Christina, in a good mood 

i feel the same way

This lifestyle by "Christina" is actually disgusting. Rather than have somebody in the 80s acting like somebody during the current time period, I would rather have somebody in this time period acting like people did in the 50s in terms of cultural values

P.S. I do feel bad that Nelson passed away. He maintained a healthy weight and was extremely unlucky. I just don't believe he is as revolutionary in a good way as most others since modern society is collapsing very quickly and we instead need our mentality to be that of 1955. Yes, I mean the entire mindset of that time period especially in the South

@@stewiegriffinfan18 I'm right there with you.

@@Utubin Hehe I am glad I am not the only one that thinks about things. Like, no, not everyone is created equal and different groups of anthropoids (that most refer to as "people") are different in civilization building, desire for freedom, and crime

ShikagoMale1 him not her

Hassan Moussie her you tit.

Craig Oz Realy...? Are you taking the piss m8?

No why would I be. Sex and gender are two separate things, related...yes, but her gender was that of a woman. So you use the pronoun 'she'. What she had in between her legs is irrelevant.

Gender is largely performative.

The team keeps releasing Nelson's videos. No one has done anything major with them yet. I wish they would. There are plenty of great creative people who were a part of this era. Julian Schnabel would be great for this type of project.

Emenjay Man real talk. I felt the same way after watching just 1 video.. opens my eyes.

Emenjay Man I watch every day....about ten days since I discovered

yeah, this is wild! I'm a straight, 39 yr old, watchin NBA playoffs, ON MUTE, while watching Nelson's footage. this is addicting... its REAL.

what song by the b52s is it?

So true,so right

I believe she was a diagnosed schizophrenic, but I'm sure there were some interesting drugs floating around that apartment as well.

@@cgvapors963 I would believe that because of the way she was holding her head and talking to herself and maybe she took legal drugs for her diagnosis. But I did sense some normality in her though. Like Nelson air-kissed her goodbye and she did the same. It's heart-warming if you think about it!

All these vids are a fragment of art

EVERYTHING

He knew,somehow.In one videos the last visit to his hometown in South Carolina he says "I am going to enter a different world,an electronic world and with God's help I am going to spread peace love and happiness".I couldn't believe my ears,he described a time where electronic devices seem to create another and virtual social world where complete strangers can communicate and affect one another,for better or worse. He had vision,that man.He was well connected.

He doesn’t

Well said!😍

I've just discovered this beautiful soul and itakes me so sad that he's not here

Oh...He knows! And he's smiling down on all of us...we will ALL see Nelson one day & thank him in spirit

Did he pass?

@@raymondsolisjr.1262 In 1989

So true so right

​Omg what did he pass of? Thats the same time when he was making these videos?? its what ive always wanted to do: Just randomly document real life. Speak to random characters I know, film in real time.

Yeah I think the same, he is a time traveler 😎

Daniel G. I com agree and was going to write the same thing you took the words out of my mouth . Very sad indeed

Think he had aids

@@63586jonathan he died from a heart attack.

@@frank6842 could be. Aids killed people many ways via heart attack etc. Who knows. He had that mark on his face had symptoms of HIV they suggested. No one really knows only him

63586jonathan he had a mole he had removed check his other vids

Do you know why he's dead? :(

xxtravisxxify he died of a heart attack a month after Christina he was her only true friend

That's so sad... what about Christina?

xxtravisxxify she overdosed a month b4 Nelson

u,mm... I thought Nelson died of a heart attack

The fact that she later died at the Chelsea Hotel is so sad. Especially since she died a couple of weeks before Nelson did!

Shadey .xo how did you find that out? Is there something on youtube?

@@shadeyxo no you’re telling me Nelson died shortly after these video..I can’t handle that news I’ve been binge watching :(

@@emmaann7602 He passed away in 1989 from a heart attack

@@myheartisinjapan3184 He talks about her death in his videos following her passing he was really sad about it and the only one who really cared that she died

Suzie N Nelson was the best

KD Gray I went on the same adventure and here I am too 😉

Hahaha SAME! Now im hooked!

Type his name in Google. You'll know something about him... 😧

I found nelson years ago while searching "oldest vlog." My first video was the party Alig had at Mcdonalds. I thought it was so interesting and different, I have went through a rabbit hole since and learned tons.

me, too!! same rabbit hole...

squeeky 86 lol 😂

Earth was orbiting around Christina hard, actually

i bet it's haunted

Woah that's insane!! I would looooove to visit that hotel & stay in the same room Christina stayed in.. imagine that. That'd be wild..

i stayed there in 2009. it’s actually a very peaceful place. the walls are thick concrete so you don’t hear anything. it’s a nice atmosphere. i stayed for 3 days. there’s art everywhere in the hallways. they were actually filming a tv show when i was there.

@@drinkingpoolwater I agree, always got neutral vibes.

Thomas White I was thinking the same.

Fast forward to now where everyone eats manufactured food and takes the elevator up one story.

Yeah, I noticed that too. He was really out of breath after climbing about two sets of stairs. That's not very healthy. But it might be because of smoking, since he seems pretty fit. Personally, I'm a bit on the heavier side, and I get winded after going up just one set of stairs. But I don't smoke at all.

Indeed sorry that he left us so young..relaxed dude..going to his granny house and neigbours..I just kinda met him since a few weeks watching his vids...a couple days before he died I saw him yawning while he was filming himself during a normal day out walking BlackOut..I guess that was also a sign...so sad...anywaaaaysss thank you Nelson for being worldsss first Vlogger lolll..eat that peeps🤗🤣😋

@@sassy7251 He probably yawned because of tiredness and always walks Blackout in the mornings, so it's understandable why he yawned.

love.

DiskSystemChronicles fluidity was his thing, this is a rare video where he is not moving, hes not still for long and the camera is always in his hand, if you've ever held a camera from the eighties they were quite weighty and ackward along with all the equipment, but he carried it everywhere, and surprisingly you'd think the shots would be shaky. A real talent to do this

Good catch, he is incredible. 5:46 He reaches to center the camera better while Linda's filming him. Master.

@@robertbradford3461 10:24 the stairway swirl ❤

@@TS-qq7vr the Stairway Swirl 10:24 ❤

nancy long thought the same thing !

It wasn't a new concept at the time

That's called capitalism in healthcare. Not anything people haven't known about forever.

She was in a good mood, wasn't she, so that thought was lucky to be told :'( Also, everybody kept saying she does drugs but that doesn't look like drugs to me. They said Cocaine. Cocaine doesn't make you slur your words like that. Why do people disrespect people with a mental disability like that? It's sad...

Jacob Klimek cocaine definetly does

Mauricio Cardd exactly. I just came across these videos yesterday and I cant stop watching them.

+shane womeldorff me too

Mauricio Cardd took the words out of my mouth

I just stumbled upon these today what a treasure I was alive but 9 yrs old at this time and I have this feeling of connection between these vids cuz of the type of ppl and a time I only here about very sad but beautiful, dark but light and these ppl seem to have a level of bravery to me just being themselves and not giving a fuck,

Agree I was 6 or 7 years old around this time period and would often visit Manhattan when I'd stay with my dad & this is defitnely the Ny that I remember from that age . The music and fashion an grittiness of the city is so nostalgic to me even though I was so young it reminds me of that whole era & I hate how Ny has changed so much now. Yes crime is down since the 80s but Ny lost its soul and now it's a little too clean..it's hard to explain but my dad agrees. Nyc was a crime ridden dirty place in the 80s till around the mid to late 90s but it had character. Nelson seems like he'd be an amazing, insightful good friend that would help out anyone. He also appreciated the beauty an rawness of the city in the 80s. There are not many people like Nelson around nowadays. I did not even know him yet I miss him. I think I've watched all of his videos at least twice. They are just fascinating. I feel like im right there with him getting to see a world that as a six year old at the time that I would never really know.

Yeah you feel that from his energy. It’s very good energy. Very nonjudgemental, loving, empathetic.

I live in Indiana, but always wanted to see the Chelsea. I see online that it is closed for renovations? Any chance you know when it will reopen or how the renovation is going? I'm afraid to hear that they try to modernize it and take away the history. Hopefully no unnecessary changes will be made.

The same thing happened in in D.C. and Chicago.A lot urban areas are now like that, gentrified out of all recognition.

The Chelsea has seen lots of deaths.

Trish 0910 theyre completely remodeling and are not opening up for renting sans a few residents that were there prior to reconstruction. All the history will be gone with the new remodel

Oh wow!! I turned 14 April of ‘89 and I loved NYC and had so many dreams of moving there to live this kind of experience. My former husband is from NYC and wanted out so it never happened. These videos are sating my longing for taking a different path.

xxtravisxxify aferin!

He has that affect 😊

TURKIYE SIK TIR LAN

@@athandog ouch

@@athandog the Greeks are still pissed at Turkey I see. That's understandable..

Yeah Nelson's a very graceful walker

Ah yes, the colourfulness of these drugged out people who died within weeks has totally been ruined. /s Obviously people in this scene were on a ton of drugs and half the time were extremely mentally ill. Christina, the beauty, on drugs and apparently was diagnosed schizophrenic and then died of an overdose not long after this video. Times have changed, not by much, but drawing this conclusion on a video like this is probably the worst place to do so.

@@abigaileldritch man shut the fuck up you literal moron

@@abigaileldritch nelson wasnt on drugs he died of a heart attack not drug overdose, and christina took drugs for her schizophrenia diagnosis

I typed down the quote to comment it too. This guy was an artist.

You can see why they chose her character for party monster and for Marylin Manson to portray her.

She is very amusing.

same

Some ppl can see past the drugs and mental illness, and see the person's good side. Drugs and mental illness do not defy the person, learn that and do better

Yup.notfemale

@@mandi7615 And?

⁠@@mandi7615 youre over here on a niche drag channel, you need to take a look in yourself and maybe do some accepting

Heroin, it's easy to tell the way she spaces in an out

@@cfernandez120 There's a lot more going on then just heroin....

H E R O I N...

I remember Dick too! he ran a record company too. I remember when you could order them and he'd mail them to you from Atlanta, this all after he inherited the hoard of brilliant videos.

I can't unsee it now

Don't know what fuck you're talking about pal

So is whatever she was on

Drugs are a powerful drug - as the video so vividly illustrates.

so iconic

*Xiola Blue Staley* - gorgeous thumbnail ..such a classic girl💜💜💜💜

6:05

homophobes

No one with a heart could dislike sweet Nelson.

Maybe people dislike watching drug addicts melting their brains.

@@eefdekfifjef no ones a homophobe quit using that pathetic remark. No one has a fear or gays maybe they don’t like drug addiction quit labeling people you’re just as ignorant

❤️❤️

Their pupils are way to dilated. By their motions and stammering Id highly suggest ketamine

Christina: want to be in a music video... and get an air conditioner for it... Nelson: Okay give me back my camera now. Haha! It seems like he was about to say something not so nice

@@flukislucas Yep, things like forgetting what she was saying mid-sentence and not making much sense in general, Ketamine is probably a good assumption. That was one of that crews drug of choice.

@@BreakerOneNine07 Correct you are. I also was a heroin addict so I can smell my own lol..

4 SURE

Nelson didn't have AIDS.