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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Teddy Bear From the Film A.I. Artificial Intelligence

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Photo By Gail

Stan Winston Studio created this complex animatronic for Steven Spielberg‘s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (USA, 2001), a haunting story of a robotic child longing to be a real boy. Teddy, a loyal sidekick to David (played by Hayley Joel Osment) and likewise a robot has fifty points of motion and required at least five people to operate. In comparison, Winston Studios enormous T-Rex animatronic for the 1993 Jurassic Park has 10 fewer points of motion than this tiny bear. Computer graphics and Jack Angel‘s voice acting enhanced Teddy‘s convincing performance. The toy’s unending devotion starkly contrast with the actions of the humans in the film, who all abandon David.

Photographed in The Academy Museum in Hollywood.

Arts and Culture

Get Ready to Scream: The Academy Museum Goes All-In on Horror

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Photo By Emily Shur Courtesy of the Academy Museum

Just in time for Halloween, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is getting seriously spooky with two new exhibitions exploring the movies, monsters, and movie magic behind one of cinema’s most enduring genres.

Opening September 26, 2026, The Horror Show takes visitors on an immersive journey through horror’s many forms, from Gothic castles and psychological terror to science fiction, slashers, religion, and ghosts. The exhibition begins with a sound installation before leading visitors down “The Hallway”— a setting familiar to anyone who has ever watched a horror movie and thought, I definitely should not go down there.
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Design and Innovation

Pink Thing of The Day: Honda S2000 from High School Musical 3

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Photos By Gail

The Walt Disney-prodcued movie High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) follows a group of high school seniors as they navigate the emotional highs and lows of their final year at East High. The film was the first theatrical release of the popular High School Musical trilogy, and it opened at number one in theaters, the biggest opening for a musical at the time. Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: Honda S2000 from High School Musical 3 →

Film and Television, Pop Culture

Shark Attack Billboard!

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Photo By Gail

Sometimes, a single Los Angeles street corner can tell several stories at once. When I snapped this photo in December 2025, the giant billboard overhead was promoting Jaws: The Exhibition at the nearby Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (just outside the frame to the right). The blockbuster exhibition celebrated the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s legendary thriller and ran for more than six months before closing at the end of July. If you missed it, you’ll have to wait and hope it resurfaces somewhere else.
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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Deckard Sedan Movie Car from Blade Runner

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All Photo By Gail

For Ridley Scott’s 1982 movie Blade Runner, filmmakers called upon concept artist Syd Mead to imagine the dystopian world of 2019 Los Angeles. In the science-fiction film, Rick Deckard, (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD officer of the Blade Runner unit, is assigned to track down bioengineered humanoids called replicants. Deckard’s personal vehicle is Police Sedan Number 56, a “spinner” that has been decommissioned and stripped of its ability to fly. (Angelinos: tell me that doesn’t remind you just a bit of a self-driving WayMo).
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