We Love You So – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze

If only everything could interface with everything else! Now it can, in Christian Weber’s photographic series of dream hybrids, Object. Allow the unconnectable to connect! All cords are connected to every device. All ports are open for business.

LA based band Fool’s Gold has made the instant summer jam with that guitar line in “Suprise Hotel” which will be released at the end of September. Made up of members from Foreign Born, We Are Scientists, Glasser and The Fall, they play an interesting mix of African rhythms and 80’s pop and from the looks of this video, you should go see them live.

MP3 >> Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel

This was are attempt at a “walking cool” photo. Henry Z, Eric Z and Lance Acord. Of course Henry wins.

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Shawn Records, father of Max, was our on-set observer. I love his photos. I would say he related to the aesthetic family of Joel Sternfeld and William Eggleston, his photos have a delicate wit and affection to them. I love how much of him comes through his photos. a sweet kind man with a keen eye and always soft spoken and understated. Please check out his photos at his website too. I’m lucky enough to have a print of the boy with his head in the bush. I think it is of Max in their backyard a few years ago.

The other added benefit of Shawn being a photographer that I didn’t realize until long after we cast Max was that by growing up with your dad always with a camera in hand you become used to having your picture taken and not even thinking about it, so Max is very unselfconscious in front of the camera. And also very natural because Shawn is not the kind of dad who is real loud, trying to force a shot yelling “Hey everyone, look over here! Hug your mom! Smile!” he couldn’t be more opposite actually. And that is what is so special about his pictures. Patient and observed.

The McSweeney’s website is, depending on your inclinations, a limitless trove of fun things to read or an intimidating morass of text. The insistently lo-fi layout makes navigation a challenge requiring focus and determination, but at least the rewards are plentiful.

One section to plunder is McSweeney’s Reviews of New Food. The section consists of dozens of reader-submitted pintsize reviews, all compiled on a single page in center-spaced paragraphs that go down more smoothly than a strawberry milkshake.

Among the foods reviewed are cilantro, Jolly Time Kettle Corn, Beanit Butter, Swiss Chard, Elway’s Comeback Crunch, Low-Carb Doritos, Viactive (caramel flavor), Gorp and Hershey’s Pumpkin Spice Kisses (”The shape of a gnome’s hat, wrapped in crinkled foil…depending on ambient lighting, the orange may seem to be the exaggerated peachy flesh tone of a crayon or the cartoonish pallor of a woozy Oompa-Loompa.”)

Read ‘em all and then submit your own.

Witness (or re-witness) this incredible 1987 video by artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Their homemade Rube Goldberg machine– constructed inside a 100-foot warehouse and mobilized by fire, water, chemistry and the law of gravity–is a meditation on chance and probability, as well as a hypnotic display of causal relationships.

Of all the ways to become immortal (locating the philosopher’s stone, drinking the elixir of life, becoming a cyborg), the simplest by far is to illustrate a popular children’s book. Doing this guarantees a person permanent residence in the imaginations of children spanning far into the future–and what better way to keep the flame alive?

Clement Hurd is the gentle genius behind the bedtime classic Goodnight, Moon. Published in 1947, the book features a lulling text by Margaret Wise Brown and lush drawings of a cozy bunny rabbit sending himself to dreamland by saying goodnight to all the items in his nursery. Goodnight, Moon isn’t really a story, inasmuch as nothing happens over the course of the book, but it does contain the key ingredients of bedtime literature: repetition and rhyme.

Still, most kids don’t remember many of the words. After all, they were designed to put us to sleep. The illustrations, on the other hand, are imminently sticky. Remember the bunny’s slippers? His bowl of mush? The rug that looks suspiciously like a Siberian tiger? Of course you do. Hurd illustrated almost 100 other books, but it is Goodnight, Moon that will keep him alive in the thoughts of future bed-bound young’ns.

Occasionally dabbling auteur Mark Gonzales just finished this video for Jason Schwartzman’s Coconut Records. Featuring Chloe Sevigny and Girl Skateboard’s beloved Alex Olson. Makes me miss NYC even more..we’ve been in London for two months now.

Hartmann Nordenholz is a German-Austrian fashion label founded by boy-girl duo Filip Fiska and Agnes Schorer in Vienna. How to describe their aesthetic? Fluid, to start. The collections shift hugely from season to season, from futuristic tea frocks to funereal poof dresses.

Autumn/Winter 2009/10 brings cozy layered knits in undulating shapes, splattered and sprayed with a palette that’s pure Blade Runner. These are clothes for romping, going to the moon, scaling dangerous surfaces or appearing on Sesame Street.

For those who can’t make it to the Paris collections, it’s all documented on the Hartmann Nordenholz website.

Swiss design duo Florence Tétier and Johann Bess are the mad scientists behind Monstres, four portraits of delightfully weird, DIY craft creatures. With the surplus of vampires running around these days, the world could use some original monsters. Someone needs to make a children’s show hosted by these creeps.