LEGOBrick's50th Birthday!!! The 50th birthday of the LEGO brick is in January 2008 and there is plenty to celebrate. Children all over the world have played with LEGO bricks for the past 50 years, and LEGO is still right at the top of many wish lists – just as it always has been. Industry and trade associations also recognize the LEGO success. Just before the turn of the millennium the LEGO brick was voted “Toy of the Century”, one of the highest awards in the toy industry, by both Fortune Magazine in the US and the British Association of Toy Retailers.
...aah, yes...Lego...Thanks for keeping me "off the streets" back in the day...(or I could've gotten some pretty bad sunburn in the backyard sans shades-sail... Yeah, i roll hard like dat!)
And I'm FEELING this Google x Lego cross-marketing thing!
Peter Russell Clarke'sAd Bloopers!(circa 80's)* *Warning: Some course (albeit funny) language. Though it's in an Aussie accent, so it may not be so bad...
"Blair's work is decidedly not realistic, but it evokes powerful emotions in the audience. Her sense of color defies logical explanation, yet somehow feels emotionally perfect. No wonder Walt Disney loved her work. Like animation itself, her paintings were a caricature of real life; more intensely evocative of the thing than the thing itself."--Pete Docter, Director of "Monsters, Inc.," Pixar Animation Studios
...is on at the Cartoon Art Museum in downtown SF, from October 27, 2007 to March 18, 2008.
Loi(Laughing On the Inside)is to be used when something is mildly entertaining, yet not humorous enough to evoke actual laughter. Actual laughter, however, may still be represented by “lol” or it’s other manifestations (LMAO, ROFL, etc).