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My son is going to freak out when I tell him this!! Hope he still loves Disney Cars in 2 years. Via Article on the Disney Blog.
Summer 2012 – Hit the Road with Mater and Lightning McQueen: The best of Disney California Adventure park expansion may still be yet to come. Executive Producer and Vice President from Walt Disney Imagineering, Kathy Mangum, shared an update on Cars Land, the 12-acre expansion inspired by the Disney•Pixar blockbuster “Cars” that is set to debut in 2012. The land, modeled on the movie’s Radiator Springs setting, will feature three new attractions, including the E-ticket excitement of Radiator Springs Racers – taking guests zooming through the Cars Land landscape. Other Cars Land attractions will include Luigi’s Flying Tires (which should strike a chord with anyone who remembers the Flying Saucers in Tomorrowland) and Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree, a tow-truck themed attraction. The year 2012 will also see the completion of the new front entryway greeting park guests: Buena Vista Street featuring the Carthay Circle Theatre and the vintage Southern California Red Car Trolleys.
Kathy shared an artist rendering today that shows guests walking down Route 66, the main street of Cars Land, and a photo of a ride vehicle from Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree.

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This has collectable written all over it. How do you make something that is mass produced into something that individual items can retain their individuality? This is how.
What a cool dad… and such a unique way of being creative. This is the site of a pop who paints lunch bags for his kids during his lunch break. I can only imagine how much fun it is not only to be his kids but to see the reactions and anticipation of the other kids during lunch.

Just found out about this new startup using an innovative way of funding their project using pledges and this specialized website to manage the pledges. The company I backed was Lumi Co and their video did such a great job at doing a their pitch, I thought what’s 30 bucks, I get to help someone get closer to achieving their dreams. For mini startups, micro investments and incentive pledges makes the backers loyal, and excited about helping out.
Longing spreads like wild fire in the mind of a repressed artist. Living a life were responsibility takes precedence over contemplation and creation, they seek stimulation and connections to drive their creations. There is a difference between the curator and the creator and those whom have repressed their desire to create.
The curator, the self proclaimed expert, trained to actualize the good from the bad, the poorly executed from the honed skill. The creator, whom practices daily, makes it their responsibility, their livelihood. The repressed whom only create when there are no curators and no responsibility seeking their attention. The repressed may never practice for years but when applied to create, may make such masterpieces of emotion and passion that the skilled artist may attempt for years to attain and the curator may never realize the difference.
It’s that the repressed artist, self judged, that practices their craft in the minds eye. Ever seeking knowledge, experiences, joy and hardship to sharpen the ability to make connections from all that is around them. The repressed are those whom loose themselves in a song, take pen to paper and scribble a thought or doodle that no other may see, or set the stage of a deep philosophical conversation. The lack and need of an audience, which is the doing and un doing of the repressed. Fear of failure of imperfection. The tingle of pride after success. The repressed is the curator and the creator in one neatly created and engineered contraption. Like cardboard box strung with rubber bands in its interior holding and teasing the object within.
For whom do we create… for whom do we contemplate… for what is art in any form? what value does it really have to the creator or audience? Silly humanity..
Mr. Okat was my first boss in the internet world and still a great friend after 9 years. He and his team have done a great job on this book and the concept of their Doodler culture.
I love products that are surprise when you open them. Why do fortune cookies get to have all the fun.