More items from Shaun Tan's federal department of odds and ends

May 26, 2015 9:38 PM

Shaun Tan (previously, twice) is most identified with his distinctly surreal style of 2D still art, but he has also worked in sculpted and animated forms, as seen in his pieces inspired by recently revised stories of the Brothers Grimm, and The Lost Thing, a short film based on his book of the same name.
posted by filthy light thief (4 comments total)

The Lost Thing, previously.
posted by zamboni at 10:25 PM on May 26, 2015 [1 favorite]

Ah, thanks - I missed that.

The Lost Thing - a provisional transcript.

So you wanna hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you would laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you will never wanna repeat them. But now I can’t remember any of those. So maybe I’ll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing.
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“Are you finding that the order of day-to-day life is unexpectedly disrupted?

Do you suffer from unclaimed property, objects without a name, troublesome artifacts with an unknown origin, things that just don’t belong?

Don’t panic! We’ve got a pigeon’s hole to stick in it.
The Federal Department of Odds and Ends”

posted by filthy light thief at 4:35 AM on May 27, 2015

awwww & wow!

thx, the lost thing was delightful :P
posted by kliuless at 10:41 AM on May 27, 2015

I need an English version of that book.
posted by HarveyDenture at 2:46 PM on May 27, 2015