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Apple's robotics reseachers share video of the Apple lamp inspired by Pixar's famous mascot, Luxo Jr.

Apple's robotics reseachers share video of the Apple lamp inspired by Pixar's famous mascot, Luxo Jr.

En un movimiento nada usual por parte de Apple, hemos conocido una investigación sobre robótica que ha marcado un camino muy interesante sobre cómo Apple entiende este nuevo producto en el que, ahora, sabemos de manera "casi oficial" que está trabajando para el futuro (puede que no tan lejano). En este programa analizamos los papers de los modelos de inteligencia artificial ELEGNT y EMOTION, que permite expresividad no verbal tanto en robots antropomórficos (con aspecto humano) como no antropomórficos (con otras formas, como un brazo robótico tipo Luxo Jr. de Pixar). Descubre cómo lo han conseguido, en qué consisten sus investigaciones y qué puede suponer para futuros productos que se rumorean que podrían llegar incluso este mismo año. Iníciate en el mundo del Desarrollo iOS con el Swift Developer Program 2025. Encuentra toda la información pulsando aquí. Suscríbete a nuestro canal de Youtube: Apple Coding en YouTube Descubre nuestro canal de Twitch: Apple Coding en Twitch. Descubre nuestras ofertas para oyentes: - Cursos en Udemy (con código de oferta) - Apple Coding Academy - Suscríbete a Apple Coding en nuestro Patreon. - Canal de Telegram de Swift. Acceso al canal. --------------- Consigue las camisetas oficiales de Apple Coding con los logos de Swift y Apple Coding así como todo tipo de merchadising como tazas o fundas. - Tienda de merchandising de Apple Coding.

Apple presenta lámpara robot expresiva con Siri y sólido enfoque hogareño, según Apple Machine Learning Research  Por Félix Riaño @LocutorCo  ¿Podemos imaginar un futuro donde un robot nos acompañe en el escritorio y baile con nosotros al ritmo de la música? Apple trabaja en un prototipo fascinante: una lámpara robot con movimientos expresivos y capacidad para responder gestos y comandos de voz. Este dispositivo, presentado en su investigación ELEGNT, comparte rasgos muy humanos como la curiosidad y la empatía, demostrando su potencial para iluminar proyectos, proyectar videos y hasta invitarnos a beber agua. Es una propuesta llamativa que sugiere un acercamiento más cercano entre la tecnología y nuestro entorno cotidiano. ¿Será este el nuevo paso en la robótica hogareña que todos estamos esperando? Hay un video que prueba su carisma.  Algunos dudan si Apple planea lanzar esta lámpara robot pronto  El prototipo de Apple es una lámpara con un brazo articulado, cámara, luz LED y proyector. Viene con un asistente de voz similar a Siri. Los investigadores de Apple Machine Learning Research lo llaman ELEGNT. Ellos exploran cómo dotar al robot de movimientos expresivos que lo hagan atractivo. El video muestra dos versiones: una “Funcional” y otra “Expresiva”. La segunda baila, inclina la cabeza con tristeza y empuja un vaso para invitar a beber agua. Los autores del proyecto, liderados por Yuhan Hu y su equipo, quieren demostrar que el carisma aumenta la interacción. El proyecto confirma esa ventaja inicial.  Algunas personas se preguntan si este prototipo va a llegar pronto al mercado. Bloomberg señala que Apple podría presentar un robot similar en 2026 o 2027, con un costo cercano a 1.000 dólares. Hay incertidumbre porque un dispositivo sin pantalla grande parece insuficiente para videollamadas o navegación web. Otros temen que sea un lujo y no un producto de consumo masivo. También surge la interrogante sobre la privacidad: un robot con cámara y micrófono integrados genera dudas. La integración de Siri y proyectores podría elevar el precio, alejándolo de muchos usuarios. Apple no confirma planes oficiales, lo que aumenta las preguntas sobre su lanzamiento definitivo. ¿Realmente van a apostar por un gadget tan novedoso y costoso para todos en casa?  Mientras la comunidad debate la utilidad real de un robot-lámpara, Apple parece preparar el terreno con investigaciones orientadas a la interacción emocional. ELEGNT ejemplifica cómo un movimiento expresivo invita al usuario a entablar una relación más cercana con el dispositivo. En otras marcas, como Amazon con su robot Astro, ya existe un enfoque hacia robots para el hogar, aunque su disponibilidad es limitada. El caso de Apple podría marcar una diferencia al integrar todo en un ecosistema con Siri y servicios conocidos. A mediano plazo, estos proyectos van a evolucionar hacia experiencias más fluidas. Si la empresa confirma su lanzamiento, tal vez veamos una nueva categoría de productos, parecida a los altavoces inteligentes con pantallas. Los primeros ensayos indican que la robótica expresiva despierta curiosidad y apego. Este fenómeno va a abrir posibilidades en enseñanza, teleasistencia y entretenimiento, siempre que se gestione bien la privacidad y seguridad de los datos.  Este proyecto de Apple Machine Learning Research recuerda la estética de la lámpara Luxo Jr. de Pixar, según TechRadar. La propuesta combina un foco LED con cámara, micrófono y proyector, buscando reproducir rasgos de gesticulación humana. El video oficial dura 4,76 minutos y muestra distintas rutinas: bailar, mirar por la ventana y proyectar tutoriales. Muchos sitios especializados, como 9to5Mac y The Verge, destacan el parecido con asistentes robóticos de otras marcas. Cada movimiento está diseñado para transmitir emociones, incluso al empujar un vaso de agua como recordatorio de hidratación. Se cree que Apple va a fusionar inteligencia de voz con sensores avanzados, creando interacciones más cálidas. MacRumors menciona que el prototipo examina cómo generar empatía tecnológica. La idea base surge de la necesidad de robots amigables, capaces de animar espacios domésticos. Esta investigación insinúa un futuro donde la robótica hogareña sea más natural y divertida. Especialistas lo comparan con Pixar.  Apple avanza en robótica hogareña con su lámpara inteligente y expresiva. La integración de Siri y movimientos carismáticos podría abrir nuevas puertas en el hogar. ¿Te gustaría ver uno de estos robots en tu escritorio? Déjanos tus comentarios y síguenos en Spotify para más noticias: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hZpVtjGWqgqATmVom54uK?si=2HttGDsxQW6PjeaXKSwI3w Comparte este episodio con tus amigos y apoya la innovación que transforma nuestra vida.    BibliografíaThe VergeTechRadarApple Machine Learning ResearchMacRumors9to5MacConviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/flash-diario-de-el-siglo-21-es-hoy--5835407/support.

The Disney Dummies X Pixar Pals are caught up on all our movies (for now), so you may be wondering what's next as we await for new theatrical movies to come out? Glad you asked! We are venturing into Pixar's beloved short films with our new limited series run: Pixar Shorties! Join us this week as we rewind all the way back to the humble beginnings of Pixar once again and take a look at The Adventures of André & Wally B (1984), Luxo Jr. (1986), Red's Dream (1987), Tin Toy (1988). The post Pixar Shorties #1 – The Adventures of André & Wally B (1984), Luxo Jr. (1986), Red’s Dream (1987), Tin Toy (1988) appeared first on PodCavern.

Surviving the Deserted Island - Corban with Bob Parr and PT Flea's Animal Cracker Box In any dangerous situation, Bob Parr aka Mr. Incredible is the guy you want on your team. Despite the lame object, Corban comes out on top. Surviving the Frozen Tundra - Camari with the Underminer and Al's Chicken Suit The Underminer and the chicken suit will help Camari survive the freezing, icy elements while Corban will have a tough time doing anything but playing with his Luxo Jr. ball…. Surviving the Bear Attack - Camari with Russell and Duct Tape Russell is a trained wilderness explorer with a talent for making friends with wild animals. If anyone can tame a bear, it's this guy. And the duct tape can be a good backup plan if things go south. Surviving a Broken Leg in the Woods - Corban with Colt Bronco and a Hover Chair With two options for getting help out of the woods with a broken leg, this one is a no-brainer. Not only will he be saved but he gets choices about how he will be saved! Stranded on a Boat in the Ocean - Camari with Dante and Jet Boots Dante will offer wonderful companionship and Syndrome's jet boots can be used for anything from flying to see the nearest land to a heat source for boiling water and cooking food. Enjoy this episode? We have good news! If you want more Pixar survivor scenarios subscribe for extended and additional Neverland Files episodes! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theneverlandfiles.substack.com/subscribe

Infomaniak partage les valeurs de Tech Café : éthique, écologie et respect de la vie privée. Découvrez les services de notre partenaire sur Infomaniak.comGuillaume Poggiaspalla et Pierre-Olivier Dybman s'accaparent le flux de Tech Café pour parler l'intelligence artificielle, robotique et réseaux sociaux. Patreon Discord techcafe.fr LLamalédiction Un premier livre “génératif” vient d'être copyrighté. Mais juste un peu. Jamais LLAMA 2 sans 3 : Meta AI est très Open. La concurrence de Meta ? Microsoft en fait Phi. Enfin une solution pour les visio qui saoulent ? Vas-y VASA ! Et une solution pour réveiller les morts ! Entre autres. Jamais deux sans moi : Google aussi veut son datacenter à 100 milliards. Luxo junior : Boston Dynamics marche vers son avenir. À l'envers. Génération XZ Les attaques sociales sur l'Open Source continuent. Twitter X fait payer les bots, Elon fait payer Tesla. TikTok lite, c'est du lourd. Discordant : des milliards de messages en vente libre. Blursed : Reddit est le nouveau Google. Le pauvre. Jeux vidéo Meta vers de nouveaux Horizons. Take 2 two licencie. Y a que les imbéciles qui changent pas d'avis. Monde en 50 Hz : Alt Store PAL arrive avec son premier logiciel gratuit payant. Participants Une émission préparée et présentée par Guillaume Poggiaspalla Avec Pierre-Olivier Dybman

Guillaume Poggiaspalla et Pierre-Olivier Dybman s'accaparent le flux de Tech Café pour parler l'intelligence artificielle, robotique et réseaux sociaux. LLamalédiction Génération XZ Jeux vidéo Participants

This week, DisneylandForward moves… forward, a giant new addition to the Grand Californian for Lunar New Year, a new treat at Rancho del Zocalo, Haunted Mansion construction shocker, we talk about our trip to the Disney100 Exhibition in Chicago, and more! Please support the show if you can by going to https://www.dlweekly.net/support/. Check out all of our current partners and exclusive discounts at https://www.dlweekly.net/promos. News: The future of the Disneyland Resort has taken another step forward last week. DisneylandForward had a workshop with the Anaheim City Council where some more details were laid out. Disney proposes to invest $1.9 billion on attractions, entertainment, lodging, and retail within 10 years of approval, along with up to $90 million to update city streets and improve streets near the parks. $30 million will be used over five years for affordable housing, $8 million for Anaheim park improvements in the first year, and funding of worker education, development, and recruiting programs. The next steps are a planning commission workshop in February, with a hearing in March, and a City Council hearing in May. – DisneylandForward ➡ Charting The Course For Future Adventures! (micechat.com) For new things to happen, we have to say goodbye to some old things. Over at the Haunted Mansion, walls are up from Tiana's Palace all the way to Critter Country for construction of the expanded queue and Tiana's Bayou Adventure. Trees have been cut down in front of the New Orleans Square train station, between Tiana's Palace and the Haunted Mansion. This is to make way for the reimagined queue and park space that will be located in this space when construction is complete. – DISNEYLAND UPDATE: Haunted Mansion Shocker, New Celebrations & Massive Construction! (micechat.com) The Year of the Dragon is upon us and the Lunar New Year festival has some merch for this year. Of course there are some Lunar New Year Minnie Ears for $34.99, a Lunar New Year Spirit Jersey for $79.99 for adults, and a child size for $64.99. Other items include a pull over sweatshirt, t-shirt, Mickey plush, cards, and more. – https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2024/01/24/all-the-2024-lunar-new-year-festival-merchandise-at-disneyland-resort/ The Grand Californian goes all out for the holidays, adding some new touches for Lunar New Year. A new, giant dragon kite, spanning 80 feet long, has been hung in the lobby. A smaller Lunar New Year display is also there with different dolls reminiscent of the dolls in “it's a small world.” There is also an area for a photo op. – https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2024/01/28/this-80-foot-long-dragon-is-the-best-disney-hotel-decoration-weve-ever-seen/ https://www.micechat.com/378728-disneyland-update-haunted-mansion-shocker-new-celebrations-massive-construction/ January 29th is Ahsoka Tano Day. To celebrate, Ashley Eckstein, the voice of the character, along with Bret Ewan, the voice of Mickey Mouse and graphic artist, were on hand for the launch of the new “I am no Jedi” collection the duo created together. There was a meet and greet event and then a lightsaber meetup in Star Wars Galaxy's Edge in the evening. – DISNEYLAND UPDATE: Haunted Mansion Shocker, New Celebrations & Massive Construction! (micechat.com) A new treat has come to Rancho del Zocalo. The Mickey-shaped Churro Cream Puff is a cream puff filled with cinnamon pastry cream, and topped with cinnamon craquelin and cinnamon sugar. It tastes like a churro and is pretty light even with all the cream inside. If this sounds tasty to you, pick one up for $7.99. – https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2024/01/27/review-we-tried-a-mickey-shaped-churro-cream-puff-and-well-never-look-at-pastries-the-same-way-again/ Apparently the Disney100 celebration at Disneyland has concluded. All of the Disney100 decorations in Downtown Disney have been removed. Over by the old ESPN Zone building, a new retro Downtown Disney photo op has been setup. – https://www.micechat.com/378728-disneyland-update-haunted-mansion-shocker-new-celebrations-massive-construction/ The Pixar Place Hotel had it's grand reopening the day we record the podcast. The new lobby icon of the Pixar Ball with Luxo Jr. on top looks great, along with the other touches scattered about the hotel. Outside, a new lighting package has been installed that give the hotel a pop of Pixar color at night! – https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2024/01/30/disneys-new-pixar-place-hotel-is-now-open/ Snack Chat: February is Black History Month, which can only mean one thing: Celebrate Soulfully is back at Disneyland! The Disney Parks Blog released the Foodie Guide for the event. – https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2024/01/disney-eats-foodie-guide-to-celebrate-soulfully-2024/ Did you know that January is National Soup Month? How about that February 4th is National Homemade Soup Day? Well, the Disney Parks Blog posted 7 soup recipes that you can make at home from the parks, hotels, and cruise line. – https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2024/01/disney-eats-warm-up-with-7-soup-recipes/ Discussion Topic: Disney100 Exhibit in Chicago – https://disney100exhibit.com/chicago/

This week, a new design coming to Cast Member nametags, Magic Key availability comes and goes… Pixar Place Hotel gets a new eatery and prepares to debut, a major milestone at an upcoming attraction, we talk to Alex and Gretchen about Disneyland's runDisney event, and more! Please support the show if you can by going to https://www.dlweekly.net/support/. Check out all of our current partners and exclusive discounts at https://www.dlweekly.net/promos. News: Ken Potrock revealed a new nametag design coming for Cast Members at the resort. The new design goes back to the first name of the Cast Member and their “hometown.” The logo at the top is a colorful design, featuring Sleeping Beauty Castle, the Pixar Pal-a-Round and the vintage Disneyland Resort sign used at the Disneyland Hotel currently. The stars around the nametag are also colorful with “The Happiest Place on Earth” at the bottom. – https://dlnewstoday.com/2024/01/new-disneyland-resort-cast-member-nametag-design-revealed/ Last week, Magic Keys went on sale again for guests who wanted to get in on the program. Within 24 hours, all keys were once again “available for renewal only.” Disney released a statement on their Magic Key site stating they have paused new sales to “help protect the experience for Magic Key holders and the value those passes provide.” – https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2024/01/11/three-magic-key-passes-sold-out-one-day-after-disney-resumed-sales/ There is a new eatery which just opened at the Pixar Place Hotel. The Sketch Pad Cafe is just outside of the Great Maple restaurant and offers quick service breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The breakfast menu features Röckenwagner Bakery breads, and a large assortment of standard breakfast fare. – https://www.micechat.com/377590-pixar-place-hotel-will-say-hey-howdy-hey-this-month/ https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2024/01/14/surprise-this-clue-proves-a-new-disney-restaurant-is-open-now/ We are coming up on the Pixar Place Hotel officially opening to guests and a focal point for the hotel is nearing completion. The mobile that will be in the main lobby area has begun to take shape. The stained glass looking characters have been hung from the ceiling and all that remains is the installation of the large Luxo Jr. balancing atop the Luxo Ball. – https://dlnewstoday.com/2024/01/photos-new-giant-pop-art-character-mobiles-added-to-pixar-place-hotel-lobby-featuring-wall-e-toy-story-more/ There is a lot going on at Downtown Disney and even more to come! Tortilla Jo's has a closing date of March 31st. Earl of Sandwich will be moving again and relocated to a space by the Star Wars Trading Post by the end of February. – https://www.micechat.com/377576-disneyland-whats-new-2024/ A rather substantial addition has come to Tiana's Bayou Adventure! The water tower for the new attraction has been installed, topped with Tiana's crown and all! Other than the removal of the tree stump at the top of the old Splash Mountain, this is the largest change to the exterior of the upcoming attraction. – https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2024/01/09/update-theres-a-new-addition-at-tianas-bayou-adventure-in-disneyland/ https://wdwnt.com/2024/01/first-characters-tianas-bayou-adventure-mk/ A handful of new menu items have come to various locations around the resort. At Red Rose Taverne, a new Vive Le Bacon! burger, and Spiced Lamb and Sausage flatbread has been added. At the Hungry Bear, a Churro Funnel Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream is available. Mickey-shaped Grape Beignets are at the Mint Julep Bar. A couple varieties of Chicken Tenders and a Pibb Xtra Float have come to the Golden Horseshoe. Over at the Refreshment Corner, A Chili-Cheese Potato Dog and a Pepperoni Mickey-shaped Pretzel are on the menu. Over at Disney California Adventure, a S'mores Banana Split, and a Butter Cake is at Clarabelle's. Smokejumpers Grill has a Raspberry Cheesecake Shake. Aunt Cass Cafe has an Upside-Down Pineapple Cread Pudding. Finally, the Cozy Cones has a Banana Split Churro and a Loaded Fried Tamale. – https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2024/01/14/15-new-reasons-why-disneylands-restaurants-are-just-plain-better/ So. Many. New. Ears. A large variety of ears has come to the resort, ranging from light-up Disneyland Resort Icons to Nightmare Before Christmas, to Frozen and more! Prices range from $34.99 to $44.99. – https://dlnewstoday.com/2024/01/huge-collection-of-new-minnie-ear-headbands-featuring-frozen-nightmare-before-christmas-more-now-available-at-disneyland-resort/ Discussion Topic: runDisney with Alex and Gretchen https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMprIYYWAl_0r1Yki-n8TT0pxP_h7JR1CHvDHb2S6Bp5-2n59-RAsLSukRhidRy9g?key=ZDFETUU0WWQ2Q0tBUm9kOXpBSV8tNmlhbVlSMHJ3 https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPEEm0mXUTf9R1M64m2_Gd7p1B9DGTIjg4ZBnHPWEkKTuvknssMv78aVjH0KQCRMA?key=TTc5QlZxMzFaMURIOGZjTjNzYngxQnRBVmV3N0lB

We go back the early days of Pixar and discuss the shorts the came before Toy Story. From the fist use of "What if (blank) had feelings", to the nightmare fuel of a clown and a baby. Shorts discussed: The Adventures of Andre and Wally B. (1984) Luxo Jr. (1986) Red's Dream (1987) Tin Toy (1988) Knick Kack (1989) Music from https://filmmusic.io "Glitter Blast" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) The American Civil Liberties Union: https://www.aclu.org/ The National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/ The Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ Reproductive rights are human rights. LGBTQ+ rights are human rights.

Emma and Will chat with Lydia Roth and Christina Bodensiek, constructors of the puzzle "That's the Spirit!" in the Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) puzzle pack. This episode includes spoilers for "That's the Spirit!" so go solve it first if you haven't already! TO GET ACCESS TO THE PUZZLE PACK:1. Make a donation (suggested amount $13) to a cancer-related charity.2. Email a copy of your receipt to crosswordsforcancer@gmail.com.3. Receive puzzle pack!4 (optional but encouraged). Tell other people to do steps 1-3. Links of interest (in the order they're mentioned in the episode): Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC): crosswordsforcancer.com Pandora's Blocks: https://pandorasblocks.org/Muller Monthly Music Meta (MMMM): https://pmxwords.com/XWord Muggles Forum: https://www.xword-muggles.com/"Pointing Toward Success": https://crosshare.org/crosswords/u06AAkDzaaxzR26ZJMMZ/pointing-towards-successDiscussion of "That's the Spirit!" on the CCCC subforum: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=2197Luxo Jr. (character): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxo_Jr._(character)@PairODucks on Crosshare: https://crosshare.org/PairODucks-------------------------------------------Want to get in touch with us? We would love to hear from you! You can reach Emma at damefoxwords@gmail.com, and you can reach Will at pandorasblockswmc@gmail.com. We may read your letter on a future episode! Podcast hosting by Buzzsprout Music by FASSounds from Pixabay

On a special pod blast episode of Pop Goes The Classics, Andy Atherton rides solo to do a live watch of the Pixar Short, “Luxo Jr.” from 1986.   To watch along on Stream Lounge, click this link: https://www.streamlounge.io/watch/922fa2a0-791c-49c7-bb97-f8caa2ebece3

A few weeks ago when we explored life lessons from Cinderella, we talked about how wishing won't get the job done when we have big juicy goals. Envisioning our goals is lovely. It does put gas in our motivational tanks. But, ultimately, we have to put our feet on the gas pedal and start moving. We have to lean into action.  But there's another aspect of growth that's important to remember and it's that growth is iterative. We can't magic our way to the top of a staircase. We have to take each step one at a time.  And we believe that Pixar's very first short, Luxo Jr., is a great place for us to explore this lesson. This 1986 short is the origin story of the Pixar lamp that we all know and love and the Pixar ball we've spotted in hidden throughout Pixar movies. Join us as we explore the power of iterative growth with a frustrating/lovely reminder that the imperceptible movement we're making is actually where the best stuff is happening. This Week's Big Think: What is one thing that you are working on right now that you are iterating on and getting better at each and every day? Loving the podcast? Support Magical Mindset Moments by joining the Magic Family on Patreon.

A Pixar é mais conhecida por seus filmes tecnologicamente desenvolvidos por RenderMan, a implementação da própria empresa da interface de programação de aplicativos de renderização de imagens RenderMan Interface Specification. Luxo Jr., um abajur do curta-metragem homônimo de 1986, é a mascote do estúdio. A Pixar iniciou como uma divisão dentro da Lucasfilms em 1976, conhecida como Graphic Group, em 1986, financiado pela Apple, se separou e fundou como Pixar Animation Studios e em 2006 foi comprada pela Disney. A Pixar produziu 25 longas-metragens, começando com Toy Story (1995), que foi o primeiro longa-metragem animado por computador; seu filme mais recente foi Turning Red (2022). Todos os filmes do estúdio estrearam com classificações CinemaScore de pelo menos um "A−", o que indica uma recepção positiva com o público. O estúdio também produziu dezenas de curtas-metragens. Em julho de 2019, seus filmes ganharam aproximadamente 14 bilhões de dólares de bilheteria mundial,[7] com uma média mundial bruta de 680 milhões de dólares por filme. Toy Story 3 (2010), Finding Dory (2016), Incredibles 2 (2018) e Toy Story 4 (2019) estão todos entre os 50 filmes de maior bilheteria de todos os tempos, com Incredibles 2 sendo o terceiro filme de animação de maior bilheteria de todos os tempos, com um bruto de 1,2 bilhão de dólares; os outros três também arrecadaram mais de 1 bilhão de dólares. Além disso, 15 dos filmes da Pixar estão entre os 50 filmes de animação de maior bilheteria de todos os tempos. O estúdio ganhou 21 Óscars, 9 Globos de Ouro e 11 Grammy, junto com vários outros prêmios e reconhecimentos. Muitos dos filmes da Pixar foram indicados ao Oscar de Melhor Filme de Animação, desde sua inauguração em 2001, com onze vencedores da Pixar sendo Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008) , Up (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010), Brave (2012), Inside Out (2015), Coco (2017) Toy Story 4 (2019) e Soul (2020); os cinco indicados ao prêmio sem vencê-lo são Monsters, Inc. (2001), Cars (2006) Incredibles 2 (2018) Orward (2020) e Luca (2021) Além desse prêmio, Up e Toy Story 3 também foram o segundo e o terceiro filmes de animação, respectivamente, a serem indicados para o Oscar de Melhor Filme (o primeiro sendo Beauty and the Beast da Walt Disney Animation Studios em 1991). Em 6 de setembro de 2009, os executivos da Pixar John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton e Lee Unkrich foram agraciados com o prêmio Leão de Ouro para Lifetime Achievement Awards pelo Festival de Cinema de Veneza. Como parte da cerimônia, o prêmio físico foi entregue ao fundador da Lucasfilm, George Lucas. Quer ficar atualizado sempre que sair algum conteúdo novo? Gostou do nosso conteúdo? Siga nosso perfil no Instagram, visite nosso site para se integrar mais sobre os episódios e se quiser pode apoiar nosso projeto através do Apoia-se: Site: https://cantinhocast.com.br Apoia-se: https://apoia.se/cantinhocast Instagram: https://instagram.com/cantinho_cast/ Dúvidas, sugestões, caneladas? E-mail: zartel@cantinhocast.com

‘Toy Story 2' wordt wel eens vergeleken met ‘The Godfather Part II'. Als in: een sequel die minstens even goed, zo niet béter was dan het origineel. En iemand die deze bétere film een miljoen keer gezien heeft op VHS, is MNM-vedette Esther Nwanu. Ze kan woordelijk scènes naspelen, heeft alle easter eggs gespot en voelt zich vooral verbonden met het personage Rex. En we hebben over de cross-over met ‘Jurassic Park', dankzij acteur Wayne Knight. (En het gaat ook even over de kortfilm ‘Luxo Jr.' (1986) die de film destijds vooraf ging.)

This week Harry continues to explore advances in "digital therapeutics" in a conversation with Paolo Pirjanian, the founder and CEO of the robotics company Embodied. They've created an 8-pound, 16-inch-high robot called Moxie that's intended as a kind of substitute therapist that can help kids with their social-emotional learning. Moxie draws on some of the same voice-recognition and voice-synthesis technologies found in digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home, but it also has an expressive body and face designed to make it more engaging for kids. The device hit the market in 2020, and parents are already saying the robot helps kids learn how to talk themselves down when they're feeling angry or frustrated, and how to be more confident in their conversations with adults or other kids. But Moxie isn't inexpensive; it has a purchase price comparable to a high-end cell phone, and on top of that there's a required monthly subscription that costs as much as some cellular plans. So it feels like there are some interesting questions to work out about who's going to pay for this new wave of digital therapeutics, and whether they'll be accessible to everyone who needs them. Pirjanian discussed that with Harry, along with a bunch of other topics, from the product design choices that went into Moxie to the company's larger ambitions to build social robots for many other applications like entertainment or elder care.Please rate and review The Harry Glorikian Show on Apple Podcasts! Here's how to do that from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:1. Open the Podcasts app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. 2. Navigate to The Harry Glorikian Show podcast. You can find it by searching for it or selecting it from your library. 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I'm Harry Glorikian, and this is The Harry Glorikian Show, where we explore how technology is changing everything we know about healthcare.Two weeks ago, in our previous episode, I talked with Eddie Martucci, the CEO of a company called Akili Interactive that's marketing the first FDA-approved prescription video game. It's called EndeavorRx, and it's designed to help kids with ADHD improve their attention skills.It's one of the first examples of what some people are calling “digital therapeutics.”And this week we continue on that topic—but with a conversation about robots rather than video games. My guest Paolo Pirjanian is the founder and CEO of Embodied.They've created an 8-pound, 16-inch-high robot called Moxie that's intended as a kind of substitute therapist that can help kids with their social-emotional learning.Moxie draws on some of the same voice-recognition and voice-synthesis technologies found in digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home. But it also has an expressive body and face designed to make it more engaging for kids.Moxie Video Clip: Hi, I'm Moxie. I'm a robot from the GRL. That's the Global Robotics Laboratory. This is my first time in the human world. It's nice to be here. Oh, where is here, exactly? It's a pretty big world for a little robot.Harry Glorikian: Moxie hit the market in 2020, and parents are already saying the robot helps kids learn how to talk themselves down when they're feeling angry or frustrated, and how to be more confident in their conversations with adults or other kids.But just like EndeavorRx, Moxie isn't inexpensive. The robot has a purchase price comparable to a high-end cell phone, and on top of that there's a required monthly subscription that costs as much as some cellular plans.So, it feels like there are some interesting questions to work out about who's going to pay for this new wave of digital therapeutics, and whether they'll be accessible to everyone who needs them.Paolo and I talked about that, as well as a bunch of other topics—from the product design choices that went into Moxie, to the company's larger ambitions to build social robots for many other applications like entertainment or elder care.So here's my conversation with Paolo. Harry Glorikian: Paolo, welcome to the show.Paolo Pirjanian: Thank you. Hey, for having me on the show.Harry Glorikian: Paolo, you're the co-founder and CEO of a company called Embodied. And and you guys are in the field of, I'm going to call it educational robotics. But this is not your first robotics company, right? Can you can you start by filling in listeners about your history in the consumer robotics field?Paolo Pirjanian: Absolutely. Yeah. So I actually got my education in Denmark. I got a PhD in A.I. and robotics and then moved to the US actually to work at NASA's JPL. Which was a childhood dream job. Shortly thereafter, I got approached by Bill Gross of Idealab, who started one of the earliest incubators, who wanted to start a robotics company. So I joined that company as the CTO originally and then eventually became the CEO. We developed Visual Slam Technology, which is a vision based, camera based ability for a robot to build a map of the environment and know how to navigate it autonomously. That company in 2012 was acquired by iRobot. And we integrated that technology across Roomba and the other iRobot portfolio products to allow them to be aware of the environment and know how to navigate around the home, primarily for cleaning the floors. I was a CTO there for a couple of years and then decided to move on to do something that's been a childhood dream, to really create AI friends that can help us through difficult times in our lives.Harry Glorikian: But one of the projects you worked on, and correct me if I'm wrong, was the Sony's Aibo Robot Dog, right? It's not necessarily educational, but it was aimed at kids. So what sort of drew your focus on robotics for education and socialization, I want to say.Paolo Pirjanian: Yes, correct. Sony Aibo, the robotic dog, my previous company, we developed a computer vision technology for it that enabled the robot to be able to see things and interact with things in the environment. And it was an amazing product, actually, the Sony Aibo. And I've always actually had interest in let's call it mental health. And of course, my craft is AI and robotics. And so after my last company was acquired, I decided the timing is now to go pursue that childhood dream of creating robots that can actually help us with mental health. So we don't categorize ourselves as education in the strict sense because we do not really focus on STEM education. We focus on for children. The first product is for children. It's called Moxie, and it's helping them with social emotional skills, learning, which in layman's term you could describe as EQ, emotional intelligence skills versus IQ, which are more related to STEM type education.Harry Glorikian: Yeah. And it's it's supposed to complement traditional therapy if I was reading everything correctly.Paolo Pirjanian: Exactly. Exactly. We don't believe in replacing humans in the loop. We want people to be treated by humans. But given the shortage and cost of mental health services, there's always room for complementing that with AI and other technologies. And that's what we are doing.Harry Glorikian: So if I ask the question, is Moxie more like a toy that's supposed to be fun, or is it a tool that's supposed to be therapeutic or correct some help help a child that's using it or is it both?Paolo Pirjanian: It's primarily a tool to help children with social emotional learning, things that you would go to a therapist for. The analogy that I use that may be helpful here is really Moxie is a tool to deliver therapy to children. But we we have to make it fun enough for the child to want to take that pill. So in a way, if you use pharmaceuticals as an analogy, a pill usually for children is sugar coated because you want them to take the pill to deliver the medicine to them. So the same way here, Moxie has a lot of fun activities and interesting things that attract a child to want to interact with Moxie. And then during those interactions, Moxie will find the opportunity to deliver techniques and therapies, for instance, to teach the child about mindfulness, teach them about emotion regulation, teach them social skills, to teach them about empathy and kindness, talking about your feelings and so on.Harry Glorikian: I know many adults that may need Moxie for sure. With all those categories you mentioned. Right.Paolo Pirjanian: I agree.Harry Glorikian: But but let's talk about the range of challenges, problems or issues that you've designed Moxie to help with. So can it help with relatively mild issues like shyness, or is it designed to help kids with more severe issues like, Autism Spectrum Disorder or all of the above?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah, no, it's first of all, you're talking about the audience that it's appropriate for. Obviously, children that have been diagnosed with any neurodevelopmental challenges such as autism need to be trained on social emotional skills. But neurotypical children also can benefit from it. Actually in our customer base, we see a roughly 50-50 split between children that have mental, behavioral developmental disorders. And in the 50% are children that you would call neurotypical. But yet we know even within neurotypical children, they have to deal with things such as stress, anxiety, sometimes even depression. Covid obviously did not help it. It exacerbated a lot of mental health issues for every child, including adults, by the way, as you pointed out. And these techniques and tools that you use from therapy are really the same independent of the diagnosis. Now, some children may need more help with social skills. Let's say if there is a child on the autism spectrum, they may not be very comfortable making eye contact, which is an important social skill to have. When you're interacting with someone, you want to look them in their eyes and Moxie will help them, for instance, with that. And that's maybe something that a neurotypical child doesn't need. So Moxie will focus more on helping them with things such as coping skills, with coping with stress, coping with anxiety or managing anxiety, or even social skills. Like you can talk to Moxie about bullying and it will allow you to talk about it and understand how to navigate that and teach you skills about how to protect your own personal space. A lot of these foundational skills are are the type of skills that social emotional learning includes.Harry Glorikian: So. Let's talk a little bit more about the actual product. And because this is a podcast, I'm sort of like need to talk through some of the features, right? Because they everybody can't see it. But so on the hardware side, you know, the arms, the waist, it bends, the rotating ears, the rotating base, the ears, the face, the speakers, the camera, you know, the program that animates the face and gives Moxie, a personality, the computer vision elements. Right. And then all the scripts of all the different interactions. Right, you know. Why was it important to give Moxie an LCD screen as a face rather than mechanical mouth or eyes.Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. Let me start maybe take a couple of steps back for the audience, as you said there are no visuals here. Think of Moxie as a AI character brought to real life. Right. So think of it as a, sorry, as a cartoon character brought to real life. So think of a cartoon character that has physical embodiment and it can talk to you. It can smile back at you. We can interact with you with body language and emotions and so on. To your question as to why it required a LCD display. We could potentially consider creating a mechanical face that can have enough expressivity, but that can add a lot of costs on one hand. On the other hand, if not done well enough, it can become uncanny and creepy. So we decided that the LCD display that, by the way, is very is curved because we did not want it to look like a monitor stuck in the head. But it was integral to the design. So it's curved and looks like a face. And what you see on the face is an animated character, Moxie's character, which is integrated very well with a hardware industrial design. So you can provide much more freedom of expression from facial expressions. And especially for children, you want to have a robot that has the ability to show facial expressions. By the way, the intonation of the voice will change as well, based on the type of conversation and the emotion we are trying to capture in the conversation.Paolo Pirjanian: And then the other question, actually, a macro level question becomes embodiment, why did this need to be embodied? Why physical? Why not just a digital character on a screen? Well, so, evidence from neuroscience, from MRI, fMRI scans shows that when we interact with something that has physical embodiment and agency, it triggers our mirror neurons, our imitation neurons are triggered at a much higher level and much wider level than when you're interacting with something just on a screen. And the implication of that is that things you can learn through interaction with the embodied agency have a deeper impact in terms of retention of the information, something that we may be able to anecdotally relate to during COVID. All education went online and the post mortem on that was that te quality of education that was delivered online doesn't compare to what happens in the classrooms. And that's, again, the same thing when it's not embodied. You don't feel that emotional connection. You don't feel an obligation. Many children will just turn off the monitor and walk away, whereas with something that's physically embodied, you feel you can't do that. It has feelings, you feel it has a perspective. You can't just turn it off. By the way, on Moxie, if you look at it closely, there are no buttons on Moxie. There is no input device on moxie like a keyboard or a touch screen or anything else. The way you interact with moxie is the way we interact with each other, using conversation, body language, intonation of voice, emotion, facial expressions and so on. There is one switch actually on the bottom of the robot that you don't see. That's for emergency situations in case something goes wrong. For certification reasons, we have to put that physical switch to turn it off if something goes wrong.Harry Glorikian: So not having played with it does, and only watching the video online, Moxie's voice synthesized like Siri or is it prerecorded? Like, how does it sound?Harry Glorikian: It's synthetic. Yes. So, yeah. So we cast the character of Moxie, decided what this character stands for, what are its values, what is the background story? And then based on that, decided the voice of Moxie, what it should be. And then the way you develop the synthetic voices that you take in neural network and train it based on a lot of samples that we captured from a voice actress in a studio recording hundreds and hundreds of hours of speech from a script. So we have this script and we know how it sounds based on the character's voice recording, and that gets fed into a deep neural network that is trained over and over again until it models that voice. So that later I can just give a text and it will generate a synthetic voice that sounds exactly like that character.Harry Glorikian: And then Moxie seems to emit a lot of sound effects and music. Does that element enhance the product somehow?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. So we can underline mood and so on with sound effects or background music. For instance, one of the activities Moxie will suggest if the child is talking about things that are have to do with stress and so on, is a mindfulness journey. Where it will ask you to close your eyes. Imagine you are in a forest or other places as well. There's a library of them. Let's say you're in a forest, listen to the wind and then it will start playing some sound effects in the background and calming music to get the child to imagine they're in that space. For some children that have high sensitivity disorders to certain stimuli like sound, the parents can actually, through a parent app, provide that information which will adjust the settings. In that case, Moxie will actually not use sound effects or any jarring effects that may disturb that child.Harry Glorikian: Interesting. So. Simple question, but is it battery operated? I mean, how long does it last on a single charge? Does it plug in?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah, it's battery operated because the child usually likes to move it around. You carry the round almost like a baby on your arm. If you remember the days where we had young babies, it was literally ergonomically, it sits exactly right on your arm very nicely. And it has a battery that can run for hours of active usage. And then at night, usually like your cell phone, you plug it in any charges overnight.Harry Glorikian: So, you know, this begs the question of where did the idea of Moxie really come from? Because you don't decide on a whim to build a product this complex. You know, how did you persuade yourself and your investors that the technology is at a point where, you know, it could really make a difference with kids, you know, that have social emotional development issues?Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. I mean, the idea was sparked probably early in my early childhood, I would say. So, very briefly at a very early age due to a war, my world was turned upside down. And unfortunately, I had to flee my my homeland and seek refuge in another country where I looked different, sounded different and was different. Right? And and unfortunately, as such, you do get rejected by the society. You have a harder time in school. You get exposed to racism and rejection and all these things. So. I remember during that time I saw the first animated short by Pixar. Which was Luxo Jr., the two lamps, mama lamp and baby lamp playing with a ball. Which blew me away that a computer can generate millions of pixels on the screen that are moving to create, to induce or elicit such emotion in the audience. So that inspired me to actually seek education in computer science and robotics and A.I. because before that, as many immigrants you were taught that you were going to be a doctor, so that that's.Harry Glorikian: Or a lawyer.Paolo Pirjanian: Lawyer comes second, but obviously doctor first. So so that inspired me actually to buy a computer and start coding by myself. And I started learning coding and then I decided I'm going to do well in high school so I can get into university and pursue my education. And I did. And to be honest with you, this has been something I've been wanting to do for since I can remember. My previous company, as I mentioned, Evolution Robotics, that was a Idealab company and I was the CTO then became the CEO. I wanted it to do it then, but that's almost a decade ago, or maybe slightly more than a decade ago. We even tried. It was not possible. Absolutely not possible. I remember back then. Just to use an example that I think most people can relate to, voice recognition for even a single command was hard. All of us have had in-car navigation systems with a voice assistant that you would press a button, hold it down and say navigation, and would pull up navigation and say, Enter your address. It will enter the address. And you would have, to by the time you were done, enter the address because it would constantly misunderstand you and then give you options. Did you say A, B or C and no, no, no. I didn't say that. By the time you were done entering the address, you were at the destination. So that was state of the art only a decade ago. Just for voice recognition. Same thing with computer vision.Paolo Pirjanian: My specialty actually was computer vision. Computer vision. Also, we couldn't recognize things very well. And the advancement that has happened in deep neural networks due to the increase in compute power, due to increase to labeled data sets that are available through many sources from YouTube and the Internet and so on. We have been able to solve age-old problems that for decades we were struggling with So it was not possible. The other piece that was probably not possible was that I was not ready as an entrepreneur probably to take on such a colossal challenge of building a product like this. So the stars aligned around 2015 when I decided to leave iRobot and said, You know what? The time is probably right now. And and fortunately, I was able to get some investors that believed in the vision of creating AI characters, AI friends that can help children with social emotional development. And obviously, this technology platform, we will in the future use it for also helping the elderly population with loneliness and Alzheimer's and dementia and so on. We have just scratched the surface with our first products, right? And there is a lot more work to do. But today it's possible. We have proven it. We have a product in the market. A five year old can will interact with it for months at a time without any human intervention. So yeah, so it was a series of events brewing over the last 30, 40 years for this to become possible today.[musical interlude]Harry Glorikian: Let's pause the conversation for a minute to talk about one small but important thing you can do, to help keep the podcast going. And that's leave a rating and a review for the show on Apple Podcasts.All you have to do is open the Apple Podcasts app on your smartphone, search for The Harry Glorikian Show, and scroll down to the Ratings & Reviews section. Tap the stars to rate the show, and then tap the link that says Write a Review to leave your comments. It'll only take a minute, but you'll be doing a lot to help other listeners discover the show.And one more thing. If you like the interviews we do here on the show I know you'll like my new book, The Future You: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help You Get Healthier, Stress Less, and Live Longer.It's a friendly and accessible tour of all the ways today's information technologies are helping us diagnose diseases faster, treat them more precisely, and create personalized diet and exercise programs to prevent them in the first place.The book is now available in print and ebook formats. Just go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble and search for The Future You by Harry Glorikian.And now, back to the show.[musical interlude]Harry Glorikian: I mean, just looking at the system, there's probably a lot of innovations that were required to put Moxie together. And so. I don't know, maybe you can give us a few, you know, like "Oh, my God" moments that took place in this, right? I mean. I don't know if it's the physical movements. I don't know if it's the, you know, personality or the scripts. But, you know, give us the highlights of what you think was like the big breakthroughs that made this possible.Paolo Pirjanian: Yeah. So there are many, many, many, many pieces of technology that we had to invent or partner for to make this happen. So   what I mentioned, deep neural networks, generally speaking, in the field of AI have advanced to the point where we can have very reliable speech recognition technology, for instance, right? Where you have an accent or not, you're speaking loud or soft and so on, you have background noise and so on, it will be able to transcribe what you're saying pretty accurately. There are still errors, but it's pretty accurate. It's accurate enough, let's put it that way. The next stage of the conversation pipeline is actually understanding. Now you have a transcript of what was said. Now I need to understand the semantics of what was meant, what was the intent behind this, this string of characters, and that's natural language understanding. In that area, Embodied has made huge advancements because we have to be able to understand what the child is saying. And the state of the art when we started is defined by Siri and Alexa and Google Home, where it's very command and response. "Alexa, play music for me. Alexa, how is the weather? Alexa, tell me a joke. Alexa, read a story or read the news for me." And so on. So short utterances and and direct mapping to a function that the device can do. Whereas in our case it's not about this transactional command and response, it's about relation and social interaction. So the child, Moxie will actually ask and encourage the child. It says, "So how was your day to day?" There is no way any human being can script all the possible answers that you could expect to hear because you could basically say anything possible to that question.Paolo Pirjanian: So we had to develop natural language understanding that can understand what was said no matter what was said, and provide a relevant response. Because if you don't, if the robot says something that's absolutely not related to what the child wanted to talk about, then children get disappointed. They say, well, this thing is a dumb robot. It doesn't doesn't understand me. And they will dismiss it, right? The illusion of intelligence breaks away very quickly as soon as you you misunderstand or say something off script, let's say. So we had to develop a combination of systems to be able to address that. Another major challenge, and this was actually much bigger than I thought, we spent a lot of time on this challenge to solve. Again, it has to do with interaction using Alexa as an example also, and Siri as well as Google. They all have this notion of a wake word, Hey, Google, hey Siri or Alexa. When you say this keyword known as a wake word, the device is actually at the, when it's on standby, it's putting all of its attention to look for that keyword before it does anything else. So as soon as you say it, a couple of things happen. It's almost like turning on a switch to say, I'm going to speak, right? So number one, you're telling it, I'm going to say something now. Number two, as soon as you have said that phrase, these things have multiple microphones on them. And the mic array allows you to be able to be informed and focus your attention on the location from which you heard this phrase. With doing that, you can also filter out anything that's in the background. So you focus the attention of the device on that location of the user that said Alexa. And then you say a phrase and then it processes and executes the action. In our case, in social interaction, it will not be appropriate if you had to say Moxie in every volley of the conversation. Every time you want to say a sentence to me, you would start by saying Paolo and I and I would look at you, and then you would say something, and then I would stop listening. And then you say, Paolo, for every sentence, right. That would that would be a very awkward social interaction. So we had to solve that problem. It's a tough problem to solve. And we use a combination of cameras to know where the child is, the voice, where it's coming from, and what was being said to focus the attention of Moxie on the person that's engaged with it so that Moxie doesn't respond to the TV or mom and dad maybe having a conversation on the phone over there and it filters all of that automatically, without the need for having a wake word phrase. And I can go down the list. There is many, many more. But this is just examples of the type of things we have to solve.Harry Glorikian: So, you know, I think some people might make the argument that kids should really be learning their social and emotional skills from other human beings. From a parent, from a teacher, from their peers, maybe their therapist if they have one. You know, how can a robot fit into that picture in a healthy, productive way? You know, how would you respond to the potential criticism, which I'm sure you've heard before. When a parent who buys Moxie for their kid, are they offloading their parental responsibilities?Paolo Pirjanian: That's an absolutely valid concern and a good question to ask. And obviously, even before inception of the company, I personally myself was thinking about this because there is a there's a contradiction in saying that a child that is not very good at social interaction, let's put them in front of a robot, they'll get better at it. There's a contradictory element to that potentially. Right. So let's put it this way. In the extreme case, what if the child does not have the ability to have interaction with their peers? Right. So they do not get the opportunity to interact with other peers from which they're actually learning to hone in their social skills. Well, that happened during the pandemic. There's a huge mental health crisis happening in the US now that will take years for us to to address. That was because children were locked in their home without the ability to socialize with other children because of worries about being getting COVID, right. So now pandemics are rare events that hopefully don't happen that often. But now let's put ourselves in the shoes of children that are, for various reasons, are not successful in providing social interactions. An extreme case is a child on the autism spectrum. That does not have the right skills to have social interactions nor interpret social cues in a conversation. Let's say if you're annoyed at someone on the spectrum, it's likely that they may not even understand that you're annoyed at them and they may keep saying the same thing or doing the same thing. That's going to make you more and more agitated or the other end of the spectrum, which is not as severe.Paolo Pirjanian: My example when I was a child. And I lived in a foreign country where I was different. I had an accent. I looked different. I came from a different cultural background and other kids didn't want to play with me. And there's everything in between. Right? So then. What do we do? Well, you can have therapies and that's what we do. There's a massive shortage of therapists. If you have a child, usually the way this works is that your school teacher will come and say, we think your your child may be on the spectrum or your child may have ADHD or your child have some other neurodevelopmental challenge. You should get your child diagnosed. Okay. Hopefully no one has to try this. The waiting list for getting diagnosed is minimum six months, minimum six months. And that's if you have connections and good providers and all these things. While imagine for six months your mind as a parent, you're like, dying. What the hell is going on with my child? I've got to figure this out quickly. Once your child is diagnosed and you spend 6000, 7000 hours on that, then you've got to find providers. There's a huge shortage of providers, and even when you get to the provider, there is a massive cost associated with it. So typically children on the spectrum, as an example, get diagnosed at the age of three or so. Ideally, actually, because the sooner you can intervene, the better the outcomes. And when they're diagnosed, they will be recommended to seek 20 to 40 hours of therapy per week. 20 to 40 hours of therapy per week. Yeah.Harry Glorikian: They're not doing anything else.Paolo Pirjanian: No. And many times, many times schools are supposed to provide it. But you have one or two special needs teachers that are to deal with the whole population of kids on the spectrum in their school as an example. So they're not going to get 20, 40 hours per week. The cost of therapy is super expensive. Insurance also has to pay for it. Nowadays, they're mandated to, but the cost still adds up. On average, a family will spend $27,000 out of pocket per year, even despite insurance coverage. So not everyone has access. And also if you live in rural areas and so on, you don't have access. So. Why not have an automated system that can do this, at least filling the gap? Right. We think of Moxie as a springboard to the real world. So we want to use Moxie as an opportunity to for the child to open up to Moxie, use that as an option, teach them a number of techniques for how they can be more successful in social interactions, and then Moxie will actually encourage them to go in the real world and experience these things and come and tell it about what what, how it went. So we use Moxie as a springboard to the real world. There is another phenomena that happens, and I don't know how to describe this. You may actually have more insights in neuroscience than I do. Children, especially children that have neurodevelopmental challenges, open up to a robot like Moxie better than they do to humans.Paolo Pirjanian: Let's take autism as an example again. I remember the very first experiment we did with our first prototype. We took that prototype to a family's home. They had a ten year old son on the spectrum, and we put Moxie down. At the time we did not have the AI yet. It was the robot remotely controlled by one of our therapists. On an iPad they were typing what the robot should do and say. The child immediately opened up and start talking to Moxie. And if you look at that child, you say. And you know, as a matter of fact, I asked Mom: "I don't see anything wrong with your child. Why do you think he's on the spectrum?" And he says, well, you have to see him how he treats his peers. He doesn't open up to them. He doesn't want to talk to them. When he comes home from school it takes me, mom, a couple of hours to "find," quote unquote, my child. Tuning into the channel. So they shut down. And there's a few reasons for for sort of, I think, anecdotal or maybe rational reasons to why that is. One is that children that are on the spectrum, they completely understand feelings and emotions and so on. They are not very good at expressing themselves or or showing their feelings, but they understand if they are being rejected or teased out in a conversation and so on. So they shut down. A robot is non-judgmental, right? They understand that it's a safe, non-judgmental space.Paolo Pirjanian: The other part is that when someone like me who comes with a warmer blood and too many gestures and intonation, voice and expressive, it's too much there's too many signals going on. And that's overwhelming to a lot of children on the spectrum. And they shut down. It's too much. I cannot deal with this. Right. And so hence, a robot is finding social doing social exercises and experiences on training wheels. And helping them develop those muscles and get better at how to handle different situations when they go in the real world to interact with their peers or other people in their circle, social circle, to be successful. And that success will hopefully breeds more success. So ideally we are successful when people actually stop using our product. And as a matter of fact, we have parents reaching out to us and say, my child could not stand up in front of their classroom to say a word. Now she stands up and gives a whole presentation and we have stopped using Moxie. Thank you so much for the help that that's what what it is. It's like it's stepping stone. It's training wheels for social emotional learning so that they can have a chance of being successful, because otherwise they do not have the chance to to have these exercises to learn. We learn a lot by interacting with each other.Harry Glorikian: So the company describes Moxie as just the first iteration of a larger platform that I think you call SocialX. So what is SocialX and what other kinds of products do you envision coming out of it?Paolo Pirjanian: Yes. SocialX is our technology platform, which which allows a machine to interact with us using real conversation, eye contact, body language, gestures, intonation of voice and and for the machine to do that as well as understand you on all those channels as well. That's what social platform is. The name SocialX is a juxtaposition to user experience, UX with an emphasis on the social experience. Right? We are creating a social experience. We are not just creating a user experience where you can push buttons or say a command, play music. Tell me the weather, what's the stock market like? But rather social interaction which involves social skills, emotion, skills, empathy and so on. And this is our first iteration. It's going to get exponentially more advanced. With every single user we add to our customer base, it allows us to improve SocialX because the data and the interactions that we can experience allows us to keep improving our algorithms to get better and better and better. So we decided to start with children because they are the most vulnerable in our society and we thought that's where we can have the most impact. The other end of the spectrum, where we become vulnerable again is when we are aging, right? And mental health is extremely important for aging people. And loneliness leads to a lot of mental health challenges that lead to a lot of physical challenges.Paolo Pirjanian: We know this. The surgeon general of U.S. said a couple of years ago that loneliness for elderly is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes in terms of the health implications it has. And it's true. Again, during COVID, a lot of elderly that were alone suffered massively because they were high risk for COVID. Even my mom, who lives 5 minutes away from me, I didn't visit her for a few months until we sort of figured out that we think we know how to handle COVID so it was safe to to meet meet each other. It's extremely difficult. So that's the other end of the spectrum that we intend to address. And then in between every age group, in between that, from your teens to your aging, every person in their lifetime deals with mental health challenges. As a matter of fact, the US population, 17 percent of the population at any given time deals with mental health challenges stress, depression, suicidal thoughts and so on. And having a life coach that can help you through these difficult times, we believe can have a huge impact. So eventually with those three pillars, we will be able to help the entire population. You can go beyond mental health, which is what we are focused on, because that's where we think we can have the biggest impact you could imagine.Paolo Pirjanian: You go to Disney Park and you could have an interactive character coming up to you that's not a person inside a suit, but it's actually an animated character that's walking around and talking to you and entertaining you. You can imagine going to a hotel lobby where your intake to the lobby will be serviced by an interactive character, AI character. By the way, we are also working with hospitals and schools. Right now for hospitals we work with University of Rochester Medical Center. We are currently doing a pilot of using Moxie to help children, diabetic children, to educate them about how to treat themselves and how to adhere to their treatment plan. And then there is a number of other use cases that we are going to expand into, including intake to the hospital, dealing, sort of holding their hands and making sure they are not stressed out, coming to the hospital for the first time, pre-op and then post-op. Also a lot of complications you want to avoid by making sure there is someone to remind you about your care plan and so on. So to be honest with you, the sky is the limit. But the three areas we are focused on is children, elderly and then everyone in between that suffers from mental health or loneliness type of challenges.Harry Glorikian: Yeah, there are so many other applications that I can think of that I would, you know that I could use my self. So hopefully, that will come into play because this would be something interesting for me even to interact with, depending on, you know - Don't forget to work out or, you know, there's something that you interact with regularly. Right. But so let's go to sort of the crux of the some of the issues. Right. It's it's not an inexpensive device. I mean, it does a lot. So you can't expect that it's going to be inexpensive. Right. It's it's $999 to purchase plus a separate monthly subscription of about, what is it, $39 per month for a minimum of 12 months. And so how how do you get this out to a larger group of people that really need it. Is it subsidized purchases? Is it insurance? What are you guys thinking of from a business model perspective?Paolo Pirjanian: Yes. So we actually launched the product in the second half of last year for the first time and we sold out. But I agree with you that it would be much better if it was more affordable, because we don't want this to only be a product available for high income families, for rich kids to use a derogatory term maybe. We want it to be available to every every child. And for that to happen, there is a couple of different strategies we are pursuing. One is that once we get to a scale of efficacy studies that are convincing enough that we can get insurance, potentially insurance coverage to cover it or at least subsidize part of it to make it more affordable. The other approach is that we are working with bigger institutions such as hospitals and schools and libraries, by the way, which can buy it and make it available to their population. As an example, this library actually came to us, which is a very interesting business model that addresses the reach to the society that may not be high income. The library bought a fleet of Moxies from us, and they're lending them out to their society, to their members as a book. So a child gets to take Moxie home for a month and then bring it back, which is awesome because we have, by the way, we have done efficacy studies and it shows that even within a month you can see significant improvement on a lot of these social emotional skills.Paolo Pirjanian: But ultimately, that's that's how it goes. And also, just to put it in perspective to two examples. One is that robots of this nature....By the way, there is nothing like Moxie because the technology has not existed today, but people have tried, actually, SoftBank has a subsidiary called SoftBank Robotics that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing this robot called Pepper that costs $14,000 to buy and $2,000 a month to subscribe to it. Yeah. So we are orders of magnitude better than that. And that was part of the design principle that we said we want to be on par with an iPhone ownership of a cell phone. Buy it for roughly about $1,000. And you pay roughly about $50 a month in subscription. So we met that goal, which was a major accomplishment, very hard to do, but we are not satisfied with that because as I said, this has to be available. The other part of the other example is that if you have a child that needs therapy and if this cuts your therapy by a handful of therapy sessions, it pays for itself. Right? Again, ideally, we will have insurance pay for it. And so that will take some time. As you know, sort of navigating the medical fields and insurance organizations and so on will take some time, but we will get there eventually.Harry Glorikian: Yeah, I mean, I recently interviewed the CEO of Akili Interactive, Eddie Martucci, and they are the first group to get an FDA approved prescribed video game for children between eight and 12 years old with certain type of ADHD. And so, you know, they're using the prescription route as a way to have somebody pay for the clinical trials and everything else and the product itself. So I know that this business of robotics is not for the faint of heart. I mean, there's there's many different companies out there like Jibo, which was out here. Or I think there was a company in in San Francisco called Anki that, you know. You didn't pick an easy one, that's for sure, Paolo.Paolo Pirjanian: Definitely not. Definitely not.Harry Glorikian: But but, you know, I you know, I wish you incredible luck. I mean, this this thing sounds so exciting. I mean, it brings out, like, the Star Trekkie guy in me and wants to interact with it and have it do certain things or say certain things or or maybe even like interact with my wearable and be able to see something and then make a comment to me as I'm using it. So I can only wish you incredible luck and success.Paolo Pirjanian: Thank you. I need it and I appreciate it.Harry Glorikian: Excellent. We'll talk soon.Paolo Pirjanian: Talk soon, thank you so much for having me.Harry Glorikian: That's it for this week's episode. You can find a full transcript of this episode as well as the full archive of episodes of The Harry Glorikian Show and MoneyBall Medicine at our website. Just go to glorikian.com and click on the tab Podcasts.I'd like to thank our listeners for boosting The Harry Glorikian Show into the top three percent of global podcasts.If you want to be sure to get every new episode of the show automatically, be sure to open Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast player and hit follow or subscribe. Don't forget to leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. And we always love to hear from listeners on Twitter, where you can find me at hglorikian.Thanks for listening, stay healthy, and be sure to tune in two weeks from now for our next interview.

In this episode of the podcast Joe talks to dynamic duo author Korey Watari and Illustrator Mike Wu about their book "I Am Able to Shine"!  It's a timely conversation here at the end of Women's History Month about the lessons we can teach our daughters. We also get into a discussion around AAPI Heritage Month in May (when this book releases) as well representation in general.  You may even shed a tear or two. I cannot thank Korey & Mike enough for coming on the show and I look forward to their return in the future. Enjoy! About Korey Watari Korey is a sansei, or third-generation Japanese American, born and raised in Los Angeles. She played basketball for a Japanese American league, graduated from the University of California, Riverside, and studied at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. Korey has worked in the animation and fashion industries for companies such as Disney and the Gap. I Am Able to Shine is her first picture book and first collaboration with her husband, artist Mike Wu, the creator of Disney's Ellie series. About Mike Wu Mike Wu was accepted into the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. He graduated in 1996 with a BFA in Character Animation and was recruited by Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios where he worked for the next six years on such films as Hercules, Tarzan, Atlantis, and Mulan. Shortly thereafter, Mike followed his childhood dream of working for the studio that created Luxo Jr.. He moved to the Bay Area and started at Pixar Animation Studios where he animated on the Oscar-winning The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up, Toy Story 3, Coco and Soul among other films.   About I Am Able to Shine An affirmative, empowering story about embracing your identity and finding your voice, inspired in part by debut author Korey Watari's experiences growing up Asian American, and illustrated by her husband, Mike Wu, Pixar artist and creator of the Ellie series. I am beautiful. I belong here. What I do matters. I am able to shine. Each night Keiko whispers to her crane, “I wish to change the world.” She is kind, and she has big dreams. But at times she feels invisible; she knows some people misjudge her. Keiko is also loved, so she perseveres and stands strong. Over time, her confidence grows, she shares more of herself, and she helps lift up others―and eventually lead them. She understands that no matter what, she can shine. To quickly and easily leave a rating/review for this podcast please go to:  https://ratethispodcast.com/dtalkspodcast Thanks to Snuffy for this episode of the podcast! Snuffy is a clothing brand about empowering you to show your weird - unapologetically, with bravery and confidence. 10% of profit goes to LGBTQ+ organizations led by Trans* people of color. Shop online now at snuffy.co Also, thanks to Empire Toys for this episode of the podcast! Nostalgia is something everyone loves and Empire Toys in Keller Texas is on nostalgia overload.   With toys and action figures from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today, Empire Toys is a one-stop-shop for a trip down memory lane and a chance to reclaim what was once yours (but likely sold at a garage sale)   Check out Empire Toys on Facebook, Instagram, or at TheEmpireToys.com The DTALKS Podcast has also been ranked #9 in the "Top 40 Detox Podcast You Must Follow in 2020" according to Feedspot.com for our work in the Cultural Detox space. Thank you so much to the Feedspot team!  https://blog.feedspot.com/detox_podcasts/

Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Lisa to ask, suss and answer a general knowledge quiz with topics including Landmarks, Music, U.S. History, Dog Breeds, Opera, Mascots, Animals, Famous Characters, Movies, Landmarks, Literature, Extreme Sports and more! Round One FAN ZINES - Backstreets was a quarterly fanzine and website that covers the music of which popular musical act, and similar artists (since 1980)? U.S. HISTORY - Bob Dole was the senator of what state prior to running for president in 1996? POWER BROKERS - Who was ranked #1 on the 2020 Forbes list of the most powerful women in the world? DOG BREEDS - The first dog movie star, Blair, who famously starred in the 1905 short film Rescued by Rover, was of what breed? OPERA - Who are the three tenors? MASCOTS - What company's mascot, based on an iconic object first sold in 1937 by a different company, is named Luxo Jr.? Missed Corrections Thanks to Drunk Theory and Zed 1 Pod for the shoutout on Twitter. KnowNote from Adam (Death Stars Are The Best Stars) on Discord: I couldn't find anything definitive but consomé in Spanish means "chicken soup" but i am going to assume it comes from the French cuisine term "consommé" which is a clarified broth, traditional created using whipped egg whites to remove the fat. Nabeel: Lee .. you were looking for "Clair de lune" Marvel's Hercules was given immortality by Zeus after death and made the God of Strength The former Guinness Book of World Records has been Guinness World Records since 2000. K7 in Europe? No, there are no K-class mountains in Europe, as the K comes from the mountain range Karakoram, which is in Asia. Seth wanted us to know Mandrakes are in fact a real plant. Round Two FAMOUS CHARACTERS - What animated character is known in France and other francophone countries as Musclor? ANIMALS - Due to pressure build up from long periods of dilation during the dark winter months, what mammal is the only whose eyes turn from gold in the warmer seasons to blue in the winter? MOVIES - The Hollywood Foreign Press organization liked Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails, giving them a Golden Globe for their score of what 2010 film? LANDMARKS - On which continent is the world's largest media crater (the Vredefort Crater)? LITERATURE - Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels titled His Dark Materials gets its name from what 17th century epic poem? EXTREME SPORTS - BASE is an acronym that stands for what four categories of fixed objects from which BASE jumpers jump? Rate My Question INSECTS - What insect is known as “God's little cow” or “Little Cow of God” in the Russian and Irish languages? SPORTS - In his 1989 obituary, which racing legend was survived by over 300 sons & daughters? Final Questions ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME - What former TV personality and longtime friend of Eddie Vedder inducted Pearl Jam into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? DANGEROUS BOOKS - Just four copies remain of a toxic 1874 book by Michigan Dr. Robert C. Kedzie which contains 86 specimens of what? INVENTIONS - Invented by the journalist Arthur Winne, the first word cross appeared in the New York World newspaper in what decade? Upcoming LIVE Know Nonsense Trivia Challenges September 1st, 2021 - Know Nonsense Trivia Challenge - Point Ybel Brewing Co. - 7:30 pm EDT September 2nd, 2021 - Know Nonsense Trivia Challenge - Ollies Pub Records and Beer - 7:30 pm EDT September 6th, 2021 - Know Nonsense Trivia MEGAQUIZ on Twitch - 8:00 pm EDT You can find out more information about that and all of our live events online at KnowNonsenseTrivia.com All of the Know Nonsense events are free to play and you can win prizes after every round. Thank you Thanks to our supporters on Patreon. Thank you, Quizdaddies – Issa, Adam V., Tommy (The Electric Mud) and Tim (Pat's Garden Service) Thank you, Team Captains – Jenny, Rick G., Skyler, Dylan, Shaun, Lydia, Gil, David, Aaron, Kristen & Fletcher Thank you, Proverbial Lightkeepers – Rachael, Rikki, Jon Lewis, Moo, Tim, Nabeel, Patrick, Jon, Adam B., Ryan, Mollie, Lisa, Alex, Spencer, Kaitlynn, Manu, Mo, Matthew, Luc, Hank, Justin, Cooper, Elyse, Sarah, Karly, Kristopher, Josh, Lucas Thank you, Rumplesnailtskins – Laurel, A-A-Ron, Loren, Hbomb, Alex, Doug, Kevin and Sara, Tiffany, Allison, Paige, We Do Stuff, Kenya, Jeff, Eric, Steven, Efren, Mike J., Mike C., Mike. K If you'd like to support the podcast and gain access to bonus content, please visit http://theknowno.com and click "Support."

It's a Disney deluge this week, so bring a sturdy umbrella!  First, we hunt the sea beastie Luca, and then we visit the Pixar pillar that is Monsters Inc.  Luxo Jr, stop bouncing so close to the water!  #disney #pixar #luca #monstersinc #sully #mikewazowski

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Hello FFW Fam, in this episode i quiz a new friend Julian. SO grab your favorite drink and get trady to play along at home. As of 5/30/2021 i have been laid off of my job for ball park one month. I make these podcasts entirely out of my own wallet and though production costs arn't the biggest thing in the universe they do make up a large chunk of my income when i have a job. So please consider throwing us a little financial support if you like what i do and you want to see our little channels grow and improve. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/FunFactsWith RedBubble shop FunFactsWith.redbubble.com or heck even Venmo @vlogwonderland In other news we are looking for more guests. so if you want to be on the show or if you represent a celebrity, scientist, or other expert who would like to come on the show for free. Please fill out the google form here https://forms.gle/uTgyjhxp248mMKZK7 If you are looking for something to listen to Please check out our sister podcast at https://www.podserve.fm/w/goodnightpod Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FunFactsWith Twitter @FunFactsWith1 Instagram @funfactswith Tiktok @Funfactswith Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxo_Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_animated_films https://time.com/4118006/20-years-toy-story-pixar/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_the_Casbah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynyrd_Skynyrd https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/74833-longest-running-fan-club-musical-group#:~:text=Longest%20running%20fan%20club%20%2D%20musical%20group,-Share&text=The%20Official%20Queen%20Fan%20Club,has%20now%20dropped%20to%209%2C500. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(brtbtpayxpxlumjamoinkgsm))/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&objectName=mcl-750-102&highlight=750.102#:~:text=750.102%20Blasphemy%3B%20punishment.&text=Punishment%E2%80%94Any%20person%20who%20shall,be%20guilty%20of%20a%20misdemeanor. https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section36a#:~:text=Whoever%2C%20having%20arrived%20at%20the,not%20more%20than%20fifty%20dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

In this episode, we talk about how the Pixar company was created and how lonely Trey is. Please date him. Oh, we also talk about Luxo Jr. and some fun trivia about the film. Don't miss it!Follow our social media!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luxoscorner/Twitter: https://twitter.com/luxoscornerFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/luxoscorner/ Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @luxoscornerFind something interesting? Email us at luxoscorner@gmail.comTrey's Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/treymadera1992/Brianna's Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/beewalker2000/Twitter:  https://twitter.com/beewalker2000Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSrTEnu_qfjgwG-O9btzPVw

We're switching it up today and talking about some Pixar shorts: The Adventures of Andre & Wally B. Luxo Jr., Presto, and Bao. Stick around after we discuss the shorts to hear us chill and talk nonsense and podcasting. Follow us on social media @ChowdyMedia on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Recorded at Good For You Productions.

4,7 Luxo Jr, Jerries y episodios depresivos para SOUL. Película del año 2020, dirigida por Pete Docter, del famoso estudio animado de Pixar, estrenada en la nueva plataforma de Disney+ En este carretazo 23 si bien no echamos carreta sobre contenido histórico, si hablamos, o bueno, reflexionamos sobre la que consideramos "trilogía de la vida y la depresión" compuesta por: Intensamente - Soul y Up. Pero, antes de hablar de esta "trilogía" echamos carreta también sobre la huella que pixar ha dejado en nuestras vidas, el nivel de amor y cariño a ciertas producciones como Toy Story, Wall-E, Buscando a Nemo, Coco o Los Increíbles. Luego si hablamos @&%$# sobre Soul, qué obtuvimos en el salón del todo?¿si hoy nos llega la muerte, estaremos tranquilos con nuestra vida? ¿por qué cuando saltamos en el "gran antes" teníamos que caer en Colombia? El jingle es obra de Esteban Pardo https://twitter.com/uncatastrofico?s=20 Recuerden que nos encuentran en redes sociales y plataformas de podcast, como Spotify o iTunes, en el siguiente link https://myurls.co/puracarreta pero también en otras plataformas como Deezer, Google Podcast, Ivoox y en nuestro canal de YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4DMNBevcNt5NP538xYTcuA

Un recorrido por los orígenes de Pixar como compañía y su crecimiento a través de los primeros ocho cortos animados por computadora. Charlamos sobre sus miembros fundadores, los avances tecnológicos y la influencia que tuvo el estudio sobre la industria del entretenimiento. Lista de cortos que vimos para el episodio (Y QUE RECOMENDAMOS MIRAR ANTES DE SER E-SPOILEADOS): - The adventures of André & Wally B. (1984) - Luxo Jr. (1986) - Red's Dream (1987) - Tin Toy (1988) - Knick Knack (1989) - Geri's Game (1997) - For The Birds (2000) - Boundin' (2003)

Before Woody or Buzz Lightyear, we dive into what was suppose to be the first Pixar feature full length film featuring Tinny from Tin Toy and possibly a demonic baby. Redbubble Clips used in this episode: Toy Story (1995) Toy Story 3 (2010) Toy Story 4 (2019) Up (2009) Turner & Hooch (1989) Nitemare (1979) "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" by Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu and Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus Lilo and Stitch (2002) "Married Life" by Michael Giacchino Tin Toy (1988) The Lady and the Lamp (1979) Luxo Jr (1986) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) TALKING DOLLS by Mattel Matty Mattel, Sister Belle, Casper (1961) The Adventures of André and Wally B. (1984) The Pixar Story (2007) Toy Story (video game) "You've Got a Friend in Me" Randy Newman Toy Story Black Friday Reel Tropicana Three Fruits Dancing (1991) Disney Pixar Theme Where The Wild Things Are - Early DISNEY CG Animation Test Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) Music by Kevin MacLeod "Discovery Hit" "Jazz Brunch" "Miami Nights" "Nouvelle Noel"

In preparation for the release of Soul on Disney+, Arun and Patricia decide to do a spinoff of PixMix called PixMinis where they look back on a Pixar short every day until December 25th.   In this episode, they look back on the 1986 Pixar short Luxo Jr which features two desk lamps named Luxo and Luxo Jr. with Luxo Jr. playing around a ball. The short became one of the most famous Pixar shorts and was the start of Luxo Jr. being the mascot of the company and the introduction of the ball that would be featured in most of their films. Does it still hold up today? Listen and find out.   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/old-school-lane/support

We tackle the threes in this week's episode. We go over Homer's Odyssey in which Homer gets fired and rehired. The Sin where Mando delivers The Child gets his rewards and has some mixed feelings about the whole thing, Lastly, we have Luxo Jr. and Toy Story 2 where we have very different opinions. What where your favorite parts, let us know by telling us on one of the social medias below! Follow us @ IG - Not Just Another Disney Pod Follow us @ FB - Not Just Another Disney Pod Email us @ notjustanotherdisneypod@gmail.comLetterboxd - Worf77bbLetterboxd - Chrisopa

In this first episode, I don't just watch one feature length movie, I watch 5 short films from the Early days of Pixar Animation Studios. From these 5 early short films, we can see the development of the computer animation industry, as well as the humble beginnings of one the most celebrated animation studios of all time. Films that I watchedThe Adventures of Andre and Wally B. (1984)Luxo Jr. (1986)Red's Dream (1987)Tin Toy (1988)Knick Knack (1989; 2003)All produced by Pixar Animation StudiosApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-movie-commentary-podcast/id1526950957 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1RLQAkNzaWQoVBLBZITNSCSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-347499519/pixar-short-films-a-short-history-of-the-early-days-of-pixar-animation-studiosYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxehtzRCZ4qjfLTMDIClbwGoogle Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8zMDExNGVmYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAIQ4aUDahcKEwjol9z975HrAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBQInstagram: @themoviecommentarypodcast

Today, we think of Pixar as the company that gave us such lovable characters as Woody and Buzz Lightyear, Monsters Mike Wazowski and James P Sullivan, Nemo, Elastagirl, and Lightnight McQueen. But all that came pretty late in the history of the company. Let's go back to the 70s. Star Wars made George Lucas a legend. His company Lucasfilm produced American Graffiti, the Star Wars Francise, the Indiana Jones Francis, The Labrynth, Willow, and many others. Many of those movies were pioneering in the use of visual effects in storytelling. At a time when the use of computer-aided visual effects was just emerging. So Lucas needed world-class computer engineers.   Lucas found Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab. They had been hired by the founder, Alexander Schure, to help create the first computer-animated film in the mid-70s. But Lucas hired Catmull (who had been a student of the creator of the first computer graphics software, Sketchpad) and Smith (who had worked on SuperPaint at Xerox PARC) away to run the computer division of Lucasfilm, which by 1979 was simply called the Graphics Group.    They created REYES and developed a number of the underlying techniques used in computer graphics today. They worked on movies like Star Trek II where the graphics still mostly stand up nearly 40 years later. And as the group grew, the technology got more mature and more useful. REYES would develop into RenderMan and become one of the best computer graphics products on the market. Pioneering, they won prizes in science and film. RenderMan is still one of the best tools available for computer-generated lighting, shading, and shadowing.   John Lasseter joined in 1983. And while everything was moving in the right direction, in the midst of a nasty divorce when he needed the cash, Lucas sold the group as a spin-off to Steve Jobs in 1986. Jobs had just been ousted from Apple and was starting NeXT. He had the vision to bring the computer graphics to homes. They developed The Pixar Image Computer for commercial sales, which would ship just after Jobs took over the company. It went for $135,000 and still required an SGI or Sun computer to work. They'd sell just over 100 in the first two years - most to Disney.    The name came from Alvy Ray Smith's original name he suggested for the computer, Picture Maker. That would get shortened to Pixer, and then Pixar. The technology they developed along the way to the dream of a computer animated film was unparalleled in special effects. But CPUs weren't going fast enough to keep up.    The P-II model came with a 3 gig RAID (when most file systems couldn't even access that much space), 4 processors, multiple video cards, 2 video processors, a channel for red, blue green, and alpha. It was a beast.    But that's not what we think of when we think of Pixar today. You see, they had always had the desire to make a computer animated movie. And they were getting closer and closer. Sure, selling computers to aid in the computer animation is the heart of why Steve Jobs bought the company - but he, like the Pixar team, is an artist. They started making shorts to showcase what the equipment and software they were making could do.    Lasseter made a film called Luxo Jr in 1986 and showed it at SIGGRAPH, which was becoming the convention for computer graphics. They made a movie every year, but they were selling into a niche market and sales never really took off. Jobs pumped more money into the company. He'd initially paid $5 million dollars and capitalized the company with another $5 million. By 1989 he'd pumped $50 million into the company. But when sales were slow and they were bleeding money, Jobs realized the computer could never go down market into homes and that part of the business was sold to Vicom in 1990 for $2 million, who then went bankrupt.   But the work Lasseter was doing blending characters that were purely made using computer graphics with delicious storytelling. Their animated short Tin Toy won an Academy Award in 1988. And being an artist, during repeated layoffs, that group just continued to grow. They would release more and more software - and while they weren't building computers, the software could be run on other computers like Macs and Windows.    The one bright spot was that Pixar and the Walt Disney Animation Studio were inseparable. By 1991 though, computers had finally gotten fast enough, and the technology mature enough, to make a computer-animated feature. And this is when Steve Jobs and Lasster sold the idea of a movie to Disney. In fact, they got $24 million to make three features. They got to work on the first of their movie. Smith would leave in 1994, supposedly over a screaming match he had with Jobs over the use of a whiteboard. But if Pixar was turning into a full-on film studio, it was about to realize the original dream they all had of creating a computer-animated motion picture and it's too bad Smith missed it.   That movie was called Toy Story. It would bring in $362 million dollars globally becoming the highest-grossing movie of 1995 and allow Steve Jobs to renegotiate the Pixar deal with Disney and take the company public in 1995. His $60 million investment would convert into over a billion dollars in Pixar stock that became over a hundred thousand shares of Disney stock worth over $4 billion, the largest single shareholder. Those shares were worth $7.4 billion dollars when he passed away in 2011. His wife would sell half in 2017 as she diversified the holdings. 225x on the investment.    After Toy Story, Pixar would create Cars, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Up, Onward, Mosters Inc, Ratatouille, Brave, The Incredibles, and many other films. Movies that have made close to $15 billion dollars. But more importantly, they mainstreamed computer animated films. And another huge impact on the history of computing was that they made Steve Jobs a billionaire and proved to Wall Street that he could run a company. After a time I think of as “the dark ages” at Apple, Jobs came back in 1996, bringing along an operating system and reinventing Apple - giving the world the iMac, the iPod, and the iPhone. And streamlining the concept of multi-media enough that music and later film and then software, would be sold through Apple's online services, setting the groundwork for Apple to become the most valuable company in the world.    So thank you to everyone from Pixar for the lovable characters, but also for inventing so much of the technology used in modern computer graphics - both for film and the tech used in all of our computers. And thank you for the impact on the film industry and keeping characters we can all relate to at the forefront of our minds. And thank you dear listener for tuning in to yet another episode of the History of Computing Podcast. We are so lucky to have you. And lucky to have all those Pixar movies. I think I'll go watch one now. But I won't be watching them on the Apple streaming service. It'll be on Disney service. Funny how that worked out, aint it.

What's that? A bonus episode, you say? We felt that it wouldn't exactly be fair to talk about Toy Story 2 without talking about Luxo Jr., the influential short film that accompanied the film when it was released in theaters! We talk about the beginnings of Pixar Animation Studios, how John Lassetter ended up being very influenced by lamps in his early animations, and how Luxo Jr. still has an impact on Pixar's work today. Next week: we dive headfirst into another groundbreaking film: The Wachowskis' The Matrix. The film is available to stream on Netflix, or you can rent it online wherever you rent your films. Finally, the Black Lives Matter movement is raising awareness of the issues of systemic racism, police brutality, and injustice that has plagued the United States for hundreds of years. We ask that you click on the following link, which will take you to a master-list of petitions that you can sign, organizations that you can donate to, and a number of articles, books, podcasts and films that you can check out to help further educate yourself on the movement that is occurring right now. Black Lives Matter, and we stand with you: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/# Follow The Podcast: Twitter: @The1999Podcast Instagram: @the_1999_podcast Follow Jared Stossel Twitter: @JaredShameless Instagram: @heymynameisjared Follow Andrew Tucker Twitter: @TUCKmeinatnight Instagram: @craftdrew --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/1999-podcast/support

Ed Catmull has been at the forefront of computer graphics since his time at the University of Utah. His position as CTO and one of the two founding members of Pixar - which later evolved into a role as President of Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios – is just the tip of the ice berg when describing Ed’s career. It is no exaggeration to say Catmull is part of the fabric of the 20th century and early 21st century. That is, via technical achievements like subdivisions of surfaces (for which his work in the field was awarded an Oscar by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and through the stories created by Pixar. The people Ed has called peers throughout his life include many of the architects of personal computing as we know it, such as Alan Kay, as well as iconic figures like Steve Jobs and George Lucas. Ed sits down with Adam and the Remotely Interested Podcast to discuss the years after Pixar went out on its own with Steve Jobs. Part 2 of the interview includes the road to building Pixar into the company that got acquired by Disney in 2009; the importance of short films like Luxo Jr in its history; the Brain Trust and other sociological elements important when supporting and nurturing creativity, as well as the human side of innovation. The interview ends with a name association, which includes founding members of Adobe, Silicon Graphics and Netscape. Ed has called all these people friend or peer in both an organic and sincere way throughout his life. Creativity Inc: http://www.creativityincbook.com/about/ How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity http://dialogos.com/files/4114/4189/3028/How_Pixar_Fosters_Collective_Creativity-HBR.pdf Disney’s Nine Old Men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Nine_Old_Men Luxo Jr: https://youtu.be/D4NPQ8mfKU0 Dear Basketball https://vimeo.com/258552634 FIRSTS: THE FIRST ALL-CGI CHARACTER, MADE BEFORE PIXAR BECAME PIXAR https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/firsts-the-first-all-cgi-character-made-before-pixar-became-pixar How this small team at Pixar revolutionized computer graphics with software called ‘RenderMan’ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/pixar-renderman-technology-behind-pixar-films.html How Departing Leaders Can Pass Along Their Wisdom to Employees https://hbr.org/2019/04/how-departing-leaders-can-pass-along-their-wisdom-to-employees Why All Pixar Movies 'Suck' (At First) https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshlinkner/2014/09/11/why-all-pixar-movies-suck-at-first/#12b4bbb67a6d Names discussed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Clark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warnock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Newell_(computer_scientist) http://alvyray.com/

Gray Marshall has always wanted to tell stories. In his youth, he was inspired to pursue CG by Tron and Pixar’s Luxo Jr., but when he studied film at USC he fell in love with the physical process of filmmaking. After dabbling in motion control cameras, he joined Digital Domain as a VFX supervisor and then founded his own company, Gray Matter FX. Today, Gray has brought all his industry experience together in his role as a colorist at the Deluxe-owned Company 3. As Gray explains, this oft-overlooked but fascinating job adds a crucial finishing touch to films, uniting scenes provided by different VFX vendors or film crews, correcting visual continuity mistakes and providing a bridge between the editor, director of photography and director. Using examples from Ant-Man and The Wasp, Roma and Avengers: Endgame, Gray goes into a deeper technical level on the current standards of film production and distribution, and tells Chris how colorists make sure their work looks good on everything from your home TV to a state-of-the-art laser projector.

On this episode we are talking about The Adventures of André & Wally B, Luxo Jr., Red's Dream, Tin Toy, and Knick-Knack. We talk about whether bad people can make good art, whether women are objects, and why humans are so creepy.

On this episode we are talking about The Adventures of André & Wally B, Luxo Jr., Red’s Dream, Tin Toy, and Knick-Knack. We talk about whether bad people can make good art, whether women are objects, and why humans are so creepy.

On this episode we are talking about The Adventures of André & Wally B, Luxo Jr., Red's Dream, Tin Toy, and Knick-Knack. We talk about whether bad people can make good art, whether women are objects, and why humans are so creepy.

We find hilarious writer and comedian Mark Rennie (@markrenie) in the Pixar vault and chat about new and GROUNDBREAKING TECHNOLOGY! These the little films paved the way for the innovative films we now demand excellence of before our Pixar features we ALSO demand excellence of. The Adventures of Andre and Wally B (1984), Luxo Jr. (1986), Red’s Dream (1987), and Tin Toy (1988), are four little adventures that seem simply by today’s standards, but oh BOY were they standing ovation worthy back in the day! Luxo Jr.’s even stood the test of time and become synonymous with the quality we’ve come to expect and trust from Pixar. Would you rather be a lumpy baby or a creepy clown? Tell us @ITDVPodcast!

What does the Pixar Play Parade at Disney’s California Adventure (March 2008 – August 2017), the Pixar Pals Countdown to Fun Parade at WDW Hollywood Studios (January 2011 – April 2013), and the Pixar Play Parade “Pixar Fest Edition” Disneyland (April 2018 - November 2018) all have in common?  I’ll give you 5, 4, 3, 2…. FUN. Yes, they are all Disney/Pixar parades… AND they all share the same soundtrack.  “Welcome to our world of play. Come on, it’s time to celebrate…. everyone countdown to fun, yea… 5, 4, 3, 2, Fun...”.  While they share the same soundtrack and mostly the same characters, they don’t share the same floats.  In fact, the parade itself is much different between the Florida and California versions.  California Adventure used floats that featured water jets that would shoot water into the crowds, while most of the floats at WDW Hollywood Studios were recycled from the Block Party Bash from disneyland(March 14, 2008 – January 2011).  Block Party Bash itself was more of a traveling stage show than a parade, and it was recycled from the Disneyland version which was part of Disneyland’s 50th Anniversary running from May 2005 – January 2008.  So, a block party designed for Disneyland’s 50th went to Hollywood Studios as a block party then was revamped into a parade using the same music as a parade in California Adventure and that lives on in various locations today in WDW…  While WDW was recycling and retooling, Disneyland was developing new floats for the DCA parade and moved it to Disneyland as part of Pixar Fest in 2018.  The new floats included Luxo Jr, Up and Inside Out.  The Pixar Fest version of the Pixar Play Parade was a limited time offering during the celebration, providing an opportunity for Mickey’s SoundStation Parade to take a needed maintenance break. While most Pixar properties appeared in both DCA and HS, the Pixar fest additions: Luxo Jr, Inside Out, and Up (2018) along with Ratatouille (2008-2010) and Cars (2008-2017) only appeared in California. More Details at www.SamsDisneyDiary.com

In episode 43, the guys answer a listener question about if or when DVC might decide to restrict the 11 month booking window to direct buyers only. Tom is buying a resale DVC contract and talks about the process so far. Disney is launching it's own streaming service, called Disney+, in 2019. They recently announced that one of the shows on this new service will be a docu-series about Imagineering. The guys discuss their thoughts on this upcoming show. New details have been announced about the upcoming Wreck It Ralph VR experience at the Void. The guys talk about the possibilities of a new Disney technology which allows guests to use Augmented Reality to wear Disney character costumes. Disney Resort Speed Round is back! The guys quickly give their opinions on the new Hollywood Studios entrance, Wreck it Ralph meet and greet, the Luxo Jr. Animatronic, and Rosita from the Enchanted Tiki Room. There is a rumor that the new Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway ride (still under construction at WDW) will also arrive at Disneyland.

There’s a lot to cover in Episode 17 of Dateline Mousetalgia! We take a more in-depth look at some of the magic to be seen in the newly reopened World of Disney Store, including the new line of Mickey Mouse Club-themed merchandise! We’ll discuss rumors regarding the upcoming Marvel Land in Disney California Adventure, as well as the yet-to-be-announced Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway said to be coming to Mickey’s Toontown in Disneyland. Plus, we’ll discuss the new additions of Luxo Jr. on Pixar Pier and the “warming huts” by Grizzly River Rapids. Next, it’s time for a whole bunch of trip reports! Jenn shares her experience attending the taping of “Mickey’s 90th Spectacular”, we both talk about this past week’s Mouse-Con in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Nicole talks about a very Disney-themed Halloween weekend outside the parks! Check out: http://www.mousetalgia.com/2018/11/08/dateline-mousetalgia-episode-17-mickeys-90th-spectacular-mouse-con-and-the-nightmare-before-christmas-live-at-the-hollywood-bowl/

WDW Opinion Ep. 18 - The Circles of Disney Hell A Disney World vacation is magical, fun, and sometimes even awe-inspiring. It can elicit all sorts of incredible emotions and the end of a trip only leaves you wanting more. But we’d be lying if we didn’t say there were some unmagical parts about Disney trips. Whether it’s certain attractions, shows, character interactions or even restaurants or food items, something you want to avoid like the plague during your Disney trip. As we record this it is Halloween which got us thinking about some spooky things. The underworld in particular and what that might look like for us Disney fans. God forbid we do ever go there but, if we do what would the Disney underworld look like? What experiences would we have to relive over and over and over again? The Disney things that would be pure torture. This week we’re going to hell, and not the one you experience in Mr. Toad’s wild ride, no. We’re on our way to Disney hell. Plus, we discuss new food offerings come to the International Festival of the Holidays at Epcot, Luxo Jr comes to Pixar Pier in California and we start spreading some theme park rumors. Stories discussed in News to Opinion Disney announces food offerings for their International Festival of the Holidays 2018 at Epcot Luxo Jr. Animatronic Arrives at Pixar Pier Visit www.WDWOpinion.com for all the latest from the blog and to find out more about WDW Opinion! Subscribe to our newsletter and get a FREE copy of our Ultimate Disney Trip Task List. Use this customizable list to help plan for your next Disney trip. Share your Disney opinions with us! Email your opinions to Conor@WDWOpinion.com and if we like them you might even be featured on a future show! Follow Us on Social Facebook Instagram Twitter

Welcome to EPISODE 24 of the Minnie Mice Show, I'm Mama Mouse Cynthia, and these are my 2 Minnie Mice, Anyssa & Cianna! Happy Friday, October 12th Everyone! In Park News, in DCA at Pixar Pier, we got our first glimpse and Luxo Jr, although it's covered right now, we know its now there! It can be found on top of the Pixar Pier Sign. Rumor has it that Luxo Jr will shine down on guests walking into Pixar Pier. So we shall see. So on Wednesday the First Teaser Poster Debuted for Disney's Live-Action Aladdin and it was Beautiful and then yesterday, The Very first look at Disney's Much anticipated Live Action Aladdin debuted with its first ever teaser trailer. OMG!!! It was AMAZING!!! The Movie Hits theaters May 24th, 2019. We have an official date now for the Return of Matterhorn Bobsleds. It will return from its refurbishment on November 16th. In Marvel News, Scarlett Johansson to get $15 MILLION Dollars for Black Widow Solo Film. WORLD OF DISNEY NEWS - The new section along with the signage Debuted this past weekend and we could not get over the lines outside the store just to go in and get a look. Announced earlier this week, As of October 10th, the Disneyland Resort's Grand Californian Hotel and Spa, Storytellers Cafe, discontinued the à la carte option in favor of an all-buffet establishment. Breakfast & Brunch served daily from 7am - 2pm, and Dinner Served 4:30 pm - 10pm. While closed from 2pm - 4:30pm. We also learned this week that Cuties, known for their orange-like clementines, has become the Official Citrus Fruit of the Disneyland Resort. This new partnership will bring Cuties to many fruit carts and counter service dining locations starting this Fall. Cuties will be offered as a side in kids' meals at select counter service locations. Additionally, Cuties branding will be introduced at the Disneyland Resort. In Downtown Disney News, Disney confirmed on Wednesday that they have officially pulled the plug on the New Luxury Hotel that was Planned for Downtown Disney. However, the area will remain focused on shopping, dining, and entertainment. No word as of yet on if the old favorites like Rainforest Cafe, ESPN Zone and The Movie Theater will return or if new ones will emerge. As you all know, the new 6,500-space parking structure is currently under construction near the Mickey & Friends structure at the Disneyland Resort. This week we found out that along with the new Parking structure, there will be a new pedestrian bridge over Magic Way. This new bridge will connect visitors from the parking structure—over Magic Way— to the rest of the resort, allowing guests the option to stroll through the Downtown Disney District to the theme parks' Main Entrance. In addition, the new bridge eliminates the foot traffic crossing the street at Disneyland Drive and Magic Way, providing not only convenience but also greater pedestrian safety and better traffic circulation. Set to be completed next year, these parking and transportation enhancements—along with other existing parking options throughout the resort area—are designed to dramatically improve parking and traffic flow. The new parking structure is expected to significantly speed up guest arrival by providing a 60 percent increase in the number of access lanes and by adding parking capacity on the west side of the resort. In addition, the tram boarding area will be reconfigured to enhance the transportation experience for guests parking at both the new structure and Mickey & Friends. Coming this Tuesday October 16th - Trader Sam's at the Disneyland Hotel will open at 7am for the Exclusive Hatbox Ghost Tiki Mug that will be available for purchase...So I suggest you get there early and I'm sure it will go fast! We are The Minnie Mice Show, Make sure you check us out at @TheMinniemice on social media. This is the Minnie Mice Sounding off, until next time, Be Kind & Spread some Magic!

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Segments Trailer Talk:  The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) Impressions: Disneyland Pixar Fest 2018 Winchester Steamworld Dig 2 (Nintendo Switch) Hotel Artemis Main Discussion: Marvel’s Ant-man and the Wasp Recorded on Jul 08, 2018  with  John Abaya and Audrey Abaya Follow us on Twitter @TFAnow or Like us on Facebook. Join our Discord Server HERE. Subscribe on iTunes here or Google Play here. email: contacts@thefreakinawesome.com

It’s 1986 and all the kids are obsessed with these new computing machines. What if we made a cartoon with them and also made it good? Luxo Jr., that’s what. We also talk Toy Story news and the recent revelations … Continue reading →

A look at Pixar's most iconic short film!

A look at Pixar's most iconic short film!

In which three intrepid friends stumble through the inaugural episode of their wildly successful podcast, learning along the way Josh's elementary school was live-tweeting in 1995, that two-time NBA slam dunk champion Zach Lavine offers a surprisingly deep vein of conversational ore from the shoulders up, and that a certain beloved dinosaur would make a terrible Jigsaw. Pairings: any of the Naked Guns; a sweet kick-flip; peanut butter, jam SHOW NOTES Luxo (Jr.): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxo_Jr. Amazon acquires Whole Foods: https://twitter.com/JesalTV/status/875705460313255936 Zach Lavine: http://i.imgur.com/dh1fB1I.jpg

In recognition that Cars 3 is a thing, we look at the tradition of bringing life to things that aren’t alive! Why would you use inanimate objects to tell a story? Chris and Mackenzie look at The Brave Little Toaster and Luxo Jr. Who knew that The Brave Little Toaster had a Pixar pedigree? What does The Brave Little Toaster have in common with the Toy Story films? Is there anything that Jon Lovitz can’t do? Does anyone really love their vacuum? What other podcast can talk about Home Alone, Mr. Mom, Tony Kushner, and talking toasters in the same episode? I think you know the answer. Links About The Brave Little Toaster http://bit.ly/2rlL9CI About Luxo Jr. http://bit.ly/2rmgWmE. Listen to the soundtrack to The Brave Little Toaster on Apple Music http://bit.ly/2rmkipQ Sean Charmatz “Secret World of Stuff” http://bit.ly/2rmasV5 About Thurl Ravenscroft http://bit.ly/2t7zEjx About Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet http://bit.ly/2sywEzC About Susie The Little Blue Coupe http://bit.ly/2t7WmI4 About Caroline, or Change http://bit.ly/2sypknG ‘Toast’ - Chloe Sevigny - http://bit.ly/2sypjA8

With graphics cards upgraded, Rick and Ben have an animated discussion about Pixar feature length films. From its early days under Lucasfilm to the movie powerhouse of today, Pixar has been on the cutting edge of computer animated films for decades. Our hosts discuss the history of the company along with the first couple movies released by the studio. Plus, for the first time, Rick and Ben agree on just about everything in this episode.   File Under: Movies, Pixar, John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg,  RenderMan, Disney, Luxo Jr, Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, DreamWorks, Antz   Find us on the web: Rick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WrathRainbows Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theragu40 ThePastCast website: http://www.thepastcast.com

Press play when Luxo Jr. appears (in the Pixar logo). Participants: JesusFreak, Lightning Eclipse, Netbug009. Recorded November 6, 2008.

Press play when Luxo Jr. appears (in the Pixar logo). Participants: JesusFreak, Lightning Eclipse, qxgnxamy, rachelcakes1985. Recorded November 6, 2008.