• Home
  • popular
  • Events
  • Submit New Event
  • Subscribe
  • About
  • News
  • Restaurants + Bars
  • City Life
  • Entertainment
  • Travel
  • Real Estate
  • Arts
  • Society
  • Home + Design
  • Fashion + Beauty
  • Innovation
  • Sports
  • Charity Guide
  • children
  • education
  • health
  • veterans
  • SOCIAL SERVICES
  • ARTS + CULTURE
  • animals
  • lgbtq
  • New Charity
  • Series
  • Delivery Limited
  • DTX Giveaway 2012
  • DTX Ski Magic
  • dtx woodford reserve manhattans
  • Your Home in the Sky
  • DTX Best of 2013
  • DTX Trailblazers
  • Tastemakers Dallas 2017
  • Healthy Perspectives
  • Neighborhood Eats 2015
  • The Art of Making Whiskey
  • DTX International Film Festival
  • DTX Tatum Brown
  • Tastemaker Awards 2016 Dallas
  • DTX McCurley 2014
  • DTX Cars in Lifestyle
  • DTX Beyond presents Party Perfect
  • DTX Texas Health Resources
  • DART 2018
  • Alexan Central
  • State Fair 2018
  • Formula 1 Giveaway
  • Zatar
  • CityLine
  • Vision Veritas
  • Okay to Say
  • Hearts on the Trinity
  • DFW Auto Show 2015
  • Northpark 50
  • Anteks Curated
  • Red Bull Cliff Diving
  • Maggie Louise Confections Dallas
  • Gaia
  • Red Bull Global Rally Cross
  • NorthPark Holiday 2015
  • Ethan's View Dallas
  • DTX City Centre 2013
  • Galleria Dallas
  • Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty Luxury Homes in Dallas Texas
  • DTX Island Time
  • Simpson Property Group SkyHouse
  • DIFFA
  • Lotus Shop
  • Holiday Pop Up Shop Dallas
  • Clothes Circuit
  • DTX Tastemakers 2014
  • Elite Dental
  • Elan City Lights
  • Dallas Charity Guide
  • DTX Music Scene 2013
  • One Arts Party at the Plaza
  • J.R. Ewing
  • AMLI Design District Vibrant Living
  • Crest at Oak Park
  • Braun Enterprises Dallas
  • NorthPark
  • Victory Park
  • DTX Common Desk
  • DTX Osborne Advisors
  • DTX Comforts of Home 2012
  • DFW Showcase Tour of Homes
  • DTX Neighborhood Eats
  • DTX Comforts of Home 2013
  • DTX Auto Awards
  • Cottonwood Art Festival 2017
  • Nasher Store
  • Guardian of The Glenlivet
  • Zyn22
  • Dallas Rx
  • Yellow Rose Gala
  • Opendoor
  • DTX Sun and Ski
  • Crow Collection
  • DTX Tastes of the Season
  • Skye of Turtle Creek Dallas
  • Cottonwood Art Festival
  • DTX Charity Challenge
  • DTX Culture Motive
  • DTX Good Eats 2012
  • DTX_15Winks
  • St. Bernard Sports
  • Jose
  • DTX SMU 2014
  • DTX Up to Speed
  • st bernard
  • Ardan West Village
  • DTX New York Fashion Week spring 2016
  • Taste the Difference
  • Parktoberfest 2016
  • Bob's Steak and Chop House
  • DTX Smart Luxury
  • DTX Earth Day
  • DTX_Gaylord_Promoted_Series
  • IIDA Lavish
  • Huffhines Art Trails 2017
  • Red Bull Flying Bach Dallas
  • Y+A Real Estate
  • Beauty Basics
  • DTX Pet of the Week
  • Long Cove
  • Charity Challenge 2014
  • Legacy West
  • Wildflower
  • Stillwater Capital
  • Tulum
  • DTX Texas Traveler
  • Dallas DART
  • Soldiers' Angels
  • Alexan Riveredge
  • Ebby Halliday Realtors
  • Zephyr Gin
  • Sixty Five Hundred Scene
  • Christy Berry
  • Entertainment Destination
  • Dallas Art Fair 2015
  • St. Bernard Sports Duck Head
  • Jameson DTX
  • Alara Uptown Dallas
  • Cottonwood Art Festival fall 2017
  • DTX Tastemakers 2015
  • Cottonwood Arts Festival
  • The Taylor
  • Decks in the Park
  • Alexan Henderson
  • Gallery at Turtle Creek
  • Omni Hotel DTX
  • Red on the Runway
  • Whole Foods Dallas 2018
  • Artizone Essential Eats
  • Galleria Dallas Runway Revue
  • State Fair 2016 Promoted
  • Trigger's Toys Ultimate Cocktail Experience
  • Dean's Texas Cuisine
  • Real Weddings Dallas
  • Real Housewives of Dallas
  • Jan Barboglio
  • Wildflower Arts and Music Festival
  • Hearts for Hounds
  • Okay to Say Dallas
  • Indochino Dallas
  • Old Forester Dallas
  • Dallas Apartment Locators
  • Dallas Summer Musicals
  • PSW Real Estate Dallas
  • Paintzen
  • DTX Dave Perry-Miller
  • DTX Reliant
  • Get in the Spirit
  • Bachendorf's
  • Holiday Wonder
  • Village on the Parkway
  • City Lifestyle
  • opportunity knox villa-o restaurant
  • Nasher Summer Sale
  • Simpson Property Group
  • Holiday Gift Guide 2017 Dallas
  • Carlisle & Vine
  • DTX New Beginnings
  • Get in the Game
  • Red Bull Air Race
  • Dallas DanceFest
  • 2015 Dallas Stylemaker
  • Youth With Faces
  • Energy Ogre
  • DTX Renewable You
  • Galleria Dallas Decadence
  • Bella MD
  • Tractorbeam
  • Young Texans Against Cancer
  • Fresh Start Dallas
  • Dallas Farmers Market
  • Soldier's Angels Dallas
  • Shipt
  • Elite Dental
  • Texas Restaurant Association 2017
  • State Fair 2017
  • Scottish Rite
  • Brooklyn Brewery
  • DTX_Stylemakers
  • Alexan Crossings
  • Ascent Victory Park
  • Top Texans Under 30 Dallas
  • Discover Downtown Dallas
  • San Luis Resort Dallas
  • Greystar The Collection
  • FIG Finale
  • Greystar M Line Tower
  • Lincoln Motor Company
  • The Shelby
  • Jonathan Goldwater Events
  • Windrose Tower
  • Gift Guide 2016
  • State Fair of Texas 2016
  • Choctaw Dallas
  • TodayTix Dallas promoted
  • Whole Foods
  • Unbranded 2014
  • Frisco Square
  • Unbranded 2016
  • Circuit of the Americas 2018
  • The Katy
  • Snap Kitchen
  • Partners Card
  • Omni Hotels Dallas
  • Landmark on Lovers
  • Harwood Herd
  • Galveston.com Dallas
  • Holiday Happenings Dallas 2018
  • TenantBase
  • Cottonwood Art Festival 2018
  • Hawkins-Welwood Homes
  • The Inner Circle Dallas
  • Eating in Season Dallas
  • ATTPAC Behind the Curtain
  • TodayTix Dallas
  • The Alexan
  • Toyota Music Factory
  • Nosh Box Eatery
  • Wildflower 2018
  • Society Style Dallas 2018
  • Texas Scottish Rite Hospital 2018
  • 5 Mockingbird
  • 4110 Fairmount
  • Visit Taos
  • Allegro Addison
  • Dallas Tastemakers 2018
  • The Village apartments
  • City of Burleson Dallas

    Filmmaker QA

    How Inside Out team played with emotions to produce one of Pixar's best

    Alex Bentley
    Jun 16, 2015 | 4:06 pm
    Scene from Inside Out
    Inside Out focuses on the emotions — Sadness, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Joy — inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl.
    Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

    For its latest animated film, Pixar has gone to a place almost nobody but it would think to go: inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl named Riley, to look at her five main emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust. The result, Inside Out (in theaters June 17), is a wonderful and emotional film that does much to restore the company's name after a few recent misfires.

    The film's co-director and co-writer, Pete Docter, along with producer Jonas Rivera, sat down for a roundtable interview about their inspirations for the film, the massive amount of research that went into it and why Pixar is so successful time after time.

    Round Table: What is the message you want to give the audience with this film?

    Pete Docter: The thing that we were talking about from the beginning is that each emotion in us has a specific reason for being there. Fear keeps you from getting hurt; Disgust keeps you from getting poisoned. But ultimately the real important thing that emotions give us is a connection between each other.

    If you really get down to what the most important things in everybody's lives are, it's always going to be your family and your friends, and those are the things you value.

    The people that you feel closest to, at least in my case, are people that you've had good times with, but also people that I've been scared for, that I've experienced loss and sadness with. It's really the emotions that gives those relationships depth.

    CultureMap: I love the little details you put in about how the mind works, like Joy's projecting lava when Riley jumps from the couch to the chair. How much fun was it coming up with ideas like that, and were there any you couldn't include for whatever reason?

    PD: Usually what you do is you come up with a big, long list. Most of them get thrown out, and you keep the top four or five for everything.

    Jonas Rivera: The Stream of Consciousness — that's one I sort of miss. We had this idea that, like the Train of Thought, there'd be this slow Stream of Consciousness through the world, and I thought that was really neat and beautiful. But again, there were so many ingredients that after a while ...

    PD: The story got really long.

    RT: When you're trying to design characters, obviously with emotions you don't have faces to start from. How did you go about creating the looks of the characters?

    PD: Well, we talked to psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists and folks that could help us identify which ones there were and what jobs they had. And then I kind of wrote up a character description for them, and some of them were kind of quirky.

    Like, Anger likes meat — kind of non-intuitive things. But then we gave all that stuff to the character designers and they just drew; they filled the room with literally thousands of drawings. Some of them were great but didn't quite work for one reason or another. The characters kind of evolved and got honed over the months.

    JR: Pete had said, "I don't want them to be people. They're not little people. They're emotions, so they should look how our feelings feel."

    Joy would be like a star; she's always external and exuberant. Sadness was a tear drop. So even their shapes and colors echoed this. Fear was like a raw nerve, just this tight little line. Anger is a brick, this immovable brick. And Disgust is a stalk of broccoli. So their shapes were sort of borne out of that simple thinking and then fleshed out.

    PD: We also thought about idioms and phrases that we use, like "Feel hot under the collar" or "I feel blue." Things like that that might be clues as to how they could look. That was the job on the film to take this very abstract idea and make it physical so you could actually build this stuff.

    RT: How did you come up with the idea for the memory spheres?

    PD: With the memory spheres, the very first thought was that memories would be in jars, like Mason jars. It seemed kind of cool ...

    JR: Yeah, that's something you store on shelves. There was something less elegant about it. I just remember someone drawing it like a snow globe, and that felt a little more lyrical and beautiful. It just felt right, and we just sort of leaned that way.

    CM: Disgust doesn't seem to be as universal an emotion as the other four, as least not to me. What was the process for deciding how many and which emotions to use?

    PD: Different scientists have studied emotions, and they don't agree from one to another. So you'll talk to one guy who'll say there are basically three measurable concrete emotions. Another scientist will say there's 27. There's really no consensus, but the one thing that I think most agree on are the five that we chose.

    So disgust is one of them, and it's a really a response to prevent you from being poisoned. So when you give a little baby something bitter, they'll spit it out and then make this face, which we then come to use as the face for finding something gross.

    Now that's even come to mean something socially, if I see something doing something gross, I'll make that face. It is definitely a universal emotion. It's seen all around the world in every culture.

    JR: With disgust, we thought that was really great when we read the clinical definition and thought, "That'd be really great in this 11-year-old girl." We also found in the research that no one is more socially aware of external cues on the planet than an 11- to 17-year-old girl.

    Girls at that age pick up on more external cues than anybody, and so we thought that disgust would make sense. So she's got an important job.

    RT: How difficult was it to cast the different roles?

    PD: Some of them were a little more obvious. Even as I would pitch the idea, I would say, "Think of the fun we'll have when we get to voice casting. Like, imagine Lewis Black as Anger." And everybody would totally get that.

    Other ones we found relatively late. Even Joy was probably the toughest to write for because Joy as an emotion could lean a little annoying. She's just so energetic and wearying. We struggled with that for a while before we said, "All right, let's talk to Amy Poehler."

    Her character on Parks and Recreation is similar in that she's an overachiever. She's worked so hard to do what she's trying to do, and I think some of that is what makes Joy sympathetic. You feel like she's working her butt off to make this right for her kid.

    JR: Amy can really thread that needle of appeal and positivity, but we hope not too much that you don't buy it.

    PD: She and Bill Hader, and to some degree Mindy Kaling, were really involved in writing as well. We spent the lion's share of the work crafting the story, the structure and the emotional bedrock of the thing. And then we'd go to those guys and talk about individual lines — "Can we make this funnier?" or "Do you have any ideas for adjusting this to make it more clear?" — that kind of thing.

    RT: Pixar has been such a success over the years. Do you attribute that to the superior, relatable scripts, or is it the ability to take that script and mold it into characters we just instantly love?

    PD: I think it's because of the geniuses who work there. (laughter) But we do have amazing people — we have John Lasseter and Ed Catmull, who have crafted a system that allows us to make the calls. At most studios the creative calls are driven by executives who are not actually storytellers, they're more businessmen.

    In our case, John Lasseter is the final, final word, and he's a filmmaker, so that's pretty awesome. I know he's always thinking on behalf of the audience as opposed to who knows what else.

    JR: He's an executive, but he thinks and responds as a director, so that is pretty freeing and pretty rare. I've only been at Pixar, but it seems with everyone that I've spoken to that it's a pretty rare thing.

    I think the other thing is Pixar really gives us the time. We only release movies when we think they're good enough to release, which is why sometimes they even shift around a bit. That's sort of how we think it should be done.

    PD: And they know that we're going to make mistakes. At some point, every one of our movies sucks, and we're not just being modest; it's genuine. They're not very good.

    Thankfully everybody believes in us and the concept enough to move it forward and build on that. And then the next time it sucks a little less.

    unspecified
    news/entertainment

    Coworking News

    Dallas' Longhorn Ballroom unveils new renovated coworking studio space

    Teresa Gubbins
    Jun 12, 2025 | 2:07 pm
    Longhorn Ballroom
    Longhorn Ballroom
    Longhorn Ballroom

    Dallas' famed Longhorn Ballroom music venue has unveiled a newly renovated multi-use building — located across the courtyard from the Ballroom at 200 Corinth St. — that's open for creative types in the fields of entertainment, restaurant, and the arts.

    The Longhorn Ballroom was built in 1950 for country music legend Bob Wills and this Texas Playboys and was originally named Bob Wills’ Ranch House. It was managed for a time by Jack Ruby, then Dewey Groom who renamed it the Longhorn Ballroom and built it into one of the greatest venues of its day, hosting Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Pasty Cline, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, James Brown, Al Green, Johnny Rodriguez, Freddy Fender and Selena.

    This newly renovated building was originally constructed in 1950 as part of the Ranch House, where it served as a motel for touring musicians and according to a release, is rumored to have sheltered Wills' horse "Punkin."

    Longhorn Ballroom coworking spaceYou could office here. Longhorn Ballroom coworking space.Longhorn Ballroom

    The two-story 26,000-square-foot building offers co-working spaces for entertainment professionals, attorneys, and managers, along with a limited number of residential live-work studios for artists.

    There are also several small restaurant spaces available for "culinary creatives."

    The largest available area — a former recording studio — could be transformed into a space for audio, film, or post-production work.

    "As an entertainment attorney, there’s no better place for my practice than the Oficina co-work space at the Longhorn," says Decker Sachse, a current tenant. "It’s a great location with easy access and my clients love the vibe."

    In the fall, the Longhorn will complete its third and final phase with the opening of a 6,500-capacity outdoor amphitheater along the banks of the original Trinity River. Called The Longhorn Backyard Amphitheater, it will host a series of soft opening shows this fall, starting with Randy Rogers on September 20. A grand opening with a full calendar of events will commence in the spring of 2026, providing the city with a state-of-the-art outdoor venue one mile south of downtown Dallas.

    concertsopenings
    news/entertainment
    Loading...