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Daft Punk Unchained

The first ever documentary film on the most secretive duo in the world. The epic story of two uncompromising artists. With the participation of their closest collaborators and friends from Pharrell Williams to Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder, Kanye West, Michel Gondry, Paul Williams, Peter Lindbergh, Leiji Matsumoto and Pete Tong.

 Daft Punk Unchained, directed by Hervé Martin Delpierre, is the first independent film which explores an exceptional pop culture phenomenon of the last twenty years: Daft Punk. Between fiction and reality, magic and secrets, theatricality and humility, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have created a unique artistic universe. Throughout their career they have remained determined to control every link in the chain of their creative work. The film highlights key moments of their story, from their first school band in Paris to their historic concert at Coachella festival in 2006 and their spectacular triumph at the 2014 Grammy Awards for the album « Random Access Memories ». In an era of globalisation and the expansion of social media, they have refused to show their own faces and they orchestrate every detail of their appearances as robots. The documentary includes archives of radio interviews with Daft Punk, rare footage and exclusive interviews with their friends and close collaborators from Pharrell Williams to Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder, Kanye West, Michel Gondry, Paul Williams, Peter Lindbergh, Leiji Matsumoto and Pete Tong.

A BBC Worldwide France production, 2015

Featuring Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Nile Rogers, Skrillex, Giorgio Moroder, Michel Gondry, Pete Tong, Leiji Matsumoto, Paul Williams, Peter Lindbergh, Joseph Trapanese, Pedro Winter

Directed by Hervé Martin Delpierre

Manish Arora Street Campaign

Charles Freger shot Debra Shaw for the Fall 15 collection of Manish Arora.

This Is Denim - Topman Denim Campaign - AW15

Agent Provocateur’s Fall/Winter 2015

Ellen Von Unwerth pays tribute to Agent Provocateur’s iconic imagery with a lookbook that focuses on two naughty girls frolicking around an old English manor house in corsets, crystals and luxurious lengths of finest silk.

Gilbert & George: The Early Years

Gilbert & George have been creating art for almost fifty years. Describing their relationship in life and work, they have said, “It’s not a collaboration. . . . We are two people, but one artist.” George, born in Devon, England, in 1942, and Gilbert, born in the Dolomites, Italy, in 1943, met while studying sculpture at St. Martin’s School of Art, London, in 1967. One day while taking photos of each other holding their small-scale sculptures, and then without, the artists realized that they could dispense with them altogether. What was most interesting was not the objects themselves, but their presence as “living sculptures” within the images. They summed up their newly conceived position as artists succinctly: “Art and life became one, and we were the messengers of a new vision. At that moment that we decided we are art and life, every conversation with people became art, and still is.”
While the art world around them in the late 1960s and early 1970s was largely characterized by Pop, Minimal, and Conceptual art, Gilbert & George developed a wholly unique vision. Although they created their art in a variety of mediums, they considered everything they did to be sculpture: Postal Sculptures, Magazine Sculptures, Charcoal on Paper Sculptures, Drinking Sculptures, and Video Sculptures.
Gilbert & George have created a wealth of sculptures in ways never imagined before their union, fully integrating their daily existence into their artistic philosophy. Comprising the Museum’s multi-departmental holdings of their art, this exhibition focuses on their early years, from 1969 through 1975, during which they established the ideology that continues to shape their vision today.

Gilbert & George: The Early Years

MoMA

The Paul J. Sachs Drawings Galleries, third floor

until September 27, 2015

Small Empires: Can Vimeo build a big business without selling out?

My favorite web series, High Maintenance, began appearing on Vimeo back in 2012. The directors picked Vimeo for the same reason many independent artists do: a guarantee that their material would appear without ads and free of the clutter that surrounds videos on Youtube. This year, after a very successful run as a free show, High Maintenance became the first big-budget project backed by Vimeo, an attempt to emulate Netflix original content creation for a streaming video audience.

The market for professionally produced video that skips television and theaters, going straight to the web, is still fairly young. As we move into a world where more and more people are cutting the cord and choosing their entertainment on demand and a la carte, there will be room for plenty of competitors. The challenge for Vimeo is not getting outbid, and overshadowed, by much larger companies with billion-dollar budgets.

Vimeo has always been a sort of outlier, putting art above commerce. Now it wants to position itself as a premium channel: the HBO to Youtube's network television. The problem is that companies like HBO are also rushing onto the web. The key differentiator for Vimeo would be pushing its commitment to supporting these artists. It has lots of reminders on its site that when you're buying something on Vimeo, "most of the cash goes to the maker."

via The Verge

An Instant Guide to Making Coffee

111 CHOSEN MOMENTS

During 2 months the french director and photographer Maximilien Franco travel across California, Mexico and Colombia all alone and shot these are 111 fragments of life.

GUCCI - The Cruise 2016 Campaign — The Director’s Cut

Following a guest into a dance party in a villa outside Florence, the film directed by Glen Luchford captures the contemporary essence of Alessandro Michele’s Cruise 2016 Collection.