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Disney Completes Dali Animation
jbottero writes "Wired News has an interesting piece on a Salvador Dali animation coming out of Disney Studios. It seems that in 1946, Walt Disney and Dali teamed up on a short film called Destino. The film was shelved for money reason, and now, 57 years later, Disney animators has finished what Dali started. The six minute film will be shown in theaters next year before a Disney feature film. The remnants of the aborted film include 150 storyboards, drawings and paintings, which have sat for the last half-century in the Disney vaults. Notably, some of the project was modeled on the animation program Maya. An interesting quote from the article, Dali describes Walt Disney as one of America's greatest surrealists."
Funny how most of the Europeans I know who have lived in the US for any amount of time have really liked it here. Some enough to stay here permanently.
That's not contradictory. Those Europeans live in the few percent of the US that is modern, fairly civilized, and interesting, where some non-negligible fraction of the population actually knows of the existence of places outside the US, and where there are at least acceptable cultural institutions and events (museums, theater, opera, lectures, chamber music, etc.). They live in places like Boston, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and maybe a handful of others. And they live in the 5% of the income distribution where life in the US is pretty convenient, where they can send their kids to good schools, and where their friends, acquaintances, and co-workers have actually also gone to good schools. In short, Europeans often like living in the US because they can choose to live in the nicest places and because they usually command a large income.
But when those same Europeans venture outside those few areas, they see most Americans living depressing, backwards lives in depressing, backwards places.