I met up with some friends about a mile from my place, at a Starbucks. The Presidio is the new home of Industrial Light and Magic, the company George Lucas owns and makes movies, TV, video games and other types of entertainment.
What was pretty cool about this was a celebrity sighting. George Lucas himself walked into the Starbucks with a colleague, got a coffee and walked back to the ILM offices.
The ILM campus is very understated, but if you look, you can find a couple of cool sights.
One of the sights is a statue of Yoda. The Yoda is in a very ragged robe and is standing on leaves.
This is the 'Empire Strikes Back' Yoda (Episode 5) and not the Yoda of Episode 1, 2 and 3.
Aside from the visit to Sony Pictures Entertainment, this past week I got to do a sales call at Pixar, the day before 'Wall-E' opened in Theatres. Pixar is HQ'd in Emeryville, CA. This is the town in between Oakland and Berkeley, just a few miles away from home.
This picture is a 20' tall inflatable 'Wall-E' stature. Pixar is really cool and has a lot of props from their movies in their large atrium lobby. Mike and Sully from 'Monsters, Inc', the family from the 'Incredibles' and lots of 'Wall-E' cardboard statues around the place, like the ones you see in theatre lobbies. I wish I got a pictures of the 20' high 'Desk Lamp' Logo of theirs, pointed at a 6' diameter bouncy-ball.
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