Pharrell, Maggie, and Nicole

4 deliciously creative things to help kick off your week.

Pharrell Williams, photo by Shawn Ahmed, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Happy Monday! Here’s your weekly dose of creative goodness.

We took the kiddo to see PIECE BY PIECE, the new Pharrell Williams documentary/LEGO movie hybrid, over the weekend. It was cute! Using LEGO animation to tell what is essentially a standard talking head documentary about Pharrell’s life and career is genius—my 12 year old was far more engaged than he would have been otherwise.

I actually had no idea just how many songs the Neptunes (the production duo comprising Pharrell and Chad Hugo) wrote, produced, and performed on until I saw the film. (I also had no idea I still knew most of the words to “Rump Shaker,” yet here we are. It’s amazing what lives in the deep recesses of one’s brain.)