Bono calls them geniuses; Eckhart Tolle and Bob Geldof say they adulation them; Noam Chomsky opens his aperture to them whenever they're in boondocks and Madonna does yoga to their music. 1 Giant Leap, the all-around aesthetics and music abstraction casting which brought us the bifold Grammy nominated Unity Through Diversity, allotment with the unmissable multimedia masterpiece 'What About Me? We're on a mission to accomplish self-reflection hip for just a moment, just continued abundant to save us. An amazing blur by two ability film-makers... Jubilant, unique, ambitious, epic, dramatic, life-affirming and absolutely absorbing…a agreeable and beheld feast This alternation is heartening, adorning and blissful a accomplished archetype of aggressive documentary-making. Don¹t absence it. Re-designing the What About Me? website was an agitative multi-layered and multi-cultured activity to be complex in so to plan with Duncan and Jamie, who were accessible to exploring assorted adventurous and characteristic artistic ideas, was just fantastic. Ultimately, we ambition it to advance you to the appointment area you can accord and become allotment of One Giant Leap¹s growing army of fans.
-- Through music and film, 1 Giant Leap explores the accepted complexities of animal nature. Jamie Catto (Faithless co-founder) and Duncan Bridgeman set out on their journey, recording agreeable jewels and words of acumen with the chrism of the world's thinkers, writers and entertainers alternating the way. The duo travelled to the extreme corners of the planet, to ensure immense cultural assortment in this time abridged of altruism at its a lot of inspirational.
"We're on a mission to accomplish self-reflection hip for just a moment, just continued abundant to save us." Jamie Catto
'What About Me?' gives a alluring acumen into accepted issues and our aggregate insanity: how we are ego-driven, clamorous in desire, blood-soaked by adolescence and clumsy to stop thinking, whilst abrogation admirers activity overwhelmingly aggressive and empowered.
The all new website www.whataboutme.tv allows humans from all walks of activity to accompany the discussions, accomplish their animosity heard and accompany an agitative movement that is rapidly accepting momentum.
Unscripted, with no adventure board; astute conversations are captured with some of the a lot of affecting humans of our era, from Noam Chomsky, Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra and Sir Bob Geldof, to Gabrielle Roth, Ram Das, Susan Sarandon and Billy Connolly. Equally astute contributions appear from alien humans just accepting on with their lives, from a affiliated woman in Africa to an ostracised gay man in America. Together their words acknowledge how we are affiliated not alone through our adroitness and our behavior but aswell through our madness.
The beauteous music was interwoven, alpha with a pre-composed abetment clue which again grew and developed as anniversary band was added by a altered artist in a altered allotment of the world. Featuring legends such as REM's Michael Stipe, Alanis Morissette Maxi Jazz, Stewart Copeland and Carlos Santana, alongside African affiliated and Bedouin musicians, Chinese rappers, Gabonese Pygmies and Tuvan throat singers.
4-years, 5 continents and 50 countries later, 'What About Me?' is an access of music and philosophy, an admirable barbecue for the senses and the soul.
"An amazing blur by two ability film-makers..." Bono
Jamie Catto
Musician, blur director, editor, photographer, artistic catalyst. As founding affiliate and art administrator of the badly acknowledged casting Faithless, Catto has enjoyed no beneath than 5 Top Ten singles ("Salva Mea", "Insomnia", "Reverence"), apparent two albums go gold in the UK alone, arena to crowds of up to 80,000. As art administrator for Faithless' Cheeky label, Catto has directed alarmingly acclaimed videos for their artists, including Faithless' beauteous assurance accent blur for "God Is A DJ." His photos and designs accept adorned the covers of Skinny's Failure And Faithless' Sunday 8pm albums.
Duncan Bridgeman
Artist, producer, multi-instrumentalist. Bridgeman's music career started in the aboriginal 80's if he denticulate a Number One ball hit ("Give Me") with the groundbreaking body casting I Level. After abrogation the band, he spent ten years as a acknowledged ambassador and remixer, alive with Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Shakespeare's Sister, Transvision Vamp and Paul McCartney. When Bridgeman annoyed of authoritative added people's music, he arranged his bags, grew his hair long, and abutting a casting alleged Tribal Drift. He spent the next few years creating music and arena festivals throughout Europe and the UK, ultimately basic 1 Giant Leap with Jamie Catto.
Notes to editors:
The aboriginal 1 Giant Leap production, Unity Through Diversity was nominated for 2 Grammys in 2003, awash over 300 thousand albums, and won abundant awards globally.
'What About Me?" is accepting buried in the UK for 7 weeks on Channel 4 in the UK from November 5th.
As Co-founder of Bondage for Freedom, (founded with Sam Roddick in 2008), Jamie Catto aims to accomplish Activism the active art movement of this era.
What the humans are saying:
"Dazzling" - The Times
"Jubilant, unique, ambitious, epic, dramatic, life-affirming and absolutely absorbing…a agreeable and beheld feast" DVD Monthly
"This alternation is heartening, adorning and blissful a accomplished archetype of aggressive documentary-making. Don¹t absence it." GQ.com
999 Design quote:
Aileen Geraghty, managing administrator of 999, said: "Re-designing the What About Me? website was an agitative multi-layered and multi-cultured activity to be complex in so to plan with Duncan and Jamie, who were accessible to exploring assorted adventurous and characteristic artistic ideas, was just fantastic. Ultimately, we ambition it to advance you to the appointment area you can accord and become allotment of One Giant Leap¹s growing army of fans."
Additional Contributors to this activity cover Michael Franti, Tim Robbins, Tom Robbins, Hhaale, Stephen Fry, Eckhart Tolle, Bob Geldof, Michael Stipe, Eddie Reader, Jaelissa, Speach, Arrested Development, Boots Riley, Zap Mama, Gogol Bordelo, Lila Downs, Spearhead, Baaba Maal, Will Young Daniel Lanois, K D Lang, Maxi Jazz, Ram Dass, Noam Chomsky.
