In Memory of Michael Jackson
pevz.org honors Michael Jackson for dedicating his life to music, art, dance, and the creation of positive energy vibe zones across the planet. His legacy of countless dancing feet and inspired minds is a treasure.
Thru You - “I’m New”
Thru You is a project which synthesizes songs from unrelated YouTube videos of people playing instruments, singing, and otherwise making sounds. Make sure you stick with this song through the 4 minute 36 second mark.
The Great Lake of Love that holds the whole world in gear
Like I splained to you before I’m a people worshiper. I think people should worship people. I really do.
I went out looking for God the other day and I couldn’t pin him.
So I figured if I couldn’t find him I’d look for his stash. His Great Lake of Love that holds the whole world in gear. And when I finally found it I had the great pleasure of finding that people were the guardians of it. Dig that. So with my two times two is four, I figured that if people were guarding the stash of love known as God, then when people swing in beauty they become little gods and goddesses.
And I know a couple of them myself personally. I know you do, too. I think people should worship people.
I like to worship somethin’ I can see, somethin’ I can get my hands on, get my brains on.
I don’t know about that Jehovah cat! I can’t reach him. I don’t know, I’m…
Seemed like every time I found myself in a bind I always, uh, nothing mystic came along to help me, some man or some woman stepped up there, and said, “We’ll help you. We’ll do this. We’ll do that.”
That’s the way it looks to me, so, uh, recently on the San Berdoo Freeway I got hung up in an old junker car goin’ to Las Vegas Nevada. Right in the middle of the freeway during the rush hour it conked out.
Car… rrr, rrr, rrr, rrr drivin’ it… Hrrpp… got a weak clutch… whadda ya doin’ let it in… don’t step on it…
Oh, it was a madhouse, like havin’ lunch in the middle of the Indianapolis Speedway.
About three days went by and finally along came God.
There was two of ‘em. There was a big god and a little god.
They didn’t know me from a… froma. But they pushed and they pulled and they tugged and twisted and they yanked and they gave me every possible assistance in the world and finally got me on my way.
Haven’t seen them since.
But I think that people, I hope I haven’t offended anyone’s religious beliefs, but I think, I think that people should worship people.
I really do.
— Lord Buckley
Transcribed by Earl Rivers
Lord Buckley on Wikipedia
Learning to Love You More
The Oliver Family from Seattle completed 63 tasks proposed by artists given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher as part of a project called Learning to Love You More. Tasks include “make an educational public plaque,” “braid someone’s hair,” and “spend time with a dying person.”
See reports on all 63 tasks
Via Steph Walker on 50ft.
Charles Spearin’s Happiness Project
Charles Spearin’s “Happiness Project” matches the melodies of his neighbors’ voices with instruments. He has been playing recordings of his neighbors talking about happiness while on stage at recent Broken Social Scene shows and having instrumentalists play along with the recordings.
Crown Fountain, Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois
Crown Fountain, located in Millennium Park, is an interactive public fountain in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Designed by artist Jaume Plensa, it opened in July 2004. The fountain consists of a black granite reflecting pool located between a pair of technically sophisticated opposing glass brick towers. The towers are 50 feet (15.2 m) tall and use complicated electronics… Throughout most of the warmer months, water continually cascades down the two sculptures, while water intermittently spouts through a nozzle located on each of the structures’ front faces. The fountain is known for the digital videos of Chicago residents it displays continuously throughout the year.
Image and text from Wikipedia. Via Signal vs. Noise.
Post-Traumatic Psychedelic Grunge Jowl
Our new best friends Bradford Cox and Stephanie Macksey flew in from Atlanta and Brian Foote came up from LA and we jammed on some heavy psychedelic grunge that took me back to being in Yume circa 98, played poker, stayed up too late hanging with Rob Walmart, eating various burgers and in general having a blast. Our tour (AKA “Pery Ferral Solo Tour 2002”) is gonna to RULE.
Source: Adam Forkner (godfather of pevz.org)
Secret Mall Apartment
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The leader of an artists’ cooperative has been sentenced to probation for illegally setting up a secret apartment inside the Providence Place Mall that was equipped with furniture and a video game system.
Artist gets probation for building secret mall apartment
