Real Life Version Of Pixar's Flying Balloon House

National Geographic actually created a real-life version of Pixar's animated hit film Up.

The National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16' X 16' house 18' tall with 300 8' colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The entire experimental aircraft was more than 10 stories high, reached an altitude of over 10,000 feet, and flew for approximately one hour.

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Official Pixar Stamps

The United States Postal Service announced that they will release a series of Pixar image stamps in 2011. Cool!

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Style Your Doors

Your doors don't have to be boring anymore thanks to these photo films from Style Your Door.
You can also style your garage and windows.

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Logorama Wins Oscar – A Victory For Corporate Logos!!

Among the Oscar winners was the award for “Best Short Animation Film” earned by “Logorama”. The 16 minute short film based on corporate logos took over six-years to produce.

Logorama Cast and Crew:

The film, directed by the trio, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain, is a 16-minute movie and revolves around the adventures of two cops (Michelin Men) who are in pursuit of an armed criminal (Ronald McDonald ) through Los Angeles style city filled with famous logo designs.

Never has a film depicted all characters and items through real-life famous logo designs featuring around 3000 corporate logo designs. Famous corporate logos like the Pringles, Sega, Dominos, Pizza Hut and McDonald’s logo designs are seen in the movie.

Check out the trailer.

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Passion Journals By Moleskine: Wine, Food, Film and More

Moleskine, the makers of the favorite sidearm for writers and designers the world over, have released these fun, stylish little notebooks for each of life’s passions. The Moleskine Passion Journals feature layouts oriented toward each of “life’s great passions”, with journals made specifically for wine, food, wellness, film, books and movies.

You can order them from Amazon now!

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Moleskine | MoMa Retrospective | Tim Burton Notebook

Moleskine helps commemorate the works of Tim Burton with this ‘MoMa Retrospective’ notebook. With These custom 2010 weekly planner were created for VIP Guests of the ‘MoMa Retrospective’ which is running until April 26th. Burton’s signature, and the MoMA logo, is embossed on the front cover as well as a paperband that features some of his film titles, which include Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Beetle Juice and others.

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Tim Burton At MoMA

The Tim Burton exhibit at MoMA in New York City is "a staggering look at the depth of Burton’s work that starts from pages torn out of childhood notebooks, runs through his student years at California Institute of the Arts and rounds out with his expansive film career. From Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, to Edward Scissorhands, to Batman, to The Nightmare Before Christmas, to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and beyond."

Here are some images from the opening party at the MoMA. The exhibit runs through April 26, 2010.
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