Michael Stipe recently unveiled an installation at the Rogan store on Bowery in Manhattan.
A total of 500 cardboard boxes throughout the store each bears "12:26 a.m." the time Stipe was born. The musician/activist/producer/artist credits his inspiration to the designer Rogan Gregory. Stipe's collection of bronze mementos will be displayed exclusively in the store for the next month. Various objects that are immortalized in bronze include cameras such as the Polaroid, a cassette tape and a clock radio.
"The radio alarm clock...changed forever the fragile state between sleeping and waking, allowing you to wake to your favorite radio station. The Polaroid (one shot and sx70) revolutionized photography by providing instant images available to anyone. Cassettes provided portable, compact music, altering forever the influence of radio as the individual became their own disc jockey." - Michael Stipe
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