DJ
Guetta
Set to Project
on UN
Building,
Through a
Glass (House)
Darkly
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 21, updated
-- On November
12, Inner City
Press first
reported
that D.J.
David Guetta
was in the
house, the
Glass House of
the UN,
wearing a hard
hat and orange
construction
vest as the UN
Capital
Master Plan
showed him
around. Tweeted
photo here.
At
the time,
Inner City
Press asked
what Guetta
was doing in
the UN.
He's here to
help, was the
answer.
Now
Inner City
Press can
report that
the help
involve
projecting
lights
and images,
the music
video of his
song, on
the front of
the UN
building
tomorrow
night. They've
built a white
tent and set
up the lights;
those leaving
the UN on
Thursday night
-- including
UN
Peacekeeping
deputy Edmond
Mulet --
were diverted
to leave
another way,
to make way
for the tent
and
lights.
It
remains to be
seen what the
benefit to the
UN will be.
Previously,
Beyonce
premiered a
video in the
now-closed
General
Assembly hall.
(Her entourage
demanded the
deletion of photographs,
which the Free UN Coalition for Access
protested.)
Ali G,
UNauthorized,
filmed in the
Security
Council, with
a tour
guide who
later
moonlighted as
Albania's
information
minister.
But
to project
lights on the
front of the
UN? This we
gotta see. And
we
will.
When the UN
brings in, or
allows in, pop
figures one is
left wondering
for example:
do they know
the UN brought
cholera to
Haiti and now
refuses to
even accept
court papers
about it?
Linkin Park,
it seems,
didn't. Will
David Guetta?
Would, for
example, New
York-based DJ
Tim Sweeney of
Beats in
Space? Who
should DJ at
the UN? Watch
this site.
Update
of Nov 22: On
Friday
morning, the
lights were
covered with
sheet plastic
amid drizzle.
Inner City
Press tweeted
photo here.
Is it on, rain
or shine? The
UN's Media
Alert lists a
"red carpet"
at 7 pm...