Posts tagged as:

Album: Off The Wall

Famed designer Mike Salisbury, the man behind the imprint on a multitude of diverse products from HALO, the world’s most popular video game, Rolling Stone, Surfer and Playboy magazines to O’Neill and Gotcha surfwear and Levi’s 501 jeans (a brand Salisbury created), is also the genius behind Michael Jackson’s iconic image in black pants, glittery socks, and loafers wearing a single white glove.


More About Mike Salisbury…

Look around anywhere in the United States – and you can find examples of creativity that have literally become American icons. The name Mike Salisbury may not appear on the work, but the brains and hands behind much of it are his.

As the man who created the highest earning re-branding in American business history, Mike Salisbury is recognized by his peers as one of the leading talents in American brand design. He is the man behind the imprint on a multitude of diverse products from Halo-the world’s most popular video game, Michael Jackson’s white glove, Rolling Stone, Surfer and Playboy magazines, O’Neill and Gotcha surfwear, Levi’s 501 jeans (a brand that Salisbury created), along with some of the world’s most recognized corporate branding and product design for companies like Volkswagen, Suzuki, Honda and Hasbro–the biggest toy company in the world.

His work is everywhere in the motion picture industry. Mike helped created marketing campaigns for over 300 movies including Aliens, Jurassic Park, Romancing The Stone, Raiders of The Lost Ark and Moulin Rouge. In the film The People vs. Larry Flynt, Flynt defends the First Amendment based on a concept Mike Salisbury created for Hustler magazine.

Click Here to Read More www.mikesalisbury.net

{ 1 comment }

Back in the day…

Today…

Click Here for Song

{ 1 comment }

{ 1 comment }

Q: How did it all start?

A: Motown was preparing to do this movie called The Wiz … and Quincy Jones happened to be the man who was doing the music. Now, I had heard of Quincy before. When I was in Indiana as a child, my father used to buy jazz albums, so I knew him as a jazz musician.

So after we had made this movie–we had gotten pretty close on the film, too; he helped me understand certain words, he was really father-like–I called him after the movie, out of complete sincerity–’cause I’m a shy person, ESPECIALLY then, I used to not even look at people when they were talking to me, I’m not joking–and I said, ‘I’m ready to do an album. Do you think … could you recommend anybody who would be interested in producing it with me or working with me?’ He paused and said, ‘Why don’t you let ME do it?’ I said to myself, ‘I don’t know why I didn’t think of that.’ Probably because I was thinking that he was more my father, kind of jazzy. So after he said that, I said, ‘WOW, that would be great.’ What’s great about working with Quincy, he let’s you do your thing. He doesn’t get in the way.

Michael_Jackson Read More

Click to Read More

{ 0 comments }

{ 0 comments }


{ 2 comments }

mj shopping

Bruce Swedien In the Studio with Michael Jackson

The inside secrets of Michael Jackson’s greatest records by the Grammy-winning engineer who captured and enhanced their sound. Multiple color photos of Jackson, producer Quincy Jones, and all the talents who collaborated to make pop history with Jackson’s albums. Plucked from a job at legendary Universal Audio in Chicago, Bruce Swedien entered into a fruitful and historic 30-year relationship with producer Quincy Jones.

That partnership culminated in the groundbreaking recordings of Michael Jackson, beginning with The Wiz, continuing with Jackson’s breakout solo debut Off the Wall, and triumphing with Thriller, which revolutionized music and video and fixed Jackson in culture as the King of Pop.

Now Swedien reveals the technical details of creating those albums (along with Bad, Dangerous, and HIStory) and offers personal remembrances and anecdotes about working with the pop icon. Swedien’s book provides an insider’s look that will thrill anyone interested in the nuts and bolts of hit making and the history of some of America’s most influential recordings. *

Large collection of photographs from Michael Jackson recording sessions * Forewords by producer Quincy Jones and writer/producer Rod Temperton

BUY - Copy

CLICK HERE: Buy the Book Moonwalk


Click 4 More MJ Shopping

{ 3 comments }

offthewall

{ 3 comments }

Rihanna made her first major appearance since February last night on the red carpet at the Costume Institute Gala. She was clad in a gender-bender black puff sleeve suit-bow-tie combo by Dolce & Gabbana. Biker chic leather gloves completed the ensemble.

Rihanna made an appearance on the red carpet at the Costume Institute Gala 2009. She was clad in a gender-bender black puff sleeve suit-bow-tie combo by Dolce & Gabbana. Biker chic leather gloves completed the ensemble.

{ 5 comments }

Michael Jackson and Brook Sheilds 3 off the wall
Michael Jackson and Brook Sheilds 4 off the wall

{ 3 comments }

mj shopping

Click to View Closer

Buy Cartoon Michael Jackson T-Shirts 1

Buy Cartoon Michael Jackson T-Shirts



{ 3 comments }

THRILLER FASHION

PART TWO

Just Jared reported: Agyness Deyn pays tribute to Michael Jackson in a special subscriber-only collectors cover of the September 2009 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, out August 18.  Leighton Meester is on the newsstand cover.

Agyness Deyn-Michael-Jackson-Tribute Harpers Bazaar 4

Agyness Deyn-Michael-Jackson-Tribute Harpers Bazaar 6

Michael_Jackson Read More

Click to See More

{ 1 comment }

Michael Jackson has now spent the last two months on top of the UK albums chart.

His two-disc compilation The Essential notches up a seventh week at number one, having previously replaced another Jackson collection, Number Ones, in the top spot.

The Essential is one of six Jackson albums in this week’s top 40 – the same tally as seven days ago.

digitalspy.co.uk

album Cover Essential Number Ones

Top 40 UK Albums : 16th Aug 2009

  1. Number #1 Michael Jackson – The Essential
  2. Number #12 Michael Jackson – Bad
  3. Number #16 Michael Jackson – Thriller
  4. Number #22 Michael Jackson & Jackson Five – The Motown Years
  5. Number #25 Michael Jackson – Off The Wall
  6. Number #37 Michael Jackson – The Collection

    { 0 comments }