MJ 2000 Prediction: So Off!

I can't even begin to write about how wrong Ebony's prediction, from 1985, on how Michael Jackson would be in 2000 is. Oh well...

(via Ghostly International)

David LaChapelle Renders Michael Jackson

David LaChapelle strikes again... and after this he chose to move to a totally different genre.

David LaChapelle to Interview Magazine: I used a Michael Jackson impersonator and spent weeks and weeks moving pixels around to create the face of Michael Jackson circa 1990. It's a photograph, but it's a not a portrait, so it sort of redefines what a photograph is. We spent so much time going back in and putting in details and flaws, and there's no question that it's Michael Jackson. But he never posed for it. It's a very strange concept. In a way, it's going back to painting. 

There some very interesting material in the Q&A over at the Interview Magazine Blog.

The Earth Song.

I was reminded of this song when I saw it playing on the tv at the gym today. I couldn't help but feel sad, not because of MJ's passing as such (been there, done that), but mostly because this (heartbreakingly) beautiful song, and its excellent video (directed byNick Brandt), vividly depict the situation of our planet. The shocking part is that it was written almost 15 years ago, which means that nothing has changed, we're still the same, and we still ravage, ruin and kill; animals, people, the earth.

This is the world we live in. 

HIStory

'Nuff said.