Thursday, February 26, 2009
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Happy Birthday - Bob Marley
Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican musician, singer-songwriter and Rastafarian. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers (1964 – 1974) and Bob Marley & the Wailers (1974 – 1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread Jamaican music to the worldwide audience.
Marley's best known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Exodus", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album, Legend, released in 1984, three years after his death, is the best-selling reggae album ever (10 times platinum in US), with sales of more than 20 million copies.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
2009 Honda Commercial Featuring peeps from past LM campaigns - Progress
In this post, we thought we would give you some sort of blast from the past in conjunction with some newness. We have some behind the scene footage of a new Honda commercial staring underground artist Mickey Factz, DJ Gomex Warren, and Javier L. I'm posting this to show how far we've all come. PASSION/PAIN/PROGRESS is most definitely real in these dudes lives and its its evident in all their long list of accomplishments. Check out the guys in action in the video below. And also peep out some old photos of the guy from past Live Mechanics campaigns.
Rhymes and Reasons - Behind The Scenes from GFCnewyork on Vimeo.
MC - Mickey Factz - Music is the Weapon! - Spring 2007
Musician - Gomez Warren IV - Reel to Real! - Spring 2004
Cool Guy - Javier L - Champion Sound! - Spring 2005
Rhymes and Reasons - Behind The Scenes from GFCnewyork on Vimeo.
MC - Mickey Factz - Music is the Weapon! - Spring 2007
Musician - Gomez Warren IV - Reel to Real! - Spring 2004
Cool Guy - Javier L - Champion Sound! - Spring 2005
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
AFRICA///STREET LIFE///JR FOCUSES THE EYES OF THE WORLD ON THE WOMEN OF KENYA
French outdoor installation artist (call it “street art” if you must) extraordinaire JR continues his epic 28 MILLIMETER: WOMEN Project with the unveiling this week of his most ambitious stage yet in KIBERA, KENYA. Reconnecting with the subjects he photographed over a year ago in the city—one of the largest slums in Africa—at the start of his mission to portray on a grand scale the unseen and unempowered women of the world, the reunion was an especially poignant moment for the artist. With the help of enthusiastic residents, JR managed to cover 2,000 square meters of local rooftops with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera, giving them a monumental voice and presence in a city where their own existence is often marginalized. Most of the subjects had their photos installed atop their own roofs and for the first time in JRs global series of installations, the material used is water-resistant enabling that the photo itself to protect the fragile houses in the upcoming rainy season. In order to further spread his message throughout the massive city, JR also encapsulated the local train that runs through the area twice daily with the eyes of local women alongside those of women photographed in Brazil, India, Cambodia, and other parts of Africa whose stories and images reveal a global solidarity of plight and purpose. The pinnacle of the experience, however, comes when the eyes on the moving train align with the static bottom halves of the subject’s faces posted along the train’s embankment, completing the smiling portraits for a split second in rapid succession before moving on to the next village where the experience is repeated.
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