Paul Johnson was an American DJ and record producer best known for “Get Get Down” (1999).
“Get Get Down” samples “Me and the Gang” (1978) by Hamilton Bohannon.
Tag Archives: RIP
RIP Roberto Calasso (1941 – 2021)
Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher (Adelphi Edizioni).
RIP Jean-François Stévenin (1944 – 2021)
Jean-François Stévenin was a French actor known for many things and not so much for playing Dolmancé in La philosophie dans le boudoir (1991) by Olivier Smolders.
RIP Albert Bandura (1925 – 2021)
Albert Bandura was a Canadian-American psychologist at Stanford University best known for the 1961 Bobo doll experiment in which a child was shown and adult mistreating a doll, after which the child imitated the adult.
The experiment was of some import in the influence of mass media debate.
RIP Henri Vernes (1918 – 2021)
Henri Vernes was a Belgian author best known for creating the comics hero Bob Morane.
RIP Eddy Posthuma de Boer (1931 – 2021)
Eddy Posthuma de Boer was a Dutch photographer.
RIP Biz Markie (1964 – 2021)
Biz Markie was an American rapper best known for his composition “Just a Friend“, which is on the Pitchfork 500.
RIP Kurt Westergaard (1935 – 2021)
Kurt Westergaard was a Danish cartoonist famous for drawing the cartoons of Mohamed that were the object of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2005.
These cartoons made him the target of multiple death threats and assassination attempts. As a result, Westergaard lived, for the rest of his life, under police protection and in hiding.
RIP William F. Nolan (1928 – 2021)
William F. Nolan was an American author best known for co-writing Logan’s Run, a dystopian novel which shows similarities to Blade Runner.
Logan (the protagonist from Logan’s Run) is Rick Deckard (the protagonist from Blade Runner). Both chase renegades, rebels from the system. Logan is a sandman (a cop chasing people who refuse to be euthanized) and Deckard is a blade runner (a cop who chases robots who refuse to be put out of circulation).
Both change sides during the story, becoming renegades and rebels themselves.
For interesting thoughts on these similarities, check Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema (2005) and Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy: This Breaks the World (2019).
RIP Christian Boltanski (1944 – 2021)
Christian Boltanski was a French artist working in sculpture, photography, painting, and filmmaking, known for such works as Personnes (2010).