Monday 2 May 2011

Artists who work between disciplines

For my research on artists who work between disciplines i decied to research three artists.First decidion was to reaserach on Dam on Albarn who was part of a band Gorillaz which I quite liked, then Michel Gondry which I was recomemnded to research and Morgan Freeman becouse of his beleavible acting and a voice with which he can make anything sound interesting.

Dam on Albarn

Damon Albarn is singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was involved in many high profile projects but he is best known as a song writer for Gorillaz and as a frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop and Blur. and has also helmed such lesser-known projects as The Good, the Bad & the QueenMonkey: Journey to the West and Mali Music.He also was featured in Antonia Bird's 1997 film Face. Albarn was also featured in Gunar Karlsson's 2007 film Anna and the Moods.
Even though he had huge success in band blur he started his own project/band Gorillaz which became more succesfull than blur. Gorillaz was unique in some way becouse a band bembers were all animated characters which also plyed a huge role in Gorillaz succes. Afterwards similar things were done by other bands for example Daft Punk turned there album Discovery into animated movie.



Michel Gondry


Michel Gondry is a French film, commercial and music video director and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scene. His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui, in which he also served as a drummer. He worked on films like "Human nature", "The Science of sleep" and "The Green Hornet" he also worked on a lot of documentary films,short films, advertisements  and music videos in my opinion his most famous music video is "Around the World" by Daft Punk.


Morgan Freeman

Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is known for his acting as a wise and faterly character and for his well known and unique voice . Freeman made his acting debut at age 9, playing the lead role in a school play. His first credited film appearance was in 1971's ''Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?'' Beginning in the mid-1980s,. Morgan Freeman is well known for his acting but he also was a director of movie ''Bopha!'' but that was his only directed movie and after that he sticked with what he knows best acting and narrating and after one year after release of his directed movie he stared in movie called The Shawshank Redemption which was voted the best movie of all time. He is usualy narrator in the movies he acts in.

sources: wikipedia and www.imdb.com