The Pixar animated movie, Inside Out, depicts in a remarkable way the threads behind the new book, Unlocking Parental Intelligence: Finding Meaning in Your Child's Behavior.
People have created voice-controlled music playback software for televisions, colored on-screen "water trails" that flow from your feet wherever you walk on the floor, animated art inside picture frames as in the Harry Potter movies and a way to turn any surface into a multitouch reading device.
"I Was Always Talking" the new music video for the collaborative track between Brooklyn singer-songwriters Sam Kogon and Frankie Cosmos, off the former's sophomore album, Psychic Tears (Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records), places 3D animated characters inside real world environments, giving it a sort of Adult Swim-y charm.
Less obvious, but with a broader appeal, the animated Inside-Out also seems poised for Oscar glory and did so with a spot-on rendering of the push-pulls of adolescence and parenting, while drawing on a good deal of neuroscience and psychology research.
But as movies like "Minions" and "Inside Out" — animated, yes, but also PG in that throwback sense of holding appeal for adults — perform well, it shows that these movies have plenty of box office potency too.
It is the fear of the United States getting dragged into yet another Middle Eastern war that before last Wednesday had animated opposition — both inside the White House and across the country as a whole — to American military intervention in Syria.
Indeed, Reeves's famous Anacin ad featuring an animated hammer pounding inside one's head could function as a metaphor for both the intent and the effect of late-50's advertising in general.
It also has some nifty features added in: an egg timer, photos of the finished dishes, and eggs that are animated with surprises inside.
Last year Pixar gave us a mind-bending animated triumph in the form of "Inside Out," one of the studio's most creatively inspired efforts.
Inside, she watches an animated drawing on the wall in which humans try to kill a tiger; attempting to burn it as it grows stronger and shooting spears which it sends firing back towards them.
