Edwin Catmull
@edcatmull
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Aphantasia is the inability to see images in your head. Hyperphantasia means you are extraordinarily good at it. There are phenomenal artists at Pixar and Disney at both extremes. The correlations are not what people would expect. Includes animating, writing, technical, managing.
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We did a study correlating artistic, and other skills with the ability to visualize at Pixar & Disney Animation, then presented the unexpected results at Extreme Imagination Conference. Here is interview about it with Dr. Joel Pearson.
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For those interested in antique maps.
An examination of a French #antiquemap of Mexico and #Texas from the year 1840. Topics include the 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty, the Republic of Texas, and Franco-Mexican relations, including the Pastry War.
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Wow! This is a really cool map of very early San Francisco.
Unrecorded, hand-drawn map, with annotations in French. A unique artifact of Gold Rush San Francisco, including one of San Francisco's most famous buried ships! #sfhistory #maps #raremaps #antiquemaps
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Fascinating look at very early San Francisco urban history.
A closer look at Eddy's 1849 map -- One of earliest obtainable maps of San Francisco!
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Danielle Feinberg: The magic ingredient that brings Pixar movies to life | TED Talk |
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RT @msamywallace: Fans of Creativity, Inc.: Voting ends today 4 @goodreads Choice Awards. @edcatmull's book is a finalist. Vote here: https….
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Tim Ferris recommended to me the podcast Hardcore History. I highly recommend.
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RT @DShaywitz: Finally-a business memoir (by @DisneyPixar exec @edcatmull + @msamywallace) that owes more2 @nntaleb than 2Jack Welch http:/….
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RT @work_matters: Creativity,Inc. by Pixar's Ed Catmull: One of the Best Business Books of All Time http://t.co/7iGxfX3VS2.
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My son Ben, a comic artist, just finished his first book, Ghosts and Ruins.
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Now at Aqaba, Jordan where my son works on archaeological dig. Will have lunch with Bedouin workers.
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