The Time My Dad Created Daft Punk's Helmets
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Join Kyra and Tony Gardner as they discuss his work creating Daft Punk's iconic helmets. Hear how his team had to pull in a range of specialists from jumbotron technicians, to astronauts and... auto body shops? Once again it is a reminder of Kyra's unconventional childhood since she knew Daft Punk's faces since she was around ten years old, and their helmets were at her dad's work since she was a toddler. The two discuss the creation of the helmet designs and get into some of the changes to their helmets and costumes over the years.
Tune in next month for a deep dive episode on Hocus Pocus!
It's been such a treat to hear Tony speak so fondly about the helmets rather than treating them as 'just another job'. They served as a perfect representation of what the band would become. Tony really gets what the helmets mean to us fans especially with the fan-made replicas, and getting to see the originals on display at certain exhibits in recent years.
With enough research online I've come across the Alterian archives, a great Mixmag video, a few behind the scenes clips uploaded by GotWub, and now this super insightful podcast. I think I speak on behalf of most to say that we would love to better understand everything there is to know from the creative process - detailed circuitry, design drafts, and even present day images of castings and molds.
There's still a lot about the original helmets' construction that remains a mystery, for example - many recreations I see (even one featured in this video) have 8 rows of LEDs for Thomas' visor running off several Maxim 7221 chips, but the real Thomas helmet made by Alterian had 11 rows of LEDs...
I would spend good money on a publication which gives Tony Gardner's fully detailed account on how he assembled the helmets with plenty of never before seen images. As a book, it could be a real collector's piece - both for Daft Punk fans and people with a passion for prop making - What better way to celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of the helmets! Couldn't thank you guys enough for talking more about your incredible journey with the robots and hope to hear more soon!!! 🌟
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I always thought the Japanese Space Sheriff Gavan was a huge inspiration for he designs, I’ve seen them having toys of those in their studio.
Thank you, for the stories !
this is incredible, thank you for sharing!
The real stars of Daft Punk, lol.
Absolutely amazing!! Thank you 🙏 can't wait for more awesome stories
Thomas and Guy-Man hello ! 👋
súper interesting! thank you for sharing! can’t wait to watch more about Daft Punk stories! xx
This was so fun to watch! I would love to see more daft punk content in the future.
P.S. I love your bandana!
Great discussion. I hope to one day get something like this sorted for my music project. Thank you for blazing the path Gardners
RUclips could not have recommended a better video for me to watch.
that’s the coolest thing ever
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Amazing content. Enjoying watch this from Brazil
So your dad was THE MAN and you never asked?! hahaha I guess there's tons of memorabiblia on your house about the french duo you never cared of too! LOL GREAT podcast and interview, I've subscribed for more!
@@DaftRebel it was so normal in my household I didn’t understand what a big deal it was! Haha.. thank you!!
Wow what a story! Love the Daft Punk bandana as well. So cool! Thank you for sharing with us 😃
Good Job to mr Tony Gardner for the amazing work with Daft punk since 2000
Hi Kyra. Good show! I am a special effects makeup artist as well, and remember when your Dad made a name for himself with that Half corpse in ROTLD.
I swear I can literally feel the pride beaming off of her.
Great video, great relationship ❤
What an absolute treat to see this come up on my algo. Many many thanks to your father!
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Loved this. HUGE Daft Punk fan. This was incredible to hear.
@@andyfox7107 yes we kept forgetting another 5 the whole time 😂😂 woops!!
@@kyraegardner it’s ok it hardly bothered my OCD…. Hardly.
🫶Thanks for the ep x
Also it’s impossible to put into words how much your Dad’s work has affected my life. Just so unbelievably cool.
Your dad is a legend! He has worked on so many classic films, any chance you could do a interview about nightbreed?
Beautiful! Thank you for such a detailed process history. Also need alert: it's THX-1138 not 1000.
Woow amazing story about Tony make the Best Daft punk helmets
Nice episode, nice work…..
Well this is nifty. I had no idea.
Awesome!
Wooooow!!❤
If I’m not mistaken, the microphones are backward… generally the front of the microphone you’d want pointing toward the hosts! Pointing away like this has made it much more roomy sounding and more “echo”.
@@mjrausch thank you so much!! I couldn’t understand why my audio sounded different this episode. I know camera gear much more than I do microphones and I was hoping someone would comment with advice or tips!! Thank you! We will flip them next episode haha
I hope one day the technology will advance enough to make full synthetic robot versions that do concerts with them being programmed. I think that would be awesome but they both probably wouldn't allow it to become a reality. Kinda like the weird hologram thing that they tried to do with dead artists.
It wouldn’t be the first time the helmets let one or both of them to sit out gigs.