We think Jonathan Zawada has a pretty good thing going on. He seems calm and at ease having recently relocated from Sydney to Los Angeles. And while he is no newcomer to the world of design, he is eager to see what he can shake up in the more established art world over there. [...]
Our friend Bertrand de Langeron is a man of many talents. Better known by his pseudonym SO-ME; he is the man behind many music videos and designs for the Ed Banger/Cool Cats crew. You might have seen him drawing along to a Busy Pictionary show or DJing the world over. A self-confessed party animal with [...]
Xavier and Gaspard have spent the last months working hard to release their critically acclaimed sophomore record ‘Audio, Video, Disco’. The photo above was taken with the model we built for the cover of the first single off their new album, ‘Civilization’. They are currently busy preparing for their world tour beginning on the 1st of [...]
All good things come to an end. But with any ending comes a new beginning. In the case of our blog it is soon time to part with our trusty old blog and enter 2012 with an entirely new site! Look forward to daily updated content on a layout that will feel like hazel-lenses on [...]
Our close friend Leslie David is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator living in Paris, France. She works for high-profile clients worldwide and has a very impressive body of work. Aside from this she continues to design patterns for the Surface to Air fashion label. She is also a lover of green tea and isn’t afraid of the odd [...]
Our long-time friend Mehdi used to practice in the basement of our old office in Paris with his band Scenario Rock. At the moment he produces music and dj’s under the name DVNO. You would have heard him sing on the Justice track of the same name. I asked him about what he’s been up [...]
31.10.11 Singtank ‘The Party’ EP finally hits stores and Itunes today! Featuring our good friends Alexandre (click for our interview with him) and Joséphine de La Baume, with the drumming of S2A Studio Art Director Alberto Cabrera! Keep your eyes peeled for the limited edition 7-inch vinyl. Cover artwork by Alberto Cabrera & Andrew Woodhead. Tracklist: 1. Singtank – The [...]
Our friends Antoine & Florent are the guys that make up Parisian rock band JAMAICA. I met up with them at Flo’s place in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris; where in-between his bikes, records and old synthesizers, they’ve set up their own home studio and are in the process of writing the follow-up to their first [...]
Our friend Antoine Wagner co-directed the Phoenix tour documentary ”A Mess To The Masses” (trailer below) with Francisco Soriano. I talked to Antoine about the making of his clip for Phoenix’s ‘Lisztomania’ and how he ended up on the road with them for the last two years. Karl Henkell: How did it come about that you were working together [...]
Our friend Ariel Kleiman is an award-winning Australian filmmaker and director of music videos and commercials (through Partizan). He currently resides in London and among other things, enjoys blended meals for breakfast. Being an equal advocate of the blended meal and sharing the same hometown of Melbourne; I was interested to know more about how he does what [...]
The gold shimmer shines bright from the mirrored façade of this humble establishment. ‘J.Lapersonne Boulanger Patissier’ (also known as Delphine’s bakery) is by far the cheapest (good) lunch in Paris. Nestled away near Metro Republique in the Marais, this little gem serves up an assortment of sandwiches, cakes and pastries daily. By no means a gourmet [...]
Take some time to watch “Der Lauf der Dinge” (The Way Things Go, 1987); an amazing 30-minute film documenting a long causal chain assembled of everyday objects resembling a Rube Goldberg machine, by Swiss art duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Watch Part I below: Click to see: Part II and Part III
In what is basically the wet dream of every high school nerd; Scientists can now read the minds of others. Or at least piece together a very blurry window into their brain. In a recent study scientists were able to link video images seen by subjects to a corresponding brain activity. This leads to technology [...]
On Friday 9th September I met up with Alexandre at Metro Odeon in the 6th arrondissement of Paris to take some photos and have a chat. In case you didn’t know, Alexandre shares vocals with his sister Josephine and plays with S2A art director Alberto Cabrera and graphic designer Andrew Woodhead in the band Singtank. He had his [...]
The Rapture sure know how to write a good summer jam. They just released their new album ‘In The Grace Of Your Love’ and are playing La Maroquinerie in Paris this Monday 5th September. If you missed out on a ticket just like I did, you can catch their Dj set at Le Pompon afterwards. [...]
Beating the morning rush. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COyab3YQS48 Claude Lelouch, C’était un Rendez-Vous (1976).
One of the best bands to come out of Melbourne in a while is all-girl band Beaches. They play a mix of fuzzy, sun-drenched, noisy, pedal-heavy, Sonic Youth-like tunes that defy classification but boil down to five girls rocking out on stage. In short: perfect roadtrip music. Click here to see a recent live show [...]
An incredible side-story to our Fitzcarraldo post and Werner Herzog‘s extensive filming in the Peruvian rainforest is that of plane-crash survivor Julianne Koepke: ‘In 1971, a plane with 92 passengers aboard dissapeared into the Peruvian jungle without a trace. After ten days, the intensive search was abandoned. On the twelfth day, Juliane Koepcke, a seventeen year old [...]
Washed Out‘s new album ‘Within and Without’ released on Sub Pop Records. Washed Out‘s Life Of Leisure EP never really went off high rotation on my Itunes library in the two years since it was released, so I was of course excited (but wasn’t expecting) to hear that his debut album was out. It’s not nearly [...]
One of Jeremie’s favourites is Werner Herzog’s 1982 masterpiece, Fitzcarraldo. A tale of epic proportions, it sees the maniacal European (Klaus Kinski) enlist natives of the Peruvian rainforest to pull his 340 ton paddle steamer over a mountain, in order to harvest an untouched expanse of rubber trees on the other side; all in the ultimate [...]
