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Over the course of the past five years, Spike Jonze has brought together his (un)usual crew of frequent collaborators, friends old and new, and a kid named Sonny in bringing the Wild Things to life. Meet some of them here from VBS.tv’s Art Talk series:

• Production designer and Spike’s right hand man, K.K. Barrett (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Lost in Translation).

• “Orphan Sonny of Los Angeles”, creature designer Sonny Gerasimowicz (read how Karen O turned Spike onto Sonny from the LA Times online here and see Sonny like you’ve never seen him before in the Spike Nieves zine here).

In his designs for “Wild Thing” creatures such as Carol, above, Sonny Gerasimonwicz was told to show personalities rather than copy Maurice Sendak’s style. (via the LA Times)

• Music video veteran and one of my editing heroes, film editor Eric Zumbrunnen (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation). Click photo below to view Eric’s segment on VBS.tv.

• And finally costume designer Casey Storm (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Zodiac). Click photo below to view Casey’s segment on VBS.tv.

Where the Wild Things Are related to more content:

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• What the Wild Things Sound Like
• Where the Wild Things Become Banners
• Where the Wild Things Are covered by the New York Times
• New Wild Things imagery, music, and interviews
• Where the Wild Things (Titles) are Made by McFetridge
• Where the Wild Things Are Featured in a Featurette

• Where the Wild Things Love You So

• Kubrick and Geoff McFetridge meet the Wild Things

• New Wild Things theatrical poster
  

• Where the Wild Things Are theatrical trailer and photo gallery

• One sheet poster and theatrical trailer info

• Wild Things skateboards and shoes

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Oh those silly Swedes, first with their physically active piano stairs and now their encouraging sound effect receptacles. When will they learn that the rest of the world doesn’t care about their little Fun Theory? Not to be discouraged, Volkswagen states their case with how throwing away trash can be fun: “To throw rubbish in the bin instead of onto the floor shouldn’t really be so hard. Many people still fail to do so. Can we get more people to throw rubbish into the bin, rather than onto the ground, by making it fun to do? See the results here.”

From the people who call trash/garbage “rubbish”, ad agency DDB and Volkswagen:

“We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory”

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