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Monday, June 30, 2008
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WALL-E

Last week Portland went to see WALL-E.  Jamin asked me to write up something about it.  I don’t have a review per se, but I wanted to examine a couple ideas in the film.  Obviously, if you haven’t seen it, this contains spoilers.

First let me say that it’s indisputably good.  It’s worthy of every superlative tossed its way.  Pixar has created a culture where the creative and technical staffs engage in a lions and lambs hoedown.  This yields amazing benefits, but in many ways it’s old news.  Pixar’s storytelling prowess is also old news.  What is beginning to be news, …

Friday, June 27, 2008
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New Blog

We’re still here.  The crew went last night to the Midnight showing of WALL-E.  I’ll post some thoughts on monday.  Now it’s back to work!

Also, kudos to the Web guys for the new blog.  Hats off to Kammer and Mantooth especially.