Vincent Moon’s new website went live yesterday. He is a god.

If you’ve ever thought you loved what you saw at La Blogotheque, what your probably were experiencing was the genius that is Vincent Moon. Who is Vincent Moon you say? Aside from my personal hero that is?

Vincent Moon was born in Paris in 1979. At the age of 18, he decided he wanted to see it all, to learn things on his own, out of curiosity, even if that could have led to overfeeding, and so for ten years. From that experience, images came out, through photography first, which we studied under the influence of Michael Ackerman and Antoine D’Agata. Some years later, as he discovered the work of Peter Tscherkassky, his images gained movement/motion. He made use of the Internet and developed various projects related to music, directing videos for Clogs, Sylvian Chauveau, Barzin, The National. In 2006, overwhelmed by the beauty of Step Across the Border, directed by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel, on the English guitarist Fred Frith, he created the Chryde and Take Away Shows project, La Blogotheque’s video podcast www.concertaemporter.com.

This series of outdoor/wild documentaries consists in improvised video sessions with musicians, set in unexpected locations and broadcast freely on the web. In a year, he managed to shoot over a hundred clips with bands like REM, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, Grizzly Bear and many more. He perfected a style immediately recognizeable of intimate, fragile, dancing and shadowing long shots, and at the same time changed the whole idea of what should be a music video.

While he works on his Take Away shows, Vincent Moon also keeps side projects, exploring other formats. He directed a movie-essay on New York band The National titles A skin, A night, released in May 2008, also created a one hour movie on The Arcade Fire and works closely with Michael Stipe and REM on several video and web projects related to their recent album: the 48′essay 6 Days, a free documentary on the recording of Accelerate, the experimental ninety-days-long web project called 90nights, and the video for the single Supernatural Superserious. He released in November 2007 his first dvd, a very unique film with Beirut, all the 12 songs from his new album being filmed in the streets of Brooklyn.

In his attempt to find new ways to film music, distancing himself from mainstream and commercial formats, he filmed in 2007 an average length gonzo film on the ATP Festival, Sketches from a nightmare, the first of a serie on this festival, as well as on the Music Now Festival in Cincinnati, in a very different style – a 30 min one shot in a building filled with musicians. In October 2007, Warp Films signed him up as a video clip director. But he doesn’t really enjoy video clips.

Exploring new forms and territories being not only a metaphor Vincent Moon is developing now what will be his lifetime project: to document every country in the world, as temporary areas, on a very unique website – WWW.TEMPORARYAREAS.COM – and not only dedicated to music this time. The first territories explored are Mali, Jerusalem, Iceland and The Lower East Side. A lot is still to come. (from his bio on temporaryareas.com)