Everything -- from the cut of the masks to the thousands of pounds of plum-colored beads tossed from Iris' 33 gargantuan floats -- must pass muster.

You'll get to rip down the tube slalom run and be whisked back up by the neighboring magic carpet to do it all over again.

No Oscar invite? No worries.

When I told people I was off to Haiti for a few days they looked at me dumbfounded. Haiti. Why?

We just enjoyed our annual all-staff meeting and our art department shared some of the best of the new photos in our arsenal.