Listen Up, Y'all! (But Maybe Wear Your Earplugs)

The powers that be has deemed May the official "Better Hearing and Speech Month" so can everyone just shut the f**k up and stop screaming? In celebration of glorious May’s message, the Hear the World Foundation is offering the public a chance to peruse photographic art for the sake of raising awareness on hearing loss and preservation.

Hear the World is a 2-year-old international foundation created by Phonak, a Zurich-based company, which has developed & produced hearing systems for improving one’s hearing abilities. They asked former rawker/now photographer Bryan Adams (who JDF asked to photograph his recent wedding extravaganza in Lima, although Adams had to gracefully decline) to be their official photog, and to take portraits of their many musical ambassadors for the sake of hearing & hearing loss awareness.

One of those Hear the World ambassadors is Plácido Domingo, and we also have in the mix Annie Lennox, the Wiener Philharmoniker, Bobby McFerrin, Josh Groban, Lindsay Lohan (??), Mick Jagger, and Rod Stewart.

The portrait endeavor is currently being shown in one of NYC's meatpacking district galleries (@ 413-415 W. 14th Street) for the next two weeks (and here online), which will culminate in an auction with all proceeds aiding the Hear the World Foundation.

I’m not a fan of what Adams did with the Dominger. He looks like he’s been embalmed. I see a point & shoot portrait with a lot of fancy back-end manipulation. heh. It's like..."hey, i'm bryan adams. With a 'y'. Today i ate pastrami on rye and washed it down with welsh;s grape soday. My dog's name is zeus like higgens's dog from magnum p.i."

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Comments

[Susan]

"What? Did I hear that correctly? Pastrami? I'm sorry, there's embalming fluid in my ear..."

[Les Mitchell]

Great pictures of King Placido!!