Bangalter and Homem-Christo approached the company with a very precise vision for the album's campaign.
Christo, the artist famous for wrapping the Reichstag in white fabric, plans to build it.
"Even a few months ago, the record was just a big amount of music, " said Mr. de Homem-Christo.
Christo wrote Cox a letter of recommendation to the Parsons School of Design in New York, where he enrolled in 1977.
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You might be forgiven for thinking Christo disingenuous when he claims that the Mastaba has nothing to do with Arab oil production.
According to Christo, the political implications of his Mastaba are unintentional.
Born Joel Arthur Rosenthal, he affects to be known, in the manner of Prince or Christo, by a single name: JAR (no periods).
But he's been embroiled in a legal fight with the estate of Christo Michailidis, his deceased business and live-in partner, and was forced into personal bankruptcy.
But he's been embroiled in a nasty legal fight with the estate of Christo Michailidis, his deceased business and live-in partner, and was forced into personal bankruptcy.
The duo whose real names are Thomas Bangalter and Guy De Homem-Christo, told Rolling Stone magazine they hired "top-notch session players" to perform on the album.
In 1976, Cox's uncle, the late artist David Ireland, mentioned a job was available helping Christo install the 24-mile-long Running Fence across the hills of Sonoma and Marin Counties.
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Public art projects, such as Christo and Jeanne Claude's "The Gates, " which transformed New York City's Central Park into a saffron-colored wonderland last February, have delighted millions of visitors.
Every piece of equipment heading to the island is first staged on the mainland, inspected, then sealed in white plastic shrink-wrap to make it look like a creation by the artist Christo.
The Canadian-American border, the longest border in the world between two countries, is as willful an act of imagination as a work of conceptual curtaining by Christo, but its existence has made two separate peoples, with two separate stories.
Over the past three months, a small team led by Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) and manager Paul Hahn has orchestrated a drip-feed marketing campaign that has left almost everything about the album up to the imagination.
Besides Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Murakami, Rauschenberg and Prince, we included perennial bad boys Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, as well as other young talents such as figurative painter John Currin, British sculptor Rachel Whiteread and multimedia pioneer Matthew Barney.
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