AG Rojas is a young director on the rise. He believes that we’re at the beginning of a new time in music videos where directors will be given more control and allowed to take more risks. And he’s more than willing to be the one taking them. Labels aren’t paying his rent so why should they [...]
Roman Signer is an artist. And for us, at Surface to Air studio, he is a genius. His staged events may make you laugh; but that is not their express intention. Roman himself says that he will find things funny afterwards, but not at the time. And therein lies their beauty. His work, often involving [...]
Kim Gordon is anything but the cliché Rock Star; and trying to put a label on her would be like trying to understand a foreign film without the subtitles. Besides the fact of being the power front woman/bass player for cult band Sonic Youth, she’s a modern day renaissance woman. She’s a producer, has worked with [...]
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 good friend Alex is a man of many hats. With the amount of things he’s done over the years your eyes would have come across his work, most likely without even realising it. He’s done record covers and video clips for all those french bands that you like and he even knows Bono! And that White [...]
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 [...]
We would like to pay tribute to french artist Bruno Schmeltz who inspired the last cover we produced for Justice’s single “On n’ On” (late 2011) and for the Midnight Juggernauts video “Into the galaxy” (2010) by sharing with you some of his work we admire the most. Uncle Bruno Schmeltz has always been a [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
