Very cool idea.
AIDSWATCH NEEDS NAMES
Names of loved ones that have died from HIV/AIDS are needed to fill the AIDSWatch roster for this year’s World AIDS Day telemorial. For the 11th year in Los Angeles cable [TV will run] a 24 hour program of individual names is presented as a reminder that AIDS is not over. Last year a record 15,600 names were submitted. The program can run almost 23,000 names.
It runs the entire 24 hours of World AIDS Day, December 1st.
The program is generated from the West Hollywood City Channel production house and fed to all of the Time Warner system throughout Los Angeles, a potential one million homes. Names appear for 3.5 seconds, the time it takes to take a breath. Each fades in and fades out to create a meditative environment. White letters on a stark black screen.
There is no charge to submit names. The purpose of this art project is to remember and remind, according to creator David Reid. Rock Hudson, Freddy Mercury are the same as David Cartwright and Chris Blauman. In death we are all equal. And the programming purpose is exactly that.
Names can be submitted in two ways, www.AIDSWatch.org or by snail mail: AIDSWatch c/o David Reid Post Office Box 69991 West Hollywood CA 90069.
