Children's Films

I haven't posted recently because I thought I already posted what I am about to post. I don't know how I thought I had, it makes no sense.

I've been watching loads of previews and trailers for movies coming out soon and it seems as though some of the best ones are the ones intended for a much younger target audience. Though the younger audience may find them very appealing, I think we should - as older people - take into consideration these films. Though some people may say "Oh, Aladdin is my favorite movie ever," Aladdin was made was made 17 years ago. One of the best trailers I have seen recently is for a film called "Up". From what I can gather from the trailer, it is about an old man that is frustrated with his boring life to the extent of using helium-filled balloons to fly to see South America - something he has always wanted to see. He is befriended by a young boy-scout that makes the trip more interesting. (Pixar <3)>

Not that this technology is directly applicable to real-life situations (at least not yet), if it - and other related ideas from other children's films - are taken more seriously while we try to fix the many problems we are faced with in our personal lives but also on a larger scale we would have a much larger pool of ideas to draw from. I suppose what I am trying to say is not all of our problems are going to be solved in laboratories - but also in studios and in the minds of creative, imaginative people. We will be as much in debt to those designing flying wind-turbines as we are to the people who design the films we watch and the tech-toys that fuel our creative engine (Steve Jobs).

I realize that hot-air balloons exist and we can apply the technology in Up in a certain manner, but I am thinking about more abstract applications - like the helium-filled wind-turbines that are in development at the moment. They're generating power but they've still got a ways to go.

Adaptability. It's getting much warmer here and people are still wearing the same get-up they were wearing in December and January. It's completely weird.