The Latest Generation

The Latest for June 2, 2024


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Prompt the First: Another Brick in the Wall Part 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Brick_in_the_Wall

 

Prompt the Second: Disney Cycles

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel, Jenny Nicholson’s magnum opus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4

On that pylon thing - this suggests that the original idea was to have a central performance viewable by everyone at every table.

https://x.com/JennyENicholson/status/1797429566535016523

“Wild Mouse” - Mulholland Madness at California Adventure (ater re-themed as Goofy’s Sky School) was this sort of coaster.  And this type is and was very generic, with dozens of instances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_mouse

About Pixar Fest https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2024/03/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-pixar-fest-at-disneyland/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1159961/ - Waking Sleeping Beauty goes over that period of Disney, and how people like Lasseter and Burton stopped working for Disney Animation.

A tweet about changes at Pixar

https://twitter.com/DelaneyLJordan/status/1796635728236982781

Pixar - started technically in 1974, Lassetar hired in 1983, produced Genesis effect animation for Star Trek The Wrath of Khan, and Stained Glass Knight in Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985 - the first fully computer-generated photorealistic animated character,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney - Born 1901 (GI Generation), died 1966 

Prompt the Third: The White Clown 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

Published in 1953, written by Ray Bradbury during the Red Scare. (Solidly 1st Turning, that is.)

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