Collider posted a roundtable conversation with Spike and Max that includes some excellent anecdotes about the making of the film. Representative excerpt:
Q: Max, how gross was it for you to do that scene where you come out of KW?
Max: You don’t want to know. They put some sort of gross gel stuff on me.
Spike: He was covered and goopy. He hated it. We shot it once, and then we had to shoot another piece of it again, and he just did not want to get in it. He said, “I will only do it if, afterwards, you let me cover you in it.” And so, afterwards, we went back to his room and he just covered me in it. He was so happy and I was miserable, so it was a good retribution.
If you ever wondered what it’s like to be a synaesthete, this video might provide a vicarious experience. Daniel Franke’s “One Minute Soundsculpture” is exactly that (actually, a minute and six seconds): a video scored by Ryoji Ikeda and filled with visual shenanigans that correspond to the soundtrack. We don’t know how he did it, but it’s mesmerizing.
Daniel Franke is a Berlin-based artist, designer and filmmaker who participates in We Are Chopchop, a community of media artists making mischief in the form of video, generative animated shorts and kinetic sculpture. Explore the work here, and watch Franke’s sound sculpture above.
This amazing tri-fold behind the scenes/making of WTWTA book is pretty much everything you would hope it would be, and they are giving away a signed copy HERE.
Some artists make pictures; some artists create a visual universe that is unmistakably theirs. Guess which category Valero Doval falls into. Born in Spain, Doval studied in Valencia and relocated to London to continue his work, which ranges from Volkswagen and Paul Smith commissions to collages of bird-plane hybrids.
His output is as varied as his clients. Typical Doval subjects include zeppelins, ghosts, pets, and haunted houses––none of it rendered in any form you’ve seen before. With a visual allegiance to geometric forms and rich color, Doval’s work escapes the curse of cutesiness that can attend pet-themed art–yet still manages to have an adorable aspect to go with its visual punch. Always a balancing act, as they say.
Thank you for making Where the Wild Things Are the #1 movie in America! The fans of this movie are amazing, amazing people and none of this would have been possible without your support and devotion.
Here are a handful of rad pictures from your wild weekends! It all looks so fun! Let’s do it again next weekend, okay?
We wish we could be with you this weekend for all your amazing Where the Wild Things Are screening parties, sleepover soirees and howling, rumpusing carpools to the cineplex! But since we can’t, could you do us the favor of taking a picture? Show us your custom costumes, your face paint, and your wild side! The wait is finally over, and we want to see the awesome people lined up for the film this weekend. E-mail us at email hidden; JavaScript is required.
Thanks to Rebecca Brown for sending us these great images. Keep ‘em coming!
Well, this is it. The big day. We know a lot of you went out at midnight last night, but as for the rest of you, we hope you get a chance to enjoy this weekend with us. Thanks so much for all the love and support! – We Love You So
Medicom Toy is the big kahuna of vinyl toys. They’re the creative powerhouse behind Kubrick and Bearbrick– two lines of toys whose legion of obsessed collectors would be happy to testify to their value. So it’s no surprise that their their sparkling, brand new collection of Where The Wild Things Are figures are insanely detailed, entrancingly life-like, and expertly crafted. Check out the full set of toys, which includes The Bull, Douglas, Carol, Ira, Judith, K.W., Alexander and Max over at Hypebeast. They’re being sold though most Medicom retailers, including esteemed Parisian boutique Colette. Fancy!
Doesn’t this killer Wild Things birthday party make you want to be a piñata-age youngster again? This fiesta was complete with tissue paper vines, monstrous cake, “Pin The Tail on the Max”, roaring, masks and way too much candy!
Wild Things parties are all over the place, from pajama fiestas at Idaho libraries to shindigs at 826 Valencia––which raised over $40,000 for the space!
Have plans for an epic rumpus? CC us on the photos.
Interested in mythical monsters? Check out this reference volume from 1886, newly available in glorious totality on the interwebs.
In Mythical Monsters, author Charles Gould argues that “many of the so-called mythical animals, which throughout long ages and in all nations have been fertile subjects of fact and fiction,” are actually creatures that “really once existed, and of which, unfortunately, only imperfect and inaccurate descriptions have filtered down to us, probably very much refracted, through the mists of time.”
Those damn mists, always obscuring the truth. At any rate, Gould sets the record straight with hi informative chapters on such phenomena as dragons, unicorns, sea serpents and the Chinese Phoenix. Old-school illustrations provide visuals for the monsters, and digressions into Peruvian Indian tribes and electric telegrams supply entertainment for those with woefully low attention spans.
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