Our favorite (and fellow) space cadets Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon of the world famous N.A.S.A. crew, strike again with yet another mouth watering music video with “Strange Enough” from their debut album The Spirit of Apollo.
And speaking of the N.A.S.A boys…Among the plethora of amazing artists and classic songs included on the upcoming DJ Hero video game (October 27th), the robo electro gods known as Daft Punk have remixed N.A.S.A.’s“Strange Enough” featuring Karen O, ODB and Fatlip with their own anthem “Da Funk”. Click here for the full list of DJs and musicians included in the game.
Check the game’s sonically destructive opening cinematic:
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).
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.
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The soundtrack to Where the Wild Things Are is now streeming on the internets for your aural enjoyment courtesy of imeem. Featuring Karen O and The Kids, the composer and Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman “enlisted friends and fellow musicians she believed had a musical intuition that would bolster her intent to marry sound to vision. These include Tristan Bechet (Services), Tom Biller (co-producer with Karen O and member of Afternoons), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska), Nick Zinner, (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and an untrained childrens choir.”
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Some new Where the Wild Things Are imagery, music, and an interview with director Spike Jonze for your not so wild Wednesday.
First off, feast your eyes on the film’s latest theatrical poster.
The New York Times magazine recently ran a comprehensive article on Spike and his journey in bringing the Wild Things to the big screen from his early music video work to when John Malkovich thought he was a Czech due to Jonze’s use of “English as a second language” and “funny way of expressing himself” while meeting for the first time before filming Being John Malkovich. Click here or the image below to read the full article.
Karen O has unleashed the first single off the Wild Things soundtrack with the childrens’ anthem, “All is Love”. Available as a digital download on iTunes with the full album coming out September 29th.
And finally, the September 11th issue of Filter magazine not only features “interviews with Jonze and soundtrack composer Karen O; star Max Records and Catherine Keener; screenwriter Dave Eggers; actress Catherine O’Hara; documentarian Lance Bangs; never-before-seen photos and art from the film’s set and crew” but also an exclusive Wild Things cover drawn by the master Geoff Mcfetridge.
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