If you are car lover and and are in L.A between now and November 2, 2008, there is a cool exhibit titled “The Art of Cars” at the Petersen Automotive Museum. It includes, among other things, over 60 watercolor and pastel drawings, pencil and marker sketches, and a variety of three-dimensional pieces.

“Route 66 ends this year at Fairfax and Wilshire with the launch of a special exhibition “The Art of Cars,” the first-ever creative collaboration between Pixar Animation Studios and the Petersen Automotive Museum. “The Art of Cars” showcases the artistic process behind the creation of the animated feature film Cars. The exhibit will run from March 29 through November 2, 2008.” [Petersen Automotive Museum]

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The writers the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, are in final negotiations to write a movie adaptation of “The Lone Ranger” for Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Nowadays, most of all old TV successes gets remade.

The Lone Ranger is an American, long-running, old-time radio and early television show created by George W. Trendle.

The titular character is a zorro-like masked Texas Ranger in the American wild West, who gallops about righting injustices, usually with the aid of a clever native sidekick called Tonto, and his horse Silver.

via Movie Crunch

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Boingboing has an interesting post about Disney’s fingerprint authentication devices. Is Disney training your kids to live in a police state? Epcot centre’s turnstiles are equipped with fingerprint authentication devices. Fingerprint authentication refers to the automated method of verifying a match between two human fingerprints. Fingerprints are one of many forms of biometrics used to identify an individual and verify their identity.

Cory at boingboing says,

“The readers aren’t very effective at stopping admission cheats. You can choose not to register your fingertip, and to use photo ID for admission instead (I’m thinking of having a random piece of photo identification made with the words “OFFICIAL BOGUS SECURITY IDENTIFICATION FOR HOTELS, THEME PARKS AND OTHER JUNIOR G-MEN” printed on it). So it would be very easy to share your pass: the person named on the pass enters with his ID, and the person with whom he’s sharing the card uses a fingertip — you could visit with your sister’s family and half of you could use the tickets in the morning while the other half hung around the pool and relaxed, then switch at lunch: the morning crew uses fingertip, the afternoon uses ID.”[boingboing]

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Disney is planning the remake of a 3d version of TRON, the 1982 cult classic starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn a computer hacker abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games.  AICN has a spy with a little more information about the new TRON project. 

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