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Pixar Drops Disney

I'm not surprised by this, it looks like Pixar is going try it alone:

http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/georgemannes/10140569.html

http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040129/media_pixar_disney_5.html

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True Majority

Here's a cool flash animation staring Ben Cohen from Ben and Jerry's about the Fedral govenment. Check it out:

http://ww11.e-tractions.com/truemajority/servlet/Gamelet;jsessionid=0DE9E741EB63D38A62DD80D1CCEFB187?req=BjEzO6PaM3E3tzM6bjEFtXM6B3Ef%2BWC3Q%2FmabjF9b9Z1ozM3Q%2FdaK6Frb4H0bA%3D%3D

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Opus

For those of you don't know. Berkely Breathead is back. His new comic is named opus. You can catch up on your opus reading here:

http://www.geeklife.com/images/Dec03/Opus_11-23-03.jpg
http://www.geeklife.com/images/Dec03/Opus_11-30-03.jpg
http://www.geeklife.com/images/Dec03/Opus_12-07-03.jpg
http://www.geeklife.com/images/Dec03/Opus_12-14-03.jpg
http://www.geeklife.com/images/Dec03/Opus_12-21-03.jpg
http://www.geeklife.com/images/Dec03/Opus_12-28-03.jpg
http://www.geeklife.com/images/Jan04/opus_2004-01-04.jpg
http://www.geeklife.com/images/Jan04/opus_2004-01-11.jpg
http://www.geeklife.com/images/Jan04/opus_2004-01-18.jpg
http://waxy.org/random/images/opus/opus_2004-01-18.jpg

Thank you obsessive compulsive internet people!!


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My DJ

I love McSweeney's. Here's a great reason why:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/1/12bieber.html

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Gollum, Serkis and Uncanny Valley

Reger Ebert does a pretty interesting review of Serkis's work in The Lord of the Rings. I'm pleased to see that he points out that Gollum is done though a team effort and it's not all Serkis. Don't get me wrong Andy Serkis did some great work with the character. If the animators on feature films were allowed to go that in depth into our characters and Serkis was allowed to, you'd see a lot stronger characters in animated feature films as well. But as long as budget and time holds us back, we'll just have to make due with what we can:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/answ-man/sho-sunday-ebert11.html

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Cool 2003 Pictures

MSNBC, who I normaly don't like, published a cool slideshow website of 2003's year in pictures. Sit back and enjoy, there's some really good ones:

http://www.msnbc.com//modules/yip03/slideshow.asp

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Pixar is so sued!!

CORRECTION

After doing some research I decided that this is a scam. The outline to the book was published in '95. But the book itself was self published in '02. This is long after the look of the film had been established. I think this is someone out to make a quick buck.


Check out these images. A French children's book author is attempting to sue Pixar for making a movie about a clown fish that looks a lot like his book does:

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/2951913818/pictures/14/171-3025501-2605023#more-pictures


http://www.worldmoviemag.com/MovieMagazine/News/newsdisneysued.htm


It's not the first time Pixar is accused of this. The one eyed character in Monsters Inc looks a lot like a 60's poster designer's drawing. And their short film "For The Birds" looks a lot like an old CalArts student film.


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I can see your house from here

This is a lot of fun. See if you can find your house:

http://www.terraserver-usa.com/default.aspx

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Bush in 30 Seconds

There are 15 finalists in the Bush in 30 Seconds competition. If you go to the website you can watch them using quictime. There's some really, really good ones!

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Pack The Cat

Well Christmas break is over, and it's time to go back to work. I have updated the main page on Pack The Cat. It now has a copy of our style guide for our wedding.

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