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Pixar, situated in Emeryville, Calif., north of Oakland, is a thriving playground of creativity where animators customize their workspaces to resemble tiki huts and castles, relax in secret rooms like the red-velvet Love Lounge or take a dip in the company pool. Lasseter is the ringleader, a man whose imagination fills every frame and inspires the troops. "He has a posse around him constantly," says a staff member who works closely with him. Other studio bosses are in awe of Pixar's six-for-six record. "Because of the pictures Pixar has made, the bar has been set incredibly...
...fall; in London. Seizing on teenagers' infatuation with U.S. rock 'n' roll in the late '50s and early '60s, the Shadows dressed in shiny suits, toted red Fender Stratocaster guitars and danced a uniquely British three-step shimmy into the charts with songs such as Apache and Kon Tiki. As the backing band for Cliff Richard, they had other hits including Living Doll and Travellin' Light...
...rescue discarded metal ventilator grates and carve them with such block-lettered words as FAKE or SKEW. Then they mount their creations on exterior walls where you might expect to find working ventilator grates, hiding their art in plain sight within the urban jungle. The Los Angeles artist Tiki Jay One, 32, has recently begun cementing to whatever surface will hold them 1-ft.-tall concrete sculptures of Polynesian tiki heads. "When I go out, it's a serious operation," he says. "This takes a lot of planning...
...brand-new color-coordinated bedding ensemble--pink sheets, pink pillows, pink comforter--which matched the pink shag rug and halogen lamp with the pink shade. The storage crates were solid pink; the trash can was decorated with hearts colored--you guessed it--pink. And who could forget the tiki lights every frosh needs? Not Monson. She remembered to pack those too. All told, the 18-year-old figures she spent about $3,000--half of it money she earned working summers and half of it from her parents--styling what is now a super-decked-out dorm room...
...None of us remembered the Enchanted Tiki Room as it now exists ?under new management.? I guess Disney felt the ticky-tacky tikis needed an update, and now there are hints of rap instead of ?Hawaiian War Chant.? Bad mistake. The kitsch was right at the heart of the old room?s charm - it was cheesier than the Vegas it parodied, and therein rested its modest charm...