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Kid Cudi photographed by Mel D. Cole

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Word on the street, Mel D. Cole

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A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Jerry Fletcher: Mel Gibson Alice Sutton: Julia Roberts Dr. Jonas: Patrick Stewart Agent Lowry: Cylk Cozart Mr. Wilson: Steve Kahan Flip: Terry Alexander Cynic: Alex McArthur Justice Guard: Rod McLachlan Justice Guard: Michael Potts Justice Guard: Jim Sterling Public Works Man: Rich Hebert Clarke: Brian J. Williams Piper: G. A. Aguilar Henry Finch’s Secretary: Cece Neber Labao Alice’s Secretary: Saxon Trainor Grouchy Nurse: Sage Allen Nurse – Roosevelt Hospital: Joanna Sanchez Cop – Roosevelt Hospital: Michael Shamus Wiles Lawyer: Andrew Lauren Tech: Danny Smith Surveillance Operator: Sean Patrick Thomas Helicopter Pilot: Al Cerullo Cleet: Dean Winters Night Security – Federal Building: Rick Hoffman Surveillance Operator: Peter Jacobson Intern: Troy Garity Alice’s Father: Bert Remsen Jonas’ Aide: J. Mills Goodloe Old Man in Book Store: Leonard Jackson Film Crew: Director of Photography: John Schwartzman First Assistant Director: Jim Van Wyck Original Music Composer: Carter Burwell Producer: Joel Silver Editor: Kevin Stitt Producer: Richard Donner Casting: Marion Dougherty Assistant Editor: Kris Cole Associate Producer: Julie Durk Writer: Brian Helgeland Co-Producer: Richard Solomon Art Direction: Gregory Bolton Editor: Frank J. Urioste Co-Producer: Dan Cracchiolo Co-Producer: J. Mills Goodloe Post Production Supervisor: Ilyse A. Reutlinger Unit Production Manager: Helen Pollak Unit Production Manager: Nan Bernstein Freed Second Assistant Director: John G. Scotti Set Decoration: Casey Hallenbeck Set Designer: Lauren Cory Set Designer: Joseph G. Pacelli Jr. Set Designer: Thomas Betts Leadman: Steven Curtis Husch Still Photographer: Andrew Cooper Video Assist Operator: Martin Glover Underwater Director of Photography: Pete Romano Second Second Assistant Director: Sean McCarron Unit Publicist: Stephanie Pond-Smith Script Supervisor: Sioux Richards Key Grip: Les T. Tomita Best Boy Grip: Audie Aragon Dolly Grip: Brad Rea Location Manager: Robbie Goldstein Location Manager: David E. Kaufman Negative Cutter: Mo Henry Color Timer: David Orr “A” Camera Operator: Mitchell Amundsen Steadicam Operator: Neal Norton First Assistant Camera: Christopher Duskin First Assistant Camera: A. Anthony Cappello Second Assistant Camera: Thomas D. Lairson Jr. Second Assistant Camera: Charles B. Katz Camera Loader: Jacobus Marcus Supervising Sound Editor: Mark A. Mangini Supervising Sound Editor: George Simpson Sound Editor: Richard L. Anderson Sound Editor: Mike Chock Sound Editor: John Dunn Sound Editor: Julia Evershade Sound Editor: Eric Lindemann Sound Editor: Geoffrey G. Rubay Assistant Sound Editor: Oscar Mitt Assistant Sound Editor: Sonny Pettijohn Music Editor: Adam Milo Smalley Scoring Mixer: Michael Farrow Orchestrator: Sonny Kompanek Supervising ADR Editor: James Simcik ADR Editor: William C. Carruth ADR Editor: Denise Horta ADR Mixer: Troy Porter Sound Re-Recording Mixer: John T. Reitz Sound Re-Recording Mixer: David E. Campbell Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gregg Rudloff Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Jeffrey J. Haboush Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Kevin E. Carpenter Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Dan Hiland Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gary D. Rogers Foley Editor: Solange S. Schwalbe Foley Editor: Aaron Glascock Production Sound Mixer: Tim Cooney Boom Operator: Todd Bassman Chief Lighting Technician: Andy Ryan Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Brian Evans Assistant Costume Designer: Christopher J. Kristoff Costume Design: Ha Nguyen Production Design: Paul Sylbert Costume Supervisor: Kimberly Guenther Durkin Makeup Supervisor: Lee Harman Makeup Artist: Richard Dean Makeup Artist: Mel Berns Jr. Key Hair Stylist: Stephen Robinette Hairstylist: Lyndell Quiyou Hairstylist: Monique DeSart Property Master: Erik L. Nelson Assistant Property Master: Christopher Amy Special Effects Coordinator: Michael Meinardus Stunts: S...

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2024 Follow the Clues Reading Challenge

My Goodreads group sometimes does an annual A-Z reading challenge where there are clues and you need to read a book that satisfies each clue. Got together with my friend @alchemic-fallen-angel to make our own list for this year. Feel free to use the list of clues as inspiration for your own reading challenge :)

Mel and Niamh's 2024 A-Z Follow the Clues 01/01/24 - 31/12/24 5/26 (5/5 AA 🦘) (last updated 21/01/24)

✅A - Read a book by an AUSTRALIAN author – Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales 🦘 4🌟 - finished 16/01/24 ✅B - Read a book with a BOOK on the cover – Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 4🌟 - finished 11/01/24 C - Read a book where there is a CONSPIRACY – A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole D - Read a book published a DECADE ago (2014) – Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner (published 18/09/14) E - Read an ENCHANTING book – Legendborn by Tracy Deonn ✅F - Read a book with a strong FRIENDSHIP – Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli 4🌟 - finished 14/01/24 G – Read a GRAPHIC novel – The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle 🦘 H - Read a book with a HOUSE on the cover – The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton I - Read a book set on an ISLAND – Beauty Queens by Libba Bray J - Read a book where a character is seeking JUSTICE – Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce K - Read a book where KING appears in the title or story – The Girl King by Mimi Yu ✅L – Read a book you borrowed from the LIBRARY – Icebreaker by Hannah Grace 3.5🌟 - finished 19/01/24 M - Read a book with a MENTAL illness featured – History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera N - Read a NEW release (published 2024) - Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup (expected publication 05/02/2024) O - Read a book with an OLDER protagonist (40+) – The Guncle by Steven Rowley P - Read a book with a PICTURESQUE scene on the cover – A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo ✅Q – Read a QUEER (LGBTQ+) book – 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall 4🌟 - finished 07/01/24 R – Read a book with a RED cover – Puddin' by Julie Murphy S - Read a book that is SECOND in a series – Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir T - Read a book that features TIME TRAVEL – Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier U - Read a book featuring a character in UNIFORM – All Systems Red by Martha Wells V - Read a book with a VOLUNTEER – This is How it Happened by Paula Stokes W – Read a book with WATER on the cover – Flight by Jae Waller 🦘 X - Read a book with a XENO (alien) in the story – Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout Y - Read a book with a YOUNG protagonist (15 or younger) – Rockstar Detectives by Adam Hills 🦘 Z - Read a book with a ZEALOUS character – The Heart of the World by Amie Kaufman 🦘

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Hi, Tim ❤️

#6.11.2022

... and look what's come back again

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© Mel D. Cole - Courtesy Damiani

American Protest – Photographs 2020 – 2021

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Mel D. Cole always told himself that if he saw a chance to photograph history in action, he’d take it. So when he heard about a protest at New York’s Foley Square following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, he headed downtown. “It was so intense I couldn’t believe it,” says Cole, who’s best known for his concert photos and portraits of musicians such as the Roots, Drake, and Kendrick Lamar. “That’s when I knew that this wasn’t just a moment — it was a movement.”

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Album Cover Hall of Fame Breaking News Update for March 8, 2019

Album Cover Hall of Fame Breaking News Update for March 8, 2019

            Album Cover Hall of Fame Breaking News Update for March 8, 2019

By Mike Goldstein, AlbumCoverHallofFame.com

Hope that you’re all looking forward to the day – soon, we hope – that the temps pick up, the buds appear on your trees and shrubs and all traces of ice and snow disappear from our lives. Enough already, right? In any case, you may recall when I said that I wasn’t going to be…

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new documentary I directed with Matthew Silver the Great Performer, a man who wears his heart on his sleeve when he’s wearing more than a diaper

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Pitchfork Music Festival Preview: 10 Can’t Miss Non-Headliner Acts

Raphael Saadiq; Photo by Mel D. Cole

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Tame Impala haven’t released a new album since the last time we saw them three years ago. Fleet Foxes headlined Pitchfork in 2011. Ms. Lauryn Hill already played her best songs two years ago at--wait for it--Ravinia. What gives?

Okay, I’m still very excited to see all three of these headliners. But sort of like in 2016, for this year’s Pitchfork, the gems are earlier in the day. Here are 10 reasons to show up early throughout the weekend.

FRIDAY

Lucy Dacus: 2:30, Green Stage

And we thought she was good after releasing her debut! After a label bidding war, singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus has exceeded expectations with her second album Historian, released earlier this year. The songs are more lyrically and instrumentally complex and ambitious, headlined by opening album anthem “Night Shift”. Remember and shout along to this line: “In five years I hope the songs feel like covers / Dedicated to new lovers.”

Open Mike Eagle: 4:00, Blue Stage

The Chicago rapper’s latest album Brick Body Kids Still Daydream is a concept record about the Robert Taylor Holmes public housing project. Any local voice showing public housing in a positive light to the rest of the world is welcome--let alone portraying Chicago as something other than what the media illustrates. That Open Mike Eagle has serious lyrical chops and charm is just an added bonus. 

Mike also plays an after-show tonight at Lincoln Hall. Fess Grandiose opens.

Syd: 6:15, Green Stage

We’ve seen Syd play with her band The Internet, who release a new album today. But this set will be largely comprised of solo material from the singer’s debut Fin, released last year to much acclaim. It combines 90′s R&B and neo soul with contemporary beats and production styles.

The Internet hosts an album release party for their new record Hive Mind tonight at East Room.

Mount Kimbie: 7:45, Blue Stage

Grey with splashes of color--that’s how I might describe Mount Kimbie’s most recent album Love What Survives. It’ll be perfect for a rainy day on the Blue Stage. The band combines live instrumentation with electronic music to create songs that vary between ambient, pop, and krautrock. While they might not have King Krule on the bill to come out for career highlight “Blue Train Lines” (surprise appearance, please?) or the other prominent vocalists they’ve collaborated with to come out for their respective songs, the band’s controlled chaos should suffice.

SATURDAY

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: 2:45, Blue Stage

One of the headier artists on the bill this year is Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, whose Buchla synthesizer-addled songs envelop your mind more than they make your body move. Last year’s The Kid followed up Smith’s great 2016 effort Ears and a collaborative album with synth master Suzanne Ciani, and that one wasn’t too bad either. A concept album about four stages of life whose context isn’t necessary to enjoy or appreciate the music, The Kid is ultimately a showcase for Smith’s ability to weave multiple synths together and combine it with her voice to make shimmering tunes.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith plays an after-show Sunday night at Constellation. Cool Maritime opens.

Moses Sumney; Photo by Eric Gyamfi

Moses Sumney: 4:15, Blue Stage

Moses Sumney is a once-in-a-lifetime singer. Not because he can shatter glasses or anything--though he probably could--but because he can take abstract concepts like capitalism and the hetero-normative nature of romantic love and make you feel like you’ve experienced them on a concrete level even if you haven’t, all through the sheer beauty of his voice and strumming of his guitar. The potential for quietest, most heartbreaking moment of the festival will come when he sings “Doomed” off of last year’s Aromanticism: “Am I vital / If my heart is idle? / Am I doomed?”

Raphael Saadiq: 5:15, Red Stage

The most surprising, yet welcome booking at this year’s festival is R&B master Raphael Saadiq. Pitchfork has reviewed one of his albums and has given him minimal coverage over the years despite the excellence of his 2011 album Stone Rollin’. Perhaps it was his production work on Solange’s 2016 record A Seat At The Table that landed him a spot on the bill, but I shouldn’t really ask any questions. I’ll just appreciate his unique mix of soul, funk, R&B, blues, and rock.

Kelela: 7:45, Blue Stage

After breaking out with her 2013 mixtape Cut 4 Me, Kelela finally released the brilliant, fully formed statement we’ve all waited for from her. Take Me Apart is an album about ending one relationship and going into another--territory that’s not original for an album but important because it’s immensely personal, celebratory of queer black self-love on songs like “LMK” and “Altadena”. She somehow makes dubstep and trap beats sound subdued and sexy, her ethereal voice the perfect complement to bubbling synth and bass.

SUNDAY

Japanese Breakfast: 4:00, Blue Stage

Michelle Zauner stole the show from Mitski two years ago. Now, she’s got an even better set of tunes in her repertoire. She released her second album of dream pop and spacious synth-laden shoegaze, Soft Sounds from Another Planet, last year. From epic opener “Diving Woman” to jams “Road Head” and “Boyish”, there will be plenty to love during her set. Doesn’t hurt that Zauner is funny as hell, either.

Japanese Breakfast plays an after-show tomorrow night at Thalia Hall. Mothers and Varsity open.

Noname: 5:15, Red Stage

Noname is one of the best live rappers in the world, let alone Chicago. Ever since catching her set at the inaugural House of Vans show last year, I’ve been floored by her ability to make her poetic words about growing up sound intimate and powerful and clear even in a live setting. Her debut mixtape Telefone was released two years ago, so hopefully she’s got some new songs for us at Pitchfork. She’s also collaborated with other artists on the lineup like Saba, Smino, and Ravyn Lenae, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see them join her during the set.

(Sandy) Alex G: 6:15, Blue Stage

While we loved (Sandy) Alex G’s performance at the Bottom Lounge a couple years ago (before he adopted (Sandy) as part of his moniker), it was last year’s Rocket that made this writer a believer. One of the best indie-rock albums of the decade is a little bit country, a little bit...hardcore? Okay, the latter refers to the rap-rock of one track, “Brick”, but it speaks to the diversity of his songwriting. You can hear the influences of his work with Frank Ocean in 2016 on melancholy, auto-tuned ditties like “Sportstar”, while “Poison Root” and “Bobby” swell with Americana strings and banjo. Not to mention the classic rock bounce of “Proud”. 

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Photography by Mel D. Cole.

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