Nathalie Lété is one of my favourite artists and here she is painting a beautiful shop window in Harajuku, Tokyo. I am feeling inspired to paint some white on one of my windows in the studio – once I finish tidying and I can actually get to the window.
(via wishthimble – so good Fran!)
PS. Thank you for all the lovely, kind words yesterday. I got a wee bit teary!
Un tour de Manège from Les Manèges on Vimeo.
So beautiful – click over and watch it in all its glory over at vimeo. Meg has good things to say about it over on Drawn! where I found it.
I was doing some searches on “doll hair” (because I am making a new doll for the Softies for Mirabel project, are you?) and I found an interview with Suzanne Moulten, head of the hair department on the movie Coraline. It’s pretty cool to think that you might spend you whole working life carefully making beautiful stop-motion hair.
I went on to find another crafty Coraline video – Althea Crome’s tiny knitting. It really is incredible to see such beautiful, tiny knitted pieces.
I spent so much of my childhood making tiny things to fit out my doll’s house. There were hours spent tinkering away at little tissue boxes and christmas puddings with my friend Pia. Pia had the patience and the inspiration (and the endless supply of Liberty scraps) to make the most breathtaking little bits. I just did a web search to see if I could find Pia and HEY there she is! She’s got her own crafty label. Hello Pia – if you ever google yourself and eventually come across this post. Glad to see you are still making.
“When one shrinks a craft or a skill into something so tiny it asks the viewer to imagine how it was done”
Now I am off to make some really tiny jars of cumquat marmalade.
Because I hear this oodles of times every day, here are some more:
A quick update tonight – as I can barely string a sentence together after a long night up with a kid with the voms. But we all went to see Ponyo this afternoon, and it was utterly charming. I kept thinking it was like an animation from my own childhood – no tacky glitz or bad songs sung by novelty characters. Charming, as I said. If you can bear that horrible movie-trailer-voice-over guy, have a look at the preview because it was as fun as all that.
One for the wee bairns. Softie inspired video – Features vocals by Robin Goldwasser.
I see some familar looking softies in there, and Kirst, I am sure one of your Marks is driving one of those cars.
via Laughing Squid
I hope you don’t mind me posting another video. I have had a stomach thing and have been sleeping and mooching for most of this week. Mooching includes watching too many videos on the internet. But I do like this one. I have posted this for my brother and for my parents who are adventurers at heart.
Sour’s video for Hibi no Neiro. - A little like a fabulous human/web cam kaleidoscope – watch to the end, it will make you smile.
“The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.”
Director: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura
(via Spike Jonze at We Love You So)
I spent a long time browsing through the short films of the Black Cab Sessions last night, and it made me so happy that I thought I would share them with you too. You’ve probably already seen them, but I live under a rock – it’s cosy under here but I do miss a lot of good stuff.
The Black Cab Sessions is a simple concept. Put a band and a small film crew in the back seat of a London cab and film a totally unplugged version of one of their songs as they spin around the streets of London (or New York, or the Welsh countryside etc). They’re all so full of atmosphere. I love it love it love it. So far I love Badly Drawn Boy, Lykke Li (oh so good), Dawn Landes (with a fabulously bearded Ray playing percussion on a notebook), Fleet Foxes and Martha Wainwright … so far. I have many more to see.
And omg… it’s the Brian Wilson, and his four band members (and the film crew) in the back of the cab. That’s a full cab. and guaranteed to make you smile.
Let me know if you find a stand-out one.
** photos from The Black Cab Sessions blog **
This is a little sad. One of my kids loved it, one of my kids clasped a tissue to her eyes and told me it was terrible.
