RIP MJ

The man was a creative, musical genius and a world icon, known for theatrics and his peter-pan lifestyle. He will be missed. My first memories of an introduction to Michael Jackson was when i was 5 or 6. For a summer camp, pot-luck talent show, our class had learned a choreographed routine to Man in the Mirror (i think there were chairs involved somewhere). Thriller's music video scared me back then.

Did anyone else watch his interview with Oprah... that felt big. When Michael and Janet came out with Scream, i had it on single the day it came out (it was a tape, not a CD (and not an mp3, for some of you!)) That video was so "futuristic", and i really wanted to break vases racket-ball style after seeing it. And those of you who knew me well in college remember the looooooooooooong nights in my dorm room with MJ's greatest hits DVD (which I still have!) on repeat. Fuck me, I still can't moonwalk smoothly and wish I could.

Michael-haters: remember the man who wrote about healing the world and breaking down the barriers of racial divides, or the one who sang alongside his older brothers as a member of the Jackson Five. Not the way he acted after a lifetime of social isolation and public scrutiny.

(this album rocked!)


my top three MJ songs:

3)Remember the Time
2)Man in the Mirror
1)The Way You Make Me Feel

New Swoon Video

Swoon has a great feature interview for Walrus TV series "The Run Up"...
THIS WOMAN IS AMAZING...
aesthetically minded and politically/philosophically-minded peoples will definitely enjoy this video a lot.

New York Street Advertising Takeover

here are two more great videos of the project and some links to other sites talking about illegal street signage.







websites:

publicadcampaign.com
banbillboardblight.org
illegalsigns.ca
illegalbillboards.org

Neglected Children: New Work in Vancouver

while I didn't see any sign of who did this or where this was, I'm going to assume it's in Vancouver... great statement! (found on Wooster Collective)

New York Street Advertising Takeover

This past April some 50 participants took part in the NYSAT where 120 illegal billboards were whitewashed and re-imagined by NYC's street art greats. Here's a video with more info, and below is an interactive map to view where each location is and some pictures of the billboard's transformation with stories from participants.



Interactive map