Inside Pixar

The Lucasfilm Files

Inside Pixar’s cafeteria. During an Art Auction Fundraiser for a colleague. Warning – Loud! This is the first time I publish these as, sadly, Japeth passed from cancer.

Japeth Pieper was a digital painter at Pixar Animation Studios. Pieper died in 2010 at the age of 45. Pixar dedicated Cars 2 to him. RIP Japeth.

Expedition 42 – Don’t Panic!

*Seriously, NASA, Space

Expedition 42's theme was the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - A Towel on ISS

 

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

 

Expedition 42's theme was the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy