Beiträge von Prometheus

  • Neues Album: "Michael" 10. Dezember 2010 // Album komplett geleaked !

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    Aber das ändert nix daran das diese Menschen sich die Hände am 25. Juni 2009 gerieben haben und die Dollarzeichen in ihren Augen aufblitzten.


    Dies gilt dann wohl auch für die Nachlassverwalter und stellvertretend für die Kinder. Denn diese sollen ja ein schuldenfreies Erbe bekommen.


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    Das haben sie mit allen nachfolgenden Projekten bewiesen das sie nur am Geld interessiert sind und auf MJ geschissen haben.


    Alle diese Projekte sind vom Estate autorisiert und gewollt, Sony veröffentlicht nur im Zuge des 200 Mio Deals.


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    Allein schon "This Is It" oder "Michael" hätte Michael nie und nimmer veröffentlicht.


    Aber gekauft hast du es trotzdem? Sicher, sonst hättest du dir kein Urteil gebildet. Wenn es danach ginge was MJ veröffentlicht hätte und was nicht, würden wir vermutlich gar nichts bekommen.
    Aber ich hab keine Lust auf eine 'Hätte, Wenn und Aber Geschichte'.


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    An jeder Ecke wird versucht Geld mit ihm zu machen.


    Bei der Schuldenlast absolut verständlich.


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    Ob er das gewollt hätte????


    Gewusst hat er es.


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    Ganz ehrlich ich find es besser einen vollgewixxten Döner zu kaufen...


    Guten Appetit.


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    Das ist ein freies Land wo jeder Bürger eine freie Meinung haben darf.


    Noch ja.


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    Und wenn ich ein sarkastischen Witz mache muss man ihn nicht gleich löschen und ihn als unpassend abwerten.


    Doch, denn so wie du einen sarkastischen Witz machen kannst, können andere darüber urteilen und bewerten. Zumal es kein Witz war, sondern ein Vergleich zwischen einem Medienkonzern und einer Organisation die das Ziel hatte Menschen zu töten.


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    Es ist eher das überempfindliche Verhalten mancher User hier was ich als unpassend empfinde.


    Ich finde dich unpassend.


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    Wenn man sowas nicht schreiben darf dann dürfte ein Christoph Maria Herbst wohl auch keine Hitler-Parodie machen


    Zwischen einer Parodie einer Figur aus der Geschichte und ein Vergleich wie deinem, ist ein deutlicher Unterschied.

  • Interview with Michael’s personal artist Nate Giorgio

    Artist Nate Giorgio signed an exclusive contract with Michael Jackson in 1984 to be his personal artist. His work appears on the cover and the chapter pages of the ‘Michael Jackson Opus‘, as well as inside the Opus. You’ll see his logo work on ‘We Are The World 25 for Haiti‘, and in Michael’s book ‘Dancing the Dream‘. Look at ‘Children of the World‘, and ‘Love‘, to see some of his work in ‘Dancing the Dream‘.


    His ‘Heroes, The Last Supper‘ painting hung over Michael’s bed at Neverland, and he has done many other exclusive sketches, paintings and drawings of Michael for various projects over the years. Besides his website, whose music I listened to while putting this piece together, Nate has a YouTube channel where you can actually watch him sketch/paint Michael, and of course he has a Facebook page, as well.


    Nate was kind enough to answer a few questions from me via email about working with Michael and about his art in general. His comments were very interesting, and I’d like to share them with you here.


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    Seven: Besides the work in the Opus and in Dancing the Dream, and WATW 25, what other works had you done for MJ?


    Nate: Many, many paintings, sketches and ideas since 1984 when I signed a contract with MJ. My favorite sketches are the quick little drawings he wanted me to do in the studio when he was recording BAD. He asked for himself walking on a road of gold records surrounded by children. All sorts of quick inspirational drawings, his face with all nationalities…He would prop up these sketches on his podium while he cut his vocals. I have a polaroid of a few of my doodles on his stand while he took a break. At Westlake in LA.


    Seven: What is the status of the two large paintings you were working on for MJ before he died – the ones for what was to be his home in Vegas? Will you complete them?


    Nate: I would LOVE to finish these paintings. We talked for hours about what he wanted. All I can say is the paintings he wanted large with his children and himself in different settings. Moonlight shining down, heroic type themes is what he asked for, not just himself sitting or standing there. Someday I’ll write about all the themes and ideas I was going to paint for him. He was going to let me photograph him for all types of references… I was really looking forward to that!


    Seven: You list Picasso on your site as one of your influences. He is one of my favorite artists. What inspires you most when you work on a piece?


    Nate: Inspiration is a funny thing for me. Sometimes it can be a beautiful scene, a certain technique I’m trying to perfect, or simply creating something unique. I have to say most of the time it’s the IDEA of capturing a certain feeling inside. If I walked into a room and saw MJ sitting there in his black sport coat I would immediately try to capture the mood or feeling I get from him, his essence. Not so much his features, although that is important, but his presence. Capturing the moment. The inspiration for me being ‘capture this moment because it will never come again.’ Drawing is a strange thing for an artist, why do artist’s draw? I always say it’s to create a beautiful world that you wished existed. A perfect place.



    'Promo Poster Nate Giorgio did in the 1990s'


    Seven: What do you think may have inspired Michael most in his work?


    Nate: That’s easy, love & perfection. He had this drive to create something perfect. You see it even in his children, he wanted them to be perfect or exceptional, that’s what drove him. It could be his art or his dancing or his family. The drive in a great artist is knowing your work will be seen by thousands of people. This is why you want the work to say something, stand on its own. Without this platform I doubt MJ would have created such great music, he knew he could reach millions of people from all races.


    Seven: Another thing you express on your own website is an ability to move the viewer – to give them a sense of ‘another place’. Michael wanted to always give people, via his music, dance, film and performances, a sense of escapism. Is this something the two of you shared and saw eye to eye on? Did you talk about that?


    Nate: We touched on it. Escapism sort of, but people must be able to relate to your art or you’ll lose them. Art must have a common touch along with something out of this world to move a viewer. To move the viewer an artist must make his art understood. My paintings and MJ’s music have a very simple message most of the time, but it’s the way the pieces are executed that move people. Again, the art was produced in a unique way, high quality, almost from another world that makes it last and stand out. This is what we talked about.


    Seven: How did Michael’s music influence your work for him, if at all?


    Nate: It was just an awesome experience to hear his music and the quality behind it all. That was plenty to influence me and my art. MJ’s music put so many visuals into my brain whenever I heard it… you can see how I could place him in the heavens, or a his eyes in a powerful burst of light, even a soft straight forward portrait meant something. I would tell him “I could put you in any situation MJ,” he had that quality. He’s really one of the few entertainers that have an ethereal soul.


    Seven: I sometimes see a painting when I listen to music – notes and melodies floating onto the canvas or paper in different colors, some in the foreground, others in the background, others floating in from the side or above or below. The music gives aural movement to the visual piece. What do you think of that correlation?


    Nate: Oh yes I agree. Music and painting are so intertwined. Music will even move me more than a painting. I think the two hit a person in different areas, the heart and the mind. Music to me hits my soul, it’s all a feeling and I always see a visual floating by. I can here a great classical piece like Adagio For Strings and it will tear me up. A painting hits my mind more. Makes me think how on earth did a human do this (David, Sistine Chapel, etc.) and I see it in stages, I break it down more to understand it. I see paintings and more when I listen to a great piece of music, visual and soulful, effects me in many different ways. But yes, when I hear a great song and look at a painting the art becomes alive, this is why I listen to music while I paint.


    Seven: My favorite pieces you did for MJ are the ones with children – such as ’Children of the World‘. What were your favorite ones – which ones did you most enjoy working with/for him on and why?


    Nate: I like the children pieces too, because I knew how much MJ loved those paintings. I’ll never forget when he called me to say he was using Children in his greatest hits album. That meant so much to me, the one career highlight that I’ll never forget. All those early paintings like Heroes mean a great deal to me. Heroes is one of my favorites too because it includes the people who really blew MJ away. Like Disney, man he loved that guy. The other person he truly loved and would talk to me about all the time was Norman Rockwell! He was obsessed with him and his art. We would watch DVD’s of him and MJ would say – look at his walk, check it out! He studied everything about him, no one really knows this. Heroes is one of my all time favorites because it hung above his bed, MJ really wanted that piece near him.



    'Heroes - The Last Supper' by Nate Giorgio


    Seven: What funny stories or anecdotes can you tell us about you and Michael? A conversation or situation that you might feel comfortable sharing that would help us understand yourself, Michael, and your relationship together better?


    Nate: When we gave Liz Taylor a painting I did at her wedding! He had me do a large portrait of her and we planned to give it to her at the ranch on her wedding day. I was worried all day she would leave before getting the painting, so every 5 min I’d go up to MJ and say- what about the picture? He was sitting with someone new and I’d run up to him, what about the picture? Every 5 min I did this. He was sitting visiting Brooke Shields and I ran up to him again and he just turned to me and said, “Man, just have a good time!” We both looked at each other and started laughing. The other great time we had was when I drew funny cartoon faces for him on tour. We would laugh so hard the next day when he thought about the drawings. Just crazy MAD Magazine type faces, so funny! He loved these so much, he would just burst out laughing.


    Seven: What do you remember most about Michael Jackson – both the human being, and the artist/entertainer? How did working for him affect you and your work, if at all?


    Nate: How humble he truly was. His nature was so so sweet, a very kind person. Soft spoken, respectable. He would always say to me: God blessed the humble the most. I will always remember this. As an artist, just how incredibly talented and quick minded he was. Working with MJ put me at another level, I know how lucky I was to have worked with him. Through MJ I met so many incredible people, it was because of MJ that I got a private tour of The Vatican and Michelangelo’s work, that I met Quincy Jones, the reason I moved to California and changed my career. In my heart I know we connected as 2 artists who appreciated each others work. I respected him so much and it felt great to know he liked my art and would call to talk about art or something new he was thinking about. I knew he trusted me and felt comfortable.


    Seven: How did Michael go about telling you what he wanted? Did he just call you up and say “paint me this…” or did he ask you “can you do…?“


    Nate: All different ways, early on he would just call. Or his assistant would contact me and have me call a number. Later he would just call me, or have someone call me and say can you meet with MJ on Tuesday at the house? All different ways. Before he passed I was only about 2 miles from his home on Carolwood, so I would cruise up around noon to see him. It was great.


    Seven: Others have said he was a bit of a prankster and that he would call people at odd hours. Was that the case with you?


    Nate: No, I never saw this side of him. Maybe he didn’t want to seem goofy around me. But I’m sure with kids he did funny pranks. We always talked about art and new projects. New art books he loved and wanted to show me .


    Seven: How did you meet MJ? What were your conversations or meetings/sessions like in general. Any particularly memorable one(s) you’d like to share?


    Nate: I read how he loved art so I did a few paintings and sent them off to his office. I was still in NY and one day his assistant called me. She said MJ’s right here dancing around when he saw your art, he wants to meet you. Within a few weeks he flew me out to his home in Encino and we met. We went to see a rough cartoon version of Captain EO! At Disney studios, him and I just sitting there eating popcorn checking out the film. It blew me away and it was still rough, hand drawn segments mixed with live action.


    Seven: When was the last time you saw or spoke with him and what was said or discussed – if you care to share that?


    Nate: Right before he passed at his home on Carolwood. I was talking with him about everything, but mainly the new large paintings he wanted me to start on. We were trying to set up a photo shoot for references.


    Seven: What do you think of the pre-trial hearings involving Conrad Murray - or have you been avoiding that due to the upsetting nature of it, too busy, and/or would rather not comment? (fully understood if that is the case!)


    Nate: I watch it of course, like today the news had Alberto on. But everyone knows Murray’s to blame, made many serious mistakes. I just feel so sad that MJ’s gone, I don’t even want to think about the Doctor, what he’s done. It’s just so unbelievable someone so incredible, so special as MJ was treated like this. I still can’t believe this was going on with a friend I talked to and hung out with so many times.


    Seven: How and when did you learn of his death?


    Nate: My sister called me and was shaken, I was painting and I thought it was another fake story. So I flipped on the news ready to hear an explanation when it just kept getting worse and worse. I finally had to shut it off I was so out of it. Could not believe it, still doesn’t feel like he’s gone.


    Seven: Are you working on any MJ-inspired or related work in the future?


    Nate: Maybe, talking about some things…


    Seven: Is there anything else you’d like to express or say – about your own work or your work with MJ?


    Nate: There’s a lot yeah, he meant a great deal to me…
    Poster by Nate Giorgio Exclusive for HMV



    Poster by Nate Giorgio



    'Children of the World' by Nate Giorgio

  • Bad Tour wird 2012 auf DVD veröffentlicht!

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    Ich find's auch besonders inkonsequent, wenn jemand andere bei jeder Gelegenheit wg. off-topic ermahnt


    Du übersiehst oder missverstehst da etwas. Es wird nur jemand ermahnt, der dazu neigt sich regelmäßig und in unterschiedlichen Themen zu völlig themenfremden Dingen äußert. Ist schon ein Unterschied.


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    sich selber aber in einem Thema, das eigentlich ein reines Sachthema ist


    Du verallgemeinerst einen Einzelfall und stellst ihn mit einem anderen in einen Kontext. Passt nicht.


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    ewig über seine, bzw. ihre Sexphantasien mit Michael auslässt.


    Und? :D


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    Das find ich ehrlich gesagt auch ziemlich daneben.


    Naja, zum Glück geht es ja nicht nach dem einzelnen.