GalacticMu

I am predictably obsessed with Pixar cartoons. An art-student Seattleite once said to Halcyon and myself after we’d just been to see Cars, “Isn’t that a children’s movie?” Yes, and mostly no. I asked her not to make my latte too hot.

Children, as you may know, are underdeveloped human beings. They have an underdeveloped stature, an underdeveloped taste in beer and an underdeveloped sense of what constitutes as entertainment. Through what I can only assume is torturous experimentation, Pixar is one of the few production companies ever to exist who have managed to make compelling, artful and genuinely touching movies that children manage to enjoy anyway. And while the subject matter has been only marginally of interest to me as of yet (though the recent Ratatouille veered the closest ), the up-coming WALL•E makes me tear up, and these are just the trailers. I have a bad feeling about the fate of my mascara when I get around to seeing the entire film.

As an aside, a true story: I went to see The Iron Giant in the theater, and I cried so hard I scared the children in front of me. Truth.

This is by no means breaking news, but it’s good enough to keep sharing: Pixar has made an absolutely GORGEOUS fake website for the fictional company that produces the eponymous WALL•E.

Called ‘Buy n Large’, the website is more a masterpiece of social commentary than a background for an upcoming movie. A children’s movie, if you recall. Aside from being visually flawless, the site is deep: every link goes somewhere, and almost every page has something worth reading on it. If you know what is good for you, you’ll read the tiny link to the Privacy Policy at the bottom of each page. Even if you are someone that has ever had to work on corporate websites or use stock photography of “perfect” employees, something about Buy n Large will make you want to simultaneously applaud for Pixar and shoot horse tranquilizers directly into your heart. Because the comedy? Very, very close to reality.