Woodkid

Woodkid

Yoann Lemoine (1983) aka Woodkid is a French film and music video director-turned musician.

He is a young lad who has been out there displaying his heightened sense of creativity for quite a long time now. Granting himself the opportunity to work with Luc Besson, Lana Del Ray, Katy Perry, Rihanna has surely kicked in; 'the multi-talented' Lemoine has recieved awards both at home and abroad. 

He is about to release his debut album " The Golden Age" in March, 2013, consisting of sophisticated tracks such as 'Iron'; his spellbinding single interweaving orchestral beats with the drums accompanied by his melancholia of vocals. The song has been an inspiration to Dior Homme to name the 2013 Fall-Winter collection after the lyrics:  "A soldier on my own" as well as serving in the soundtrack of Assassin's Creed: Revelations.

Here is my belated discovery of the video (2011) and he sure directed it himself casting beautiful Agyness in it, so please; grab those headphones and listen and watch and ...

" A soldier on my own, I don't know the way.

   I'm riding up the heights ... of shame."

Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran

"Joy and sorrow are inseparable.

Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) a poet, writer and artist, was born into a family in Lebanon and immigrated to the US. 

He completed a degree in art and held his first exhibition of drawings in Boston. Yet, his real passion was writing within a diverse scope of themes ranging from love, politics, friendship to work, religion, marriage and so on.

The solid simplicity and prudence in his philosophical prose and poetry brought about a massive success; making him one of the best-selling writers of all time.

His most acclaimed work 'The Prophet'; a book of poetic essays, has sold millions of copies and been translated into many languages. The excerpts in this post are merely an itsy-bitsy demonstration of how miraculously he has touched my heart which 'I humbly expect touches thine, too..'

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love. 

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls... Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone... Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping... And stand together but not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."