Thank You Walt Disney!

Beyond entertainment, Walt gave us magic.
Beyond laughter, he gave us healing;
Beyond delight, he gave us fantasy,
Beyond reality, he gave us awe;
Beyond everydayness, he gave us dream;
Beyond rationality, he gave us Faith;
Beyond appreciation, he taught us thankfulness and, with the storytelling Disney rides,
Beyond participation, he gave us contemplative experience; much
Beyond "escape", he gave us overcoming.
Thank you Walt Disney!
(Disneyssence)

Complete Disney

       Walt Disney had the spontaneity of nature,
       The discipline of rationality,

       And the Freedom of art.

Happy Birthday Walt Disney!

110 years ago, Walt "landed" on this planet, all the way from, perhaps Mars... to Marceline (actually, to Chicago first). With his magic wand, Walt turned Marceline unique, like he did everywhere he went, for he always took the high road in the situations life presented to him. To take the high road may, after all, concern this power of seeing the uniqueness of a situation; to see it as a source of creativeness.

Wherever Walt Disney is, gotta be a happy place, even if for his just being in it....

Disney Heroism

    Jobs, like Walt Disney,  was a hero, for heroes triumph over gratuitousness: whether dying or not, a hero is a hero for fulfilling a task, for "connecting the dots". 
    Heroes don't beat death, but its definitiveness. 
 The transcendence of heroism is to render gratuitousness worse 
than death : 
to show that if death is not 
the worst of all things, 
it cannot be final. 
Heroism is the simultaneous assertion of eternity and meaningfulness. 

Mystical Disney

     Mystical is he who sees meaning in mere action, mission in just living, soul in personality and his own, true will in what he discovers to be the will of God.

Disney Meaning

 

Walt Disney joined past and future
Artifice and Nature
Technology and Fantasy
Unpredictability and Planning
Passion and Control
Pungency and Fun
Physical World and Soul
Disney animation is the power of turning meaning, that which is abstract, into visibility

Disney Charisma

    The inspiration Walt gave his team was courage; the right to be oneself.
           Charisma is the power to inspire, in others, the right to be themselves.

Disney Decency

Walt Disney's search for excellence was the unforgiving effort of constant self-overcoming.
    Walt Disney's search was the eternal fight to  keep his heart clean.

What Disney really gave the world was his measuring up to himself.
       

Disney Universality

           

                    Disney animation, a reinvention of the physical element and its laws , discloses a world in which movement only happens as an expression of the story steps and shapes equally represent this all emcompassing meaning. It shows a physical visual rendering of thought: a world impregnated with mind. Thought and sight at the same time and in the same measure, it extends one's mind in physicality, and one's body in thought, like Like the world of toddlerhood, it thus offers  an immediate and organic  prolonging of the viewer himself, appealing, therefore,  to anyone regardless of understanding, age and culture. Disney animation reverts to the common essence between what is seen, felt with the skin and lived with the heart; an essence that only infants naturally coexist with, but which is in the depths of the universal heart.

Disney Fulfilment

     
     Much beyond entertainment, Walt Disney fulfilled the universal need of warmth, fantasy, love and sugar: the need  of being mothered and unconditionally welcome. Disney animation is, on the whole, sheer de- powering of hostility or aggressiveness, not just from "villains', but from the environment. When aggressiveness happens in the shorts, it turns into comedy and the aggressors are either ridiculed or redeemed.  In "Raccoon Hunt",  Mickey and Pluto set off to hunt a lovely coon, and the latter, picking up Mickey's coon hat, makes it look like a baby coon, which he then rocks, moving Mickey and Pluto with is feigned maternity. Its important to notice that there is no hinting of the human like coon seeing any tragedy or cruelty neither in his using the hat to save himself, nor in Mickey's wearing something made with his own kind. Everything is both cute and comedic. When aggressiveness happens  in the feature films, the aggressors are simply vanquished. When it comes from the purely physical world,  like in "Mickey Trailer", the "stretching" of physical laws themselves allows for no character to be really hurt. Disney animation on the whole fundamentally means  a message of universal love. (Disneyssence)