1. Pixar was originally started as a division of Lucasfilm in 1979.
2. The division was generically named Computer Graphics Division.
3. In 1986, Steve Jobs bought Computer Graphics Division from George Lucas for $5 million and renamed it Pixar.
4. In 2006, Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion.
5. The deal also made Jobs Disney’s largest individual shareholder.
Unhappily Ever After is a photos series by New York City-based animation artist Jeff Hong depicting well-known Disney characters in unfortunate real world situations.
You can’t pay the rent, you’re stuck in traffic, you can’t find a job, you’re working too much—it’s all enough to make anyone want to scream. Stress is bad. It doesn’t just result in screaming at inopportune moments, loss of hair, or uncontrollable facial ticks. It can literally kill you, as countless medical studies have shown.
Stress is all around us every day, but is it actually more insidious in certain places? That’s what the Movoto Real Estate Blog wanted to find out in our latest ranking of the nation’s largest cities. As it turns out, the data shows that some places are more stressful—and stressed out—than others. In fact, when it comes to cities where lost hair piles up in huge mounds and fingernail biting could be a pro sport, there’s none better at it than our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.
The 10 Most Stressed Out Cities In America By Movoto Real Estate
This swirling vortex of antacid and rattled nerves isn’t alone in its misery, oh no. There’s a full top 10 places even a Zen master would have a hard time staying calm in:
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Cool test pictures along with some back story for some of the alien characters spotted in the Mos Eisley Cantina
Tzizvvt
Tzizvvt was a male Brizzit who hailed from Jandoon. Claiming to be a professor of xenoarchaeology searching for a treasure known as “The Eye of the Beyonder”, he was believed to be a fugitive from the Empire named Ilna. Setting up residence in Tatooine’s sewers, Tzizvvt soon became a figure of derision on the planet, dismissed as a “crazy old storyteller.” He had in fact collected some treasures, which he kept in his sewer-bound residence, but kept them secret from the proletarians.
He first appeared in “Star Wars”, as an unnamed alien in the Cantina sequence, portrayed by Stephen Calcutt. On the set of the film, the character was known as “Snail Head,” and was supposed to have been given the proper name of “Illna.” The character was largely edited out of the film following re-shoots, but still appears fleetingly in the final cut.
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After watching Disney’s Frozen it kind of makes you wonder, could I live in an Ice Castle? Well of course! That would be bad ass. But since only Elsa has the freezing power to build one during a catchy song, poor schlubs like us are left to more conventional ways of scoring an ice palace in the Norwegian mountains. Luckily the folks at Movoto Real Estate Blog crunched the numbers and found out how much we need to save up to have an ice palace of our own. The number isn’t as high as expected and it’s actually pretty obtainable. If we all pool our money we might be able to pull this off. Plus there’s plenty of bedrooms so we can share it. I’ve got 20 bucks to pitch in if I can sleep on the couch or something.
Check out Movoto’s listing and full break down below:
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