Archive for the 'Thoughts' Category

Creative Commons

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Last week we had a really interesting guest speaker here at Pixar, Larry Lessig. Great thing is that you can see the same presentation on TEDtalks, right here. It’s a little dry but I highly recommend listening through it. Lassig has some really great points on how law and copyrights can hinder creativity and culture [...]

Ratatouille - Persepolis - Surf’s Up

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

There’s a … uhm … lively debate regarding the best animated feature film nominations in this thread at CartoonBrew. Unfortunately I get the impression that way too many people haven’t seen Persepolis yet, thus making it not the most informed or intelligent discussion at times. What’s important though this year it’s how all three nominated [...]

What have you changed your mind about? Why?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

I followed an interesting link from the TedBlog and found this fascinating collection of essays answering the question “What have you changed your mind about in 2007? Why?”. I’d have to think hard about that to come up with my own answer, but in the meanwhile reading all these prominent figures answers is quite illuminating. [...]

Happy New Year!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

2008! Wow hard to believe it uh? Well it’s here … and I wanted to wish you all a fantastic new year ahead of you! I especially wish you best of luck with all your creative endeavors. Godspeed! Gambattene! In bocca al lupo! And thank you for reading this little blog, I appreciate your participation [...]

TedTalk addiction

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Ok, since posting about Sir Ken Robbison’s wonderful Ted Talk on education and creativy a couple of weeks ago (I’ve watched it half a dozen times now and I am more and more impressed by the subtle, funny and effective way he presents his message) I have become a fullfledge TedTalk junkie … they’re as [...]

So, you’ve gone and …

Monday, November 26th, 2007

This blog entry I just found is not only funny but sadly and tragicomically also rather useful … at this juncture. Might be a little while before I am mobileblog.

Ted talks

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

This Ted talk regarding education and creativity was sent to me today, a birthday nice little gift I’d say. Very funny and inspiring. See if you like it.

SketchCrawl - New York - Society of Illustrators - Art!

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

So, here we are, Ronnie and I are gonna head to New York tomorrow. For World Wide SketchCrawl 16 (this coming sunday) we will be meeting at 11:00am infront of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hope to see some of you there. The global event is looking great with more than 30 locations participating from [...]

Google reader

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

I think Google Reader has quickly become my favorite way of keeping up with all the blog feeds I like to read. Do many of you use it?

Bunnies by … who?

Monday, October 15th, 2007

You must’ve seen this latest spot Passion Picture has made for Sony, really stunning work. Personally I certainly thought of Kozyndan’s work when I saw it. Turns out there’s a huge discussion on the web on the possible plagiarism involved here. Rip off, Homage, no wrong doing ? You decide … here’s Kozyndan’s post about [...]