Up - Animation

So, as I am into animation movies lately, I watched "UP" yesterday night. It was a really funny and cool movie. My next film in line is Bashir. Watch out for its review!

UP

By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip.

A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a Lost Land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then, when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is forced to go to a retirement home. But before they can take him, he and his house fly away. However he has a stowaway aboard. An 8 year old boy named Russell, who's trying to get an Assisting the Elderly badge. Together, they embark on an adventure, where they encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird named Kevin.

Box Office

Budget: $175,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $68,108,790 (USA) (31 May 2009) (3 Screens)

Gross: $293,004,164 (USA) (5 November 2009)

TRIVIA

If Carl's house was approximately 1600 square feet, and the average house weighs between 60-100 pounds per square foot, it weighs 120,000 pounds. If the average helium balloon can carry .009 pounds (or 4.63 grams), it would take 12,658,392 balloons to lift his house off the ground. (20,622 balloons appear on the house when it first lifts off.)

Very first animated film, as well as the first 3D film, ever to open the Cannes Film Festival.

Russell is Pixar's first Japanese/Asian-American character voiced by an Asian-American actor, Jordan Nagai.

As per Pixar tradition, John Ratzenberger once again provides a voice in the movie, making him the only actor to do a voice in every Pixar film.

The term 'A113' is the number of the courtroom, and can be found on the gold sign Carl sits next to while waiting to be called (Courtroom A113). A113 is a frequent Pixar in-joke based on one of the room numbers for the animation program at Cal Arts.

The legendary singer Charles Aznavour performs the voice of Carl in the French version.

Dug's 'point' pose, where his entire tail, back, and head is in a perfectly straight line, is an homage to the identical pose that Mickey's dog, Pluto, often makes. Dug also shares a similar colour scheme to Pluto.

Co-director/co-writer Bob Peterson stated that Dug's line "I have just met you, and I love you," was inspired by a quote from a small child that he met when he was a camp counselor in the 1980s.

In June 2009, 10-year-old Colby Curtin from Huntington Beach, California, was suffering from the final stages of terminal vascular cancer. Her dying wish was to live long enough to see Up (2009). Unfortunately, Colby was too sick to leave home and her family feared she would die without seeing the film. A family friend contacted Pixar, and a private screening was arranged for Colby. The company flew an employee with a DVD copy of "Up", along with some tie-in merchandise from the film. Colby couldn't see the screen because the pain kept her eyes closed, so her mother gave her a play-by-play of the film. Seven hours after viewing the film, Colby passed away.

Russell's Wilderness Explorer sash has several in-jokes and tributes. The most obvious is a Luxo Jr. (1986) ball. One badge has a hamburger with a candle in it. This is a nod to Merritt Bakery in Oakland - which creates cakes in that shape - a favorite hangout of director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera. Another badge is a tribute to 2-D animation, showing a perforated paper that is used by 2D animators to line up their drawings correctly. He also has badges for First Aid and Second Aid, which may be a reference to a short on the Up website where Russell struggles to apply bandages to Carl. Yet another badge depicts a multicolored pinwheel - the "hang" icon of Apple's Mac OS X operating system, equivalent to the Windows hourglass icon. Several of these badges are shown in the credits. An additional tribute to Apple and Steve Jobs (former CEO of Pixar and still a primary shareholder) shows Russell trying to teach Carl how to use a computer.

Edward Asner plays Carl Fredricksen.

A code title used during production was "Helium".

Film debut of Jordan Nagai, who voices Russell. Originally, his older brother Hunter was auditioning for the part, and Nagai simply came along with him. About 400 children had showed up for the auditions, but Nagai stood out because he would not stop talking. Director Pete Docter later said that "as soon as Jordan's voice came on we started smiling because he is appealing and innocent and cute and different from what I was initially thinking."

Pixar's second most commercially successful film after Finding Nemo (2003).

SPOILERS
(DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANT TO SPOIL THE MOVIE)

Carl and Russell's hometown at the end is Oakland. We see Oakland landmarks Fenton's Creamery and the Fox Oakland Theatre (showing Star Wars (1977)).

All of the dogs except for Dug are named after letters of the Greek alphabet (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc) although this could relate to rankings in a dog pack, where the lead male is known as the Alpha, then Beta and so on. This is supported by the fact that when Dug puts Alpha in the Cone of Shame, all the other dogs begin referring to Dug as Alpha. The voices of both Dug and Alpha are performed by the same actor, Bob Peterson.

When Russell flies past the airship using his balloons and the leaf blower, we briefly see several of Charles Muntz's dogs playing poker at a card table. This is a tribute to the famous "Dogs Playing Poker" series of paintings by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.

Many death scenes were proposed for Charles Muntz; in one of them, his obsession with catching the giant bird took him inside the dreaded labyrinth against his own recommendation, where he would eventually get lost and die (much like Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining (1980)). As they animators wanted to keep the climax situated in the air, they considered that Muntz be lured into Carl's house by the bird, and then die as the house fell off the zeppelin with him still in it. However, they did not want to associate the house, which symbolized Elly, with a violent death. Another ending that almost made it was Muntz getting tangled into some balloons and getting lifted away, instead of falling down. But this did not give a proper closure to the character. In the end, the directors decided that this was Carl's story, and Muntz' ending was therefore to be kept simple.

If you have movie tips for me, please, comment or email.

I would love to receive your suggestion!

Mary and Max

I am all into animation movies lately. I am about to watch "UP" in a few minutes and all excited about it. Friends said it was cute and lovely! Awww!

MAX

MARY

I watched a great one last week called Mary and Max by Adam Elliot. A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.



Soundtrack



Interview with the Diretor Adam Elliot

Academy Award winner Adam Elliot discusses his feature debut, Mary and Max, the stop-motion animated story of a friendship that defied the distance between two different worlds, a film that opened the Sundance Film Festival on January 2009 and went on to win the Cristal at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival afterwards.




Adam Elliot on Sundance

Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot and Producer Melanie Coombs sat down with the Daily Californian at the Sundance Film Festival to discuss Mary and Max, their first feature-length film, selected as the festivals opener.

The claymation film catalogues the relationship between an 8 year-old Australian girl and her pen pal, a 44 year-old New Yorker with Asperger Syndrome. The film treats their relationship with sympathy rather than condescension, and black humour that had the audience at the first press and industry screening yesterday chuckling for its duration (quite a feat). Geoff Gilmore, the Sundance Film Festival Director, called Mary and Max his favourite opening film of the past 19 years.

A full review of the film will be available on the Daily Cal's website on blog.dailycal.org/arts/.



"I think it's a fantastic film about keeping something old-fashioned, friendship, alive. Beyond the hyper technology of social networking and such, Mary and Max coax each other out of her and his shell. One could say that the ending is too depressing or melodramatic or convenient, but I think it's just right -- they could never meet face to face. That would defeat the purpose of their pin-pal bond and bring it into an ordinary veneer."

This is a good suggestion of lovely & cute movie. I thought it was a little bit slow on its 3/4 part, but it was GREATTTT and poetic!


LINK: http://www.maryandmax.com/

Performing Poems by Sarah Kay

A performing poet since she was 14 years old, Sarah Kay is the founder of Project V.O.I.C.E, teaching poetry and self-expression at schools across the United States.

About the Talk
 "If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... " began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis -- from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E. -- and gives two breathtaking performances of "B" and "Hiroshima."


Sarah Kay

Why you should listen to her:

"hands are not about politics / this is a poem about love / and fingers/ fingers interlock like a beautiful zipper of prayer"
--Sarah Kay

Plenty of 14-year-old girls write poetry. But few hide under the bar of the famous Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan’s East Village absorbing the talents of New York’s most exciting poets. Sarah Kay also had the guts to take its stage and hold her own against performers at least a decade her senior. Her talent for weaving words into poignant, funny, and powerful performances paid off.

Now 22, Kay is a successful spoken word poet and codirects Project V.O.I.C.E. (Vocal Outreach Into Creative Expression). Founded by Kay in 2004, Project V.O.I.C.E. encourages people, particularly teenagers, to use spoken word as a tool for understanding the world and self, and a medium for vital expression.

"A day with Sarah Kay reminded me of poetry's power to help us make sense of our lives, to see the world in a new way."

Deb Martin, Rowan University

Jonathan Harris - Today Project

Jonathan Harris was once at THE ART REFERENCE with his projects and now TODAY Project is on! Check it out:

When Jonathan Harris ( http://number27.org ) turned 30, he began a simple ritual of taking one photo a day and posting it to his website before going to sleep, along with a short story. He called this project, 'Today'.

This is a short film about Jonathan's project, made a few weeks after he stopped it, by his friend, Scott Thrift: http://mssngpeces.com

Jonathan's 'Today' project is viewable here:
http://number27.org/today.php?age=30

Jonathan Harris: The art of collecting stories



At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and stories collected from the Internet, including his amazing "We Feel Fine."

Turning the habit of self-criticism upside down by Seth Godin

"Perhaps this sounds familiar:
When it's time to write a resume or talk to a boss or discuss a project glitch with colleagues, the instinct is to spin, to avoid a little responsibility, to sit quietly. Put a best face forward, don't set yourself up.
When reviewing just about anything you've done with yourself (in your head), the instinct is to be brutal, relentlessly critical and filled with doubt and self-blame.
What if they were reversed?
What if the habit of the project review meeting was for each person to put their worst foot forward, to identify every item that they learned from? What if we took responsibility as a way of getting more authority next time?
And the flip side--when talking to ourselves, what if we were a little more supportive?
It's not an easy habit, but it works."

by Seth Godin

First World Digital Library by Unesco

This is the first World Digital Library By Unesco. You can check out lots of illustrations, books and documents from differents Libraries around the world. It has mainly antique materials for your reference.

http://www.wdl.org/pt/

Antoinette Fleur in Shangai

THE ART REFERENCE had already two posts about the Frech artist Antoinette-Fleur (link) and her incredible work. It is worth checking her newly video "in Shangai" video!!

Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro: 10 Steps for Foreigners Visiting the Marvelous City by Lacey McDaniel

First of all I would like to remove all romantic notions of a clean crisp berry smell, that the air freshener Febreeze Carnaval would have you believe Carnaval embodies. Instead, please picture people on top of everyone sweating, beer cans all over the street leaving their scent in the air, wafting breezes of body odor and piss lingering the air, as a more realistic perception of the Brazilian Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, not sure if Febreeze would like to bottle that up.


For all foreigners visiting Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval, we would like to say, thank you and welcome, but most importantly, please wear sunscreen and be ready for a fun ride of random street dancing, drinking, and kissing. Here are 10 simple tips one should know before embarking to a street bloco (street party):

1) Don’t drink too much, because the Johnny-on-the-Spots are really gross and it is illegal to pee on the street. If it is an emergency, I strongly advise you to put out 2-4 reais to use a "civilized" bathroom at a bar or restaurant. It will still be gross, but not quite as bad;
 


2) Accessories and costumes are very cheap and ubiquitous, so please join in the fun (there is nothing worse than a party pooper);



3) Don’t take your passport to a street party (please, I have to mention this) to avoid it falling out or being pick pocketed; 5) Stay on the perimeter of the street bloco to avoid being in the middle of the crowd if you don’t like feeling claustrophobic, but if dry humping tickles your fancy, go right ahead.

4) Go to the popular street parties downtown and in Botafogo, but be ready for a lot of bodies to rub up against you (and not in a good way); 5) Stay on the perimeter of the street bloco to avoid being in the middle of the crowd if you don’t like feeling claustrophobic, but if dry humping tickles your fancy, go right ahead.

5) Stay on the perimeter of the street bloco to avoid being in the middle of the crowd if you don’t like feeling claustrophobic, but if dry humping tickles your fancy, go right ahead.

6) Girls, this tip is mainly slanted toward you. Don’t make eye contact with the boy that keeps checking you out unless you are prepared for the attempted kiss or hookup to follow, and I have a boyfriend won’t deter a smitten Brazilian guy on a mission to conquest your lips. (Demonstrated in the pic to your right)

7) Boys, if you are interested in kissing randomly, as written above, please pay attention to the Brazilian girls’ subtle hints if they are willing. Sometimes “no” doesn’t really mean “no” here, unfortunately for the foreign girls that are trying to be nice and infer “no” it really means “try harder”, just keep that in mind.

8) Try not to get sprayed with the water guns and please don’t perpetuate this annoying act. You never know if it is water, cachaca, beer, pee or a combination of the aforementioned being shot at you.

9) Learn the Carnaval songs and sing along. It’s more fun and you look less awkward.

10) Have fun and smile, you’re at Carnaval!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If you follow these simple tips to the “T”, Carnaval is bound to be a good time for you and your friends.
 
 

NightWalker with Alice Braga

The singer Thiago Pethit released the song Nightwalker (Album: "Berlim, Texas" - 2010). The clip was directed by Vera Egito and Renata Chebel and it counts with Alice Braga, who wonder in the street at night as a night walker. One of the inspiration for this video of the "Eu te amo" (1981) by Arnald Jabour starring Sonia Braga, Alice's aunt and Brazilian famous actress.

MICMACs a tire-larigot - by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writers: Jean-Pierre Jeunet (scenario), Guillaume Laurant (scenario), and 1 more credit »
Stars:Dany Boon, André Dussollier and Nicolas Marié
 

A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.


First it was a mine that exploded in the middle of the Moroccan desert. Years later, it was a stray bullet that lodged in his brain... Bazil doesn't have much luck with weapons. The first made him an orphan, the second holds him on the brink of sudden, instant death.


Released from the hospital after his accident, Bazil is homeless. Luckily, our inspired and gentle-natured dreamer is quickly taken in by a motley crew of junkyard dealers living in a veritable Ali Baba's cave. The groups talents and aspirations are as surprising as they are diverse: Remington, Calculator, Buster, Slammer, Elastic Girl, Tiny Pete and Mama Chow.

Then one day, walking by two huge buildings, Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons manufacturers that caused all of his misfortune. He sets out to take revenge, with the help of his faithful gang of wacky friends. Underdogs battling heartless industrial giants, our gang relive the battle of David and Goliath, with all the imagination and fantasy of Buster Keaton...

or

"Avid movie-watcher and video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war. His father was killed by a landmine in Morocco and one fateful night a stray bullet from a nearby shootout embeds itself in his skull, leaving him on the verge of instantaneous death. Losing his job and his home, Bazil wanders the streets until he meets Slammer, a pardoned convict who introduces him to a band of eccentric junkyard dealers including Calculator, a math expert and statistician, Buster, a record-holder in human cannonball feats, Tiny Pete, an artistic craftsman of automatons, and Elastic Girl, a sassy contortionist. When chance reveals to Bazil the two weapons manufacturers responsible for building the instruments of his destruction, he constructs a complex scheme for revenge that his newfound family is all too happy to help set in motion." (written by the massve twins)

If you liked Amelie Pulin, that's a great suggestion!!!

Official site: http://micmacs.substance001.com/

R.E.M. - UBerlin

R.E.M. – Uberlin Lyrics

Hey now, take your pills and

Hey now, make your breakfast

Hey now, comb your hair and off to work

Crash land, no illusions, no collision, no intrusion

My imagination runs away

I know, I know, I know what I am chasing

I know, I know, I know that this is changing me

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight

I am flying on a star, star, star

I will make it through the day

And then the day becomes the night

I will make it through the night

Hey now, take the U-Bahn, five stops, change the station

Hey now, don’t forget that change will save you

Hey now, count a thousand-million people, that’s astounding

Chasing through the city with their stars on bright

I know, I know, I know what I am chasing

I know, I know, I know that this is changing me

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight

I am flying on a star, star, star

I will make it through the day

And then the day becomes the night

I will make it through the night

I don’t mind repeating, I am not complete

I have never been the gifted type

Hey, man, tell me something, are you off to somewhere?

Do you want to go with me tonight?

I know, I know, I know that this is changing

We walk the streets to feel the ground I’m chasing: ÜBerlin

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight

I am flying on a star, star, star

I will make it through the day

And then the day and then the day becomes the night

I will make it through the night

Milk & Sugar and Vaya con Dios - Hey Nah Nah Nah

ESCHER, til next time!

    

It is 3:41am now in Rio de Janeiro. I am just back from a get together and I cant sleep. So, I decided to post abot my day. Today, I decided to spend the day at Center. Center is Rio's Downtown, where everyone works during the week and no one goes during the weekends. For my surprise, I met more than 300 people there, like me, trying to attend to the ESCHER's exhibition. The guard told me that I would have to wait for 1 hour and 30 minutes in line in order to go inside. Hum! Soon enough, I met some co-workers that pulled the Brazilian way, the jeitinho brasileiro as we can here. She pretented she was pregnant and he pretended he was a happy father to be. Well done! The couple skiped the huge line and I stood there with my flat belly.

I decided to buy a chocolate bread and talked to the cashier. He told I should have known it would be crowed coz "Its Escher". Ok, I am sorry! I did not kow. I gave up and take some pictures in front of the murals and have random fun, as the one below:

Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.

In front of the CCBB, Brazilian's Bank Cultural Center, there were some musicians making crazy stuff.

I love celo, but I could stand only for 20 minutes. No more. Too crazy, alternative, non-sense sound for me. The cool stuff was the video which had a imagetic movimentation according to the notes played.

Afterwards, I went to the Post Office Cultural Center and checked out the pictures below.

I did not think they were too good, but it is a nice moviment. The theme was "Rio through my window". The center incentivates artists to paint and expose a piece with an especific theme: 

 

4am now. I will call it a day!

Next time, ESCHER!

Rio receives Rio's Voices

There is a big VA VA VA here in Rio de Janeiro right now. Rio's actors are here to release the movie (once showed in this blog, check here!). Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx , Will.I.AM, Rodrigo Santoro, Carlinhos Brown (Brazilian singer), Jemine.

Anne Hathaway is a charm. She tietou (gave too much attention) to Bebel Gilberto. She said she thought that the sceneries in the movies were a licenca poetica (or a figure of speech) used by Carlos Saldanha to make the movie more beautiful, but she realized Rio is THAT AWESOME! Anne had caipirinha with cachaca, mentioned she has made lots of "old friends" here and that she feels like a local. I think she is/was overwhelmed. Jamie Foxx just commented that he knew Rio from the adult website. Come one, Jamie, get clever, get worldly! There is much more about Rio than teats.

Carlinhos Brown

Rodrigo Santoro

Anne Hathaway

Bebel Gilberto & Carlos Brown

Carlos Saldanha (director)

Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx & Rodrigo Santoro.

Singer Taio Cruz, actor Jermaine Clement & rapper Will.I.Am

Sergio Mendes (composer)

This is the first trailer for Rio, a new animated feature film from Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age, Robots, Horton Hears a Who!). The movie is directed by Carlos Saldanha and will be released in April, 2011 (USA).

Set in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and the lush rainforest of Brazil, the comedy-adventure centers on Blu, a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind. When Blu discovers there’s another - and that she’s a she - he leaves the comforts of his cage in small town Minnesota and heads to Rio. But it’s far from love at first sight between the domesticated and flight-challenged Blu and the fiercely independent, high-flying female, Jewel. Unexpectedly thrown together, they embark on an adventure of a lifetime, where they learn about friendship, love, courage, and being open to life’s many wonders. ‘Rio’ brings together a menagerie of vivid characters, a heart-warming story, colorful backdrops, energizing Latin and contemporary music, and family-friendly song and dance,
 

Sand animation by Kseniya Simonova

Kseniya Simonova won the Ucranian Got Talent-Tens Competition by doing a sand animation of the Germany invasion during the World War II. It is worth checking out this 8 minutes video!

Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh

This one of my book tips to you!!
I know that sometimes I read stuff that apparently has nothign to do with art, but in my opinion it has to do with the art of being an artist or at least it is about something you should know.

The last book I read is Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh - the CEO od ZAPPOS.
Zappos is an e-commerce website that orginally sold only shoes and now it sells thousands of items.

The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success. Pay new employees $2000 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Focus on company culture as the #1 priority. Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business. Help employees grow both personally and professionally. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too. Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos.com, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales every year. In 1999, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and investor, and eventually became CEO. In 2009, Zappos was listed as one of Fortune magazine's top 25 companies to work for, and was acquired by Amazon later that year in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing. In his first book, Tony shares the different business lessons he learned in life, from a lemonade stand and pizza business through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Ultimately, he shows how using happiness as a framework can produce profits, passion, and purpose both in business and in life.

Company's core value:

1. Deliver WOW Through Service
2. Embrace and Drive Change
3. Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
4. Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
5. Pursue Growth and Learning
6. Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
7. Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
8. Do More With Less
9. Be Passionate and Determined
10. Be Humble

Get inspired and copy/paste some values to your own design business, you culture house, your studio, you environment and be happy!

The book was divided in the topics below

•Part One - Customer service and experience rules

•Part Two - Creating a culture and living the core values at work and play

•Part Three - Building a pipeline, hire at entry level and give them what they need to move up the chain

•Part Four - Delivering happiness to customers and employees

  Check out some videos aboiut Tony Hsieh and Zappos culture!









ZAPPOS 2010 COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGN









Ops, ARE YOU HAPPY? TONY TEACHES YOU!!!





ABOUT TONY HSIEH

In 1999, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos.com as an advisor and investor, and eventually became CEO, where he helped Zappos.com grow from almost no sales to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually, while simultaneously making Fortune magazine’s annual “Best Companies to Work For” list. In November 2009, Zappos.com was acquired by Amazon.com in a deal valued at $1.2 billion on the day of closing.


Tony’s first book, Delivering Happiness, was published on June 7, 2010, and outlines his path from starting a worm farm to life at Zappos.com. Tony shows how a very different kind of corporate culture is a powerful model for achieving success and happiness. Delivering Happiness debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and remained on the list for 27 consecutive weeks.

He currently lives in Las Vegas and sort of has a cat.

The book website here!

http://www.deliveringhappiness.com/

Request a FEE Culture book here!
http://www.zapposinsights.com/main/culture-book/

Check a FUNNY video about Tony Hsieh's background!
HERE 

Zappos SlideShare Presentation!
http://jaygoldman.com/2009/03/tony-hsieh-zappos-ceo-at-sxsw09/


Get a FREE version of the TRIBAL LEADERSHIP here!
http://www.zappos.com/tribal.zhtml


This is a good choice of book for you to understand about a corporate culture, what motivates people, the happiness science and about enterpreneuship.

                                                 Good reading!

Sad times!!!

I am sorry I have not being writting a lot lately. I have a new job which does not allow access to Blogger. Sucks!!! So, I need to find another time to write my posts and prepare my readings.

It is 9:22pm now in Rio de Janeiro. I was checking some news about Japan's disasater. It is really sad!
I have a friend in Nagoya. she communicated by Facebook. I guess lots of people are using networking midias to contact eachother and send informations!

While looking at the pictures below from THE HUFFINGTON POST, please, send positive thoughts to the japanese people! They deserve. They are so brave.

Peace & Bravery