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Scion Radio offers a pretty rare and insightful interview with Daft Punk’s elusive Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homme Christo. The two elaborate on their career, their film Electroma, and their attitudes on how they’ve maintained their own creative process. The curiously innovative, laboratorial and sensibly hardworking nature of the duo really confirms the assumptions one already makes of one of the most pioneering cultural icons in music today.

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Taken from their upcoming show, “Where the Neon turns to Wood“, at Community Outreach Gallery in London, Ontario (Dec 7th - 24th)

Beyond their paintings and prints, I’m more interested in the electronics portion of the Dearraindrop collective, and you can see some videos of those pieces here.

Via Busy P Arkitip Intelligence

The Dante Quartet took six years to make (after spending many studying Dante’s The Divine Comedy) and demonstrates the earthly perceptions of “Hell,” “Purgatory” and “Heaven” (also known as “Existence is song,” which Brakhage claimed was “the closest I’d presume upon heaven from my experience”). Originally painted on IMAX and Cinemascope 70mm and 35mm, the only master copy was mistreated and ruined during one of its first screenings at the faculty Innis College at the University of Toronto. These paint-laden rolls have since been re-photographed and translated to 35mm and 16mm compilations, although overall it looks less brilliant when watching over youtube.

Brakhage died on March 9, 2003, having made almost four hundred films in all. He believed, and his doctors confirmed, that the coal-tar dyes he used to paint his films prior to 1996 had caused his cancer.

Via Wikipedia