Spike Jonze has teamed with designer Olympia Le-Tan for Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), a truly remarkable stop-motion short film. Set on a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, the star-crossed love story tells the tale of a klutzy skeleton and his flame-haired amour, playing out amidst Le-Tan’s illustrations of iconic first-edition book covers. The project started after Jonze asked for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery to put on his wall and the plucky Le-Tan asked for a film in return. Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six month period, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt Le-Tan had cut by hand.

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The “treeless treehouse” was built high on a hillside site in Bel Air, California. The location lacked trees mature enough to support a structure of this magnitude, so this cantilevered, inverted octagonal cone of wood was anchored into a deep, cubical-shaped concrete foundation. A twisting tornado of Forest Stewardship Council (F.S.C.) certified mixed-species reclaimed Brazilian hardwoods were milled, pre-drilled & mounted around a burly framework of reclaimed vintage Douglas Fir beams.

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A little cartoon about Pikachu and learning manners from the creator of Adventure Time, Pendleton Ward. You just have to watch this.

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I need this in my life and on my coffee table!  Out in November!

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I’m not much for words but check out his work.

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