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<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]\nCalifornia Inspires Me<\/i> is a series of animated interviews by California Sunday Magazine<\/a> in collaboration with Google Play<\/a><\/b>. This latest interview is with actor and rock-operateer\u00a0Jack Black<\/b><\/a> who grew up in Hermosa Beach, Southern California \u2013 the animation provides a refreshing, vivid accompaniment<\/b> to the stories that Black has to tell. The excellent Nicolas M\u00e9nard<\/b><\/a> is the director behind this piece with animation by both him and Anne-Lou Erambert<\/b><\/a>. The content of interviews can get lost when you\u2019re just sitting and listening to someone drone on about their lives but these hippy injected visuals<\/b> that work in tandem with Black\u2019s lazy tales, giving you a wonderful\u00a0sensory experience<\/b> that anyone putting out content wants to achieve.<\/p>\n San Francisco based singer\/songwriter, Thao Nguyen <\/b><\/a>was also given the treatment too, animated by the London based Will Rose<\/a><\/b>. It\u2019s notably different, with a more playful, childlike feel to reflect Thao\u2019s anecdotes of growing up. Not forgetting Beginners<\/em> director,\u00a0Mike Mills<\/b><\/a> instalment of the series either, this time created by Brian Rea<\/a> and Pablo Delc\u00e1n<\/a><\/b>. Again, reflecting the subject\u2019s skateboarding narrative, it has a more linear style as you follow a roughly sketched dot tail sliding\u00a0through it\u2019s journey. Each interview has it\u2019s own dedicated micro-site<\/b><\/a> and owing to it\u2019s collaboration with Google Play<\/b>, you can view and purchase any and all influences talked about by the artists.<\/p>\n California Sunday\u00a0<\/b>have created a great way for us to connect with some of our favourite artists, directors and musicians in an immersive and interactive way; the rest of the publishing world should take note.<\/p>\nYou can view Thao Nguyen and Mike Mills’ interviews below and visit the respective micro-sites\u00a0here<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/h6>\n