Prince’s first interview: HS newspaper

photo by Robert Whiten. 1977

Prince was born in Minneapolis. When asked, he said, “I was born here, unfortunately.” Why? “I think it is very hard for a band to make it in this state, even if they’re good. Mainly because there aren’t any big record companies or studios in this state. I really feel that if we would have lived in Los Angeles or New York or some other big city, we would have gotten over by now.”

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via Read Prince’s first interview, in his high school newspaper | That Eric Alper

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Welcome to the Anthropocene

In June 2012, “Welcome to the Anthropocene”—a film about the state of the planet—opened the UN’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development. The summit was the largest UN meeting to date. (see animated version without narration here)

‪#‎Dead‬: What is taking so long

“So?” says the grump waiting on the telecast’s Nielsen ratings to publish from a dusty dot matrix printer.

(this is literally me, right now – how did he know?)

Simply Stunning

This is the animation done by Globaïa for the short film ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’ commissionned for the Planet Under Pressure conference.
The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes. The film is part of the world’s first educational webportal on the Anthropocene