OPENING CEREMONY X Keds/PRO-Keds

Keds/PRO-Keds X OPENING CEREMONY (HD)

writer/director/producer/camera: monihan monihan

editor/assistant camera: sara kinney

writer producer stylist: dante ross

music: phofo

lighting/crowd control: james h. garrett III

a bricolagista! production © MMIX

the the the the beat lab

This would have been totally real and f-ing brilliant if a certain sponsor didn’t drop the ball (or should i say skinny can of liquid crack). and while we’re on the subject, why is it that all the people at that Droge Firma come from the raver world, and most have serious substance abuse problems?! weird. oh well. beat lab. woulda been great if they woulda done did it, rather than just bit it and made dante mad pissded.

DOLLAR BILL MCMULLEN

FEB 21, 2009, when there was a line around the block to see KAWS show, across the street was another art opening of at least equal importance. Like damn near every talented person walking around, Bill is an old friend of Dante “the king of all conduits” Ross, and his stuff is smart, topical and incredibly well executed. Check it out, Sauerkraut. To learn more about Dollar Bill McMullen go to billmcmullen.com (and realize you’ve seen a lot of his stuff already but didn’t know the name behind the goods.) oh yeah, and later in the night John C. Reilly showed up, no entourage, with just his wife. And he was pretty drunk. John C., solid.

Filmed by Monihan Monihan
Edited by Monihan Monihan
Scored By The Emancipation Proclamation! (Monihan and Phofo, with help by The Clash, Roy Ayers, ATCQ, and Eddy Grant)
a Bricolagista! Production © MMIX

HoP in Boston on St. Ptrks Day=Irish Overload

Seeing as how I’m allegedly Irish 365 days a year, I could give two flying fucks about all this St. Patrick’s Day malarkey. But for Dante and Cookie, being what? Italian, half a Jew and Swedish Hungarian or something, for them, this holiday shit is big time. Free pass to get drunk, fight, cry, write poetry, eat potatoes, all that leprechaun crap, it’s like a fucking frosted lucky charmed walk on the wild side for them two. So when they had the chance to celebrate St Paddy’s Day in Beantown with Dante’s scromies from forever, House of Pain, sheeee-it, you know they were in like Flynn. Here’s a little film Cookie made to show you all the shamrocks and shenanigans. –Monihan

KAWS Kur8s

FEB 22nd 2009 opening for “I Can’t Feel My Face”
Kurated by KAWS @ Royal/T (Culver City’s Japanese inspired multipurpose fun factory)
With works from a slew of who’s who’s in the popart world. Show runs until 9/7
Filmed by Monihan Monihan
Edited by Monihan Monihan
Scored By The Emancipation Proclamation! (Monihan and Phofo, with help by The Clash, Roy Ayers, ATCQ, and Eddy Grant)
a Bricolagista! Production © MMIX

another world’s youngest

Another one of a series of ten ‘Peak Early’ “spots” we did with the ad agency Mother(London) back in 2002?
They were little promo shorts for the Australian “Young Guns” award show.
Good old school no budget fun.
This one supposedly won an award somewhere.

world’s youngest fireman

One of a series of ten ‘Peak Early’ “spots” we did with the ad agency Mother(London) back in 2002?
They were little promo shorts for the Australian “Young Guns” award show.
Good old school no budget fun.

LOVE THIRST / JEAN GRAE

It was real cool of Bobby D to swing through and do this little cameo in Jean’s vid. And when he insisted on working for scale? I mean, we all know he loves the sisters but dag, we were all really taken aback by his generosity. Stand up guy, 110%. And he still looks like a million bucks. Doesn’t seem to age a bit–on film OR in person.

“LOVE THIRST”
The first single from the BLACKSMITH/Warner album release of “Jeanius”
Lyrics and Vocal Performance by Jean Grae
Music by 9th Wonder
Video Written and Directed by Monihan Monihan
Shot and Edited by Joe Cookie
Styling by Petria May
Driving by Bobby DeNiro
Produced by BRICOLAGISTA!
©2008 BLACKSMITH/Warner Bros. Records Inc.

100% daft

Last year Joe Cookie filmed me interviewing Daft Punk for Vice in conjunction with this horrible pollution corporation. The interview was conducted under very awkward circumstances. Details? Well, for instance, the corporate stooge from the pollution company was breathing down my neck telling me to ask them questions that I was certain they didn’t want to discuss. Boring shit, biographical shit that they’ve discussed a million times already over their tenure in the music scene. On top of that, the radio guy had us all wearing really irritating earphones, typical of radio interviews, but something that makes conversation stilted and tedious, non-conversational. And while the two performers were nice enough guys, I got the sense that they felt forced into doing the “promotion” out of a sense of obligation. So, all in all, unless you really love daft punk, you may find this video incredibly dull and annoying. Yet I know that many people absolutely love DP, their music, their mystique, and to such extremes that even hearing them snore would bring about some weird sense of joy. And therefore I felt it was only fair to post this document irregardless of my trepidation. Lastly, seeing as they are a French import, the disguises we decided to wear are in homage to De La Soul (yo, I’m speaking Francais yo).

singles match (dating show!!)

SINGLES MATCH (Starring Prince Paul and Manfred Winters) from bricolagista! on Vimeo.

Here’s an old gem from 2003(?) that I made when I was still working with Nieratko (under our Freshkills imprint). It was a pilot for a dating show on BET (a program that would later be rechristened Hell Date). It was done super cheap and without much time for editing but I still think it’s pretty funny…since it’s so stupid (and at least more entertaining than what they eventually turned the show into–common with pilots, since they’re done before the committees come in and screw everything up). watch and judge for yourselves. and feel free to send comments, complaints, questions, etc.