Maurice Sendak

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

If you weren’t already in love with Maurice Sendak from his masterful work, Where the Wild Things Are, you’re likely to fall once you watch his interview at home. Speaking on the need for ferocity and irreverence in art, and pausing, sweetly, to pet his dog, the 89-year-old illustrator shares his answer to requests over the years to do a WTWA sequel—”I’m not a whore”—while …

Staple Design for Case Mate

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

Fit for design geeks and ganguro fashionistas alike, this pigeon-themed iPhone case comes complete with silicone wing embellishments for ergonomics and a dangling pigeon foot charm for flair. Currently only available in-store at Reed Space in NYC, the case keeps in line with Staple Design’s affection for all things pigeon.

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

1. Skittish Tree Bringing dynamic visual evidence of the impact of the sounds we make, the sound-reactive projection, Skittish Tree, offers a multi-sensory experience in the storefront of JS55 on Clinton Street in New York City. While soft sounds caused the tree to sway languidly side-by-side, loud noises—like, as we see in the video, a child’s giddy screeching—shake the limbs until they fall off in …