A few seconds in comes the thud of a steady, muscular beat. Zimmerman designed the mouse logo while working on renderings of 3-D graphics. It was his first official Deadmau5 gig, and he wanted to do something that would make him stand out from all the other electronic musicians. The audience was initially bewildered by the head. That first head was red, but he has had several others since, in blue, yellow, black though he lost the black one on a flight and white this one covered in fan signatures.
To round out his collection, he has a metallic model, which he wore to the Junos this year, and the LED-equipped version, which dazzled at Lollapalooza. Each is based on a lightweight plastic shell that resembles a big fishbowl. The ears are as light as balsa wood and slide into slots in the shell. The eyes are made out of plastic half-orbs and wired to lights to produce an appropriately eerie glow during shows.
Zimmerman tells me he was initially unimpressed by the Henson Creature Shop, since it keeps its real magic out of sight. But then he caught a glimpse of the Muppet characters from The Dark Crystal and was floored.
Total Geek Dream. His fans try to replicate the heads, with varying degrees of success. Recently, Zimmerman solicited his fan base to help him conceptualize the next one. The contest generated thousands of entries. Every bachelor pad needs a pin-up girl.
She was seated up front and has said she was captivated as she watched him, perched high above in his cube. In person, the skinny year-old, a former Miss Teen Louisiana who was the third runner-up in the Miss Teen USA pageant, reminds me of a Freeway -era Reese Witherspoon—a pert southern belle with a ragged edge. The two have nevertheless developed a casually domestic dynamic. The day of my interview, he waits at the door until she appears with the keys to let him into the Mau5haus, balancing a filigree-embossed shopping bag from the mall on one finger.
When he gropes around for smokes, she passes him a pack. And while he answers my questions about the business of being Deadmau5, Evans curls up on a nearby chair and busies herself by flipping through her own modelling shots.
Zimmerman could move to London, where his management company is based, or Berlin, where electronic music is not just a niche market, or Los Angeles, where many of his friends live. Houses sliding down a cliff. He also likes the degree of anonymity he experiences here, where he can hang out at nightclubs like the Guvernment without being disturbed.
He recently bought the condo adjacent to his and is planning to demolish the wall in between, essentially doubling his living space. While they prepare for the renovations, his mom has been using the empty apartment next door as an office space. Just off the front foyer, he has a small cockpit of a studio.
My one indulgence is that piano. The toffee-coloured interior of the piano is studded with the signatures of a cabal of crooners, from Harry Connick Jr. He looks as animated as a boy with his first Atari. His mother and one of his close friends told me that, deep down, Zimmerman views touring as a necessary evil. He betrays other signs of wanting a different kind of career. Soon, it seems clear, Deadmau5 will reach his limit of playing Pied Piper to zoned-out teenagers.
Sign of the times. No real talent, no real work. I have an idea… Try making something better than what he does. Do you even know how much effort goes into production? It takes both skill and acute knowledge, that most people never have at their disposal. And his talent has tanked over the years, because now his production is better than his music.
Who gives a shit. WHy complain about it? Suck your own dick. He named himself after an actual dead mouse The story goes Joel Zimmerman came up with the name Deadmau5 after finding a dead mouse in his broken computer. His name would be abbreviated to Deadmau5 in chat room Zimmerman used to frequent. In , he created Mau5trap Records Back in , Zimmerman created Mau5trap Records which has grown into a hugely successful enterprise for the producer and has released records from the likes of Rezz, Shotty Horroh and Tommy Lee.
The self-confessed nerd proposed to his ex-wife and tattoo artist Kat Von D via Twitter. How very millennial. He was the first producer to recognise the true potential of live streaming Deadmau5 has been live streaming from his studio for years, and even has his own Twitch channel where he games and interacts with his fans on a daily basis.
The producer responded in kind and sued Disney for using one of his tracks without his permission a few years later. Not all mice play nice. When markets collide, a trademark clash will rise. Legendary Disney cartoon Mickey Mouse rocks a giant mouse head on his anthropomorphized mouse body.
Legendary electronic musician Deadmau5 rocks a giant mouse head on his normal human body. A photo posted by deadmau5 deadmau5 on Jul 10, at pm PDT. Audience members will even rock the mau5head at shows. Deadmau5: Trademark Dispute. There are a lot of ironies here. The first is, Deadmau5 and Disney or its subsidiaries have been doing business together for years. Famous Mickey Mouse ears left, Deadmau5 headpiece right. Disney maintained that their objection to the trademark was based on the potential sale of licensed merchandise, not with the mau5head itself, which they had not opposed since Deadmau5 started making music.
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