Nightlights

Is there a human being out there who hasn’t seen this video? If so, here is a present for you.

starring: Candice Heiden April Corley Appelusa McGlynn dir Hiro Murai prod Kimberly Stuckwisch dp Larkin Seiple choreographer: Ryan Heffington AD: Jamar Hawkins gaffer: Matt Ardine prod design: Maxwell Orgell PM: Sara Eric Lacombe wardrobe: Elise Velasco and Chris Velasco color: Ricky @ MPC ep Danielle Hinde @ Doomsday Ent

I think about it all the time. I saw it three years ago, which probably still made me late to the party as it had dropped the year before, but this gdang thing has been showing up in my dreams ever since. It’s about to inspire The MicroFiction Series Chapter Two (JUST WAIT) in such a blatant way that I’m claiming it now— yes I know. But you know what I used to live by a park with a parking lot and it occurred to me while I was there that I’d like to shoot video one night on that parking lot, and so maybe a form of this idea slapped a whole lot of us in the face in 2014 the way ideas do, but it was only brilliantly realized by Chet Faker that year. How’s that for a run on sentence? In any case, when I finally shoot my own nighttime piece, there will (sadly) be no rollerskates and we’ll be working with an altogether different narrative.

On another note, I slept with a nightlight well into my teens, how about you?

Marion

Another throwback this week, this slice of heaven is an afternoon in the sun, a beautiful pair of shoes, a cold martini, and a serene pool of water. It's glamorous, the makers are banking on that I'm sure, and that catches my eye immediately. Marion Cotillard is a stunner. But what keeps me watching is the strangeness here, the awkward beauty, the moments where the rules are broken. I've said it before, but I love beauty when it's strange.

French actress and face of Dior, Marion Cotillard reduced the world to tears with her musical debut as Edith Piaf in 2007's La Vie en Rose. Now teaming up with Joseph Mount and Villaine, she's making music once more, and it's just as beautiful.

I'm also obsessed with underwater shoots, and one day I've gotta do it. Thank God they make you wait for it here, so it's quite literally a cool splash of water.