This is very nearly old news by now, but Billboard reports that the rumors are true: Daft Punk is confirmed to do the entire soundtrack for Tron: The Sequel (or Tron 2.0, or TR2N, or whatever it is they’re calling the project this week). Check the fuzzy, bootleg trailer below — the only footage so far that’s gotten out to the general public.

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We may think we have an idea how this’ll sound. Daft Punk for Tron? It’s such a perfect match, it’s almost dull — as if you can already hear the beats in your head. But don’t forget the dark and brooding score Thomas Bangalter, of Daft Punk, served up for the movie Irreversible not so long ago. Watch an example clip below and know that whatever comes of this pairing, we can be pretty sure we can’t know exactly what to expect.

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That’s right, the Patrick Daughters responsible for the new Depeche Mode video and the Grammy-nominated video for Feist’s 1,2,3,4 is signed on to do a video for ‘Two Weeks,’ the first single from the soon-to-be-released Grizzly Bear record ‘Veckatimest.’

Word coming in from those who’ve heard the album straight through is that it’s some kind of new classic. Maybe you’d expect nothing less from this Brooklyn group that the Radiohead guitarist called his ‘favorite band in the world.’

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Until there’s more word in on the ‘Two Weeks’ shoot,  watch the peacefully bizarre, MIchel Gondry-esque video the band shot for ‘Knife,’ a single taken from their last record, ‘Yellow House’ as well as their Letterman debut of ‘Two Weeks.’

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Following Caleb’s recommendation, I watched Tokyo!, a 2008 film with three medium-lengthed shorts written by three non-Japanese directors – Michel Gondry (Director of The Science of Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Leos Carax (The Lovers on the Bridge), Bong Joon-ho (The Host).

The movie trailer showed strong signs of promise and I am glad to report that the films (finally, for once) are in fact better than expected. Without going too deep into the stories and thereby spoiling the plots, I will just say, Michel Gondry’s Interior Design was natural and almost real, with fast, coherent shots and precise editing throughout (some nice long takes in some scenes, too). The kafkaesque turning point was almost better than Metamorphosis itself, in that, it had some discernible meaning – quite an intuitive interpretation on Japanese woman’s current social status and condition in Japan.

Carax’s Merde took surrealism to a more abstract, Dali-like high plain, by throwing a hint of biblical reference on top of (slightly) disturbing imagery with Japan’s buried history, then blasted it through the benumbing mass media, and tried carelessly by both indifferent and zealous mobs. A lot of information there, so you know he worked really hard to cram things into that one.

Bong’s Shaking Tokyo shook us in its poetic rendering of the inner Tokyo (and cities all over the world) that we have yet to fully uncover, but have always known of its existence (if you don’t know what the hell I am talking about, the answer is hidden under the pizza girl’s left sleeve). A romantic connection that goes beyond love, and is kafkaesque in the modern sense. The portrayal of the OCD character reminded me of Right Place, directed by Kosai Sekine (this time a real Japanese), winner of Best Short Film at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Check out the film below.

New Yorkers can catch Tokyo! right now at Landmark Sunshine Theater in LES. And if you like artsy films that actually don’t put you to sleep, you really ought to watch it.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBhjDgmGrXg

From Wooster Collective, via DailyMotion — a new video from street artist Space Invader, who’s been wicked busy for years surreptitiously installing little tile mosaics in a ton of major cities around the world. Understand it fully or not, you should admit the whole thing is pretty fun.

Sacrilegious indeed, but we couldn’t help but to publish Jon Andrew Davis new Spring 2009 Divine Comedy Show, featuring the interesting combination of established pop-culture icons and established mainstream religion – The Ghostbusters vs Jesus. The image was based on a photoshop image by an anonymous author, which is being circulated on the Internet.

Davis’ gallery also features some clever designs on “blind faith” – ie. A chart of randomly positioned faiths so you can randomly throw a dart and then live and die for it. There’s some sick truth in his designs … it really all depends what family we were born into, isn’t it? A family that’d worship Unicorns would be kind of nonconformist exotic, though.

So who ya gonna call?

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Thanks to our friends Scott and Ian tipping us over Facebook, here’s an excellent music video made by Kutiman called The Mother Of All Funk Chords that’s completely made out of remixed YouTube footage. Apparently, the video itself is spreading through out the Internet faster than the Australian Wild Fire. Check out the Thru-You.com website that hosts additional MV’s, based off from a lo-fi version of YouTube. Excellent!

David Choe is an artist working in oils, sculpture, mixed media and spray paint — a good mix of street and fine artist, if indeed people still make a distinction between the two. He’s the type of guy the corporations come to when they need a touch of cool — Levi’s, Nike — because he has both the ideas and the credibility to deliver.

Here, catch part one of a three-part interview done for the folks at Upper Playground in preparation for a showing of ‘Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe,’ a documentary that will be screening tomorrow as part of the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. For the rest of the interview, follow the link.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9dzo6BX4Js