Mo Willems began his career as a writer and animator for the show Sesame Street on PBS. During this time, he earned 6 Emmy Awards for his writing. Willems worked on Sesame Street for nine seasons and created two animated series The Off-Beats for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City. Codename: Kids Next Door was another show where Willems served as head writer at Cartoon Network, it was during this time that Willems began writing and illustrating books for children (Willems, Mo…
Summary: In the article “The Hit Man’s Tale” Vincent Smothers grew up on Detroit’s east side with eight siblings. He was very close to his father Sonny. From a younger age Smothers learned how to do plumbing, electrical work, and painting. He was good at everything his mother said in the article. It was like he already knew what to do, from those comments his mother made and his grades throughout school, which meant he was a very intelligent young man. Vincent was an honor student in school; he…
Mary Blair the Legend (Mary Blair, Concept of Alice Looking at the Rabbit’s house ,ca 1951, gouache, 10.94 x11x0.06 in(27.94 x0.16cm) Mary Blair was born Oklahoma and moved out to San Jose when She was 7, and won a scholarship to Chouinard Art institute in Los Angeles, where she graduated from Chouinard in 1933.She met her husband Lee(Les). E Blair there. Mary and Les made a great team at their stay at Disney. Mary was heavily influenced by the vibrant colors and strong geometric shapes of…
America has many historical heros. These heroes have changed this world. Not all the heroes fought in wars, or served as presidents. Some of the heroes changed the world from not just that. Some changed the world by film, art, or speeches. This man has changed the world drastically with film. This American hero is Walt Disney. Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5th, 1901 in Hermosa, Illinois. He was born to Elias and Flora Call Disney along with four other siblings in his family. Not…
Among those who joined the Guild was one of Walt's highest-ranking animators, Art Babbitt. Babbitt, who was known for developing the infamous character Goofy, had a very strong sense of justice. Despite being higher on the totem pole than others, he felt that the pay structure was unfair and very disorganized. Art was a generous man; so gregarious that he would often pay his assistant out of his own pockets when Walt would refuse to give him a raise.5 He had always sympathized with the omegas of…
How Walt Disney changed the world through animation Walt Disney’s first creation Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was taken from him but he did not abrogate to create a better one. “A source of joy and inspiration to all the world.” “A kingdom of dreams and magic.” And films for happiness and great journeys. Walt Disney changed the world through animation by all his creations and beliefs bringing him the results. He most successfully changed the world because he had great imagination. He created…
idealized the Mississippi River steamboats of the 1800’s and early 1900’s. One classic portrayal of life on the steamboats can be found in Mark Twain's book Life on the Mississippi, published in 1883. In this work, Twain describes the professional gamblers, the jolly captains, the sly confidence men, and the traveling workers that contributed to the lasting image of life on steamboats. This image has carried on into the modern world, despite the fact that steamboats are rarely used for travel…
Steamboat Springs, a small little town tucked away in the Colorado mountains. This beautiful town got its names from the natural sulfur springs that dot the mountains around Steamboat. Probably the most famous of these springs is Heart Springs, located in Old Town. Heart Springs fuels a water park called Old Town Hot Springs. The spring has been a bathhouse, a laundromat, a swimming hole, and now a water park. One great thing to do in Steamboat is to take a hike to Fish Creek Falls. It is…
also led to an economic boost in the industrial revolution. New inventions in the North led to boom in the industry because the creations of the steamboat, spinning & weaving machines, and the telegraph. Steamboats were used to transport goods across vast distances, and was also as transportation for passengers. (McCormick) The first american steamboat…
between these states was by foot or horse. That was until the 19th century, where transportation changed for the better, new technologies made transportation easier, faster, and just more convenient. Roads were the first to come, followed by canals, steamboats and railroads.…