Throughout the Vodafone summer series we’ve already had Summer Activities You Can’t Do Alone
and Top Outdoor Cinemas Not To Miss This Summer, now we’re taking a walk through a few examples of minds meeting in the making of beautiful music and or art. Sure, maybe some of the most highly publicised, ‘buzzworthy‘ partnerships were all over everything, ie Kim and Kanye getting weird on a motorbike, or Franco and Rogen also…yeah, but 2013 was an overall incredible year for exciting creative collaborations across the board.
If you’re a fan of stopping, collaborating and listening – Vodafone have a $30 Prepaid Cap which scores you double the data that you would normally get if you buy before this Friday the 31st of January – maybe it’s time to think about ‘creatively’ collaborating with Voda to score that extra 500MB.
Since we realise we can’t possibly cover all the amazing happenings that went down last year, we’ve tried to at least span a few different industries with both international and homegrown talent included. So, without further ado, the dream teams of 2013:
Flume x Chet Faker
The bro with the beard and ya boi Flerm – together again. It has been shown over and over that these two do make beautiful music sounds together, and after the release of their collaborative EP Lockjaw this year, the lads have proven themselves to be a winning combo. If they were a horse…we’d back them in Melbourne Cup.
Opening Ceremony x Everyone
Rick Owens x LA Step Team
Riddle me this: if you were a fashion designer showing at Paris Fashion Week would you hire professional models or would you get step team from LA who come out and take care of all of the business? Rick Owens, who is never subtle, is all about the latter with his runway show displaying just how comfy and practical, yet super kewt, his line is. More of this please, fashion world.
Alfonso Cuarón x Technology
Post-Gravity production Alfonso told the story of when they were preparing to shoot: “And then very soon we find out that the film was not going to be achievable with the existing technology,” and so what did he do? “Waste four years of my life.” He later said in a press statement: “It took a lot of education for the animators to fully grasp that the usual laws of cause and effect don’t apply…In outer space, there is no up; there is no down…It took more than two years of this “previs” process before the director’s first “Action!” call.” Alfonso played the long game and, the reviews are in, Alfonso won.
Rob Thomas x Kristen Bell x Marshmallows
FAN POWER [peace sign]! A series that many thought to be well and truly dead was resurrected by a kickstarter revolution (“CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE PLEDGE?!”) and now a Veronica Mars movie is imminent. After Rob Thomas, the show and Veron — Kristen Bell experienced unusually high levels of cult following after the series wrapped and so they did what any creator of an amazing series that finished well before its time (except you, Joss………..) would do and reached out to their fan base to help fund the next chapter in the V Mars adventure.
Nabil x Anyone Nabil Worked With
We’ve described him as an ‘artist at the peak of his creative power’ and absolutely nothing has changed. This Aussie boy’s work as a photographer is breathtaking and as a director, take it away James Blake: “He’s a brilliant director. I really hold him in high regard not just as a director but as a person. He’s a lovely guy. I just did the “Overgrown” video with him and he’s really a commander in the field. The video looks great. He’s got great ideas.”
His Vimeo speaks for itself, emerge yourself in it and live there forever <3
Ben Quilty x Warwick Thornton
They’re worth including on the list purely because their bromance sounds like a delight, as Warwick Thornton told the story of their meeting: “Ben bought me a beer and I told him that I had a Ford XB Falcon. He said, ‘Get f—ed! I own one as well. Give me a cuddle!’ It was game over.” Their collaboration came about with Thornton’s new film, The Darkside, (Margaret and David gave it 4 stars just fyi) which had Quilty create an original artwork for the film. Do recommend checking it out.
