by Paddy Johnson on February 26, 2016
Times Square at Midnight is gonna look real yellow for the month of March thanks to Lorna Mills and Times Square Alliance. Starting March 1st, Mills’s Mountain Light/Time, an animated GIF collage of a sunrise over mountaintops will play on the Times Square Midnight billboard. Each loop will be timed to match the duration of a deep breath—real slow for breathing, but kinda fast as a sunrise.
Based on the GIF above alone we’re looking forward to seeing this project. The materialization of the mountains is pixellated in a way that seems to mimic the subtle shifts in the sky as the sun rises. The whole thing seems designed to whet our appetite for the morning just shortly before many of us will go to sleep.
P.S. It took me 30 minutes to track down the Mills GIF for the Times Square Alliance, and in doing so I came up with the following Kittie backup. I’m only including it here only because I think Mills would approve.
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by Rea McNamara on January 11, 2016
As I write this, my Facebook feed is full of heartfelt tributes to David Bowie, whose untimely passing at the age of 69 from an 18-month battle with liver cancer has shaken so many of us. Throughout his career, Bowie shape shifted through a multitude of personas, and silly as it is to say, I thought if any artist were to cheat death, it be him. Instead of cheating, however, he set out to create a final album, Black Star, demonstrating great courage, conviction, and generosity of spirit to work through on wax the fraught and freeing realizations that come when one faces their transition. As one tweet so memorably encapsulates: “Bowie looked Death in the eye and thought, ‘I can use this.’”
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