JB and I just got back from seeing Wall-E, and was inspired to write a post. It’s a good movie, with a really strong environmental theme, but what really inspired me was not so much the movie itself, but the amazing credits, which used animation inspired by artwork through ages to provide an epilogue for the film. It starts with cave drawings, Egyptian Hiroglyphics moves through impressionism, all the way through video game art from the 80’s.What was so inspiring to me about the credits is that it reminded me of the journey we in the human race have been through these past few thousand years - all the way from struggling to survive, hunting mammoths during the ice age, to the present day, where we have the skill and technology to build amazing worlds like the ones in Wall-E with computers. Watching the movie and the credits together reminded me that while we have these huge challenges ahead, that we’ve made it so far, through famines and disease, through wars and all manner of natural disasters. It’s in us to succeed, and we just need to put our minds to it in order to do it. Let’s get to work!
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