Lasse took this elegant compression algorithm and made it work on Linux, and he called it XZ not because it stood for anything,
Lasse released XZ in 2009, and over the next decade and a half, it went from a niche tool to the common choice
Lassen Volcanic National Park.
Lasseter who had been an animator at Disney Disney just didn't understand uh lasseter's interest in technology
Lasseter. He said, "Toy Story was a problematic idea from the start. Make an entire full length
To Lasse , it sounds almost too good to be true.
And he's identified Lasse Collin's XZ project as a weak link in the Linux ecosystem, one that could give him access to almost every computer on the internet.
as many young lasses had to do in those bleak times.
And John Lasseter said, you know the movie pretty well, could you jump on with Byron and see it through to the end?
It's interesting-- John Lasseter always says you've got to take the audience to a place they've never been before.
And it just so happens that Lasse Collin's compression tool XZ is linked through a chain of these dependencies.
But what was important to Lasse was that once you compressed and decompressed it, it had to come back exactly the same.
So it's 10 images from Lassen Volcanic National Park.
This is the summit of Mount Lassen.
So all you lads and lasses at 11 o'clock refrain, for 5 short seconds, remember Carley Jane.
After frozen comes out does Lasseter come in like, oh my gosh we need a ballad with Baymax?
It was started by John Lasseter and Bill Reeves, sitting in a room together-- the artist and then the technical director.
I have my executive producers John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter.
were on centralized power on Lords and lasses right to give you the land to go
No, Lasse Collin is from Finland, and he's been working on a small data compression tool called XZ since 2005.
Now, Lasse 's original goal with XZ was to find a better way to compress data on Linux.
"The Adventures of André and Wally B," animated by John Lasseter.
So the example that I'll give you is from Lassen Volcanic National Park.
together and I thought that Ed KMEL John Lasser and other members of the Pixar team I just had this sense that these
And what you do when you pitch to John Lasseter is he doesn't want you to just pitch one idea.
Pixar, John Lasseter. He got fired too.
Absolutely. And John Lasseter, he's always got his radar out for people's passions.
Yeah. Lasseter has a phrase.
But we realized early on that what John Lasseter called kind of the raucous nature of college, as long as you had
Musker, John Lasseter. This was kind of a tradition and a way of collaborating that was kind of born earlier at CalArts.
It was a right around the time that John Lasseter and Ed Campbell were beginning to kind of roll with Pixar.
Andrew Stanton: And we based it around how John Lasseter worked.
Lasse responds, "I haven't lost interest, but my ability to care has been fairly limited,
Lasse is burning out.
He's quite unreliable, and Lasse said, "Look, when we make the film, you can't make it in the tone of the book because then we'll be making fun of everyone,
a process of that kind of debate and discussion and of course Ed Cal John Lasser they they were involved as well
can measure and compute now this gives rise to the idea of lasses demon where the thought experiment goes a bit like this let's imagine we have this perfect intellect a perfect intellect
I remember standing backstage a few years ago just gushing to him about John Lasseter, his VP of creative.
For months, Jia has been taking some of the load off Lasse .
I liked writing dialog and I was working with a great filmmaker, Lasse Hallström who's Swedish and wasn't as interested in dialog
And he learned from two of the great innovation leaders in the world that I visited with-- Ed Catmull and John Lasseter.
We tried very hard to capture the lighting, because it was important to John Lasseter.
And it never really integrated until we came up, it was John Lasseter, actually, came up with the idea that Baymax was going to go on a daredevil flight
So a bunch of us got together, including John Lasseter and Pete Docter who wrote the original-- or I mean that directed the original film--
And number two the culture of Pixar for the culture of Pixar, Ed Catmull and John Lasseter are extremely important to the way the company operates and the way the company thinks in
And I remember Catmull looked at me, cut me off and not to dismiss Lasseter, he said Toy Story was a problematic idea from the start.
For the past 20 years, almost all of the work of keeping the tool compatible with ever-evolving hardware, it's all fallen on Lasse .
Finally, Lasse can step back and breathe
But we really wanted to make content, and we got this-- I hired this guy, John Lasseter, turns out
I can find there the beautiful landscape of the Sierra but, at the same time, Lassen has a vast array of geological features.