I wish that Jenny hadn't pointed out that Greg Laswell sounds French in the humming part of "Comes and Goes (in Waves)." It's making it harder to get inspiration out of one of my favorite "get some quick-indie-inspiration" songs. But it's also making me laugh, and laughter is just as precious as inspiration, perhaps moreso.
Speaking of inspiration, I love this article from the LA Times. Of course I love Pixar, and of course I'm excited just to see the movie. But read this part especially, it's so cool:
Before "Up" became a movie, it was just a single image: a grouchy old man with balloons.
As visually striking as the image might be, it wasn't clear how it and the senior citizen inside the floating house fit into a larger story, which explains why "Up" took so long to make it to the screen.
"In the very first draft . . . he just wanted to join his wife up in the sky," Docter said. "It was almost a kind of strange suicide mission or something. And obviously that's [a problem]."
Added Peterson: "Originally, he was not going anywhere. He was just going into the sky, because he had always associated his wife with birds."
That didn't sound like a Pixar movie -- it sounded like a film out of the surrealism movement. So Docter, Peterson and Rivera tried to figure out what they were really trying to communicate in their movie. "We hadn't flushed it out. We didn't really know what was going to happen or who he was going to meet," Rivera said.
As visually striking as the image might be, it wasn't clear how it and the senior citizen inside the floating house fit into a larger story, which explains why "Up" took so long to make it to the screen.
"In the very first draft . . . he just wanted to join his wife up in the sky," Docter said. "It was almost a kind of strange suicide mission or something. And obviously that's [a problem]."
Added Peterson: "Originally, he was not going anywhere. He was just going into the sky, because he had always associated his wife with birds."
That didn't sound like a Pixar movie -- it sounded like a film out of the surrealism movement. So Docter, Peterson and Rivera tried to figure out what they were really trying to communicate in their movie. "We hadn't flushed it out. We didn't really know what was going to happen or who he was going to meet," Rivera said.
This idea: a hovering, potentially great, potentially really weird image, is something that I just think is so important to know about. I'm so glad that they decided to tell this part of the story. Living with the weirdness of creativity, taking risks and steps and not being afraid to give something time to develop--this is such an important thing. It's not really just a description of creating art. I think it kind of works as a description of creating a full life.
full story: ( http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-up10-2009may10,0,2075358.story)
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