She only became stabbity after the apple episode, but there was no explanation for why this should have caused her to turn into Joan of Arc. (Not that I don't appreciate KStew in shining armour.)
* Or, yanno, the full Ikuhara/CLAMP/Madoka ending where the apple corrupts Snow (because what the apple represents in the context of the story is THE TOXIC ILLUSION OF HETEROSEXUAL LOVE UNDER PATRIARCHY). Even if you crop out, which you'd have to because it's a Hollywood movie, it would've made this movie 400% better.
* Less crypto-lesbian kissing, more outright lesbian kissing.
* Speaking of kissing, it makes no sense within the context of the story that EITHER dude kissing Snow should have woken her up, because at no point does anyone say, "Guess what - only true love's kiss can wake her!", not even Blind Prophet Dwarf Who Randomly Says Things We're Meant To Take As Gospel. There was also no apple-dislodging, which would be the real-physics explanation. Also, the apple represents the toxic illusion etc. so thematically speaking no dude should've been able to fix this, no matter how sincere his feels. Also, the internal evidence of the narrative is that Snow is more into William than the Huntsman??? Although I can understand she might not want to date him after that awful trauma, through no real fault of his own???
* But also if the OTP is supposed to be Snow/Huntsman then it should've been REALLY EASY to load that ship, because 65% of this film is like going through the Golmore Jungle in FFXII and making Basch buff Larsa every ten steps (…this wasn't just my game, right?). Snow is even dressed like Larsa. They didn't succeed at this, though, and I can't figure out why, other than general inability to write.
Basically I'm with Roger Ebert in that there is a great movie in there… somewhere… but not on the surface, that's for sure.
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Before & After: Marie's Budget Bathroom Makeover
We recently came across this inexpensive bathroom makeover on our Apartment Therapy SF Flickr Pool. Marie and her husband Aaron moved into their Menlo Park apartment about a year and a half ago. While their initial decorating tended toward neutral colors and traditional furnishings, Marie felt a need to brighten things up by making her bathroom a bit fresher and younger. See Marie's less than $50 makeover after the jump.
Here's a description from Marie of what went into the makeover:
This bathroom was the first project on the list and I couldn't be happier with the results. We painted all of the walls with Jamaica Bay by Behr (about $25 for one gallon), and I made a window treatment with discount fabric from Ikea ($2 for one yard). The accessories are primarily from Home Goods, and I can't imagine that I spent more than $40 on the whole transformation.
The branch and birds mural is one of my favorite DIY's of all time. I painted it by hand using black paint markers from Michael's. I looked at dozens of Google Images of both branches and birds until I found ones that sort of resembled what I had in my head, and kept referring back to them as I painted the mural. There was also a lot of improvisation. It looked too scary at first, so I added flower buds on the branches and that made it a bit friendlier.
I would love to be able to paint the vanity, change out the fixtures, etc., but this is a rental and I need to keep our budget and my landlord's wishes in mind. For now, the room makes me smile and it encourages me to work on the rest of the place.
Thanks for sharing, Marie! It just goes to show how easily a space can be transformed with a little paint and some imagination.
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love that branch/towel rack look! :)
I love this color--it totally transforms the bathroom. What is that flooring, it looks like carpet?
That looks great! Color, branch, pattern on the window curtain!
paint does amazing things. i spent about $125 redoing my bathroom (paint, new towel bar and other fixtures, new mirror, new shelves, shower curtain, etc).
I love this!!! I can't wait till we get our first home... I'm sure we'll have to do fun and creative things like this! Beautiful job :)
that is just gorgeous!!! what a difference! well done :))
Well done!
What an amazing before & after. Great job!
Beautiful! So creative, and what a lovely colour! Nice work... :)
Very lovely! Such a creative idea.
I really, really wish I could do this to my bathroom; yours is a lovely change, regardless of the budget and the impossibility of switching the fixtures.
(Does anybody have ideas on how to deal with weird stucco-type walls that give the impression of melting icing?)
Gorgeous and inventive!
that is a fabuluous fugly apartment bathroom makeover!
Looks fab!
wow, this looks almost exactly like what I have planned for my bathroom...I might tweak my design now...I like what you've done though! There's nothing better than doing it on the cheap!
Great job!
I love the branch, birds, towel rack----you are a true artist.
Thanks for sharing.
It is gorgeous!
awesome- really love the color. did a budget transformation of our bath last year.
Now THAT is a makeover! Kudos to you and your artistry.
Aw, thanks so much everyone for your kind words! I love the AT community!
Fabulous. The color combo knocks me out. On first glance, i didn't find the birds/branches to be scary looking until you mentioned it. The power of suggestion is a terrible/wonderful thing. I think if the towels weren't there to mitigate the effect, it would be kinda creepy.
Lovely. You clearly have talent and skill. The photo of the same view is much appreciated.
I think it's darling. If you ever get the change, switch the TP holder to the other side, so you don't look at it the minute you open the door.
Love the "after" font.
What a great before and after! I often end up liking the befores better or the difference is subtle, but yours is a really striking improvement. Even better that it was so inexpensive. And painting that freehand is pretty impressive, I definitely thought you'd used a stencil. Great job, and adorable bathroom!
It's lovely! It's perfect! I'm totally stealing this from you!
Don't you love, love, love being able to say you painted that yourself? I see a lot of people use wall stickers (From Ikea?) and I always think--they could have painted that for way less and made it look more custom. Go you!
gorgeous! LOVE the color and the birds.
i love it! great job & price!
i wanna go watch Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" now. :D
i actually hate that color. when i first saw it i thought " dark, sticky, sickly, humid". to me, it is a very uncomfortable color. i think it would have been amazing if it was even the same color, but lightened up a lot more. but thats just my two cents lol guess im the only one :) im glad the owner is happy with the results, i do love the birds.
How lovely! The transformation is amazing with so little job. Well done!
Fantastic mural Marie!
I only wish I had half that talent..
Love it! Even on a budget things can be gorgeous!
Darling makeover!! Love it :)
Wow! Fantastic job!
before and afters are the bomb.
Lovely! It's a great transformation of a truly small bathroom that's given me a lot of hope for my truly small bathroom.
Great makeover!
SO cute! I'm inspired to revisit the fugly rental bathroom I'd given up on...
Love it. I thought the tree branch was a wall cling at first. Very nice job.
Hey this is a great transformation, job well done. I think the hand painted mural accents the room and the Jamaica bay color heightens the feeling of clean. Just an interesting word, for all you do it yourselfers, my company is called Rebuilders Source located in NYC and we sell discounted paint(5 gallons,quarts,etc) starting at 10 $. We are very big on recycling materials and want the green movement to push further, hope you can stop by and find materials within your budget!!!!!!!!!
thumbs up!
you should sell a stencil.
@Julia B-- I think it looks like cork.
Like this a lot! It might inspire me to re-do my mini-bath in a similar fashion. Once the kitchen gut is done, that is!


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DUBAI, UAE - Caroline Wozniacki won her first WTA title of the year on Sunday night, cruising past Svetlana Kuznetsova in just 75 minutes, 61 63, to win the prestigious Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
Wozniacki, the No.1 seed at the Premier-level tournament, reached the final without losing a set and that pattern continued as she had one of her most lopsided wins of the week against the No.16-seeded Kuznetsova, breaking serve seven times en route to her first WTA title of the year and the 13th of her career.
"I was hitting the ball cleanly and aggressively. I knew I had to, because if Svetlana is allowed to dictate, she's just too strong," Wozniacki said. "It was very important to stay pretty close to the baseline and keep her moving. I'm a player that can play aggressively, I can play defensively, I can mix it up and wait for the right moment. It depends on the opponent and it depends on how I feel.
"I always try to come up with the right answer to win the match."
The biggest news of the week may not have only been who the champion would be, but whether Wozniacki could regain No.1. She needed to reach the semifinals to secure the top spot just a week after losing it to Kim Clijsters - with her 62 64 win over No.9 seed Shahar Peer in the quarterfinals, Wozniacki met the requirements and will be No.1 again Monday for a 19th career week.
While Wozniacki improved to 13-8 in career finals, Kuznetsova fell to 13-19. She will, however, rise from No.23 in the world to inside the Top 15 when the new rankings are released, and did have a string of impressive wins en route to the final, including upsets over No.3 seed Francesca Schiavone, No.8 seed Agnieszka Radwanska and finally No.11 seed Flavia Pennetta.
"I was just making so many unforced errors," Kuznetsova said. "She defends well and doesn't really give you many free points. She plays a stable game and she wins. I just kept changing my strategy all match instead of just choosing one thing and playing it. She's just a smarter player. That's it."
Other noteworthy mentions from the week go to Alisa Kleybanova, who stunned No.2 seed Vera Zvonareva in the third round, and Jelena Jankovic, who rallied from 3-5 in the third set to beat Kaia Kanepi in the third round and 1-4 in the third set to beat No.4 seed Samantha Stosur in the quarterfinals before falling to Wozniacki, 75 63 (although she did hold four set points in that first set against the eventual champion, whom she had never lost to).
In a near-repeat of last year's doubles final, Liezel Huber and María José Martínez Sánchez beat Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik, 76(5) 63. Last year, Martínez Sánchez and Nuria Llagostera Vives beat Peschke and Srebotnik in the final; this year, Martínez Sánchez partnered Huber, a three-time champion in Dubai with Cara Black. It was their second event together.
"If you told me a year ago I'd be here winning with a different partner, I would say you're kidding me, because I had such a long career with Cara," Huber said. "I've grown over the last year. I played with 11 different partners last year. But the main thing is I truly believed in my partner this week. She was really sick to start the week and we had only played one time before, but our games mesh.
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Please go into your bathroom. Go in front of the mirror. Take a good long look into your own eyes. Tell yourself that there is more to this life than getting badges from a game. Now, go to the beach, read a book, get coffee with your mom. Anything! Just please, log out.