abstract:The Glass Mountain (Aarne–Thompson type 530) is a Polish fairy tale collected by Hermann Kletke. Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book.
After the lecture, we meandered over to the Main House, built in 1815, where one can well imagine Cole and Church, mentor and student, admiring the view of their beloved mountain range from the porch over a glass of claret procured with Church's apprentice fees.
The film therefore splits between their home town of Seattle (gray and blue, glass and steel) and themountain stronghold of the Buddhist monks (red and orange, silk and wood).
Evernote and Skitch received some love from the folks in Mountain View too, with the ability to send images to the services through Glass' share functionality.