The song is huge on the airwaves in France right now. Monsieur Monsieur Boivin will officially launch the video this Friday on his Youtube Channel. At the same time, Sony Music France will go big with it in France.
By the way, we’ve seen Le Lac and it’s absolutely awesome.
Check out for buzz here in Mtl*.
Woolf + Lapin just came back from TIFF. On opening night, we had the pleasure of attending the after screening party of Year of the Carnivore by Sook-Yin Lee at Rolly’s Garage. Buck 65 fired up the stage for the festival crowd. A good vibe to kick off the Toronto International Film Festival.
Buck 65 played some new songs and stuff from Situation.
The score for Year of the Carnivore was created by Buck 65 himself.
And about the film, the buzz around the festival is that “it’s like a lot of other English Canadian films right now—quirky.”
More to come.
Thanks to Ryan Sargent for the phone pics!
In less than 30 days, Guy Laliberté will be among the 240 privileged people to have gone to space. He is also among the select few millionaires to have bought the round trip to space at approximately $35 million. Which includes a 12-day stay aboard the international space station.
As with all things Soleil, there will be quite a planetary sideshow to his space travels, including a two-hour special he will be broadcasting to earth. The press release calls Laliberté’s 12-day stay in space a Poetic Social Mission whose aim is to heighten awareness about water.
Along with Man Booker laureate Yann Martel, Woolf + Lapin’s Gilles Brien is contributing to the scientific-based text that Guy Laliberté will be reciting as he orbits earth. The two-hour broadcast from space will include the participation of U2’s Bono, astronaut Julie Payette, both friends of Laliberté, as well as über environmentalists Al Gore and David Suzuki.
All props to the best clown on earth who, incidentally, will be that much closer to the sun.
Woolf + Lapin was recently in Southern California and had the pleasure of hanging out at Tony Hawk’s installation in Vista, north of San Diego. Though we didn’t get the pleasure of meeting Tony in person we were given a tour of the place by head of production Irene Navarro and Angela Rhodehamel. We visited the offices, (Hawk has a #23 signed Bulls jersey of Mr. Air himself behind his desk) as well as the warehouse area where ramps take up most of the space where employees get to go for a skate and test the merch…
Incidentally, it is this very warehouse space that director Patrick Boivin will use to film a spot for an upcoming Tony Hawk product.
Hawk has been a skate icon since he was fourteen. And he has branded his pro skater name prolifically : video games, decks, shirts, vitamins, websites (check out shredordie.com), his own skateboard team Birdhouse, his production company 900 films to his own radio show. But what’s most impressive is his Foundation, which promotes and finances public skateparks in low-income areas across the United States.
Volunteers of the Tony Hawk Foundation like in the image below are responsible for the building of over 450 skateparks in the US.
“If it’s done right, a skatepark project can teach young people a lifelong lesson in the power of perseverance, and remind adults that kids with funny haircuts and pierced lips not only can be good people, but also can get things done.”
Ride on!
Director Jérémie Saindon is going into production at the end of this month on his very first short film. The film is called “L’anniversaire de mon frère” and was penned along with Stephan Dubreuil (also writer of this blog). The makeup is a strong visual attribute of the story because it unfolds during a child’s birthday. It is set in a high-class residential building involving a triad of neighbors all somehow caught in the throes of desire at a very inopportune time. Actors Julie LeBreton, Sébastien Huberdeau and Tim Rozon are all slated to star. The producer, Caramel Films, is also behind Jérémie’s first feature length on Haitian street gangs slated to go into production in the summer of 2010.