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Michael Jackson and Bubbles, Jeff Koons, 1988, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art permanent collectionThe service for MJ is underway in L.A., and all's okay. Crowds are smaller than expected and celeberties are plentiful. But is all this fuss something Jackson would've wanted? Don't care actually but it's an excuse to post a link to the video for "Leave Me Alone" (Wikipedia), which one of my all-time favourites. (Actually the director of this video, Jim Blashfield, has at least three other videos that I love: Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" and "Sledgehammer", and the freaking awesome Talking Heads song "Road To Nowhere". [CORRECTION: This post has been edited to remove my ignorant lies. Those other videos were directed by Stephen R. Johnson. Ignore the text in grey. Lies!]
Anyway, I couldn't find a quality version with a swipable embed so you'll have to actually click through the link. Which is here.
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Correction: Stephen Johnson was the director of "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time", and co-directed "Road to Nowhere" with David Byrne.
celebrities taking liberties with their celebrity = celeberties
Brett: Thanks for the correction. I was tricked by Jim Blashfield's Wikipedia entry, which said he "is an American filmmaker and media artist, best known for his short films ... and his music videos from the 1980s and 90s for Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Nu Shooz, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears and Marc Cohn."
I think Blashfield was best known for that handcoloured photocopy animation look, which I believe he also parlayed into a few Sesame Street animations as well as music videos and short films. But Wikipedia might have all this info posted as well, so I might be committing the double sin of being a know-it-all as well as totally redundant.
Know-it-alls are always welcome on Dog Blog, especially when they actually do.
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