Golden Gate

Geoff McFetridge's video for The Whitest Boy Alive.

Unofficial promo for "Golden Cage" by Erlend Øye's latest band Whitest Boy Alive. Images & video by Geoff McFetridge. Song comes from WBA's 2006 album "Dreams" on Asound/Bubbles Records.

You may know Erlend Øye from Kings of Convenience. The Berlin-based Norwegian singer has been a huge figure in the electronic music scene for years, but with Whitest Boy Alive, his new project with German DJ Marcin Oez, Erlend's gone the opposite route, creating stripped down rock music without layering, editing or effects. The simple combination of drums, bass, guitar and Erlend's breezy, yet intimate voice create a sound that is both funky and melancholy. A truly original pop band making the simplest sounding dance songs in the most organic way, this is one of the best rock albums you will hear this year.

Few people better exemplify the boundarylessness of today's design world than Geoff McFetridge. A 33-year-old graphic designer, animator, filmmaker, and "all-around visual auteur," McFetridge created the opening title sequences for such Hollywood movies as Adaptation and The Virgin Suicides, fashioned products for Nike, and will be launching his own skateboard company, dubbed Atwater. A member of the Director's Bureau, a sort of artists' collective that helps art directors in all media to line up projects, McFetridge is now helping other designers cross these same boundaries. Says Paul Warwick Thompson, director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, who has included McFetridge's graphics in the museum's recent Triennial Exhibition: "He is part of a new generation of designers who are eager to leap the old divides between image and product, design and art, the flat page and the moving image."

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