The Moment, the New York Times Style Blog, had a brief chat with artist and director Mike Mills after his Strand appearance this past Friday. Mills was in town to promote his new book, Graphics Films, a career-spanning retrospective. What did the man responsible for the Root Down and Moon Safari covers (amongst many, many other iconic projects over the years) choose to do with his limited time in NYC? Go to the Met and have a meal at Kambi (we assume) Ramen House.

Okay, now spare us a minute to point out a few quick tie-ins:

1. This collection was edited by gallery owner/art curator/ANP Quarterly editor Aaron Rose, whom you can find featured in the latest issue of Wooooo.

2. Mills, along with Roman Coppola, is a co-founder of The Directors Bureau, a small group of influential directors of which the oft-mentioned Patrick Daughters is a member (along with Sofia, naturally).

3. Remember our post about the new wave of interior design publications? Mills’ living spaces have been featured in both Apartamento AND The Selby (you may also be pleased to find Aaron Rose’s Selby entry here).

What with all the drooling over the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are, consider us to be in a full-on love affair with all things Spike Jonze. As such, let’s spare a moment for this video, a bit Jonze cobbled together from his own archives exclusively for the British group U.N.K.L.E., currently making the Internet rounds but brought to my attention by The Full Clip earlier this week.

The segment is a welcome re-visit of Jonze’s work on Fully Flared (which you can watch in its entirety here), one of only a few truly seminal skate videos from recent years. No CGI was used in any of these segments, just pyrotechnics timed to tight, nerve-rattling perfection. The footage may not be new, but the edit certainly is — a perfect marriage of sound and visual. Sit back, relax and enjoy. Available in HD quality at DailyMotion.

It’s a new wild-and-wacky adventure from the purveyors of Wooooo Magazine! Yes, I always have to double-check how many ‘o’s go into that title. It’s five, by the way.

And, yes, Issue 6 is now out, and it looks better than ever. But don’t judge a book by its cover, Wooooo would advise. It’s sure to be full of “a bunch of woeful sh*t.” This is how they describe Issue 2 which consisted of, in more detail, a “terrible interview with fat douche Dave Carnie, dreadful illustrations by Chri$ Nieratko, first ever interview with stupid artist Dan Colen, boring interview with boring director Patrick Daughters and a retarded pile of crap interview with washed up piece of crud Moby.”

This time around, we’re graced with some sure-to-be-offbeat interviews with such folk as early pro skater legend Natas Kaupas, recently-split-from-Strokes-guitarist (who was in the shop yesterday with Julian but, no, we didn’t try to hug them, we promise) It-Girl model Agyness Deyn, Interview Editor-in-Chief Christopher Bollen and funny-man Zach Galifianakis. Which reminds me of a little clip I was just watching…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSnBhvaXURA

Get Woooo Issue 6 for 10 bucks here, or go to American Apparel, or St. Marks, or a bunch of other places. Where can we find you, Wooooo?

Wooooo is preordered internationally and distributed to: Colette in Paris, DPMHI in London and Welcome to Alphaville in Melbourne, Australia… also a bunch of places in Germany and Sweden.

Of course Wooooo can be found all over down town New York in places like American Apparel, McNally Robinson Book Sellers, I HEART, Lafayette Smoke Shop, Autumn Skateboards, Earnest Cut and Sewn, Freeman’s Sporting Club, Printed Matter, St Marks Bookshop and selected storefronts in the city and state of New York.

If your on the west coast you can grab Wooooo at Choke Motorcycle Shop, Ooga Booga, Family Books, Park Life… it’s all over the place.

Wooooo also makes its way to Tokyo but no one knows how.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m6FYMzGPek
Remember our entry that briefly mentioned Groovision Japan’s looping graphic movie with animated graphic people marching around the city chasing after a horse? Well, The DVD is now finally back in stock at AC Gears (but that’s besides the point). Looks like the movie has its own following in Japan. Project code named Nakasone OFF IN < a major Japanese city> features a bunch of Japanese teens tracking around cities in Japan following Groovision’s vision. Pretty amazing project in the sense that they really have nothing else better to do. The one you see above is Nakasone OFF IN Kyoto. There are also Nakasone in Tokyo, Gifu, and even on the offshore island of Okinawa.

According to their Bulletin board website (in Japanese), they seem to have tracked through all major cities in Japan groovision style. We wonder when they’ll come to do it here in New York.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZAKjKC7Gho

A new video for the Department of Eagles single, one of the best songs released last year, directed by Patrick Daughters, who’s really been making the rounds lately. A whimsical affair on the whole, even amidst all the Civil-War gun-shooting and leg-cutting, this video for ‘No One Does It Like You’ premiered at the MoMA earlier this week. Costumes and other production help provided by Marcel Dzama. Thanks to Gorilla Vs. Bear for the heads-up.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowGJtytQRE

Here’s the official trailer for the Spike Jonze-directed movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. It’s beginning to look like Jonze and Dave Eggers, his co-writer on the project, have produced something very, very special. The trailer plays to music from Arcade Fire, who may just be the new go-to group for these kinds of things, having lent ‘My Body is a Cage’ to the intriguing early teaser spot for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Watch, and watch again. See the hi-res versions here.

We wait patiently every March/April and September/October for Japanese electronic companies to come out with new goodies that will make us go WOW. And we have a feeling that our AudioCubes.com and AC Gears customers will be just as excited when we bring in the newest series of Elecom Japan’s trendy earphones. Featuring 6 different designs from Japan’s super renowned graphic design companies – Power Graphixx (previous mentioned here at GEDDEM) and Rotterdam’s Doing (works include m-flo’s CD cases) – a total of 12 different designs. (Left 2 sample earphone images from Power Graphixx, and right 2 from Rotterdam’s Doing.) If you already know about Elecom’s fashionable earphones, then you should certainly applaud for their stepping up to support artists by incorporating design elements in electronic accessories. Now, these are some hot babies worth waiting for.

PS. Looks like the pricings should be very affordable too. Should make it states side no more than $29.99. Time to replace those cheapo iPod earphones.

[ via AV Watch Impress ]