I've mentioned Pixar's amazing short films before, but wanted to highlight another one. Boundin' was the short film shown before The Incredibles in 2003.
It's about a poor sheep who is shorn and becomes very despondent. He becomes the laughing stock of the valley and can't show off his dance moves anymore. Along comes a jackalope (check Google images, real animal!). This jackalope teaches the sheep a new way of bounding to lift his spirits. After that, the sheep doesn't care about losing his wool and just keeps bounding.
This is a very cute (and somewhat corny) story with a very true life lesson. Dory in Finding Nemo has a similar outlook - just keep swimming. Sometimes you're hit with utterly catastrophic events in your life - someone close to you dies, people hate you for simply being you, or whatever else - all you can do is keep going. And hopefully one day it all comes right again.
Hey, I know life isn't all rainbows and candy canes. Not everything just turns out for the best. Not everything simply gets better with time. But, I want to believe in a world where it does :-).
And who doesn't love a happy message given by cute furry animals set to catchy music!
Am I a total nerd for thinking of the word kobold as a title for today's blog? Too much fantasy role-playing games - although I don't think too much is possible :-).
Knick-knacks are those weird and small things that magically accumulate on your desk, bookcase and any other surface over a number of years. There will be something from some beach you visited and always a bouncy ball or two even though you know you've never picked one up. Bouncy balls are the centre of knick-knackness.
Pixar created a short film called knick knack in 1989, but it was released with Finding Nemo - one of my all-time favourite animation movies. knick knack is hilariously funny and follows the desperate attempts of a snowman trying to escape his globe. It has become a Pixar tradition to have short films before their main features. My other favourites are Presto and Lifted.
Presto is about the complicated relationship between a magician and his rabbit. What I love about this short film is the unique way of looking at the infamous magician's hat. Lifted lets you see what really goes on behind the scenes of a typical alien abduction. Again, a very original look at the concept. And that's what I love about Pixar - they take tried and tested ideas and make you see them differently. They have released quite a number of these shorts over the years, but each one of them will make you laugh. Get a hold of these short films!
