I’m proud to welcome Leo Holzer to the Upcoming Pixar writing staff.
Leo is a journalist for The Reporter in the Bay Area and some of you may remember him from his guest posting efforts at Jim Hill Media.
I hope you are all looking forward to Leo’s contributions to our blog as much as I am.
Welcome Leo!
Last modified: July 3, 2008
Welcome to the boards, Mr. Holzer! I look forward to reading your future contributions to Upcoming Pixar. 🙂
Awesome! I look forward to your blog entries, Leo. 🙂
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Great! welcome to the blog. hope to read some-more of your great stuff.
Glad you left that scum jim hill. Hopefully your “reporting” will be better than his. If it’s not, you’ll be roundly flamed for it. I’ve read some of your articles, and know, already, you are a better WRITER than that idiot.
OK, anonymous, enough with the name-calling.
JimHill got me involved in the great blogosphere and has written several interesting pieces over the years. It’s a site that many people visit — even those who regularly want to burn him in effigy.
I appreciate what Jim’s done by adding hotlinks and such to the stories I’ve written, making them far more detailed and interesting than my original submissions.
That said, I’m not Jim, nor do I agree with some of the things he’s written — most specifically about Pixar’s films and box office performance. But I do respect what he’s done overall.
I don’t suspect to be flamed … my reporting is profesional reporting (and, unlike Jim, I choose not to use unnamed sources).
I agree with Jim that no one should have their job threatened by speaking up or speaking out to the press, but I always question the motives of someone speaking or writing quite like you, anonymously.
If you don’t like Jim. don’t visit his site. Time will tell whether you like what I have to write — and I’m not worried one way or the other in that regard.
I believe that 95 percent or more of my stories about Pixar, its creative founders and tireless troops in the trenches have been — and will continue to be — positive in nature.
Truthfully, the passion and enthusism they display when talking about their work is infectious.
Jim Hill is a TERRIBLE writer. His grammar is 2nd grade, and I would call what he types “fanboy” gossip more than anything. Hence the general lambasting of him in the broader animation community. He’s not a journalist, as his research lacks the credibility to be anything other than rumourmongering and scuttlebutt. It’s just terribly sad that fan sights such as THIS one tend to get the facts straight more than someone who has a puported “in” on the industry. He does not.
As another writer from the past on Jim Hill Media, let me chime in and say that Jim is one of those folks on the Internet who you either like or don’t like. Say what you will, he has some of the most consistent numbers of any Disney fan site. On the whole, he’s gotten things right as much as wrong about as often as some of the others folks love or hate such as Al Lutz of Miceage. His “sources” are what they are and he shares from them as he sees fit. As the editor of his website, that’s his perogative.
Like Leo, Jim and ex-wife Michelle gave me a place to share my stuff online. When the time came to move on, I did.
I’ve been around the Internet since the early days on AOL and A.D.D. among others. And I’m lucky enough to have had Leo sharing items with me for a while now. His phone call one Sunday morning alerted me that John Lasseter was doing a radio call in show here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Those two hours were a great insight into John in a way that the public had not been able to hear before.
Check out my site – http://www.theblueparrot.info — and do a search for John Lasseter to find a transcript of that show. And also check out some of the other Pixar and Disney content on the site. I think you’ll enjoy it.
Roger Colton – Editor/Webmaster, The Blue Parrot
At least Al Lutz is a good writer, and STATES whether or not his information is reliable. hill doesn’t do this, because he rarely leaves his mother’s basement to actually research what he types.
I’d personally like to say that Leo’s “professional” response above is something that makes me not want to read his posts in the future. Upcoming Pixar, please monitor this new writer.