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...restaurant markup for a bottle of mineral water of five to eight times its cost is horrible business. My local self-service Chinese buffet, hardly at the upper end of the culinary spectrum, charges 30p for a glass of tap water. Anyone care to estimate the percentage markup? Graham Bird, LONDON...
...animation directors don't get the respect they deserve. "We're kind of at the kids' table," Bird says. "If I do the most perfect job of directing [an animated feature] - in terms of composition, editing, how the performances come down on the screen - it's still the same thing [as directing live-action]. You're dealing with close-ups and editing and when to not cut and when to cut rapidly and was the music engaging and how do we know what the characters are thinking. [But] people disregard it. It's sort of an unspoken prejudice." Bird sees...
...takes a forkful of Remy's signature dish, and his sourness disappears, a beatific smile replaces the sneer, and Ego is transported back 40 years to the sublime memory of his mother's kitchen. "Yes, it's a super-cartoony design on his face," Director Brad Bird told TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan, "but it's a great performance by an animator...
...screen is just too expensive, in money and time, that every frame must be conceived, designed and "performed" in advance. That's why their gestation is so long. Aachi & Ssipak took eight years to make; Ratatouille three years with the original director, Jan Pinkava, and two-plus with Bird, his replacement. You need the devotion and discipline of Cistercian monks, hundreds of them, to get a work of animation finished in less than a U.S. presidential term. Even for a 22-min. episode The Simpsons, six months elapses between script and screen...
...signs. Neighbor kids gathered around a big live oak to watch a large rat snake hanging in the branches - rat snakes are a "good thing," one neighbor, a native Texan, assures everyone as the grownups shudder. Mosquitoes don't wait for dusk to come out and refilling the backyard bird feeder is like a trek in the Amazonian jungle, no need this year to keep the birdbath filled...