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The lights at Pixar are a bit dimmer as we mourn the loss of one of our greats... 

Ralph Eggleston

Ralph sat next to me in the early Incredibles 2 prod pod at Pixar where I had just started my new role as Script Supervisor. I had interacted with Ralph for years prior on various Publishing projects, so it was nice to have a familiar face welcoming me to Production. He knew how valuable and intense the Script Supe role was at the studio and always made sure I felt valued and secure. 

We were both early birds. Every morning Ralph would swing by my office and talk about his obsession with silent film icon Fatty Arbuckle (my paternal great grandmother’s first cousin...I think he almost fainted when I told him we were related). He was enamored with Fatty’s career and downfall from Hollywood. Ralph let me borrow his tattered paperback copy of The Day the Laughter Stopped. It started to disintegrate while I was reading it so I repaired the pages using a role of tape and swiftly returned it to his bookshelf. 

Ralph would always arrive to i2 art reviews in a frenzy, spinning into the room with newsprint flying everywhere. Brad Bird said he "molted artwork” wherever he walked. :D

In an act of kismet, I displayed Ralph's WALL•E crew artwork in my parent’s hallway this weekend.

Thank you for the colorful conversations, smiles, and laughs over the years Ralph. Hope you get to meet Fatty. All the love. 

Kelly B 

A message from Ralph to a group of elementary school students, that applies to every artist (and human): 

hi blog, it's me, kelly b

favorite item of clothing: a very colorful, very patterned vintage Lord & Taylor duster jacket with big gold buttons. purchased at the late Arbor Vitae Vintage in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 

one thing you never leave home without: my American Express card. jk. sunglasses. my eyes are very blue and abnormally large, which is the worst combo for enduring sunlight. 

share something unique about yourself: i'm a visually & directionally gifted human: a walking MapQuest in every city. 

your last trip overseas: Iceland in the middle of winter right before the pandemic. lots of mishaps that lead to some sweet synchronistic surprises: hitchhiking alone in the snowy countryside in the pitch black, getting locked out of my friend's condo during an arctic freeze and befriending her non-English speaking neighbor who treated me to hot tea and wool socks, becoming besties with a local who was actually a friend of a friend's friend in the States. 

go-to alcoholic drink: aperol spritz but right now I'm favoring framboise lambic beer from Belgium (it comes in a wine bottle). 

current obsession: Hacks on HBOMax, the cast of Hacks, fans of Hacks, filming locations of Hacks (my city of Long Beach!), and any Hacks related content on social media. LMK if you wanna chat Hacks...

two words friends would use to describe you: I get a lot of "cute & funny"

five things you love:

1. Korean beauty products: SKINFOOD's Tomato Lip Tint is so smooth and luscious
2. organizing my life into acrylic bins 
3. mailing cards to friends with Mrs. Grossmans stickers tucked inside, followed by a stickerface of myself to sign things off 

4. miniature versions of things 
5. R.L. Stine "Fear Street" novels (and their cover art) from the early 90s. The Secret Bedroom is a favorite. I had the pleasure of meeting R.L. Stine at Book Expo America in DC years ago, he is the nicest man

biggest anxiety: as I start to age, driving. especially in the dark with my big blind alien eyes, lol. i'm very phobic of left turns in LA (lots of yielding, green arrows barely exist). 

in 2022, you're most excited for: scripting on a new feature project, practicing and honing my voice acting, studying more comedy, paper illustrating again, and purging the family attic.