Showing posts with label PIXAR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PIXAR. Show all posts
Sunday, May 19, 2019
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Sunday, December 31, 2017
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Shirts
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Wednesday, February 01, 2017
February Fun!
February is starting out great! We have been cooking up a Shagadelic
Monster project for weeks and it is moving further down the road (I will
give details when I can). I see the Academy Awards are coming up on
the 26th, and while I do not watch them anymore, it made me reflect.
The Afterword in my second book, The Making of the Rankin/Bass Holiday
classic: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (MISER BROS PRESS), was
www.miserbros.com
written
by my dear friend and Academy Award winning Director Andrew
Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E, etc.). Andrew and I were connected by
John Lasseter during the making of Toy Story. He gave me a quote for
the back cover of my first book, because he was as big a fan of
Rankin/Bass as I am. It turned out many of the crew were huge fans and
the late, great Joe Ranft (Nightmare Before Christmas, Cars, Toy Story
2, etc.) and I became great friends as well. Joe gave me commentary
that I used through out my 2nd book. I have all the ART OF books signed
and drawn in by the crew and hadn't looked through them for a long
while. By request, Andrew made me the LIFE MAGAZINE cover from TOY
STORY 2 and I really treasure that. I was very proud of Andrew when he
won the Oscars and they were well deserved! My Rudolph book is part of
our sale and in-stock too! #Pixar #disney #Academyawards #oscars #hollywood
Friday, November 27, 2015
RANKIN/BASS' SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN is on ABC TV tonight and I am ready for interviews!
for our BLACK FRIDAY sale! Signing all sorts of Heat Miser and Snow Miser photos, two more characters he designed!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
CARS 2: A Klunker?
CARS 2 has a SPY theme (One of my favorite genres) BUT right from the starting line I could see this was going to be a YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE type of film and not the GOLDFINGER, one would expect from PIXAR. Lots of racing and explosions BUT very weak on story. The first CARS film was sweet, because it focused on not passing life by via ROUTE 66 and took place mostly in RADIATOR SPRINGS with a sweet story line. This story was confusing and I think it was about MATER and LIGHTNING McQUEEN's friendship BUT I am not sure and it featured lots of racing and explosions inbetween and never reached the quality of the first. I didn't care about the characters. I didn't even know who many of them were. It was not clear. If I am not clear, how can it be clear to children? I have never had the urge to leave during a PIXAR film...until today.
Maybe DISNEY has too much of it's hand in the PIXAR films now. Maybe there are too many people and ideas running around to make a simple and sweet story there anymore. Less is more. I am still scratching my head. I am one of PIXAR'S biggest supporters!
After watching the previews and trailers, I think it is still safe to say PIXAR is still leaps and bounds ahead of it's competition. I am worried now though. There is a CGI CHIPMUNKS 3 coming out?!?!?*&^%$ SMURFS was insulting to the intelligence too. They even had a commercial for yet another new cartoon show on CARTOON NETWORK (MARBLES?) that looked like a first grader designed it.
I want to say good things about modern day Hollywood BUT they make it so hard :(
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
TOY STORY 3
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Friday, May 07, 2010
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