Caroline's Sweater

The NYtimes did a profile on the knitter behind the miraculous mini-garments featured in Coraline. Not sure why, but it was certainly enjoyable. The sea-themed sweater at 1:19 blows my mind.

Sigh......Coraline, what an outstanding movie. One of my best friends and I love that movie so much, and we especially love Coraline's rocking star-spangled sweater. Evil Mother sure has good taste. I've even desperately scoured the internet to find a life-size version of it - surely a knitter somewhere saw the movie and decided to capitalize on it????

But no luck. But I love my friend and the sweater enough that I've decided that sometime in the future, I'm going to get that sweater custom-made, and give it to her as a gift. She'd be absolutely bonkers about it.

Coraline

I need to buy this

Between Coraline, Bright Star, and Fantastic Mr. Fox, last year was truly special (in movie-going terms, that is). I brought the Coraline DVD as a birthday present for my friend, and ended up watching it four times with her. Each time, I notice new things - a painstaking detail or a sly foreshadowing. You know, signs of effort and innovation, two things Tim Burton forgot on his way to the box office. That's why it pisses me off - have I mentioned this before? - whenever people shrug off Coraline because "they don't care for Tim Burton". "It's not Tim Burton!" I practically scream at them. "No association with him whatsoever! None! Nada! Zip! It has none of Burton's self-satisfied trademarks! It does not mistake weirdness for originality, it does not throw together paper-thin plotlines with redundant art designs and then call it a day! It is hilarious and suspenseful and otherworldly and layered and magical and magnificently presented and -"

In other words, I need to go buy the DVD.