Looking for the Ocean: A Pixar Journey
Join two friends Danny and Mark as they re-watch the entire Pixar catalog. That means features, shorts, tech demos, documentaries, and more. They’ll talk about the history of the company and its style and themes as well as their personal connections to the films they watch as cinema lovers who grew up in the early 2000s.
Episodes
Episodes
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Mark and Danny have a chill holiday time talking about the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Christmas special Holiday Time, the one where Santa asks Buzz and the gang to help him save Christmas. They spend most of the time discussing Poor Things, Wonka, Paddington, Asteroid City, The Matrix Resurrections, The Holdovers, The Muppets’ Christmas Carol, and The Square.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean, Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod, and Twitter @pixarjourney. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.
Friday Dec 15, 2023
74. DETOUR! It’s a Musical!?: Strange Magic w/ Star Wars Therapy
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Caleb Bunn, Alex Bryson, and Steven Jensen from Star Wars Therapy join Mark and Danny to watch Gary Rydstrom’s George Lucas’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They also talk about sexual awakenings and the Pixar lamp, queering the text, and Crimp from Trolls.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean, Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod, and Twitter @pixarjourney. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.
Friday Dec 08, 2023
73. Phone Bad!: Toy Story That Time Forgot
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Mark and Danny go back in time to 2014 to watch Steve Purcell’s (Sam & Max, Brave) Toy Story Christmas special, featuring the Battlesaurs, a cat ornament with a trumpet, and beautiful Christmas fight choreography.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean, Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod, and Twitter @pixarjourney. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.
Friday Dec 01, 2023
72. DETOUR!: The Ballad of Fire & Rescue: Planes 2
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Mark and Danny made it through the Planes sequel and are here to talk about another famous film which does not feature a younger version of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character from the Hunger Games series.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean, Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod, and Twitter @pixarjourney. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd
Friday Nov 24, 2023
71. Thankful for Tilda Swinton: Chicken Run
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Mark and Danny celebrate Turkey Day with Chicken Run, the highest grossing stop-motion animated film and what would be one of the major episodes of a podcast about Mark’s childhood movie-watching, Looking for the Aardman.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean, Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod, and Twitter @pixarjourney. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.
Friday Nov 17, 2023
70. Our Tax Write-Off Episode: Lava w/ Julius Jefferson
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Danny, Mark, and Julius discuss James Ford Murphy's Lava, the most hated Pixar short of all time. Is it a natural disaster or a misunderstood masterpiece? Danny gets drunk and becomes British, Julius threatens to start a podcast guest union, and Mark stops everything to talk about The Northman.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean, Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod, and Twitter @pixarjourney. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Mark and Danny almost cancel each other after watching two short films by Erica Milsom, director of the future SparkShort Loop, and Kevin Nolting, the editor of Up and future director of a short featuring one of the characters from Soul. What do these people do when not working for Pixar?
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean, Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod, and Twitter @pixarjourney. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd
Friday Nov 03, 2023
68. The Tár-Lightyears: Creativity Inc.
Friday Nov 03, 2023
Friday Nov 03, 2023
In 2014, Pixar president Ed Catmull released his book on good management based on his experiences, and Danny and Mark read it for the bit. What are Braintrust sessions like? Which actors from Succession would be in the Pixar biopic? Will Steve Jobs’ legacy be the iPhone or Cars 2?
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean, Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod, and Twitter @pixarjourney. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.
Our Mission Statement
Mark Young (left) and Danny Vincent (right) are aiming to watch every single Pixar "thing" ever made. That includes features, shorts, tech demos, TV shows, documentaries and more. Moreover, our goal in watching these pieces of media is to discover just why Pixar has captured our mind, and track our own personal growth with Pixar as our timestamps in life.