With Daft Punk soundtracked Tron Legacy Fever kicking in (squeal!), it makes only perfect sense that we all need an appropriate costume for the release date.
Fortunately, 27 year old prop-making genius Harrison Krix undertook the epic 17 month project of creating a prefect replica of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s Daft Punk helmet.
No, it’s not for sale, and even if it were I guarantee none of us could afford it. But watch closely below and you may be able to replicate his Homework recipe.
Before the Tron Legacy film premiere in December though? Good luck.
So… the 4 yearly World Cup football-athon kicks off this weekend and round ball fans right around the globe are gearing up for some serious action.
On this side of the world sleepless nights, drunken mornings and a low spot on workplace performance reviews will be the tale of the next four weeks.
Brazil, Spain, England, Netherlands, Argentina, and current holders Italy (grrrr) are all placed to take out the 2010 edition. And in no time at all every person you pass on the street will be dissecting Australia’s match against Germany, Lionel Messi’s performance against Greece, Ronaldo’s amazing goal for Portugal and why England have once again been knocked out by penalties. (ed note – sorry Roddy but it’s true)
Already the mighty advertising dollar that dominates everything we touch, including sport, has shown it’s hand and a plethora of finely filmed, big budget ads have debuted on T.V and the interwebs.
One wonders, with so much quality going around this month, how Adidas managed to let this slip by the keeper…. one of the most nonsensical things I’ve seen in quite some time.
Still, somehow Snoop Dogg escapes with his cool intact… fo shizzle!!
I’m always super curious with how artists / bands first started out before they became well-known. It’s also a question I ask musicians in Australia regularly when first meeting them through my job. Usually makes a good story & paints a great picture of who they are as an artist.
Now I know this example is pretty old (22 years), but I still think it’s really cool.
Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Laurent ‘Branco’ Brancowitz met at school in 1987 and discovered they had the same tastes for rock bands such as MC5, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys or The Stooges. So they formed a group called Darlin’, which is a tribute to a Beach Boys song. They released their first EP on Stereolab’s record label Duophonic, 800 copies in all. Later an english journalist from Melody Maker (a weekly UK music mag), who reviewed this record, said it was “a bunch of daft punk”.
So they decided to do some other music and Thomas and Guy-Manuel took this name, Daft Punk, as the name of their new group. In 1993 they discovered electronic music and were inspired by its sound. But Branco didnt like it so he decided to leave the group to join his brother, Christian Mazzalai in his band which was later called Phoenix.
To hear tracks by Darlin’ – head to their unofficial myspace. I’m sure a copy of their EP is ridiculously rare.
And here’s The Beach Boys song that started them off in their musical careers… Great track!
If you’ve seen Daft Punk live, you’re surely a member of the I’ve seen the Daft Punk Pyramid, life will never be the same facebook group – because the Alive 2007 world tour was unquestionably the single most electrifying live experience to hit this fair planet.
In fact, after watching the trailer for Daft Punk’s DJ Hero, half of theinsound HQ here is reliving the experience by blasting Alive through the office right now.
Cannot wait to get my Robot Rocking hands on this set of decks.
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