{"id":3387,"date":"2011-11-28T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T11:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2012-01-26T14:24:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T14:24:04","slug":"wonderkind-daniels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2011\/11\/28\/wonderkind-daniels\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderkind: DANIELS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first time music video directors Daniels met, they despised each other. So much so, that after being pitted together in classes at summer school, Daniel Kwan ended up throwing a bowl of salad over his prospective partner, Scheinert. \u201cHe smelt like vomit for the rest of the day,\u201d Kwan reminisces fondly, adding, \u201cwe eventually realised all we had was each other, and that it was better than being alone. Thus, Daniels<\/a> began.\u201d Wonderland thought it would be fun to sit the pair down and discuss the ins-and-outs of their mesmerising, internationally-lauded work.<\/p>\n

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What was the first project you worked on together?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The very first was a short we made at summer camp. It was like three or four in the morning and we were outside with a 5D Mark II, just screwing around. We sort of accidentally discovered our way into making half-arsed visual effects that night. The short ended up being called Swingers – it was extremely dumb and crazy, but eventually got ‘Staff Picked’ at Vimeo. We realised the general public tends to like really dumb things – it’s sort of become the motto we adopt with all of our projects. <\/p>\n