Showing posts with label Pixar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pixar. Show all posts

Friday, July 1, 2022

Senses working overtime #373

1 Twenty great American road trips (yes - the Pacific Coast Highway is in there)




2 A look at the first ten minutes of Pixar's Up.




3 The team at the Oxford English Dictionary felt some nervousness about writing the definition for “Terf”...




4 How to have those awkward conversations




5 Twenty ways the Supreme Court just changed America


Overtime:


Poet Danielle Doby on the power of small acts:

"When you create a difference in someone's life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime.

No act is ever too small. One by one, this is how to make an ocean rise."

Source: James Clear

Friday, January 15, 2021

Senses working overtime #297

 Peanut Butter



I'd be hard pressed to live without it - it has always be that way. Here's the history of peanut butter.

Reading


Another thing I can't imagine being without! I have evolved and now read multiple books at once.

This is a fascinating article on the process.
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Ed Catmull, cofounder of Pixar, on how they make great movies:

"Initially, the films we put together, they're a mess. It's like everything else in life—the first time you do it, it's a mess. Sometimes it's labeled ... "a failure" ... but that's not even the right word to use. It's just like, you get the first one out, you learn from it, and the only failure is if you don't learn from it, if you don't progress."

Writing from Seth Godin: 
It doesn’t have to be perfect, it can simply be the next thing you do.
George Lucas A Life



The more I read about him, the more I like him!

Overtime: American Graffiti


After reading the chapter on how it was made, I rewatched this during the week. It's a great film!

Friday, June 24, 2016

Senses working overtime #62

1 Jeeerrrrrry



Jerry Seinfeld is a regular visitor to these pages. He has season 8 of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee out (soon? now? not sure). If you've never seen any (!!!!) go to YouTube right now and treat yourself.

2 Tim's views
Thanks to a link from James Whatley - here's a series of photos from Tim's view aboard the space station.

3 PM Dawn
RIP Attrell.

4 Rowan and Elton
Hilarious YouTube clip has Rowan Atkinson interviewing Elton John.



5 Welcome to a scary world...



Vantage have some great photography stories. This one is slightly creepy/ scary though - it details the strange world created by Mark Hogancamp who was attacked outside a bar in Kingston, NY. After coming out of a coma, Hogancamp created his own recovery therapy in his backyard — a miniature Belgian WWII town called Marwencol where Hogancamp can work on his dexterity and on his imagination.

Overtime: Pixar
All seventeen of the Pixar movies rated! Your life is now complete!