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Meta Spends Millions
“Meta has officially begun cutting 10% of its workforce, totaling around 8,000 employees. In addition, it plans to close 6,000 open roles. The reason is to allow more room for AI spending.”
Yahoo!Tech June 17, 2026
There’s a difference be...
The Flame : Flaming Justice
Something extraordinary has been happening.
When Andy Collen started Happy Trails Animation in a one and a half
car garage in Portland Oregon in 1991, nobody handed him a
roadmap. No studio deal. No outside investment. Just two peo...
From Rollerball To The Hunger Games
On America’s 250th birthday, while headlines buzzed about a UFC title fight staged on the White House lawn, I found myself watching something very different: the 1975 science-fiction classic Rollerball. Nearly fifty years after its release,...
Independent Animation Studio Earns International Film Festival Selection, Telly Silver Award and Top 5 Worldwide Finish, Offering Award-Winning Music Videos Free to All 2026 Political Campaigns
Portland-based Happy Trails Animation — founded in a garage in 1991 — continues a landmark 2026 with the ICJ International Film Award selection for American Martyrs, adding to a Telly Silver Award win and a neck-and-neck public voting battl...
The Journey Was Always The Answer
Image Copyright Nick DeWolf Flickr Images
My entrepreneurial career started the way a lot of mountain-town adventures begin, with a kid trying to make a few dollars and having no idea where the trail might lead. In 1977, at twelve years ol...
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Andy cut his entrepreneurial teeth at the age of 16 by becoming Burton Snowboard’s first Aspen distributor. After his college years, he discovered a culture of independent animators in Portland, Oregon, and moved there.
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