Pixar: The Best Institutional Innovator?

Future Predictions 20 May 2011 | 3 Comments

After I wrote my last post about the dearth of innovation in film, I happened to read Anthony Lane’s New Yorker piece on Pixar, “The Fun Factory”. It made me slap my forehead in an “of course!” way. Lane starts out as a skeptic, ready to debunk the myth of Pixar as the den of [...]

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Picasso, The Original 3D Master?

Futurist Musings on The Fly 5 January 2010 | 0 Comments

After all the hoopla about the 3D in James Cameron’s Avatar, and then this week at CES with all the talk about 3D Television, I thought we might take a little walk down the modern art aisle whilst browsing for entertainment. Not as schmaltzy as Avatar, and definitely heavier than most TV programming, Picasso’s Guernica. [...]

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