#chris van allsburg

[enchantedbook]

'The Widow's Broom' by Chris Van Allsburg

[3liza]

I am mandela effecting myself bigtime because I could have sworn Polar Express (book) was in black and white in the 80s like Jumanji (book) but I can find no evidence of this whatsoever

[mikyapixie]

First poster for the 20th anniversary of The Polar Express!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[augment-techs]

Sorry, @ajgrey9647, this was supposed to be a proper fic, but my brain wasn't cooperating so an approximation was the best I could do with web weaving and basic (so basic) summary.

Title: a machine to rage against//not asking permission Rating: M Relationships: Lord Drakkon/Coinless Jason; Jason Scott/Tommy Oliver; Coinless Zack/Coinless Trini; Kimberly Hart/Zack Taylor/Trini; Billy Cranston/Matt Cook; mentioned Coinless Bulk/Slayer Kim. Characters: Lord Drakkon; Coinless Jason Scott; Prime Jason Scott; Prime Mighty Morphin Rangers; Prime Tommy Oliver; Prime Matt Cook; Coinless Zack Taylor; Coinless Trini; Coinless Bulk; Coinless Kimberly Hart. Additional Tags: Drakkon Very Pointedly DOES NOT raise Skull Back to Life; Because He's Still a Petty Bitch; So Many Uses of Mirrors; Nirvana Lyrics; Jewel Lyrics; eating snails; Drakkon had a thing for The Lost Boys and it SHOWS; I am Talking About the Saxophone; watching someone sleep; gently stalking (not stabby with a knife stalking); drive-in theaters; masturbation; makeout sessions. Summary:

When the Grid Beasts appeared in Drakkon's perfect world, he saw the writing on the wall and shifted gears instead of just fighting and fighting until the strongest alternate version of Tommy Oliver could break through into his personal dream. He wiped the slate clean from his trying to be a superhero on his own and played with another option.

This go around he made everything as simple as it ever was in his own Coinless dimension. Yes, there would be no poverty, no starvation, crime held at bay by competent individuals he plucked out of space time to make a go at civil order, actual medical assistance and free housing, but--there would be nothing akin to mass technology. Drakkon couldn't stand the idea of smart phones and plastics and the constant noise of planes and jets and the like.

There were wind and sun powered sailboats, steam powered trains for mass transit, horse drawn carriages, and bicycles.

The wildlife, the natural world prospered, and people...connected.

There were also the Rangers in positions and lives they never would have lead (that seemed too dangerous to lead into now), with a sort of...grunge aesthetic lurking at the edges.

He takes up learning an instrument in this version of the Youth Center to see if he can expand his flirtation techniques.

(Which is why BOTH Jasons woke up on their own.)

[90smovies]

[thosesadsuburbanghosts]

Jumanji (1995)

"Twenty-six years ago, you played a game with a little boy down the street. A game with drums."

[tomoleary]

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (1981)

[noballoonsinspace]

The Polar Express illustrations are so cozy

[storyteller7000]

Inktober 2024 #24

Expedition

I screwed up with the words. It's one thing to use a computer to fill in the space and it is another when you have to ink it yourself... very carefully.

This is what the message says...

"This will not be an easy mission, monkeys slow the expedition."

Jumanji - Sony Pictures, Chris Van Allsburg

[couldtheyescortelliewilliams]

[jackbatchelor3]

The feature film playing at Screen 8 will be the at 15:30 20th Anniversary screening of The Polar Express.

Calling at VUE.

🚂🚃🚃🎄

[dancyrilkingston]

From The Widow’s Broom by Chris Van Allsburg

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1969, a pre-teen boy named Alan Parish went missing, but in reality he was sucked into a board game named Jumanji that he was playing with his friend Sarah Whittle. He would remain trapped in the game for the next 26 years. (Jumanji, flm)

[mikyapixie]

20 years ago today The Polar Express released in theaters!!!

This is one of the best Christmas movies!!!

[johannepetereric]

OMG THE POLAR EXPRESS AND JUMANJI WERE MADE BY THE SAME GUY!!!

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Polar Express (2004, Robert Zemeckis)

06/12/2023

The Polar Express is a 2004 animated film directed by Robert Zemeckis.

The film is based on the screenplay by Zemeckis himself and William Broyles Jr., while the story is based on the illustration children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg, published in 1985 and awarded with the Caldecott Medal the following year. Furthermore, it is the first cartoon made in CGI using the performance capture technique (i.e. with digital characters obtained by capturing the movements of real actors), which is why it became part of the Guinness Book of Records. This film is dedicated to Michael Jeter, a cast member who died during filming.

In addition to the version in standard 35 mm format, a version for IMAX technology was distributed using the same 3D models adopted in the standard version: Polar Express, specifically, was the first animated film not made for this type of technology be presented in this format.

A video game of the same name was distributed, in conjunction with the film, by Sony for the PlayStation 2 and by Nintendo for GameCube and Game Boy Advance; the game was developed by the Australian software company Blue Tongue Entertainment, and has some divergences from the story of the feature film.

The protagonist is a man originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose name is never revealed, who shows in flashbacks an extraordinary adventure he lived as a boy.

During the night of Christmas Eve, the child goes to sleep strongly convinced that the gifts will be placed under the tree by his parents and not by Santa Claus, in whose existence he does not believe at all, unlike his parents and his younger sister Sarah. Just a few minutes before midnight, the boy, unable to sleep, hears a loud noise and sees a strong light coming from outside and realizes that a mysterious stream train has stopped on the road that runs alongside his house, which seems to have appeared out of nowhere, called the Polar Express; the conductor, a gruff but good-natured middle-aged man, explains to the young man that this train takes children to the North Pole, allowing them to meet Santa Claus.