The video below is lovely on many levels- the references are charming, the stop-motion animation is great, the use of felt is adorable, and the sexy skeleton love story makes me a little melty.

Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.

You can read more about the production of the video where it was posted originally on Nowness blog.

Designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). On a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, the star-crossed love story of a klutzy skeleton and his flame-haired amour plays out amidst Le-Tan’s illustrations of iconic first-edition book covers. “It’s such a beautiful and romantic place,” offers Le-Tan of the antiquarian bookstore. “The perfect setting for our story!” The project started after Jonze asked for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery to put on his wall and the plucky Le-Tan asked for a film in return. Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six month period, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt Le-Tan had cut by hand. “I love getting performances from, telling stories about and humanizing things that aren’t human,” said Jonze of working with Le-Tan’s characters. After spending five years adapting Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze’s recent shorts include robot love story I’m Here and an inspired G.I. Joe-starring video for The Beastie Boys. “A short is like a sketch,” he says. “You can have an idea or a feeling and just go and do it.” Here the iconic director reveals his creative process to writer Maryam L’Ange.

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Although I would argue that iPods do need sweaters.

1) More crafts! And/or food crafts (aka “baking” or “cooking” or whatever a death star watermelon gets categorized under)

Becky – I think you could get into this, too. Especially with the help of this site, PS I Made This

2) More “Cougar Town.” Seriously. Don’t knock it. It’s awesome. From the guy who created “Scrubs”! Yeah, I know you didn’t know that.

3) More posting on CWL.

Not sure what the story is here, but really cool anyway.

This is fantastic.  Made by Emmy C who also made this shirt I love so much.

Sorry to be cheesy, but I loved this. Via Jezebel.