A regular dispatch of essays, criticism, and (pop) cultural ephemera, compiled and mixed by Norman Brannon.

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February 22nd
2:14 PM

MOBY “Wait for Me” Dir. Jessica Dimmock and Mark Jackson, 2010

If you’re unfamiliar with Jessica Dimmock’s work, start here. As a photojournalist, her most recognized piece is a series called The Ninth Floor, in which she followed a group of heroin addicts who were squatting in a Fifth Avenue building over the course of a three-year period. For this music video, Moby gave Dimmock $5,000 and complete creative control — and the story speaks for itself: The subject of the video, Jessie, is one of the Ninth Floor addicts, and unlike a few of her roommates, she never got clean.