Comments on: Better Than Good

By: Paula Thornton

Paula Thornton — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:54:02 +0000

Thanks for all of you being willing to pass by and take the time to add your thoughts. Much appreciated for adding to the energy.

As well, thank you for my own wake-up call. There are hints in some of the words that remind me that these things, while very common-place inside my head are not evident/obvious to others. I need to be reminded to become a broken-record over some of these messages.

By: Ryan Gensel

Ryan Gensel — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:40:21 +0000

Wow! The parks acted as a closed environment to observe individuals experience fantastical stimulae, allowing Disney to further refine the product of entertainment. Incredibly relevant.

-Ryan Gensel

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By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:42:44 +0000

I’ve read all but the most recent Disney biography. Disney innovated in many, many ways. When it came to doing Bambi, for instance, he set up classes with live deer so his animators could study how the deer moved. Mixing live action with animation in Mary Poppins wasn’t new for Disney, either. It goes back to his first series of Alice shorts, which were black & white and silent and mixed a live-action girl with animated creatures. And the motivation that led him to create The Magic Kingdom (degraded today to “Disneyland”) was *dissatisfaction*. He found other amusement sites to be filthy and family-unfriendly. Never leave out the *dissatisfaction* as prime motivator.

By: Mike Wagner

Mike Wagner — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:05:55 +0000

Super course correcting post! (we often do need to be “shocked” back into reality)

Thanks!

I’d be honored some day if others said my effectiveness was “rooted” in my curiosity and love of people.

Working on that!

Keep creating…a story worth repeating,
Mike