Coop has some thoughts on the fact that Devo is now doing children’s music for Disney. I can completely appreciate the absolute genius of this DEV2.O thing. It’s probably their single most brilliantly subversive move to implant the concepts of Devolution. Essentially Devo has taken a page from the playbook of corporate America. Hook’em while… Read More »Devolution at Disney
Bad news for folks who like to get their Disney shopping fix from home; The Disney Catalog will stop publishing and instead focus solely on the DisneyShopping.com website. Um, what about those people who don’t have broadband internet access? or internet access at all? How are they going to let people know they have new… Read More »Disney Catalog wraps up
Last year Disney unexplainably cancelled the famous "What’s Next" Super Bowl campaign. This year, however, they’re back with a whole new version of the classic.
It’s hard to beat the artistry of Mary Blair when it comes to representing children. The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive blog has posted some scans of her long out of print book "Little Verses". In these paintings you can see the beginnings of Blair’s concept artwork for the 1964 World’s Fair attraction "it’s a small world".… Read More »Mary Blair book up at ASIFA Blog
Believe it or not there is other Disney news to report. The decision freeing the Disney Board from any wrong doing in hiring and firing Michael Ovitz is under appeal. Plantiffs went before Delaware’s High Court and asked them to reverse the lower courts decision based on what they claim to be a misinterpretation of… Read More »Disney Shareholders persue Ovitz appeal
Reports from Burbank are that John Lasseter and Ed Catmull are cleaning house. First order of business, take those old toys off the shelf and put them in a box somewhere. News was spread through Walt Disney Feature Animation and the, once secret, Circle 7 unit that Toy Story III production has been stopped. Yep,… Read More »Toy Story III, off the shelf?
Just got back from work where the mood was mixed. Seems like everyone thought this was a great move for Disney, but wished Pixar had remained independant of the mouse’s claws. I finished listening to the complete investor conference at lunch today. One thing that really stood out was how adamant Steve Jobs was that… Read More »Pixar RoundUp – III
It’s day one, the dawn of a new era at the Walt Disney Company. Hopefully, Steve Jobs and Bob Iger aren’t waking up going ‘What have I done!" I imagine there will be a honeymoon period as each side gets re-acquainted with the other. Although Lasseter has kept ties with The Disney Company, I’ sure… Read More »Pixar RoundUp – II