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

The Seafarers is a fun little online series that Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock have been animating together. Elevating simple tales of the sea with deliciously rendered illustration an unexpected humor, The Seafarers is the type of irreverent, bizarre, and yet somehow tender entertainment that kids could use more of these days. I was alerted to the existence of this awesome cartoon by Michelle at Giant Robot, who notes: “Kelly & Ferris are busy new parents and still managing to find the time and energy to develop their work, be in the studio, and strengthen their ties with family, friends and colleagues.” Hey, let’s all be inspired by that example and make even more awesome stuff to share with the world! Yeah!

Every child needs an adventure of some kind. The process of becoming an adult is predicated on exercises in independence, facing up to intimidating circumstances, and finding out what it means to be alone. Laura Dekker is simply ahead of the curve. It’s easy to forget what being 13 can be like, and that it’s not the same for everyone. Unfortunately, grown ups’ instinct to protect the young often comes coupled with a proclivity for patronization. Here’s to Laura, and let’s hope she gets a chance to sail off through night and day, in and out of weeks and almost a year to wherever her journey takes her.