Category: Notes
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Why “Cars 2” broke the Pixar brand (maybe forever)
(Image borrowed from the WSJ article linked within this post.) While I’m talking about expensive brand errors, Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2 doesn’t exactly fit the mold — yet. As the WSJ article reports, merchandise sales of the animated sequel were through the roof before the movie even opened, and I have no reason to even begin…
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Bad branding cost Disney $200m on “John Carter”
CNN just reported on Disney’s bad egg, John Carter, which cost $300 million to make and has only returned a third of that to the studio, costing Disney $200 million. Andrew Stanton, the very talented director of not only John Carter but also Finding Nemo and Wall-E, has got to be feeling pretty low right…
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Sorry for the weirdness
Hey, if you saw various tweets flashing in and out or have odd things popping up in your RSS reader, sorry about that! I was doing some maintenance here, moving my portfolio and sketchbook to be blog-native and changing the top navigation. (See up there? It’s shiny and re-organized!) Anyway, hope you weren’t inconvenienced. Cheers!
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Inventing a word for “mourning the loss of a friendship”
Freundschaftkummer It’s not a real word, but I feel like a mouthy German term — even if I totally made it up — helps me think about things sometimes. It used to be, a few hundred years ago, that you’d be born, grow up, and die in the same town as everyone you knew. Nobody…