Forgotten Michael Jackson photos could power the world, inventor says

[IDemo]

Which is more misleading - the headline or the inventor?

By Alan Duke, CNN
May 14, 2011 5:12 p.m. EDT

Los Angeles (CNN) -- A Los Angeles inventor who photographed Michael Jackson 33 years ago hopes those images will now help launch an electric motor he claims could solve the world's energy problems.

Reginald Garcia will use cash from the sale of 130 unpublished Jackson photos to fund testing of the motor, which he claims generates more electricity than it uses*. Garcia is in the process of getting the photos appraised and prepared for sale.

The photos show a 19-year-old Jackson and his brothers during a video shoot at a Hollywood studio in March 1978, before he began changing his appearance with surgery.

The Afro hair style and 1970s clothing show "a rare glance" of Jackson in an "awkward teenage stage," an image that he personally tried to bury in later years, according to a collector who sold photographs to the singer.

*"Woo".

http://us.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/05/14/michael.jackson.photos/index.html?hpt=C1

edit - meant this for GD, not GDP....

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1. link?

n/t

[IDemo]

2. Yes

:hi:

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6. thank you

from a Michael Jackson fan. :D

[high density]

3. I know CNN has this in their "Celebrity News Gossip" folder...

But give us a break...

[tridim]

4. My favorite comment..

"He's using Michael Jackson's name to fund a project that won't work. Its like running against Obama in 2012."

[The Wizard]

5. Not again

Another perpetual motion machine. He needs the money for medication.

[sakabatou]

7. I call BS

Sounds almost like a perpetual motion machine.

[mn9driver]

8. My 10 year old has also been working on this problem.

So far he's come up with a dozen ideas that I've gone through with him to help him figure out why they won't work. Maybe this guy could give us part of the proceeds and we'll share our results with him?

To be fair, by brother-in-law, who is a very intelligent guy in most of the ways that count, paid $40 for an online article on how to build a supplemental hydrogen converter for his car that the author "guaranteed" would let him get 150 miles per gallon. Luckily I walked him through that one before he started digging into his car, for which my sister is very grateful.