Post #86227 by pablus on Wed, Apr 14, 2004 6:35 PM

Got a private tour of Pixar yesterday and as I was perusing the upper floor of that astonishing center or creativity - I saw - under glass - 3 Tiki machettes (grey clay sculptures). Also, 3 Tiki characters sketched out and developed as sort-of portraits of some Tiki-lovers that work there. One of them (the characters) was a self-portrait (I believe I overheard that).

Anyway - our buddy the producer - said that these folks were headed to Caliente Tropics for the Oasis.

I won't mention the names I wrote down here for privacy's sake, but come on you artistes, let us know you by your screen names, at least.

And those characters are truly genius.

Further on, in the animators' sector... the huge open space had been filled with Home Depot tool sheds functioning as individual offices. Several of those were housing Tikis. And several other Tikis greeted us at the entrances of a few other areas.

It was a terrific experience and I was much more comfortable there with a few Tikis present.

I didn't get a Mai-Tai though and that sort of hurt me. So I drove over to Trader Vics for lunch and had Navy Grogs to ease the pain.

[ Edited by: pablus on 2004-04-14 18:35 ]