Charlie Rose

finalfantasytown  12/18/2011 03:07 AM Report

Is there an animation film or game named'Harry Potter vs. Dragon on the Great Wall'? Exciting

finalfantasytown  12/08/2011 12:30 AM Report

Cartoon films are my favorite. I think that the stories in mythology are real. My friends encourage me for friendship.

One day, I enjoy one of the Anderson's fairy tale, one sparrow stands outside the window of my room, then another one comes, listens, and watches me. Several minutes later, my cat rushes into my room and sit besides me. The birds fly away. I hate my cat because I figure out how to catch the sparrow. The second day, I enjoy a similar story. A pigeon shows up. That is OK although it is not a sparrow. I try to integrate the crime scene in order to successfully perform it next time. But the following days, no bird shows up. Although it is disappointed but it is magic.

Gelles  12/06/2011 08:06 AM Report

Educational films to train young minds very early in mechanics and other useful understanding are on the horizon. Animation of hidden parts and processes will take the novice from complete ignorance of "how it works or happens" to considerable skill in manufacture and repair of things essential to our lives.

Original design and other talents that are very rare will be the last things such films will have success in doing. According to the Brain Science, now running on Charlie Rose, we and our geniuses, like Lasseter, will even be able to educate the unconscious mind of man that controls far more of what we do than the conscious mind that speaks words and whistles tunes (or seems to, anyway).

If we last, as a species, into the future for as long as we have already lasted, the exponential growth we've known in recent decades, in animation tools and educational potential, in the sciences and mathematics (as the Simon foundation says,)what we've done so far will be seen as a mere scratching of the surface compared to time to come.

Current constraints of war, poverty and stupidity, will have to be removed. Some of this removal will be done as a result of the progress already here. More awaits applications not yet on the drawing board. Foremost among these will be to unlearn all the error we see offered in this archive. The collective ignorance and pessimism here evidenced every day is enough to bury John Lasseter in ten tons of BS for every word to the wise he offered in the interview.

I'm holding my breath until I'm out from under water. Then I'm off to the movies to see Math Story, cry a storm, and come away with cellular automata that replaces all notation that favored other people.

What you don't understand is just how many ignoramuses have drive the toll road before we accumulate the money to add another mile.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/06/2011 02:18 AM Report

John Lasseter is a great decider.

I would vote to immortalize him as a character in a Pixar film.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/06/2011 02:14 AM Report

Let us remember Ross Perot came up with $20M for Steve Jobs' venture into Next. Twenty million dollars is quite a nice vote of confidence.

Sugar Daddy Ross Perot at 31:00:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2163706349/#

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/06/2011 02:07 AM Report

Alvy Ray Smith was a Co-Founder of Pixar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvy_Ray_Smith

Alvy tells an interesting Pixar story.

Pixar was 70% owned by Steve and the employees owned the other 30%. Steve kept investing his own money (as John Lasseter told us) so over 4-5 years Steve took ALL the company.

The employees were in love with Steve with their big doe eyes according to Alvy (and as we heard here).

Steve was "a total street bully" and got into a fight with Alvy. There was screaming at each other, Steve insulting Alvy’s accent and then something broke for Alvy. Alvy wrote on the white board--and only Steve got to write on the white board. Steve stormed out of the room.

STEVE JOBS on PBS at 31:56: http://video.pbs.org/video/2163706349/#

Not the same story John Lassester tells about Steve; closer to the story Michael Eisner tells.

So did Steve find a way to take Pixar from the employees (remember the plot against Paul Allen by Gates and Ballmer, how about the twins and FaceBook)? Were the employees lucky to give up their shares in order to just have a job?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/06/2011 01:50 AM Report

Shall I pray to Steve for a miracle to begin the beatification process and get him his title "Blessed"?

Hold on a minute! Steve Jobs a tyrant?

Apparently: http://video.pbs.org/video/2163706349/#

Everyone in Steve Jobs' life went through three phases: seduced, ignored or scourged. All depended on whether Steve needed you or not. (34:09)

“Steve ultimately betrayed everyone. “ (34:34)

Sorry Charlie.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/06/2011 01:44 AM Report

"Pixar is going to open up new worlds to you."

Done.

REMant  12/05/2011 12:30 PM Report

Why is that kids will accept things said by animals, and comic book characters, and not by people, even those like themselves? Or maybe the question should be: is it necessary to use animation because you can't get kids to "act?" I can't see any reason either for using these characters to sell products, particularly products bad for their health, whether chidren seem to identify with them or not. I think, too, that anyone who didn't foresee the possibility of computer graphic manipulation and digital video must have been blind, so I'd suppose the problem was that no one wanted to invest in it, like IBM and Xerox and Polaroid. American firms seem to have a history of that, tho there's Sony, too.