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Lava (2014 Film)
''Lava'' is a 2014 American animated musical short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Directed and written by James Ford Murphy and produced by Andrea Warren, it premiered at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival on June 14, 2014, and was theatrically released alongside Pixar's '' Inside Out'', on June 19, 2015. The short is a musical love story that takes place over millions of years. It is set to a song (also called "Lava") written by Murphy, and was inspired by the "isolated beauty of tropical islands and the explosive allure of ocean volcanoes." In an interview with Honolulu-based KHON-TV, Murphy explained that his interest in Hawaii began 25 years prior while honeymooning on the main island of Hawai'i. Shortly before the film production had begun, Murphy went back to Hawaii in order to "reconnect emotionally" with the land that sprung his inspiration. Years later, he heard Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's rendition of " Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ford Murphy
James Ford Murphy is an American animator. He started his career as an art director for Jockey which displaying layouts for the commercials of company’s underwear. And then, he later worked as an animator for commercials including Little Caesars in Calabash animation studio before he left to become an animator for video game, ''Torin’s Passage'' and afterwards move to his current company at Pixar. He directed the 2014 short film ''Lava''. Filmography Feature films * ''A Bug's Life'' – additional character designer, animator * ''Toy Story 2'' – animator * ''Monsters, Inc.'' – animator * ''Finding Nemo'' – animator * ''The Incredibles'' – animator * ''Cars'' – directing animator * ''Ratatouille'' – animator * ''Wall-E'' – production resources * '' Up'' – production resources * ''Toy Story 3'' – fix and additional animator, production resources * ''Cars 2'' – production resources * ''Brave'' – production resources * ''Cars 3'' – promotional animation * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHON-TV
KHON-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of Fox and an owned-and-operated station of The CW. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KHII-TV (channel 9). The two stations share studios at the Haiwaiki Tower in downtown Honolulu; KHON's main transmitter is also located downtown at the Century Center condominium/business complex. History NBC affiliate KHON-TV first signed on the air on November 16, 1952, as the first Hawaiian television station and a primary NBC affiliate, KONA, occupying the channel 11 position. It also had a secondary affiliation with DuMont (which it later shared with KULA-TV, now KITV, after it signed on in 1954) until that network's demise in 1955. The station was originally owned by Herbert Richards. Two years later in 1954, the ''Honolulu Advertiser'' purchased the station. On October 16, 1955, KONA changed channels from 11 to 2 due to the low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day & Night (2010 Film)
''Day & Night'' is a 2010 American animated short film written and directed by Teddy Newton and produced by Pixar. It was shown in theaters before ''Toy Story 3''. and has been released to purchase on iTunes in the United States. Unlike most other Pixar shorts, the animation style combines 2D and 3D elements, and '' Up'' production designer Don Shank says it is "unlike anything Pixar has produced before". Plot ''Day & Night'' follows two characters, Day and Night. Inside Day is a day scene with a sun in the center, and inside Night is a night scene with a moon in the center. Whatever goes on inside of Day or Night expresses normal events that typically occur within a day or night, respectively, and these events often correspond with actions or emotions that Day or Night express or receive. For example, when Day is happy he will have a rainbow inside him, and when Night is happy he will have fireworks inside him. Day and Night meet and at first, they are uneasy about each oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partly Cloudy
''Partly Cloudy'' is a 2009 American animated comedy short film, written and directed by Peter Sohn and produced by Kevin Reher. It was shown in theaters before Pixar's feature film '' Up'' and is a special feature on its DVD and Blu-ray release. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2009. In a CGSociety article, Sohn says his idea for the film came from watching ''Dumbo ''Dumbo'' is a 1941 American Animated film, animated Musical film, musical Fantasy film, fantasy Comedy drama, comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film i ...'' as a child: in the movie, a stork delivers Dumbo, leading a young Sohn to wonder where the birds got their babies from. His conclusion was that the babies came from clouds, hence flying animals being needed to deliver them. Plot All day long, cheerful clouds in the sky make cute and cuddly babies, such as human boys and girls, kittens, puppies, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The Birds (film)
''For the Birds'' is a 2000 American animated short film produced by Pixar and written and directed by Ralph Eggleston. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2001. It debuted on June 5, 2000, at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, and was shown alongside the theatrical release of the 2001 Disney/Pixar feature film '' Monsters, Inc.'' It is also available on home video versions of the film. In 2012, the short was re-rendered into 3D, and it was theatrically re-released alongside the 3D re-release of ''Monsters, Inc.'' The short was also released in 3D on ''Monsters, Inc.'' Blu-ray 3D, on February 19, 2013. The short was paired in theaters in front of ''Luca'' on March 22, 2024. Plot A small, egg-shaped blue bird lands on a powerline and makes himself comfortable, only for a second bird to land close by. The two birds start squabbling and are gradually joined by 13 others of the same species, all bickering for space. A large, awkward shoe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knick Knack
''Knick Knack'' is a 1989 American animated short film produced by Pixar that was written and directed by John Lasseter. The short is about a snow globe snowman who wants to join the other travel souvenirs in a summer-themed party. However, the glass dome that surrounds him prevents him from doing so, thus leading to his many tries to break out of his snow globe. ''Knick Knack'' is Pixar's fourth short and the final short produced during the company's tenure as a hardware company. It was also the final Pixar short film released before the company's first feature-length film ''Toy Story''. The short stands out from Lasseter's other early short films at Pixar in its reliance on pure comedy to drive the story. It was inspired by ''Tom and Jerry'', ''Looney Tunes'', and the work of animators Chuck Jones and Tex Avery. Lasseter and his wife, Nancy, collected snow globes and also enjoyed souvenirs from distant places and those elements made their way into the short as well. Singer Bobb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Submarine Volcano
Submarine volcanoes are underwater vents or fissures in the Earth's surface from which magma can erupt. Many submarine volcanoes are located near areas of tectonic plate formation, known as mid-ocean ridges. The volcanoes at mid-ocean ridges alone are estimated to account for 75% of the magma output on Earth.Martin R. Speight, Peter A. Henderson, "Marine Ecology: Concepts and Applications", John Wiley & Sons, 2013. . Although most submarine volcanoes are located in the depths of seas and oceans, some also exist in shallow water, and these can discharge material into the atmosphere during an eruption. The total number of submarine volcanoes is estimated to be over one million (most are now extinct) of which some 75,000 rise more than above the seabed. Only 119 submarine volcanoes in Earth's oceans and seas are known to have erupted during the last 11,700 years. Hydrothermal vents, sites of abundant biological activity, are commonly found near submarine volcanoes. Effect of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volcano
A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and because most of Earth's plate boundaries are underwater, most volcanoes are found underwater. For example, a mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes resulting from divergent tectonic activity are usually non-explosive whereas those resulting from convergent tectonic activity cause violent eruptions."Mid-ocean ridge tectonics, volcanism and geomorphology." Geology 26, no. 455 (2001): 458. https://macdonald.faculty.geol.ucsb.edu/papers/Macdonald%20Mid-Ocean%20Ridge%20Tectonics.pdf Volcanoes can also form where there is str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. At in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), the Pacific Ocean is the largest division of the World Ocean and the hydrosphere and covers approximately 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of the planet's total surface area, larger than its entire land area ().Pacific Ocean . ''Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica Concise.'' 2008: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The centers of both the Land and water hemispheres, water hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere, as well as the Pole of inaccessi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHON2
KHON-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of Fox and an owned-and-operated station of The CW. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KHII-TV (channel 9). The two stations share studios at the Haiwaiki Tower in downtown Honolulu; KHON's main transmitter is also located downtown at the Century Center condominium/business complex. History NBC affiliate KHON-TV first signed on the air on November 16, 1952, as the first Hawaiian television station and a primary NBC affiliate, KONA, occupying the channel 11 position. It also had a secondary affiliation with DuMont (which it later shared with KULA-TV, now KITV, after it signed on in 1954) until that network's demise in 1955. The station was originally owned by Herbert Richards. Two years later in 1954, the ''Honolulu Advertiser'' purchased the station. On October 16, 1955, KONA changed channels from 11 to 2 due to the lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" (also known as "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World") is a medley of "Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland and "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, recorded by Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwoʻole. First released on the 1990 album ''Ka ʻAnoʻi'', an acoustic rendition of the medley became notable after its release on his 1993 album '' Facing Future''. The cut version — ''Over the Rainbow'' — was released in 2001 on the posthumous album ''Alone In Iz World''. The cut version became a sleeper hit, after charting across Europe in 2010 and 2011 and in the meanwhile being featured in numerous film and TV soundtracks throughout the 2000s and 2010s. In 2020, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Recording history The song was originally recorded in a spur-of-the-moment demo session i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
