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My next post will be dedicated to an amazing, but unfortunately overlooked album in the Michael Jackson catalogue - Invincible.
First I'd like to commend @clearmjsname1 and @4THELEGACY2 on Twitter for igniting a grass roots effort to bring interest in this release "back to life". I believe if any of us had the power back then to help promote the release in 2001 we would have many creative ideas to showcase the magic within the music. Ten years later, in 2011, the internet has evolved dramatically and we now have a vast array of diverse mediums to communicate and have our voices heard. Just look at the impact of social media today..Twitter..Facebook...Blogs...where one person, any person, has the ability to relay their messages to anyone in the world, in an instant...and people can come together to support a cause or idea..or collaborate in real time on a project. If you utilize the technology in a positive manner, the possibilities are truly endless..and exciting!
Keeping up with the theme, Anthony Jackson has made sure his Twitter "following" count is at 7,777:
Sony has been following 777 people for a while now, but it has surprisingly gone unnoticed. It may change but while it is still at 777, felt it deserved a post!
5/18/11 - count changed to 778 for Clive Davis joining Twitter.
Remember, a shirt MJ wore in "This Is It" displayed "777"
Nelson De La Nuez is a talented pop artist who has gained an audience on Twitter (@kingofpopart) due to his relationship with Michael Jackson in the months preceding June 25th. MJ purchased many pieces of art from Nelson, which in themselves have invoked conversation due to their possible symbolic aspects.
Nelson in the last few months has gained curiousity of the MJ community due to his stories of receiving unsigned gifts from an unknown sender, and has caused the greatest stir in his publishing of mysterious photos, which refer to an unnamed "special friend". Posting of these photos accompanies talk about MJ, which directly implies that the photos are also tied to MJ.
The most recent photo of this "friend" arrived at the same time Nelson tweeted about the "magic" of MJ.
It makes you feel as if you are in the Twilight Zone:
Perhaps even more so as the spiral stairs in the image of the "mystery" friend not only resemble, but invoke the feeling of the spirals in the above Twilight Zone intro.
Looking at the photo raises the question of why...what is the purpose of tweeting a photo with a mystery person in a black hoodie who is obviously hiding from the camera (but at the same time, a seemingly willing participant, as they had to stage the photo by having a third person climb to the top of the stairs.)?
There would be no reason for a "regular" person to have a hood over their head and hiding from the camera, unless Nelson was intentionally trying to "pretend" that person was MJ. But what would be his motivation? If it is to sell art; he'd do better appealing to the larger population of "non-believers" and writing stories about how he knew MJ, how MJ enjoyed his art, etc. He even stated that he's not trying to "mess" with the fans.
If he's not "messing" with the fans, then why the secrecy, while at the same time saying it is a "special" friend? And if this person didn't want to be photographed, then why (1) take the photo, and why (2) post it on a public place like Twitter? Nelson has since deleted the tweet, but it is still on his Twitpic account (for now): http://twitpic.com/4691wd
EDIT: The twitpic was deleted shortly after this blog article was posted.
Who is this person? What is interesting is that this person does have similar proportions to MJ, with just a quick initial analysis of the body frame:
But again, what is the purpose of this? Some people are getting angry at Nelson, so could we be ignoring the obvious because it is too "in plain sight?". Are we more comfortable analyzing the more obscure clues, thinking what is too obvious, too good to be true, must be false and discarded?
Or is this just another example of "don't believe everything you see"...or..are we truly in..The Twilight Zone?
Flashback to the Michael Jackson Memorial, Jermaine Jackson is performing "Smile":
The lyrics state - "Smile..Though Your Heart Is Aching..."
Note, Conrad Murray is "All Smiles"...
The lyrics continue: "Smile...Even Tho' It's Breaking..."
We did receive "heartbreaking" news on January 20th..,
The "smile" theme actually began January 19th with the Jason Malachi "hacker" on the website jasonmaluchi.us. Note that the only items remaining from his website are his "help" message and a link to access none other than "smileys":
How coincidental.....
Well, all of this investigation makes one rather thirsty..think I'll have a Coke. Speaking of Coke, remember these images?
It's always interesting when one of Conrad Murray's patients comes out of the woodwork to lend a comment about their experiences with the doctor.
This time we have a patient named "Robert Day":
Knowing that names of people in this investigation have provided some interesting coincidences, I did some research on "Robert Day".
Turns out there was a "Robert Day" who was a movie director. Not only a movie director, but one of his films was entitled "The Green Man":
Information can be found in the IMDB here -http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050456/
Hhmm..remember our "Green Man"?
UPDATE: An anonymous reader sent another connection!
When looking at the plot for "The Green Man", we see that one of the main characters is William Blake. William Blake ultimately saves the main character from an assasination attempt:
The name "William Blake" recalls another place where we have seen this name, in it's nickname form, "Bill Blake". Let us reflect back to the mysterious tombstone that was in the Thriller short film in This Is It:
Picture credit to mjjstillalive.altervista.org
The tombstone reads Bill Blake, which would be a nickname version of William Blake. (Hmm..we've had some discussions of nicknames versus full names before... ). Could this name be inspired by the character in "The Green Man"?
The eerie coincidences continue......
Robert Day also directed a film entitled, "Corridors of Blood". The main character develops an addiction to surgical anesthetics!
Information on this film can be found here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051542/
Thank you @annabel_lee_h for that discovery!
But a blog reader "Sarah" noticed a few interesting character names in the film. Let's look at the cast!
We have a "Resurrection Joe", and even more curious, a "Mr. Blount". A paramedic with the last name "Blount" testified at the preliminary hearing. Small world!!
As a side piece of trivia, an actor named Robert Day played a part in the 1980 film, "The Elephant Man".
Make no bones about it, it must also be a silly coincidence... :)
Thanks to all who have found interesting Robert Day connections such as @annabel_lee_h and @Nitrogen_ .
This blog for a long time has had two main components, which most people would say are completely unrelated - an "investigation" site paired with writing and poems. They had lived side by side in their own "worlds".
Until now.
For the first time I am combining some original quotes to an "investigative" video. But even that is not the most interesting aspect of this video.
On this site, over the months, I have pointed out the oddities of various TMZ articles, but at the same time, over time have kept notice of an interesting trend; a coincidence that continually occurred but I had never reported on.
Until now.
I noticed that events, and even exact words in TMZ articles mirrored phrases in the bible, with the numbers of the passages matching exactly to the dates the articles were posted.
Whether or not you believe TMZ is relevant to the investigation won't matter; the eerie coincidencies at minimum may blow you away to at least realize that life can be stranger than fiction.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy this mini-adventure....
In previous posts we have examined the Sony "make.believe" marketing campaign, and a few of you have created videos analyzing the various advertisements. Some have noticed items of interest in the below video - the rabbit, the apples, the ball that is similar to "Light Man's" ball, and the sword movement which was similar to what was seen in a leaked video of Blanket. All of these can be deemed "coincidences" (one of the most frequently used words on this site I believe...:) ).
But a SeeingClues blog reader ("TWK") discovered something new about the above video that no one else has picked up on. Near the end of the video is a series of bubbles which contain quickly mutating images.
An especially interesting image was caught at approximately the 2:26 (interesting time) mark of the video.
I captured a screen shot and there is an image in a bubble which resembles a reverse image of the Thriller album cover. The image changes very quickly, so here is what I was able to capture:
Here is a closer look:
Trick of the eye? Optical llusion? Subliminal marketing?
But if the concept of the "man in the bubble" sounds far-fetched, consider this. In the Jackson's 1980 video for "Can You Feel It", the use of bubbles and images in the bubbles were part of the special effects.
Stopping the screen at the 4:51 mark shows this image:
In the previous post, the concentration was on sunflowers that one interesting item was missed! Upon reviewing the Thriller footage from This Is It, what caught my eye is that in the beginning, the cemetary in the background is in full daylight. Zombies don't come out during the day, right? Well I see an image of what could be one. (look under the red arrow).
Upon blowing up the image, it looked rather interesting. Could it be a person, emerging from a grave in broad daylight? If so, was this scene created with MJ?
The person in the scene looks to have the same clothes as MJ on the right. What do you think?
TMZ announced a contest entitled "Show Us Your Stems!". The word "stems" is used to mean "legs".
Interesting that they opted for this particular word, with all of the sunflower talk on their site.
The sunflower is fascinating in itself, in that it could grow up to 10ft tall and contain a single flower, often seen growing in rows which give the appearance of them looking like an "army of flowers" marching.
This is an example of such a comparison. Taking the backdrop scene from TDCAU from This Is It with an image of a sunflower field illustrates the commonality between the images. By "morphing" the two together, you can achieve a symbolic image:
The "soldiers" are marching, with the light of the sun behind their backs, bringing forth that light.
House music duo "Basement Jaxx" remixed a Yoko Ono song entitled "Day of The Sunflowers (We March On). During their live concert performance at the O2, we see a backdrop that has a similar theme to the TDCAU backdrop, except using sunflowers:
Michael Jackson himself utilized the symbolism of the sunflower within his own performances, a notable example is during the performance of "Earth Song" in Germany during the HIStory Tour. At the end of the song, a girl presents a soldier with a sunflower, with the idea that perhaps we should be fighting for peace and not perpetuate the violence which is destroying our world.
The scene begins at 8:44 in the below video:
Below are some screen shots from the performance:
Sunflowers can represent a new hope and peace when darkness is present. The wristbands for the MichaelJackson Memorial even included images of sunflowers (see below TMZ article):
There is no denying that sunflowers are playing a part in the symbolism of what represents MJ's message - seeing the light and love in all things, and sharing that with others - being that "Army of Love".
So aside from all of the crazy stories on TMZ, debates on whether images of sunflowers are photoshopped; questioning LMP's intentions, or any other distraction, let's focus on the message, which is powerful in it's simplicity.
As his oldest son Prince stated at the 2010 Grammy Awards: "Through all his songs his message was simple: LOVE".
So let's unite, and not fight, and share the light.
Thanks to "MaryElizabeth73" and "MJHOAXLIVE" for inspiration and assistance for this article.
Love To All
UPDATE!!! Sunflowers were in This Is It! (thank you Adi!)
One of the zombies is wearing a hat with sunflowers!!! Here is the video and a screen shot!
And more sunflowers were found at the GRAVES @23 second mark (thank you hhdavid65!)
For more on the "Thiller" segment, see: http://seeingclues.blogspot.com/2010/03/black-widow-whos-your-mummy.html
Update 5/23: Looks like one of the images in "Lightman" was sunflowers. "ForstAMoon" watched the "Lightman" clip from This Is It and noticed it flash by in the beginning.
Here is the video followed by a screen shot I captured:
For those who are unable to view this via Twitter, below is the verbiage from a letter that Joe Jackson and Mr. Magestik Magnificent wrote to the fans who will be attending Conrad Murray's courthouse hearing on June 14th (click to enlarge):
The verbiage was released to MJJCommunity.com today (May 11th). I have put it into a nice letter format for the visuals.
UPDATE 5/12 :
Looks like TMZ is watching this blog (or my Twitter) as they posted this version of the letter in their article on 5/12. They make it seem like it was the original Joe Jackson letter, when in actuality I copied the verbiage from MJJCommunity.com and created the image with the nice font, for purposes of posting on Twitter and the blog. In any event, for TMZ to obtain it they would have either have to have seen this blog or my Twitpic with the file. Gotta love TMZ! (Hi, there!!)
Credit to "SayUBelieve" for discovering what appears to be a Michael Jackson autograph. The remarkable piece is dated "June 24, 2009".
Now we have seen other examples of signatures dated with just "2009", but this actually has the date. Is this authentic? If it is, then the fact he is bringing attention to the date could be significant.
This image was taken from a page on the Yahoo! Japan website: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20100504-00000013-oric-ent.view-000
Update: This autograph will be on exhibit from the 19th for only 5days at Roppongi Tokyo. After that, it will be auctioned in Las Vegas. The autograph was discovered in the US but the source is confidential.
This one posting by TMZ has bothered me for quite some time, so I decided to finally post about it to see what everyone thinks.
Back in February, TMZ photographed an "officer" who was sitting in a car near Dr. Murray's girlfriend's residence. They said the officer didn't say much. Here is the article:
The "officer" looks very plastic-like, and is just blankly staring. So I decided to zoom in a bit. Here is his face:
Look at the hard ridges under his eyes, and above the cheek bone. The hair is also odd, and the mouth doesn't appear like it could open. I also zoomed in on the left arm, which also looked odd:
Doesn't it bend in an odd way? The shape is odd - a little too thin and curved. The watch seems too high up near the hand. Also the whole arm has a plastic look to it.
What do you think? And if it is really a dummy they have photographed, what are they trying to say? Why would a real police officer, who is trying to be discreet, sit so still while photographers were taking photos of him and the contents of his police car?
While pondering that, check out this interesting video:
We've seen this famous image of MJ "directing" during the Liberian Girl video:
We've also thought it was interesting how the dancers/funeral ushers were posing next to an image relating to Liberian Girl at the funeral:
To add to our "what a wacky coincidence" file, below is a rare image of MJ in a similar type of military cadet jacket as our dancing ushers above...and what is he doing? "Directing" behind a camera!
This image can be found in the below video, which contains many "rare" and interesting MJ photos:
UPDATE: Courtesy of "Iloveyoumore", below is footage of the funeral, set to the tune of "Liberian Girl". (Does Kenny O. ever sit down during this?)
In a recent interview Cirque Du Soleil CEO Daniel Lamarre states that MJ will "return to the stage".
Take a look:
He says there will be no Michael Jackson impersonators. "No one can do it the way he was doing it", he said. "Plus, if you're a true Michael Jackson fan, that's him..you want to see him. and that's the challenge, we want to have his presence, a strong presence., on stage like you've never seen before."
MJ as you've never seen before..where have we heard that?
Could a hologram be the answer?
UPDATE: Credit to _Xscape_ for the below find. In the below Associated Press Article, it says "Daniel's creative team is already looking at "This Is It" dress rehearsals to use in the shows".
This raises a few questions:
1. Doesn't Sony own all of the rehearsal footage now? (they paid millions for it)
2. There were full dress rehearsals that exist that weren't shown in the film, but now can be used for this?
3. If there weren't full dress rehearsals, why would they show unfinished "rehearsal" footage when Cirque Du Soleil wants to put on a show to MJ's expectations?
What is this footage Cirque Du Soleil was looking at, and who was showing it to them?
When looking for oddities in this investigation, our friends at TMZ give us a lot to ponder - if anything for the interesting and somewhat eerie coincidences. Take for example, this article that was posted almost a year ago on April 22, 2009 where TMZ says that "the rest of Michael Jackson is well on its way to vanishing too" and "it's a thriller, right?":
I did some research on the movie that is being referenced in the article, and thought the poster for the film was interesting as it shows a "green man" with sunglasses. Now where have we seen a green man before?
Just another "wacky" coincidence....
UPDATE #1: Looks like MJ might have had a little fun with the "Invisible Man" character in the past; (credit to "MSMJFANFOREVER" and "mykidsmum"):
See the disguise in the second half of this video: :
UPDATE #2 In the comments below,annabel said...
"Claude Rains also played the Phantom in a really crappy version of Phantom of the Opera"
Interestingly enough, in another article, MJ was referred to as the "Phantom of the Clinic":
