Let me begin by saying that I am totally impressed with the work going on in the submarine lagoon. It looks like we're going to get one great attraction next year, even if the capacity is much lower than what we are all used to for "E" tickets. It is quite exciting to have someone like John Lasseter giving his creative input directly at WDI.

In other places, I landed an internship at Newline Cinema, which I am hoping will give me some studio insight. I will be working in the post-production office, which I hope will be a great experience.

For school, I am now in the process of beginning research for my thesis. My plan is to write about the decline of Walt Disney Feature Animation following the death of Walt Disney focusing on the work post-Jungle Book and pre-Little Mermaid. I look forward to the challenge.

I am just days away from finishing out my second semester at film school. I have a huge paper on film theory to write. Also, I am trying to come up with a topic for the main thesis project that will be completed a year from now. Right now I am thinking of writing about Disney feature animation following Walt's death. It would be an analyzation of how Disney as an auteur affected the future animated projects for better and for worse. I only plan to go as far as The Black Caulderon.

We'll see if they let me write about it.

At the beginning of the month, Movieland Wax Museum auctioned off most of their museum. I made sure to sign up a long time ago in order to be able to be a bidder. I doubted that I would be able to afford anything, but it was still worth trying. Well, I spent several hours online simultaneously biddering against people on the floor there at the museum. It seemed I was being outbid on everything. That is everthing until near the end of the auction. The set from the Rosanne display came up. I put in my bid of $100 and you know what, I won it! Last Saturday, my brother and I went over there and dismantled the set. We couldn't take the walls but we got all the props and set pieces. There were some terrific cabinets which are now at home in my garage. Also we scored some really good lights from the set.

To see our deconstruction, check out my brothers podcast at mormoncast.org - Episode 3 has all the action.