Thursday, June 15, 2006

My Tenuous Connection to a Disney Film

As should surprise no one, I saw the movie Cars. If you're a fan of the automobile (even if you know it's ultimately a destructive relationship) than there is a well of references, as well as a faithful extension of the "Little Cabbie" cartoons that I like so much. All in all it's better than any movie with, no kidding, ten writing credits should be. The opening short, One Man Band is worth the price of admission.

But even cooler, I have a degrees of separation connection that I will stretch to make.

On of the back drops of for the film is a place called "Cadillac Ridge," which is a reference to Cadillac Ranch in Texas where an artists group called Ant Farm buried a series of Cadillacs nose first in the ground in a row. A key member of Ant Farm is Chip Lord, head of the UCSC Film and Digital Media department. (I had to change the link because I realized the one I used was for his personal info for UCSC students...on this one be sure to check out his movie map project using Bullitt. Badass...)

It's almost like seeing someone you know in a movie. Almost...

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  1. I've driven past these cars many, many times, down I-40... I'd always wondered what the heck was up with that! And I noticed that they're right near the Arnot road exit, a road which (while driving in that long expanse of Texan nothingness) I've often amused myself thinking must intersect with Amsoe road before too long...

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  2. I've never actually seen them but I had heard about it since I was a little kid. I didn't realize it was Lord until my last year at school when Ant Farm had an anniversary and we wound up seeing a lot of thier work, including a reinactment of the Kennedy assasination. They where a strange group.

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