Feb 042014
Walls Notebook
These textured urban walls provide an interesting backdrop for notes, musings, drawings, doodles, and more. Indulge your inner graffiti artist – without the risk of jail time!
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Wall-E
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Price: $ 1.99
clever!,
What a find! I adore this anything-but-blank journal. It’s such a clever and inventive idea, and the perfect size. Each two-page spread is ready for your journaling, painting, altering and/or sketching. No facing the blank white page, which often leads to creative block, don’t you think? Fab photos of brick walls, freshly painted or handsomely decaying, some with windows or doors, are waiting for your creative expression. It will take you like a nano-second to begin working in it, seriously. I purchased 3 in my first order but I’ll be back for more! Have a friend who admires graffiti? Give this book and a handful of paint pens and they will *swoon*. Not affiliated, just a fan.
Visit the site for a super-cool interactive test-run : http://www.wallsnotebook.com/
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|great concept, too many bricks,
this is such a fun concept for a writer to enjoy a book like this as a creative template. some of the backgrounds are very unique. the simpler ones will work better for writing on. my only one complaint would be that there are many many many brick backgrounds. would have liked to see a little more variety. i think if there were to be a second one of these books made with a few more out of the box background ideas, it would be even better. for the price and the concept, i would recommend this product to spice up the writer’s framework. great book for poets.
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|Pretty Fun,
Using the Walls Notebook, me and my friends have been able to have some fun, writing down our favorite graffitti we’ve seen in Bathrooms and outside walls. Drawings have been a little difficult, because you wish to use markers but they bleed through to the other pages. Other than that, it’s been a blast. I recommend it for the artists who need something to sketch on.
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|The 3-Disc edition gives WALL*E the deluxe treatment.,
Not yet listed on the Amazon page, here are the goodies that will be in this 3-disc version:
Standard bonus material:
director’s commentary,
deleted scenes,
short film: Presto,
new short: BURN*E,
“Animation Sound Design”,
“WALL*E’s Tour of the Universe”;
Exclusive to the 3-Disc Special Edition DVD:
more deleted scenes,
making-of featurettes,
BnL shorts,
documentary film The Pixar Story,
“WALL*E’s Treasures and Trinkets”,
“Lots of Bots”
DisneyFile digital copy.
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A masterpiece,
I am floored. I didn’t think it was possible for Pixar to surpass Toy Story, but it has. A sophisticated treat for adults and teens, a cuddly romance for the juice-box set, this comedic science fiction thriller romance (really!) takes the company to a new, more mature level. Filled with artistry, depth, meaning and a lot of humor, WALL-E is a masterpiece. Where Cars was a kid’s movie with added adult themes, this is an adult movie with added value for children.
DIALOGUE SCHMIALOGUE
Before I saw WALL-E I had read about the lack of dialogue, and how it might be a risky move for Pixar to make a film with characters that don’t talk in a traditional sense. Well, trash that. The most emotionally powerful scenes in this movie are those with the LEAST dialogue. Fully developed and indeed almost human, the two main characters are Wall-E himself (the letters stand for Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth Class; there’s also a WALL-A) and EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator), two machines in love.
After about a half hour I was wondering if Pixar could continue to pull off this less-is-more concept for the rest of the film — then the two robots started playing Pong! Such imaginative screenplay carries the film to what should be a Best Picture nomination. Seriously.
A TOUCHING STORY
WALL-E is a lonely little robotic trash compactor who was left behind after Earth was abandoned some 700 years earlier. He has been methodically cleaning up the trash-ridden planet ever since, and harboring a tiny plant he has found among the garbage. Eve, meanwhile, lives on the immense spaceship Axiom, which is also home to the fat, blob-like remains of the human race. She is a probe robot that flies to Earth to determine if the planet is ready for habitation. WALL-E takes one look at the streamlined, angelic Eve and falls in love.
It didn’t take long for me to fall in love with the little robot. As soon as he giggled (after his pet cockroach tickled him) I was hooked. This hardworking rusty guy with his small home full of collected treasures is so poignant. His lonely life is so human. Eve is just as likable, but much more sleek. Near the end comes a heartbreaking moment when a key character seems to lose all personality, all self. So well done, it made me think of how families must feel when a loved one disappears inside him- or herself with Alzheimer’s disease.
All ends well, of course. As the credits roll, the artwork illustrates how everyone and everything lives happily after ever.
AN ADULT MEANING
For adults, WALL-E is not so much about a cute little robot as it is about the future of man. What happens when humans become such creatures of the consumer culture, so fat they can’t even stand up without assistance, living literally on auto-pilot, that they do nothing but buy cheap merchandise, stuff their faces at the Regurgitated Food Buffet and lie around watching video screens? Can they ever get back to the land and set their souls free? Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young asked that question decades ago; Pixar asks it today.
There is even a sly political reference. Broadcasting a message to the passengers of the spaceship, the CEO of monster corporation Buy ‘n’ Large — played in live-action by the inimitable Fred Willard, and named Shelby Forthright — says they will be continuing on their never-ending, hopeless cruise to nowhere because they must “Stay the course!” Hmmm, haven’t I heard a president use that line?
EXTRA TOUCHES
WALL-E has so many wonderful touches! After the little robot is charged using his solar panels, he “turns on” with a sound any Macintosh owner will recognize. The robot’s collected objects, much like the thingamabobs of The Little Mermaid‘s Ariel, are things that are uniquely human: bubble wrap, an iPod, a Rubics cube, a singing plastic trophy fish and — blink and you’ll miss it — a carrousel horse from Walt Disney World. Especially inspired are the two things on this future Earth that are totally indestructible: a cockroach and Twinkies.
Stay for the credits. Recalling cave drawings, hieroglyphics, Monet and Van Gogh paintings and early computer graphics, the progressive sequence of art within them sneaks in the history of dialogue-free storytelling.
ANIMATED? REALLY?
The look of the movie is hard to describe. In one scene, when WALL-E and EVE are investigating a piece of bubble wrap, you…
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An Original Masterpiece,
Pixar produces amazing movies, but WALL-E is for the ages. This original motion picture opens with WALL-E, voiced by Ben Burtt, making his way through a desolate wasteland that is our planet. Humans left 700 years ago because pollution and trash made Earth uninhabitable. WALL-E is the last Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth Class robot left on earth. His job is to clean up the planet, while the humans are away. Curiously enough, WALL-E developed a personality, skillfully communicated through emotional-laden beeps, whistles and other noises.
Shortly after we’re introduced to WALL-E, we meet EVE, voiced by Elissa Knight. EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) was sent by the humans to search for plant life on the planet. WALL-E soon finds himself enamored with EVE, who eventually reciprocates his feelings. WALL-E shows EVE a plant he has found and EVE shuts down to await the arrival of a ship to bring the plant to the humans. Faced with the possibility of losing EVE, WALL-E sneaks aboard the ship and in doing so alters humanity’s future. You’ll have to see the movie to find out what happens.
Whistling, whirring robots…seems silly right? Well, Pixar produced a romantic science fiction thriller that is unlike any other movie created. Seriously, you will come to love these characters, feel their pains and end up rooting for their success. Kids will appreciate the story, and adults will understand the movie’s nod to environmental issues, politics and the consequence of human complacency.
This movie came out years ago, so what makes this one different?
The only update is the artwork.
The actual content is the same as the previous releases including the BURN*E short etc. The combo pack is made for region A, which includes Americas, East and Southeast Asia, U.S. territories, Bermuda.
For all intents and purposes, Disney*Pixar is taking a blue-ray movie that didn’t come with a DVD copy previously and adding a DVD copy. Disney is no longer including a digital copy like previous releases because eventually those codes expire. Current Disney policy states the unique digital code is good for one year from the release date of a movie. At this time, Disney is honoring expired codes. Disney needs to eventually phase out versions of their movies with expiring digital codes or change the expiration date for codes, so future buyers don’t get upset if a code doesn’t work.
The fact the combo contains blue-ray and a regular dvd is an incentive to purchase if you have have a dvd player in one room and a blue-ray in another and you want flexibility. Perhaps you’re like me and you have a blue-ray player at home, but you bring DVDs on the road for a hotel room or your laptop. Or you are looking to upgrade to blue-ray in the future.
If you’re in the market for blue-ray, the combo dvd/blue-ray discs, Wall-E (Three-Disc Blu-ray / DVD Combo) is actually a $1 cheaper than the blue-ray disc only product, Wall-E (Two-Disc and BD Live) [Blu-ray].
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