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ATi Radeon X1800 (R520) series are supposed to be products for Spring last
year but due to some design issues that hinder its release, the launch was
delayed till October. This allows NVIDIA to gain more market share in all fronts
with their already successful GeForce 6 series and the introduction of GeForce
7800 series in June last year. To make the matter worse, it was only until
December that users can actually get their hands on the X1800 retail cards in
stores that gave NVIDIA another chance to come out with the 7800 GTX 512MB
versions to secure the performance crown when ATi thought they had a chance.
Also while performance of the X1800XT 512MB may just be
on par if not slightly better than the GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB, the ATi card is
usually priced higher. Sadly, this gives no competitive edge for ATi at all.
Although the delay for the R520 was a long and excruciating one, the
R&D work and preparations on the its successor, R580 did not fall behind.
Therefore it is only barely 2 months after the debut of the X1800 series that
ATi decided to forgo it and concentrate their efforts on the Radeon X1900 series
that hopefully will give them a better position and competitive edge over
NVIDIA. As such, the Radeon X1800 cards which barely make their way on the
retail shelves for 2 months reached EOL instantly.
Today, the spotlight shines on ATi's next top end VPU, the Radeon X1900
Formally known as R580, this new chip has sure some very promising
specifications that could well dethrone NVIDIA's absolute fastest card – the
GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB. While only overclocked versions of X1800XTs could barely
touch the 7800GTX 512 in just certain scenarios, the R580 sure has enough
firepower that can dominate the charts. But away from the paper specifications,
what is most important is the fact that if ATi actually have these cards on sale
today, right on the launch day itself. It has been a long time since their
recent fiasco of not being able to have retail stocks on launch day itself.
After all the trashing from both the consumers and the media alike, ATi has
finally delivered their goods – this time round on time! The Radeon X1900 cards
are available at e-tail and retail stores.
Products At Launch
- Radeon X1900 XTX : 650MHz Core, 775MHz Memory, 512MB GDDR3, MRSP $ 649
- Radeon X1900 XT : 625MHz Core, 725MHz Memory, 512MB GDDR3, MSRP $ 549
- Radeon X1900 Crossfire : 625MHz Core, 725MHz Memory, 512MB GDDR3, MSRP
$ 599
- All-In-Wonder Radeon X1900 : 500MHz Core, 480MHz Memory, 512MB GDDR3, MSRP
$ 449
Architecture At Glance
The number of transistors grew to a whopping 384M on the R580, some 63M more
than the R520 built on TSMC's 90nm process technology. This denotes some
sizeable changes in the architecture and mostly on the tripling the pixel
shaders units. The design of the R580 series doesn't take long for the R&D team
since it retains most of the goodness of the R520. While the older
X1800XT only carries 16 of these pixel shader units, the new X1900XT carries a
whopping amount of 48 pixel shader units. However, the number of Texture Mapping
Units (TMUs), Raster Operation Output units (ROPs) remains unchanged at 16 as
well as 8 Vertex Shader units on both R520 and R580. With 48 shader cores,
the R580 is capable up to 48 Vector MADD/ADD ALUs in parallel. However, the
number of maximum threads in flight still stood at 512.
There are also minor but important tweaking to the architecture to improve
its performance and efficiency. The amount of Hierarchical Z buffer size on the
R580 has been increased 50% to store more pixel data so we can expect better
performance at higher resolutions. Also the inclusion of Fetch4 capability
allows acceleration of the filtering of shadow maps by allowing 4 values from
adjacent addresses to be drawn simultaneously instead of one thereby increasing
the texture sampling rates greatly. This is similar to Percentage Closer
Filtering (PCF) method on the NVIDIA GPUs.
Other Physical Differences
The new X1900XTs (and X1900XTX) comes with blistering
fast 1.1ns GDDR3 memory. However, these new X1900XTs are only clocked at a
modest 1.4GHz on the memory, even slower then the default 1.5GHz found on older
X1800XT. The lowering of memory clock speeds might well due to tighter memory
latencies on the X1900XTs. With these 2 key differences between the X1800XT and the X1900XT, there
very minimal differences between the both. Since ATi had made the R580 chip pin
to pin compatible with the older RX180XT cards, makers are expected to have
similar PCB layouts between X1800XT and X1900XT. However, upon our closer
inspection, we found that power regulating portion of the card is slightly
modified to include more VRMs to supply more current. With this aside, both the
X1800XT and the X1900XT share similar physique. We'll talk more about the
cards in the coming pages.
One of the first cards to arrive here is the ASUS
EAX1900XT. With it's trademark gigantic box, the EAX1900XT's packaging design
does not differ much from the older EAX1800XT. Yes, for those who want it,
it's on retail shelves now!
The other X1900XT that was sent to us, the Sapphire Radeon
X1900XT. Like the ASUS card, this is a retail product and could be bought off
shelves today.
As the R580 core requires more current to operate, the X1900XT
cards are equipped with more VRMs (the row of black square components in this
picture) which would supply the additional current to the core.
Here's some quick specifications on the Radeon X1900XT:
ATi Radeon
PCI Express
16 TMU units
Rendering Operation Output Units
16 ROP units
48 Pixel Shader Processor units
8 Vertex
625 MHz
1450 MHz
2048 x 1536
2x DVI, 1x
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Bob De Vries: Common courtesies
January 30, 2012
Getting out of the post office parking lot can be a real hassle almost any time of the day. I would like to thank those drivers who stopped for a few seconds and let me drive out onto Third Street. The ones who are in such a hurry and won't stop are probably the same drivers who make a left-hand turn out of that lot or who park alongside the fire hydrant that is right there.
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(Choose one session from each track. )
Monday, March 31, 2008 - 4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
Strategic Session 3
Incorporating Self-Assessments in Your Business Continuity Plan
Strohl Systems
continuity planning does not take place in a vacuum. Every planner
faces the challenges of justifying expenses and securing resources in
order to build and maintain a successful BCP program. How can you raise
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Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how to determine
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Managerial Session 3
The Convergence of Email Archiving and Disaster Recovery
the last year, disaster recovery, compliance, and archiving have become
increasingly intertwined. In 2006, new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
changed the way electronic information such as email and digital files
must be produced for litigation.
As a result, U.S. companies have been forced to pay billions of dollars to unearth digital records from back-up tapes originally implemented for disaster recovery. New best practices are emerging for holistic management of digital data such as email. As disaster recovery and archiving converge, leading companies are reinventing the way they manage data to improve policy management, reduce costs, and lower legal and compliance risk. This session will thoroughly cover the new compliance, legal discovery, and retention rules for managing digital data and their dramatic impact on disaster recovery.
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Technical Session 3
Implementing a High-Availability Web-Based Environment
Cheryl Carmel
SunGard Availability Services
more and more organizations build and implement internal web-based
applications that drive major business objectives, they are faced with
the design and implementation of a solution that will ensure a high
level of resiliency and data protection. This discussion is designed to
share experiences and practical application of tools that are available
to build resilience into web-based applications in your own environment.
Cheryl Carmel, CISSP, director of customer support center for SunGard Availability Services Software Products Group. Her responsibilities include design, implementation and management of SunGard's hosting environment for the commercial software products.
Emergency Response Session 3
BIA: The Next Generation
Cox, CBCP
output of a BIA is critical information for developing cost efficient
and effective recovery strategies and capabilities. Historically
however, conducting a BIA has been unnecessarily time consuming and
inefficient. The Next Generation of BIAs has arrived. Learn practical
approaches for conducting a BIA in your organization that will produce
meaningful results to aid in the success of your BC program. You will
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with costs and maintaining your impact profile without having to use
unnecessary person-hours to get the job done.
Peter Laz, MBCP, is a senior consultant with Forsythe Solutions Group. He is a member of the DRJ Editorial Advisory Board, a board member of PPBI and program director of the Capital Region Chapter ACP.
Lewis Cox, CBCP, is a managing consultant with Forsythe Solutions Group. He is a member of the BRPASW (Wisconsin Chapter), the Executive Technology Club (Chicago Chapter) and PPBI.
Advanced Session 3
Human Continuity: The People Side of BC
Gerald Lewis, Ph.D
G. Lewis & Assc.
Steve Zirkel
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Dr. Gerald Lewis, Ph.D an international consultant, has worked with government agencies, healthcare facilities, educational institutions and private businesses on a wide range of work, behavioral health and organizational issues.
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The Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) Certification Process
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The session is targeted to those individuals who have either begun or
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I hate it when visitation isn't a priority for BM
BM texted DH at 4:54 pm to let him know that she wouldn't be picking SD up. Her excuse? She was diagnosed with pink eye on Tuesday and didn't want to expose SD to it. She then said she'd text SD and let SD know.
She never let SD know, and SD was pissed that BM flaked again. DH told SD what BM told him, that BM has pink eye and didn't want to expose her. SD asked, "Isn't that like strep throat where after you have medicine for 24 hours you can't expose people anymore?" (Both MDD and YDD just got over strep throat and we told SD that once the girls were on antibiotics for 24 hours they were no long contagious).
I wish that BM would do a better job of communicating with SD about stuff like this, and doing it in a more timely manner than waiting until 6 minutes before she's supposed to pick SD up.
Your preaching to the chior Tink. Our BM doesn't even have rights and you'd think every chance available she's see her daughter- nope, excuses. And she lives 5 miles from the visit point. Some will never feel the way we think they "ought to".
That really sucks. Poor kid.
I don't think you can do this but, I had the same problem with my mom a few years ago. She'd tell me and I'd tell the kids or she'd tell the kids herself that she's going to meet them here at X time or she's coming to their games or she's going to whatever then never show up. Then I'm stuck with a couple of heartbroken kids wanting to know why she's not there. I finally stopped telling them when she would make plans to see them, that way they were surprised if she did show up and unaware if she didn't. I also told her to stop telling them and just surprise them.
Again, I don't think that's something you can do but maybe an idea will spring from it?
Sometimes they're just winners...BM left for another state about 6 weeks ago with 48 hours notice dropping the kids off early from one of her visits, hasn't been heard from since...not returning any messages. She's posting on FB, we know she's alive.
This is what I did. It isn't my job to remind ex that he has to be a dad this weekend, not next and that HE should call ME when he wants to talk to them, not the other way around.
After a while he got the point and is doing better.
Quoting chanizen:
With people like that, I would count on them Not showing up. After a few chances, I would stop reminding and calling and let it lie flat.
Sometimes the ship will right itself.
And if it didn't, it would have been his loss not
My agita :)
Quoting PyschMeh:
This is what I did. It isn't my job to remind ex that he has to be a dad this weekend, not next and that HE should call ME when he wants to talk to them, not the other way around.
After a while he got the point and is doing better.
Quoting chanizen:
With people like that, I would count on them Not showing up. After a few chances, I would stop reminding and calling and let it lie flat.
You gotta start letting it roll off your back.
She's not a good mom. It's going to be hard for SD to accept she's not a priority to her mother, but the sooner you guys can cope with that, the easier life will be for her.
It will never happen.
When we had SS for our month long summer visit (2 years ago, prior to getting custody), BM called SS to wish him a Happy B-Day at the end of the day. She had not moved up here yet but was with her Boy Toy (who lived 20 minutes from us) for the entire 4 day weekend. She couldn't even make time to see her son on his BDay. Then once she moved up here (only 10 minutes away), she went for 2 months without seeing SS and then tried to accuse me & DH of pushing her out of his life. I laughed and told her she was bat shit crazy. (One of the few times I confronted her.) I told her that she was the one pushing herself out of his life. Then I listed every example of her disppointing SS and not being there for him, putting Boy Toy before SS, etc.... I told her that all I have to do is stand back and watch her crash & burn. I don't have to do anything, she's doing it all for me.
I wish everyday that BM would grow up and be the kind of mom that SS wants. In the meantime, I do my best to fill that void. I know that I'm not his mother, but he deserves someone to be there for him. I also know that this is the best she's ever going to be and it won't change.


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(NECN) - NECN reporter Scot Yount witnessed the final moments of the massive manhunt in Watertown, Mass. for the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect Friday.
"We were coming from the original shooting scene. As they just cleared that area, we got the call, we heard the address of where they thought the suspect might be, and we were with all the police that were in their cars heading over there - pretty good speed - so we were just in the line with the police and we literally arrived at the same time they did," Yount says.
Yount and his photographer, Abbas Sadek, were fairly close at the beginning, but they were told to move back.
"We saw at first that there were two waves, the police went in after the shots were fired and they went in and found these people," he says. "And then in a second wave - we have video of this as well - they brought out some small children, literally hugging them and running at full speed, these SWAT officers."
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February 26, 2009 news
Nicola on the France 2's news evening edition (march 1).
Nicola and Indochine have chosen the winning videos for the Fnac contest. It was not easy, some projects were touching, others funny or astonishing. Winners will be contacted soon. Indochine and the Fnac have decided to offer a Carte Blanche CD to each participant.


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Working with Report Items
A report in Reporting Services uses report items to display data and graphical elements. In addition to data regions, report items also include text boxes, images, lines, rectangles, and subreports.
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The year 2011 was a painful and frightening one for 82-year-old Elie Wiesel. A bout of double pneumonia in January was only the beginning of his medical problems that year. As he describes it in this memoir, more accurately an extended essay, in June he was wheeled into an operating room at Lenox Hill Hospital for emergency quintuple bypass surgery. But unlike the ordinary patient, Wiesel takes advantage of his near-death experience to reflect in these pages on the accomplishments that have brought his life significance and the unfinished tasks that, even in his ninth decade, spur him to continued passionate engagement with the world.
The title of the book serves double duty --- as a description of Wiesel's medical procedure and as a shorthand description of his lifelong temperamental disposition. He experiences all the emotions of anyone who has ever been faced with a life-threatening medical crisis: "But now the words 'open-heart surgery' are meant for me. And they fill me with dread." OPEN HEART, however, is more a philosophical meditation than a medical memoir. Wiesel has devoted much of his life to preserving the memory of his family and other victims of the Holocaust --- what he refers to as "the Event." Here, he ponders how his experiences surviving the concentration camps have prepared him to face the prospect of his own death, even one that may involve something as prosaic as failing to awake from surgery in a New York City hospital. "Hadn't I lived with death, even in death?" he asks. "Why should I be afraid now?"
"While one hopes OPEN HEART is not the final work Elie Wiesel produces, if that sadly turns out to be the case, it will serve as a concise, elegant summing up of an extraordinary life and career."
Confronting his mortality, there's a certain poignancy when a man of Wiesel's extraordinary and achievements --- some 50 books, a Nobel Peace Prize and universal admiration among them --- acknowledges that "I feel that I have not even begun" and that "in no way did I feel ready." Deeply characteristic of his devotion to his calling is the fact that, despite his doctor's urgings, he stops at his office for two hours to attend to paperwork, cancel appointments and meet with a group of Iranian dissidents before checking into the hospital for his surgery. Instead of accepting the possibility that he may die, he offers a laundry list of reasons to explain why he longs to recover to do even more: "So many things still to be achieved. So many projects to be completed. So many challenges yet to face. So many prayers yet to compose, so many words yet to discover, so many courses yet to give, so many lessons yet to receive."
Apart from descriptions like these of his worldly tasks, Wiesel reflects, in passing, on theological matters. While he confesses "to having rebelled against the Lord," he is quick to add, "I have never repudiated him." In that sense, his worldview is a fundamentally optimistic one: "I belong to a generation that has often felt abandoned by God and betrayed by mankind. And yet, I believe that we must not give up on either." Wiesel offers this summing up of the personal credo he says "defines my path":
"We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not."
As the book ends, Wiesel has emerged from his medical ordeal, spared, for now, from death or serious disability. Still, he recognizes the toll that's been exacted and understands the combination of advancing aged and diminished physical capacities that will make it impossible, despite his will to do so, for him to carry on with the same level of energy that has marked his long, active life. Without any hint of resignation, he nonetheless accepts these facts with characteristic grace. "My life? I go on breathing from minute to minute, from prayer to prayer," he concludes movingly.
This slim book --- barely 80 pages --- can be consumed in an hour or two. But that brevity shouldn't be confused with a lack of substance. While one hopes OPEN HEART is not the final work Elie Wiesel produces, if that sadly turns out to be the case, it will serve as a concise, elegant summing up of an extraordinary life and career.
Reviewed by Harvey Freedenberg on January 18, 2013
Open Heart


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Arsenal star Tomas Rosicky targeted by AS Roma
AS ROMA have fixed their attentions on trying to lure Tomas Rosicky away from the Emirates.
The Italian club are set to bid £5m to clinch the signature of the Arsenal midfielder.
The Czech Republic international has not featured for the Gunners this season and Roma are prepared to offer him a way out.
Rosicky has slipped further down the pecking order as Wenger has a garrison of attacking midfield talent at his disposal.
The impressive performances of Santi Cazorla, Mikel Arteta and Jack Wilshere, has meant that Rosicky has been frozen out of the first team.
Tomas Rosicky has not featured for Arsenal this season
• Arsenal midfielder set for Charlton
Moreover, his career at the Gunners has been stop-start since he joined the club from German giants Borussia Dortmund in 2006.
He has made only 118 appearances for Arsenal during his six-year spell.
And perhaps with more first-team football on offer, it could be a clean break for Rosicky.


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Recently, Retro Studios has been hiring on a pretty frequent basis. After releasing Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze in February, the studio has been completely silent on any of the other projects it has been working on. Retro continues to hire more personnel, however, including four new positions just this week. Gamasutra has new listings open for Retro studios for a variety of positions including a Tools Engineer and FX Artist, Senior Tools Engineer, Ai Engineer and Gameplay Engineer. If you are looking to apply, keep in mind that the studio is seeking qualified individuals with at least 3 years of experience as well as a college degree.
With the uptake in personnel at Retro Studios, many people (including myself) believe that Retro Studios has two development teams working on games. In that case, Retro would have had a second game in development alongside Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze.
What do you think Retro Studios has in store for us in the future? We would love to hear your predictions in the comments section below!


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Eric Bristow has claimed that the late Rod Hull would often grope fans during his act.
Bristow described the Emu puppeteer as a "pervert" and once threatened to punch him while appearing as a guest on the 1983 Bullseye Christmas special.
"I didn't like Rod Hull. He was a pervert who was getting away with something that wasn't right," the darts player wrote in his autobiography The Crafty Cockney.
"He used the puppet to feel up women and stick his hand between people's legs. It was out of order."
He added: "We'd all had a drink, perhaps one or two more than we should.
"I went straight up to Hull's face and said, 'Now listen, pal. When you come out on set later with that f**king silly bird of yours, if you come anywhere near me with that f**king thing I will knock you straight out, on telly, whether it's f**king live or not'.
"When Hull came on later he was pulling [host] Jim Bowen all over the place with his stupid Emu, but he didn't come anywhere near us, he daren't.
"If he'd touched me inappropriately with his hand I would have sparked him."
Bristow is currently taking part in ITV's latest series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
Hull was a hugely popular entertainer with his Emu act in the 1970s and 1980s, and was perhaps most famous for his flamboyant appearance on Michael Parkinson's chatshow.
He died aged 63 in 1999 following an accident at his home in Winchelsea.


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Eli Is Not A Poet
Monday, July 29, 2013
To Tether:
To (Twisted, tangled) tie tighter,
To trustingly, tenderly, truss.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The View from the Porch
You will say;
"oh but the subway shakes life so unpleasantly, I'm glad to be rid of it"
But from your porch, I see life stretch for in three directions
No spot uncluttered by man's creation
People packed densely as wet sand
And the sun gently warms my face as I observe a real life street in New York City
And consider what it means to be a participant in all this
And when the day cools and the real sun is eclipsed by a halogen one
I feel the shine of the room on my back
The warmth of the soul you've invited me in to.
Even the sound of the subway has become a heartbeat to me
It whispers;
"You are here! This is now!
There are things worth celebrating!"
I thought I would be concerned, on starting this next step
Away from the comfort of your porch
You rest your head on my shoulder
My heart feels full and the corners of my mouth light
If I can't see the road ahead for us it is only because
A light of such dazzling shines down it
That all I can see is happiness.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Event Horizon
I miss the apocalyptic approach of the horizon.
The hunger is the same, but I can't muster the same impending sense of doom. I could run straight at it and still never come close. An ending at this point would be nice. I used to crave invisibility. Now I know the beast will find me regardless, but without teeth.
The people who are closest to me all use the same word: accept. Not as advice, as explanation. Somehow I am both of these people; somehow I see both of them.
There used to be a chart. I had it for a minute, but it was important so I threw it away eventually. The chart was a circle with arrows pointing helpfully. I think there were on ramps and off ramps too, but I can't exactly remember them, which is a terribly ham-fisted metaphor, but totally true.
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
A beautiful sunset ruins a perfectly shitty day
I never take pictures
When I'm with other people
My internal logic dictates that shared memory
Precludes a need for proof of existence
Here I am alone, though, and my camera emerges
To capture proof that I existed in this moment
In the future my existence will only be implied
The actor unseen on the stage of memory
I deceive my future
The transitory nature of my mood defeated by
Capturing lasting beauty
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Quickly close my eyes
I can't bear this
I blink out of existence
Pictures, videos. Two dimensional images to impose myself upon
On a place that doesn't exist
On a place that was a lie
But it wasn't, I insist
And I push myself forward
And the pain is so real it burns from within
And I can hear laughter
And I can hear laughter
I can see everyone but me
I can see
I can watch them interact with everyone but me
They never touch me
I never speak
And my eyes burst open
To reality darker and empty
I shout desperately to justify myself.
The judges, bored with my absorption, drifted away years ago
Cant you see? No one gets me
Everyone else is crazy not to think this way
Everyone else is fooling themselves.
Either way, the walls of the asylum divide us.
I shut my eyes
The doors to the asylum close.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The Island
Where I'm from is hard wood floors and the color burnt sienna
and people that can tell the difference between burnt sienna and brown.
Where I'm from is loud for good reasons
and full of sunshine. always the sunshine.
Where I'm from has long bike rides and kickball
and the certainty, the unyielding potent knowledge that the future was bright
Where I'm from is an impossible ideal so built up in my head that my life will never hope to compare. Where did my parents find all those friends? Where did they find money for vacations, bikes, my short but intense obsession with the spanish-american war? My prose fails me; fear rules.
Where I'm from is concrete.
Where I'm going is sand.
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For Nothing
Here is this puzzle piece.
See? I placed it correctly here.
A path that leads to an abyss is not a path at all
Stairs that fall away to nothing are not stairs.
Here is this ladder.
See? I've placed my foot upon the first rung.
I can't tell you where I'm going.
I can only show you where I've been.
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Was My Face Red
It's so shiny.
Was My Face Red
As they say at http://www.fordpinto.com, "Shiny is good!"
Pixar's first-ever bidet joke! Dreamworks is so jealous.
Tom Pope
Toilet humor. Why not?
This is not the first toilet humor (well maybe literally) for Pixar, even in a trailer. Toy Story 3 had the "I don't think those were Lincoln Logs" line it its trailer.
From Finding Nemo had the mine bubbles as a fart, and the "Don't you realize we are swimming in our our – SHhhhhhh!" line, Monster's Inc had the yellow snow joke, and Up had the "bury poop" joke. There are likely others too, so it is odd that people are shocked Pixar uses toilet humor when they have been doing it for a while.
also Bug's Life had a line about a "pu-pu platter"
Katella Gate
Jay! Tell me you didn't know all this off the top of your head! I'm already scared for myself that I remember them.
Let's not forget that Monster's Inc. had the first CG toilet flush.
I have three kids under 7 who love Pixar and Disney movies. After watching/hearing each of those movies a few dozen times you tend to vividly remember every scene and every line of dialogue :)
What do y'all think "Piston Cup" means anyway?
That one may even have made it onto merchandising somewhere.
Memorized Cars
There's a brilliant line in the first "Cars" from Mater, "he did what in his cup?"
Jeffrey Simonetta
This trailer makes me feel much better about Pixar making another sequel.
Stephen M. Levinson
Being that I love actual cars soo much, I can't wait to see the vehicles they're using in action!
Here's a good list
Pixar, get ready for another $8 Billion! :)
This trailer doesn't show me anything new than what I was expecting before, but only makes me feel a little better to see 'Larry the Cable Guy The Movie'– I mean 'Genre Shift To Cover Up All The Dead Voice Actors'– I mean 'Cars 2'.
"Instead of saying ka-chow, he's gonna go, KABOOM!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAAA *gasp wheeze* HAHAHAAAAAAHAAAA!!!!
Where do they even COME UP with this stuff?
It is spoofing James Bond jokes so it was likely intentionally bad.
I'm still not sold on Pixar doing spoof movies, but at least they go the whole nine yards when doing them.
Honestly man, I wouldn't call this as going the whole nine yards if they were actually trying to spoof Bond. This looks more like a hodgepodge of different racing/action/spy films with a dorky slant.
And speculatively speaking, it might be an intentionally bad joke in the sequence, but as it stands out in the trailer . . . it's just reading as a bad joke.
Hopefully Pixar will pull through with a good movie, but this trailer doesn't bode well for me.
Steve Gattuso
I'm not sure if this is spoofing James Bond or Phil Moskowitz*…
*lovable rogue
That's actually my favorite joke in the trailers. Can't explain why. I just like it.
I'm sure this will take the usual hits that Cars does, all I know is we enjoyed the first one and my kid can't wait to see part two. Cars AND spies?!? He's in heaven.
Russell H
Interesting that egregious ethnic stereotypes are permissible in the forms of anthropomorphic automobiles, but Disney still won't release SONG OF THE SOUTH.
If the boring,outdated sterotyped human stuff was cut out would any one even care? most people fast forward to the cartoon stuff any way.
Not me. When I saw Song of the South as a kid, I loved the cartoons all right, but I also loved James Baskett as Uncle Remus. His performance is brilliant. A shame it's being left in the vault because of political correctness.
As for Cars 2…could be worse. Guess what Dreamworks has in its line up? A movie about a SNAIL who wants to go "ka-chow!" The movie's called "Turbo", and it's about a snail who wants to be the fastest snail in the world, and thanks to a freak accident (maybe he got bit by a radioactive roadrunner), he makes his dream come true.
Seriously, Jeffrey…WTF?
yeah i agree, but that's not all the reasons why Song of the south isn't being released….Song of the South makes the master-slave relationship look idyllic and then there's that tar baby scene.
I still think Disney should release it though.
merlin jones
>>Song of the South makes the master-slave relationship look idyllic<<
In point-of-fact, "Song of the South" takes place post-slavery. Remus is free to leave the plantation ("the only home I know"), and in fact does in Act III when Miss Sally unfairly forbids him to see Johnny or tell any more stories. He packs up his belongings and leaves for a new life in Atlanta (in a carriage by broad daylight) and returns home at the climax to unify the family by his own free will.
Doesn't Song of the South take place during the RECONSTRUCTION? I have a bootleg of it and I re watched it recently for an article I was working on. No one is referred to as a slave. In fact, it appears that the people who do work get paid. Meaning that no one in the film is a slave. In fact, the main plot has to do with Johnny and his mother moving out of Atlanta to avoid VIOLENCE toward them because of Johnny's father and his editorial position on a newspaper. In short, their father is a pro-Republican newspaper editor, this is implied very heavily in the early dialogue in the film. Remember that during the Reconstruction, Northern Republicans (Carpetbaggers) came into the Democratic controlled South, monitored elections and took over editing at newspapers. It wasn't popular, which is why there is such tension amongst other socialites and the boys mother. This leads to tension between the mother, the boy, and Uncle Remus. Which is why she tells Uncle Remus repeatedly to stay away from Johnny. She's not being racist, she wants to make sure that her son doesn't get hurt. However, she relents after her son IS hurt by a bull.
I wonder if the real reason isn't so much racism as it is a white washing of the Reconstruction. It also raises all sorts of questions that some parents may not want to answer about the Civil War, Reconstruction, pre-"Redemption," and the roles of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in that era. Remember, this was when Democratic Congressmen were running around in hoods, nailing people to buildings, and lynching any Republican they could get hold of in the name of "Southern Solidarity."
That said, Cars 2 looks amusing, but I feel that the trailer is probably misleading. There are sections in the Tangled trailer that are not in the film. They just seem to be there to sell the film as an action comedy. I would not be surprised if they address both the loss of Doc Hudson, and feelings of mortality in Cars 2. I feel the trailer might be a bait and switch. Remember when we saw all those funny moments for Up and then the first 15 minutes are.. yeah. This is Pixar. I'm not taking the trailer at face value.
Democratic Party and the Republican Party in that era. Remember, this was when Democratic Congressmen were running around in hoods, nailing people to buildings, and lynching any Republican they could get hold of in the name of "Southern Solidarity."
Now gNOp/teabagged party is busy doing that!
Yeah, right. You work for NPR or something?
I've been to japan and can totally relate to that toilet joke. Can't say the same about the car characters. Pixar used to come up with original concepts until now, why have they stopped? I can see how it is easier to market something that is already a brand but still, just because a huge part of relies on sequels they do the same? -Lets hope they put the money from those projects to good use and go back to developing original content.
Stephen M. Levinson
Pixar is just as much a business as any other studio. Cars made them billions of dollars, that's why they're making Cars 2.
If Pixar hadn't made Cars 2, Disney was going to. Pixar didn't want to see their original characters wind up in a film on par with all of Disney's "direct to DVD" sequels of the late 90's early 2000's.
Not only that, but since Newt was cancelled, Cars 2 was pushed up an entire year in the production schedule. With an entire year gone, there just wasn't as much time to fix some of its story issues.
That's my take on it, anyway.
My feelings for this couldn't be more mixed. I mean, it has a lot of interesting action elements, but it doesn't look the least bit funny.
I'm totally with you Stephen.
I can't wait for this…I don't care how much flack it's going to get, because as tgentry said, it's pretty much inevitable.
Captain Hollywood
I trust Pixar… but man… there's nothing in that collection of clips that's currently selling me.
I liked the earlier trailer better. that trailer gave the impression that the action might be a little more mature with a more overall clever tone for the movie. This trailer doesn't do much for me. All of the dialogue seems so flat and characterless (with the exception of Mater's). And yes, that 'kachow, kaboom" line was pretty bad. I'm still hoping this is a winner though.
Hmm, I read somewhere that Cars (the original) didn't do as well internationally as it did in the states so perhaps Nascar isn't for everyone?
With that in mind and with the huge success of the toy line from the first movie, Cars 2: World Grand Prix' sole purpose is to relate to a wider audience. Wider audience=shift more toys.
John Lasseter said how the idea was conceiving "I was on vacation in Europe and I thought, would't it be funny if Mater were here, driving on the wrong side of the road in England, the pestering scooters in Rome like mosquitoes and racing around Nürburgring.
What he really meant was: "I was sitting in my office and I thought, wouldn't we make more money from the merchandise if we appealed internationally?"
I know that Cars the diecast toy line has been incredibly successful with new characters released every month or so and that's 5 years after the movie!
So, to basically sum this film up:
The funny thing is though, because I love Pixar movies, i'm still going to pay to watch this move and will buy the London bus and the london cab and the range rover royal guard because Im English and because I live in London.
Pixar Cult, you've done it again!
Anthony D.
Trailer looked good. Will definitely see it.
Does anyone remember when Pixar teasers and trailers were more like short films introducing audiences to the characters. Mike and Sulley playing charades. Mr. Incredible trying to get his belt on. Marlin and Dory asking for directions.
I really miss that.
Katie M.
I loved those old trailers. At least the present ones are good about not giving away too much of the film. There was barely a hint that Ellie existed in the Up trailers, and you hardly saw any footage of Wall-E on the ship in those trailers. At least, in the ones shown before the films were released.
The little purple car summed it up for me. "You've got to be joking."
And yet another airline security joke. Maybe I'd find them funnier if I were lucky enough to afford to travel.
Bruce Wright
I admit it: I laughed!
This looks like a hella lotta fun.
Austin Powers? Oh wait. It's Cars again. My bad.
"Is the Popemodile Catholic?"
I got a good laugh from that one.
Yeah I'm cool with this movie cause it does look like a dumb popcorn flick. Last few pixar films have been tear jerkers, this should be the one buddy comedy of the summer for the casual movie goer. But it does do one of the movie sins, by covering one of their characters in shit. It's almost like they're shitting on their own movie. If they find a way to make a monkey side-kick car then we're really in trouble.
I predict it WILL be the weakest of the Pixar movies ever, but I'll see it.
That Popemobile gag got me too!
I guess I'm an easily-amused Catholic.
Person who's brain is melting
I have no clue why I should care about these characters apart from they are friends from the first movie and Michael Caine is in the movie.
I do trust in Pixar but I don't know why I should go see this movie. Maybe I am to old, but that was never a problem with any other Pixar film! I can enjoy Toy Story as much now as the first time I watched it for the first time many years ago… That is one of Pixar's greatest strengths, that is to cross audiences and appeal to anyone.
I know it's only a trailer and I might be unfair but I'm being honest and this is what I think. Can't wait to be proved wrong, but I'm not holding my breath…
Sean P
Looks like Pixar won't rob another Oscar this year.
It might be worth seeing if they have the Barbie/Ken short playing before it. Maybe.
Not even Woody and Buzz can get me to see the sequel of my least favorite Pixar film. Or the Muppet movie, for that matter. (Jim Henson R.I.P.)
Mike Cagle
Looks dumb and boring to me. A loud action-packed video game instead of a story. ooo, explosions.
i'm usually ALL for monocles on things, but this professor car… no.
I wouldn't probably find it so boring if there were any characters instead of Cars.
I mean, this basically looks like earlier Pixar movies, like the underrated A Bug's Life, which were less ambitious but also funnier and free of over-sentimental stuff (I do like some of the Pixar emotional scenes, but they abuse of it sometimes). But Cars are boring as characters. I've never been a huge fan of Cars as cartoon characters. I thought Suzy, the little Blue Coupe was ok, and Little Johnny Jet, but didn't love them.
However it gets a lot worse when they are done in CGI. Apart from Mater most of the Cars are totally rigid. They look like machines, not characters.It's a saga that would really work better in 2D.
It doesn't help I'm not interested in car races and I'm not James Bond's biggest fan.
I loved Benny The Cab in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, he was even my fave character in the picture, but that's all.
Computer animated models are more rigid than hand drawn animation, but there are much more cartoony vehicles than this. Case in point, look at the Klik leader on here. It's NSFW due to nudity, but it's censored in this version.
Look at the squash and stretch on the streetcar as the guy gets thrown inside by a giant arm.
Also, there's still virtual 3D drawing which is currently evolving with SANDDE. If that catches on and people use it without the computer tweens, then 3D computer animation is going to be just as good as 2D in this respect.
Hey, it's the sequel that no one over the age of 6 asked for!
Memorized Cars
Gotta disagree with you there. Every single parent of every kid under the age of 6 who has watched his movie countless countless times is aching for something new.
It's all of the merchandise we'll have to buy that makes us cringe.
I'll admit that I was going to write this one off, that it would be the first Pixar film that I was gonna skip and then accuse the studio of selling out. Seeing this trailer didn't change my mind too much but there's still a good level of quality in there.
Pixar's a business but a business that has produced over a decade and a half of really good movies, not just in terms of animation but general film making. People are going to disagree with me (and this is probably going to make me sound like a major tool) but I say let them sell out for a bit. They've worked hard and they need to make money during the time of a crappy economy. Besides, they're not going to be making sequels forever, are they?
Lets hope not Nick, lets HOPE not.
I'm 100% with 'Jens' when she said:
"Lets hope they put the money from those (sequel) projects to good use and go back to developing original content."
Life's too short for franchises and apathetic filmmaking.
I hope they prove me wrong.
Stephen M. Levinson
"They've worked hard and they need to make money during the time of a crappy economy."
They made BILLIONS off Cars merchandise, please explain.
Actually, Disney merchandising makes billions off of Cars merchandise; I doubt that any of it actually goes directly to Pixar. Just because the one company is owned by the other does not mean their profits conglomerate into one bank account. I don't know anything about where Pixar DOES get their money for their films, but this here is common sense. PIXAR has no marketing department. All Pixar merchandise is made by Disney or commissioned by Disney, and therefore all of the profits from the merchandise go to DISNEY which is, once again, a SEPARATE company.
I know everyone likes to ignore all of this and pretend it's as easy as "How dare Pixar try to make money! 'THEY ALREADY MAKE SO MUCH'!" but it's really not that simple.
I wouldn't really consider this selling out, or jumping the shark. Pixar is still full of great ideas I'm sure.
NASCAR and spy film fans rejoice! For me, it's a Redbox run for sure.
Pixar Fanboy
This trailer made me want to vomit. I am sick and tired of DreamWorks and their reliance on sequels, pop culture and big celebrity voices to make a quick buck. I mean, who needs another Madagascar or Cars? The first films sucked. The only reason Jeffrey is making this movie is to sell toys.
2011 Adult
I assume you're implying at Cars is not made by DreamWorks, Mr. Pixar Fanboy?
Pixar Fanboy
Hey, I loved this trailer. Boy, John Lasetter sure knows how to make sequels with integrity. I mean, Cars is really popular and maybe this one will be AWESOME. Because it's Pixar. Right? Gee, Jeffrey could learn a whole lot from this guy.
Jorge Garrido
I did a double take and then gave you your well deserved upvotes.
Stephen M. Levinson
I love it! Nice 1 pixar fanboy. Nailed it right on the head!
Some Girl
Don't get me worng, I want to like it, but for some reason…..I am just not feeling it. Maybe it's because I wasn't a big fan of the first one? I dunno.
^ Agree with the poster above.
Cars was without a doubt the weakest Pixar movie, and the least deserving of a sequel.
Someone once got me Larry the Cable Guy's book as a gag gift, figuring it would be one of those "so bad it's good" situations.
Turned out the book was so vile that it wasn't even funny ironically.
My point is this means Larry the Cable Guy is obviously the top choice for a children's film. Way to go, Pixar!
Jorge Garrido
People could make that same argument against the great George Carlin being in Cars, or Denis Leary in A Bugs Life.
These comics are there to voice act, not do their incendiary stand-up routines.
My issue is not "this comic does edgy humor." Rather, Larry the Cable Guy specifically is very bigoted. Many of his jokes are "observational" humor about how gays and foreigners are weird, confusing, and stupid. Furthermore, his audience is meant to sympathize with those observations, rather than laugh at how absurd and stupid his character is. His "comedy" is by a bigot, FOR bigots. That's a problem.
His book might as well have been titled "Minorities Sure Are Ridiculous!! By: A White Guy". I honestly can't figure out why Pixar is fine with hiring this man, seeing as that he constantly takes potshots at gays just for being gay.
Hmmm… on the subject of Pixar sequels- Ellen DeGeneres had a funny little segment about on her show:
That was amazing…
And I agree with Ellen. To date Finding Nemo is still my favorite Pixar film and I actually don't think a sequel for it would be half bad. I assume it could actually be very good if Pixar treated it the way they treated the first. But I know Andrew Stanton has moved on and wouldn't necessarily want them to make a seuel just to make one.
I honestly do wonder why the Cars sequel though. Aside from the money and popularity tied to the first, I'm sure there are other reasons the film was decided to be made and I wish I could here them straight from the crew, just out of curiosity. THOUGH, maybe it really is just the money and the seven year old kids who loved the first.
I think I heard somewhere that John Lasseter was traveling and he kept imaginging what Mater would do in all of those places. I guess John Lasseter just does whatever he wants.
I would actually want to see "Old Timey Bicycles". :)
From the looks of this the tagline should be:
Cars 2 : Middle Of The Road
A potty joke, they actually went there and made a potty joke.
Oh well, at least this means Rango will win at the next year's oscars.
What.. the…
Well, if you're making a sequel to Cars, it might as well be completely crazy, and full of 'splosions.
I have the feeling I'll like this better than the first one (which was… okay).
I for the longest time have said that Cars was the worst Pixar movie. I was entertained by it but it did not impress me like most of the other films did. However, I have been told many times by friends that Cars is their childrens favorite Pixar movie. Just like Wall-E was a great movie for adults and only okay for kids, I think the Car series is great for kids and only okay for adults. This looks like it will be a high quality adventure that will entertain many families. I think it will, for better or for worse, be more popular with kids then adults.
Andy Rose
For what it's worth, my kids' co-favorite Pixar movies are Cars and Wall-E. Go figure.
CARS was filled with gorgeous technical achievements, just like RATATOUILLE. It bored me horribly, just like RATATOUILLE. I re-watch both of them, but with the DVD sound off and some good music playing.
Does mention of the "Popemobile" imply the existence of a human Pope, or is the car itself the pontiff? Pixar's CARS movies raise many peculiar questions.
Was My Face Red
Really he should be a Cartholic.
And instead of kids riding the popemobile, he'd ride them!
Ricky B
Is the popemobile catalytic?
Mike Johnson
This looks like a fun ride, and I'll bet it does quite well at the box office.
Yes, the flak will come, but there's always gonna be flak, since no studio can please everyone. Nor should they try.
I do not think the idea of a sequel is bad at all. There have been many sequels better than the original films, and Pixar has every right to do one if they feel good about it (and their track record, if I'm not mistaken, is better than any studio in the history of film) so I say "bring it on!"
Besides, Pixar's worst would still be better than most studio's best, so I'm looking forward to this.
It doesn't matter if grown-ups may just think it's an okay film. As long as grown-ups take the kiddies, that's all that matters to the bottom line. I predict it will do better than the new Pooh Movie. Now there's a franchise that has been strip-mined 'til hell won't have it. There are so many Pooh spin-offs, the grown-ups may think they've seen it before or can't tell the difference…or think about the million Pooh DVDs and videos they already have lying around the house. I do think the Pooh movie may be a better film artisitically but not in what it makes dollarwise.
It looks like they decided to compete against puss-in-boots, but I'm not worried, I think Pixar has a second film coming this year, it's called Newt and it's an original film at least !!!
I'm sure of it I read it on the internet.
Newt got the boot.
why? two words: Rio.
Hmmm… If what you say is true, what's the reasoning? Are they afraid Rio is going to be a lot better than what PIXAR is capable of? So much that they prefer not having a film at all ? "Fear" would be an understatement.
Rio must be an amazing film if it's causing PIXAR to cancel their only original film this year. On the other hand, let's suppose Rio end up being a bad film, PIXAR will have canceled a film for nothing.
Newt was cancelled a while ago.
This is more of competition with 'Kung Fu Panda 2' as they both come out around a month apart. 'Puss in Boots' comes out in the fall.
Silence Dogood
Oh ok. It looks fun, but really only because of the setting and the novel fact that everything is car-a-tized.
I dig the Newsboys track at the beginning – very fitting. Also, check out the high-res stills here: http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/four-hi-res-cars-2-stills.html It's great to see all of the lush detail.
Hey, who got Dreamworks in my Pixar?
Well at some point Pixar had to transform into Disney don't they?
Sign me up for the Blue Ray when this comes out.
Oh well, the little kiddies will surely love it, moms and dads will buy a few billion more Cars toys, and the rest of us can look forward to the 2012 Pixar releases.
La Pulga
What a technicolor yawn.
I thought all the characters from the first movie were pretty bland, especially for Pixar, but I had serious apathy for Larry the Cabbletruck.
So as befuddled as I am that they are making a sequel, I'm downright disappointed that he seems to be stealing the spot light.
Keith Paynter
I think every time a new Pixar movie is poking around the block, everyone seems to forget that their trailers never really show much of the movie at all. The trailer for Toy Story 3 told us it was an escape film, and it told us we'd see Andy all grown up and that he was leaving for college… but it never told us anything about the emotional ride the toys would go through or the fact that we'd see them sitting in a fiery pit about to get incinerated.
My point saying this is that everyone loves to harp on the new trailers… and that's fine, that's what the trailers are for: to generate interest. But they're certainly not about giving away the plot of the film (good trailers anyway) and Pixar trailers have always made sure to keep the emotional story secret until the film is released. They give away the basic plot and a few jokes, but they never give away the punch. They do want you to have a reason to SEE the full movie after all.
And more than everyone loves to harp on trailers, they just looove to hate on Cars (I wish people would give it a rest already; it's really not as 'bad' as so many seem to think). But underneath the racing and the pretty lights, even the first Cars had an emotional storyline that was at least sweet. No, it certainly wasn't Pixar's best work, but it wasn't heartless garbage which is what so many like to say it was. I think we can at least expect the same of the second film. It probably won't be as nostalgic as Toy Story 3, nor as intelligent as Up, nor as unique as WALL-E… but I'm sure it will at least be fun, with a good story.
I wish people would stop acting like Pixar was ever their little buddy arthouse studio. It never has been and never will be.
Grumpy Animator
Spot on!
perfectly captured what I feel, sir. Well said.
I mean Maam! haha sorry :)
Who cares about emotional through lines? It's about Cars with eyes on them. It sucks. Who cares if it even has heart? It's not cool. NOT COOL! Out of all the things that could be made in feature animation, this crap was made. It's awful. They're using toilets and jumping into vats of car poop. I am not seeing or supporting this movie in any way.
You're reducing an entire film into two jokes. If you don't like the film and don't think it should be supported, by all means stick up for what you'd rather see in animation. But I also think that if you want to talk about how 'bad' it is as an animated film, you could state so without saying things like "It sucks!" which really doesn't mean anything to anyone. 'It has toilet jokes' doesn't say anything either, and "It's not cool." is another meaningless statement that doesn't give anyone any information on why you think the movie is bad; it only makes you look like a jaded viewer who can't properly articulate why they dislike something.
Your kidding yourself if you think the first Cars had a emotional storyline that was sweet. And the filmmaker, John Lasseter, is a heartless filmmaker that's destroyed many films (Bear and the Bow by Brenda Chapman, Rapunzel by Glen Keane, American Dog by Chris Sanders) and killed each one of these filmmaker's voices. Ironically, Chris Sander's How To Train Your Dragon owns Cars 2 in terms of heart, filmmaking, and sincerity. John Lasseter is a pretty heartless filmmaker, and Cars 2 stinks of his touch throughout this trailer.
I have to say I disagree with you about John Lasseter.
But I did love How to Train Your Dragon and like Chris Sanders' work as well.
I think you are putting too much weight on John Lasseter's work. One man alone could not have done what you claim Lasseter has. He has a lot of influence as creative officer at Disney & Pixar, but he's not powerful enough to shut down productions on his own, 'destroy' whole movies, etc. Films take hundreds- thousands of people, and John is just one. There are other people to support or deny his decisions, so it's rather ridiculous to suggest that he is the only one to 'blame' for films not turning out the way that you wanted them to.
And that's the other thing. Who are you to say that 'Tangled' and 'Bolt' are not better in their final form now than when they were drafted under Keane or Sanders? I'm not saying they are better, because I don't have any idea what they were going to be like under Keane/ Sanders. But even if they may have turned out with better stories, etc. if Sanders' vision hadn't been changed or if Keane had been given more creative freedom(?), you are essentially blaming John Lasseter for doing what Disney and other studios have always done. If the studio wants to go in another direction, it will. If the people in charge don't like how the movie is coming along, they will want to change it (and sometimes, the people working on it). This is not John Lasseter's evil bidding, it's the way big studios are run. This happens in movie-making everywhere else too, not just at animation studios. Obviously you don't like it, but it's silly to blame John Lasseter for your let-downs from Disney. Contrary to popular belief, JL cannot just waltz around Disney and do whatever he wants. If you don't like what is going down at the Disney studio, then say that. But pointing your finger at John is really odd.
You can call John a heartless film-maker if you'd like but not many people will take your opinion seriously, since it really seems like you just have it in for the guy because you didn't like a few movies he was involved in.
"It's not cool." is another meaningless statement that doesn't give anyone any information on why you think the movie is bad"
Yes it most certainly does. Do you know anything about the history of animation prior to "A Bug's Life"? If you did then you'd know CARS is NOT COOL. Especially in terms of what the animation medium is capable of.
Fantasia, Pinocchio, Bambi, Dumbo, and even more recent fair like the Iron Giant, The Lion King, or even Kung Fu Panda are all cooler than CARS. Have you ever watched "Toot Whistle Plunk Boom" or a truly awesome Warner Bros. short by Chuck Jones like "Chow Hound"? How about UPA's "The Tell Tale Heart"? Or Bruno Bozzetto's "Allegro Non Troppo"? Think about it. Where does CARS truly belong in the larger context of the great history of animation? I'll tell you where…pretty much at the bottom of the barrel. The first one had Sheryl Crow songs featured in it for Pete's Sake! And a REMAKE of "Life is a Highway"! A REMAKE! That song came out in '92 or something!
If CARS 2 succeeds it will not be good for the animation medium. It will set a precedent that an animated film can be made just to sell billions of dollars worth of toys to 5 year olds. You should feel ashamed of yourself for defending this film in any way. This trailer is utter crap. Pure and simple. Even if the film has a modicum of heart it doesn't matter, this film is BAD NEWS for any artistic integrity animation would hope to achieve in every possible way. Everyone with a love for this medium should boycott it, and pray to God that it fails.
James E. Parten
Trailer didn't tell me much, but I didn't expect it to do so. Nor did it change my mind: I expect that I'll be going to see this at the earliest opportunity.
Pixar trailers traditionally underwhelm. That way, when the picture comes out, it's usually more of a "wow!" than the trailers would let on.
If anything, the "Toy Story" sequels should have shown one and all that sequels do not have to such, and do not do so automatically!
Arse Gratia Artis
This just in: kids are idiots. Film at 11!
'Look at Pixar's Cars. It makes cars look cute when they're destroying the planet. It's awful.' – Sylvain Chomet
(My last comment on CB was censored for no apparent reason, but I thought I'd try again because this is such an incisive statement.)
About time we get a sequel to The Incredibles! Wait…Cars 2…never mind…
I may give it a chance, though I wasn't a big fan of the first one. Not because of what Pixar did with cars, i'm just not a big car fan, aside from having a good car to get me where I need to go I really have no desire to watch a movie about cars.
Mark R.
What in the cel
I never found the character designs appealing enough to ever watch the first film let alone a sequel trailer. All I can think about is Tex Avery's "One Cab's Family" when I see these awful knock offs.
I always think of the Chevron talking cars commercials.
I liked Cars. With that said, I'm not so sure about turning a movie about a small, redneck town into a spy thriller in order to sell toys.
Find it hard to get into these characters – given their otherwise realistic design, have a basic problem with the concept of the cars eyes (what is that, opaque white glass?) and I dunno, boy cars and girl cars…can't they just dispense with the obligatory gender stuff for what is apparently meant to be a 'boy's' movie anyway?
As always with Pixar though, nice luminous backgrounds.
You guys need to lighten up. This film is going to make SO MANY (shareholders) happy!
if anyone remembers the first comments on trailer for rango
and rango the movie was even far worse than the trailer.
some people like it, some don't… looks like we have gridlock.
Cars is a fine example why one should never make "Pet Projects."
The first one was a colossal bore and this one is just a waste of time.
I enjoyed the first 35 seconds.
Daniel J. Drazen
At the first sight of all that neon two words crept into my brain: "Speed Racer." Here's hoping that Pixar doesn't leave audiences with the same kind of headaches that SR did.
this is the worst thing ever.
I actually never saw the first Cars movie.
Something tells me that next years Oscar for best motion picture may actually go to a non Pixar movie. However, that's just my opinion.
Also, I thought the Nostalgia Critic was kidding when he said the cars were going to be secret agents…
Ignatz the Brick Pitcher
Pixar is a class act in the animation industry. This doesn't necessarily mean all of their products will appeal to the general moviegoer and fault-finding animation purist (on CB) alike. lol
Quality animation is undeniably their strong suit regardless if the world is on board of their latest release or not. Pixar makes me proud to be American!
(I hope Lasseter or Jobs are reading. I really want to work for them. lol)
Katie G
This looks like fun. My brother is going to love it!
there is an extended trailer online now: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=75104
This is a much better trailer.
I definitely want to see this now. It wont be known if the movie is strong until it is seen.
You're very right! This trailer is better than the one given to the States. Not 100% sold for the project, but it gave me a better chance of faith.
Can anyone please explain the , " is the pope-mobile Catholic?" joke to me? Thx!!
Normally, it would be "Is the Pope Catholic?" He obviously is, so it's a question equivalent to answering yes to somebody.
But the Pope usually travels in his Popemobile in public events. So in a universe where everyone is a vehicle, it turns into "Popemobile", where the Popemobile is the Pope instead.
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Each time I make a set of cookies with wafer papers, I get asked, "How do you make those?" Cookies with edible images look really impressive (and like you're a superhero of cookie decorating), when, in fact, they are super easy and require almost no skill. I always say, "If you know how to glue, you know how to make these."
2. The Cookies Themselves. You can make your own cookies, using any recipe you like. Gingerbread, shortbread, or sugar cookies are all great. My favorite at the moment is this sugar cookie recipe by Sugarbelle. The dough is not sticky (!), which makes getting the dough out from between even intricate shapes easy—not the usual hairpulling, stressful cookie prep most of us are used to. Furthermore, the cookies spread incredibly little in the oven and rarely lose their shape. The resulting cookies look uniform and smooth, perfect for decorating. Someone will really have to twist my arm to get me to ever try another sugar cookie recipe, I'm so in love with this one.
6. Wait for the corn syrup to dry. If you are in a huge hurry, an hour or so will be sufficient, but I like to wait until the next day.
8. You guessed it. Wait for the border to dry—depending on its thickness, a few hours to a half day.
If you are doing a plain white or colored border, that's it! The steps that follow are for a gold border:
9. When the border is dry, put only a few drops of clear(ish) extract (or Everclear, Vodka, or other super-strong clear alcohol) in a dish. Tap some edible gold powder into it and mix with your brush. This is the trial and error portion of the process—you don't need it to be thick or pasty, but too little gold powder and you won't be able to really "paint" with it. You'll get the hang of it really quickly. The alcohol will evaporate as you work, but don't worry: just add a drop more liquid when it happens and you're good to go again. The alcohol evaporates fully, by the time your border is dry; these will be safe to feed to infants as well as alcoholics in recovery.
For the love of all that is holy, do not add any water—water, even the tiniest hint of it, anywhere near the wafer paper, and it's game over. The wafer paper will curl and melt right in front of your eyes like the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz.
10. The fun part: PAINT! You don't have to press at all, just gentle strokes. As you see from the photo, in addition to the edges, I sometimes like to gild the parts in the manuscript, which would've been gilt in the original. Provided your "paint" isn't too wet, it's perfectly safe to gild wafer paper without it bubbling.
Happy decorating!
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Happy Almost New Year!
The Greg Fischer jokes have seriously started writing themselves.
Check this out:
Even Jerry Abramson knows better than that.
This week the Transportation Lady discusses the one-year anniversary of the Customer Service Center in the Kentucky Transportation Department of Vehicle Regulation:
Why is the mayoral spokesperson speaking on behalf of Greg Fischer's campaign?
Are our tax dollars now paying for campaign matters?
Does Greg really believe Bruce Lunsford and Ed Hart are going to back down after the stunts he's pulled?
Who believes it's wise for Greg to continue talking smack about Hart & Lunsford?
Why aren't Louisville Metro Animal Services vaccination records in the government computer system? Why are LMAS officials claiming they are?
Why are 99% of cats being killed after 5 days with no effort to find homes?
Who believes it's appropriate to come up to me (Jake) on the street to make threats when you're a Metro Animal Services official?
Why is the general public turned away from the LMAS location on Manslick?
Why is Greg Fischer allowing Bud Scharedein to waltz off with that $200,000 bonus after the mess he caused at MSD? Is it hush money?
Okay. I'll stop now. Way too many questions that will never get answered.
This week Governor Steve Beshear and First Lady Jane Beshear spend X discussing Kentucky's Save the Children child safety rating:
Does anyone in the Louisville metro area have warehouse space they'd be interested in providing to No Kill Louisville for its food bank? If so, please get in touch with Jake. [Contact Jake]
Regardless of what happens today with the University of Louisville Hospital merger decision, Kentuckians will still be screwed. You already expect it, we know. [FOX41]
Pro-tip to to Patti Swope: Stop spamming us and everyone else with unsolicited press releases. Or get a new PR agent who takes your business relationships more seriously. [Come On]
WHAS11 explores the lives of 3 transgendered women living in Louisville. And, of course, that exploration pushes nothing but stereotypes. Come on, Gene. [WHAS11]
As I explained to Curt Morrison at the time, and he apparently didn't take to heart, the person who solicited inaugural funds from Ed Hart and Bruce Lunsford was Tommy Elliott, not Christy Brown. I know because they told me so and have email trails to back it up. Even KREF is ignorantly placing blame in her lap. Christy may be the River Fields frenemy everybody loves to hate but she wasn't involved in that mess of Greg Fischer's. Maybe every other mess, but not that one. That's all Tommy Elliott, Jim Mims and Bill Bardenwerper. Hopefully Christy will finally learn her lesson about trying to play power broker for her favorite little boy, Greg. [Curt Morrison]
Oh, look, the Ohio River Bridges Debacle talking points are spreading amongst the loyal. Thank goodness Kentucky has no money and won't be able to build a downtown bridge. [Business First]
You've seen the corruption Greg Stumbo admits publicly he'll do nothing about, right? Because it involves his friend, Keith Hall? The guy Crit Luallen fingered in a massive audit? The guy Jack Conway refuses to investigate? The guy the Ethics Commission fined and spanked? Yeah. [Page One]
Frankfort is still living in the dark ages, believing their pseudoephedrine legislation will solve the meth problem. Something that's only really an issue in ten counties. And wouldn't be if more than 30% of doctors and pharmacists actually used systems that already exist. But that's the Kentucky way – raising costs to Medicaid, killing tax revenue and playing to fears. [C-J/AKN]
Sorry, WAVE, you didn't have an exclusive on Senate Republicans meeting with Steve Beshear on gambling. Every outlet with a reporter in Frankfort or covering Frankfort had the story and interviews. [WAVE3]
We can't decide if this story makes Greg Fischer look disconnected or just a bit confused when it comes to the economy. [NYT]
Here's a history nerd look at vintage buses of Louisville's transit past. Remember when Louisville had transit dreams? [Broken Sidewalk]
Steve Beshear's office released the following bit about the Ohio River Bridges Debacle:
LOUISVILLE (Dec. 29, 2011) –Kentucky and Indiana have reached consensus on a basic plan to finance and build the Ohio River Bridges Project, keeping the project on target to begin construction in 2012.
Under an agreement in principle reached by Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and leaders of the Louisville and Southern Indiana Bridges Authority, each state would take the lead in financing and overseeing construction of one half of the project, among the largest transportation projects in the United States.
Kentucky would be responsible for financing and constructing the downtown portion of the project – a new I-65 bridge, a re-decked Kennedy Bridge, modernization of the Kennedy Interchange, and expansion of the I-65 approach in Indiana.
Indiana would be responsible for financing and constructing the East End portion of the project – a new bridge near Utica, Ind., and Prospect, Ky.; a new highway linking the Lee Hamilton Expressway and Gene Snyder Freeway; and a tunnel in Eastern Jefferson County.
The Bridges Authority would help coordinate, monitor and ensure an interface between the two procurements, which would continue to be carried out as one project under a single financial plan.
At its October meeting, the Bridges Authority reviewed and discussed six potential delivery options for the project, and then began a process of building consensus between the states on their preferred approach. Since then, the state sponsors have worked diligently, both internally and in joint discussions, to evaluate different scenarios.
In the course of these discussions, the states decided the landmark project could best be advanced through separate procurements, each of which is expected to take advantage of innovative contracting methods that can save time and money.
Cost savings now projected at $1.5 billion
A cost-savings plan outlined last January by the two governors and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has led to a further reduction in the project's estimated construction price tag from $4.1 billion to $2.6 billion – a $1.5 billion savings. The estimated price tag for each half – the downtown and East End – is virtually the same, $1.3 billion.
Both states plan to use a combination of traditional transportation funds and tolls on the new and improved crossings to pay for construction and financing of the project.
The Bridges Authority will incorporate the relevant cost, funding and revenue components into its financial plan for the project, which is expected to be completed soon on the basis of the agreement announced today.
A more detailed update on these developments will be shared at the Bridges Authority's upcoming quarterly meeting scheduled for next Thursday, January 5th, at the Kentucky International Convention Center.
You hear the eye rolls, right?
UPDATE — Here's what John Yarmuth had to say:
"It is very encouraging that Kentucky and Indiana have agreed on a financing plan for the Ohio River Bridges Project," Congressman Yarmuth said. "This appears to be fair and reasonable for both states, and splitting up the project lowers costs for everyone. With this hurdle cleared, the next major step is for the Kentucky General Assembly to approve the plan."
Remember Janis Carter Miller? Well, Janis Carter?
The singer?
She's recently moved back to Louisville and we hear she's going to run for the First District Metro Council seat against Attica Scott.
From what we can tell, she's already got a team together and is set to make an announcement soon.


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