In honor of the New York City premiere of Where The Wild Things Are it seems appropriate to give a nod to NYC by featuring this sweet pizza pouch as an accessory. The wallet is creepily realistic and comes with a delicious mixture of pepperoni, mushroom, green pepper and onion toppings. There might also be some sausage on there! Beats a Mets hat any day.
Things that remind us of Denmark include vikings, Hamlet, that “o” with the line through it, breakfast pastries and peace. Now we can add another one to the list: comics!
The aptly titled From Wonderland With Love features the best of contemporary Danish comics––and with weather like they have up there, you can bet that a lot of drawing gets done.
If we had to generalize, we’d say that Danish comics specialize in a clean visual style, deadpan humor and a fidelity to revealing strange truths. Highlights include Ib Kjeldsmark’s tangerine dream “Sloth” and Allan Haverholm’s trippy “Tomb of the Rabbit King”, though it’s hard to go wrong with an anthology that features contributors named “Zven” and “Søren”.
We Love You So readers, we really love you so. You’ve created such flabbergastingly fantastic forts! We wish we could include all of your images and stories in this post. Because there are so many great entries, we’ve decided to give out additional prizes, which will be revealed– along with the winners– before long. Sadly, the time for submissions has come to an end. But don’t let that stop you from fort-building in the future! Forts forever!!
Nowadays, music evolves at such a whirlwind pace that if you stop paying attention to the cultural narrative for just a few months, it’s easy to find yourself buried underneath a deluge of unfamiliar band names and strange, unexpected sounds. What must it feel like to be several decades out of the loop? Endlessly entertaining web series Breakfast at Sulimay’s answers that question and bridges the generation gap by asking three senior citizens listen to hip new music and provide cripplingly honest critiques.
Each of these three sages has a unique style: Joe is the erudite heavyweight of the bunch– a retired Shakespearean actor and an encyclopedia of a man, always ready with an obscure reference and a reasoned response. He’s counterbalanced by the sublimely sarcastic, acerbic Ann, whose sense of humor runs from her inability to ever hold anything back, and her wingman Bill, a more easygoing critic who nonetheless finds himself frequently alienated from the music they’re subjected to.
The show is ordinarily shot in a corner booth of Philadelphia diner Sulimay’s, but for this special 35th episode, the troupe of lovable geriatrics reviewed tracks in front of a live audience at the United Way, where they turned a critical eye to Karen O and the Kids. The special event was coordinated by Generation Appreciation Philadelphia, a non-profit with a mission to “inspire young professionals to make a connection with older adults in their personal and professional lives,” an admirable cause if I’ve ever heard one. Respect your elders, whippersnappers!
Also of note: Karen O and The Kids share the unique distinction with Willie Nelson of being the only two artists to ever garner a unanimously positive review in Breakfast at Sulimay’s history. Love for Where the Wild Things Are knows no demographics!
How to keep your neck warm as the seasons get chilly? Combine two old favorites: DIY and Max.
Two young girls striving to understand the mysterious, dangerous world: that’s what The Spirit of the Beehive is about. It’s not a film about plot, so why even bother describing the handful of vignettes that drift together to form its sparse narrative? It’s a universal story set in a specific time and a particular place: a tiny town on the desolate Castillian plains, just after the Spanish Civil War. That atmosphere is captured with shocking intimacy, and there’s a subtle political subtext running throughout– but there’s a sense that all of that context is just icing on the cake in this uncompromising portrayal of childhood.
The things you are likely to take away form The Spirit of the Beehive are: mid-afternoon light pouring through honeycomb windows; the capacity in children for complex cruelty and fearless sacrifice; the unpredictable power of cinema. Opening on the seemingly inconsequential event of a mobile cinema rolling into an isolated village with a print of James Whale’s Frankenstein, the film unfolds like a dream haunted by the images in that seminal monster movie. By the time you’ve absorbed all that The Spirit of the Beehive has to offer, you too will find yourself inextricably possessed– not by Frankenstein, but by the unforgettable images of Victor Erice’s masterpiece.
Soap is for wimps. We can all agree on this, no? The only acceptable body-cleaning agents are those that fizz, explode, or resemble fireworks in some way. Which is why we find these things very agreeable.
These are hygienic tools that even Max (and MAYBE a wild thing) could get behind. They resemble golf balls, giant blueberries or Uranus (ha-ha), depending on the scent, and the best part of all is that they literally erupt when placed in water.
Ka-boom!
Wow, you guys really got busy this weekend! The fortresses you’ve been sending in for our contest are so stunning and rad that it’s going to be a real challenge to pick just one winner. The creativity and imagination– not to mention the time and effort– you’ve been putting into these forts is incredibly inspiring. Keep ‘em coming! The deadline is tonight at midnight.
Don’t forget to check out all the fantastic forts that have been sent in this weekend to Booooooom, our contest co-sponsor:
Wild Things’ Forts III
Wild Things’ Forts IV
It’s a lamp. It’s a dinosaur. It’s totally RAD.
Combining several good ideas (light, DIY, prehistoric beasts) into one package, ThinkGeek offers their DIY Dinosaur Lamp in Triceratops, Diploducus and T-Rex models. The kit comes with a bundle of supple white plastic sheets which, with the aid of an instruction sheet and you, transform into luminescent dinos.
Although the project initially appears fiendishly difficult to assemble, it is actually pretty easy to figure out. There are holes and slots, and one goes in the other. Do this a bunch of times and pretty soon you have a light-bearing dinosaur to call your own. Or to give as a gift. Also makes a nifty centerpiece for your next triassic-themed party.
Check this out: a roundtable interview with Spike, Dave and Maurice at Newsweek, along with some exclusive shots from the movie. Dave talks about being scared of everything, Spike discusses dangerous toys, and Maurice says the following:
What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?
Sendak: I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I will not tolerate.
Outtakes are here.
Spike Jonze’s feature film rendition of Maurice Sendaks classic story Where The Wild Things Are has hit movie theaters worldwide.
The film represents years of work from hundreds of different artists, writers, photographers, musicians, actors, and creators of all degrees.
This place has been established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that converged to make this massive project a reality.
You are looking at the We Love You So – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze blog archives for October, 2009.
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