Talstar Bottle

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

The bottle for Talstar’s insecticide may look funky but it’s form is much more considered than one might think. Designed to make measuring the appropriate amount of bug poison more efficient, the bottle uses a pressure system that allows the contents to be doled out with a squeeze.

Skittish Tree

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

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 the “wind”.

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 …