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Just a few pictures from the Where the Wild Things Are display at the 40th annual Comic Con International. If you happen attending the convention this year, swing on by the Warner Brothers booth to hang out in the amazing life-size fort and take the video game for a test drive. And don’t miss the WB presentation later this morning, with exclusive footage from the movie and some special surprises! Also, if you’re interested in meeting this humble blogger, you might just find me working at the Giant Robot booth. More to come from San Diego!

 
When it comes to surrealist puppeteering and adapting children’s literature into a massive mash of beautiful images it doesn’t get must better than ole’ Jan Svankmajer. I don’t know if we’ve got enough space on this blog for a crash course in his impact on modern animation but with all this internet talk of how things are shaping up in Wonderland I thought it only fitting to take a look back at the man himself via this supremely bizarre three part documentary lurking around youtube.

Download it first so it plays smooth and watch it full screen. Thanks to Ellen!

The Italian artist Andrea Mastrovito has dipped his fingers into a whole bunch of media (video collages, acrylic, an installation for Dior Homme) but is most famous for his work with cut paper. An exhibition last year at New York’s Foley Gallery featured works of delicate tissue-paper collage held together with pins, each depicting a dreamlike scenario in a muted, monochromatic palate.

The paper tableaux leapt from whales to toreadors to a squat Picasso-like painter at work in a surrealistic studio. It was an infrequent American outing for the artist, who divides his time between Bergamo, Italy and New York City. Be sure not to sleep on the next one.

Where The Wild Things Are studio all star Bradford Cox teamed up with Panda Bear of Animal Collective to create the upcoming “Logos.” The first single “Walkabout” is one of those summer jams that’s going to be keeping you alive and happy the whole year through. But don’t take our word for it- go listen to it for free!

Photographer Tanyth Berkeley’s work revels in the kinds of feminine beauty that are often overlooked, embracing the awkward and producing tremendously beautiful portraits that manage to step delicately into the private worlds of her enchanting subjects. Doug Rickard of AmericanSuburb X puts it best:

Tanyth Berkeley likes the special ones. She likes the pale ones, the large headed types, the big bodies and the long giraffe necks. She likes the Robert Crumb shapes and the vampire faces, the glowing white skin and the men-in-dresses with womanly laces. She likes the eyes set back in the skull or the shoulders holding up those big heads that are smashed in like a pretty pumpkin in certain places. Her specialty is the awkward, the rare flower, the big cheek boned and special feminine shells and large sizes and different races.

Jonze, Barrett , Bangs , Gondry – Echo Park.

*How could Lance have taken this photo when he is in the photo with his eyes closed holding a camera? He’s just that good.

I remember a few things from 6th grade science class. One, it was the first year in which we were permitted to dissect animals. The first animal we dissected was an earthworm. The next was a frog. The third was a fish. My fish–or rather, the fish assigned to my partner and me–turned out to be afflicted with a disease that turned its insides into spinach-colored mush. I quietly put down my scalpel, walked to the girl’s bathroom, and barfed. The teacher allowed me to sit out future dissections.

The second thing I remember is learning about Carl Linnaeus, also known as the father of taxonomy. Linnaeus was the country-born scientist responsible for constructing the foundations of modern taxonomy. His innovations allowed future scientists to classify the natural world with greater ease and efficiency. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considered Linnaeus the greatest man on earth.

From Linnaeus comes many things: our system of binomial nomenclature, the fact that we call ourselves “homo sapiens”, and now, this: an exhaustive taxonomy of graffiti courtesy of the Fondation Cartier. Explore the exhibition online and make your own conjectures about how the graffiti alphabet came to be– the compilation provides a fascinating account of public art and private mischief.

From our Canadian distributor.