by Christopher Paul on July 13, 2013 Jon Negroni has an awesome theory that all Pixar movies take place in a single universe spread over thousands of years with some overlap. He believes Brave is the “first” movie, chronologically speaking, with A Bugs Life being the last. I’m not going to spoil much more so be sure to read the whole thing.
It’s an amzaing idea. And if true, would make the writers of Pixar movies the best ever for the way they intertwine these worlds. The number of “easter eggs” and links between one movie to another – and the potential links to the next movie – is actually mindblowing.
via everywhere on the internet but I bookedmarked the link from Boing Boing
by Christopher Paul on July 12, 2013 by Christopher Paul on July 11, 2013 In cities, more people want to live north and feel it’s is better than living on the southern side.
The location bias likely boils down to psychology and how we view the words "north" and "south," Prof. Meier says. Although north and south are abstract concepts, we tend to understand them in spatial terms, with north meaning up and south meaning down. We then take it a step further and tie the two words to emotion, where up means good and down means bad—"feeling up or feeling down, on cloud nine or down in the dumps," he explains. Pop culture furthers this idea; think of Billy Joel’s 1983 song about a blue-collar "downtown man" in love with a high-class "uptown girl."
Of course it doesn’t just extend to cities.
by Christopher Paul on July 10, 2013 by Christopher Paul on July 10, 2013 I can’t tell you how much on this list drives me crazy. I re-shared this from a friend on Facebook and many of my other New Yorker friends – most of them native New Yorkers like my wife – re-shared it, too.
This should be every Subway rider’s 10 Commandments of thou shalt not do.
