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SHE KNOWS THAT YOU KNOW IT!

«It's amazing what happens when someone you know really gets going with their exercising. It usually happens so slowly that you don't even notice it, but after a year or so suddenly you realize that they're completely different. Where maybe they used to be sort of dumpy, now they look terrific and they know it, and they know that you know it».


-Andy Warhol

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FAME: HOW TO PLAY THE GAME IN THE 21st CENTURY

In the past Andy Warhol used to say that you should not pay attention to what other people are writing about you. Instead he recommended to «just measure it in inches». In the 21 st century this warholian attitude has triomphed. And everywhere around the world, actress or wanna be stars and writers just measure it in Google page rank and blog notes.

ALL ABOUT POP

«Once you got POP you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought POP you could never see America the same way».

-Andy Warhol

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POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINES WILL TELL YOU : HAVE YOUR BRAIN REMOVED AND LOOSE TEN POUNDS!

CHILD OF WARHOL

«We forget that it took a man at the nexus of art and self promotion to figure out that as camera shrank and screens multiplied the barriers of fame would someday be eradicated. Call it Warhol's Theorem. Anyone who has uploaded a video to You Tube or posted a My Space profile might be considered a child of Warhol -except that Warhol vision of fame was very different from how he actually lived»


Time magazine
Dec 16 2006

FLEXING FOR 6 SECONDS OF FAME.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINES WILL WRITE: HOW TO KEEP GREAT LOOKING HAIR WHEN A HIGH TIDE FLOOD YOUR BUILDING!

EDWARD LUCIE SMITH ON ANDY WARHOL.

I asked art historian Edward Lucie Smith about the influence of Andy Warhol. «Andy specialized in being all things to all men. If you stood next to him at a party as I once did and said - Isn't it a lousy party he'd say Yeah». But if you stood next to him in the same party and said -Isn't this a great party! he'd say Yeah!». People read into him whatever they want to find».

«A DICTATORSHIP AT THE DOOR, A DEMOCRACY ON THE FLOOR -ANDY WARHOL

Studio 54

GLAMOROUS!

«Read about ten different magazines and got so nervous because everything is so glamorous. Even all the sick people look glamorous in magazines».


Andy Warhol Diaries
April 15 1985

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: GET CLONED NOW AND BE THE YOUNGEST LOOKING OLD HOLLYWOOD STAR AT THE 2030 OSCARS!

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TEXAS

«Texas really is the «land of the free» because when a Texan gets money or power, they immediately go out and do whatever they've always wanted to do, and they never think about what other people might think or say about it. And they do it all in a big, big way».


-Andy Warhol.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINES WILL WRITE : NEW PLASTIC SURGERY BREAKTHROUGH : LOOK 5 AT 25!

MONEY & CLASS

«Like most superstions the religious faith in money has some basis in fact. When Andy Warhol was shot twice by one of his deranged film stars in June 1968 the ambulance drivers didn't recognize him for a celebrity. They picked him up at his New York «Factory» on a poor but trendy street and on the way to the hospital, thinking him as worhtless as everything else in the neighborhood they didn't feel compelled to hurry. Warhol noticed that the ambulance was stopping for red lights and mumbled something about the urgency of his wound. For an extra $15 the drivers said they would turn on the siren».


-Lewis Lapham
Money & Class in America.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE JEWISH MAGAZINES WILL ASK: IS CLIMATE CHANGE GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

REALITY TV

POST WARHOL PREDICTION

IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINE WILL TELL YOU: HAVE YOUR LEGS CUT AND LOOK 2 INCHES SHOTER FOR WINTER AND THEN: HAVE YOUR LEGS CUT AGAIN AND LOOK 4 INCHES TALLER FOR SUMMER!

WARHOL: I'M A DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL PEOPLE»

AFTER DANCING AND RAPPING KEVIN FEDERLINE WANTS TO BE A MOVIE STAR!

«It used to be that when you were famous, you were famous for one thing. John F Kennedy was President. Elvis was the king of Rock & Roll. Elizabeth Taylor was the world's greatest movie star. But now it seeems like you have to do lots of things really well , and you don't get to stay famous for long unless you're always switching".


-Andy Warhol

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY WILL BE FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES WHEN THEY DIE AND 15 SECONDS WHEN THEY'RE ALIVE

LUCKY VANOUS: LIFE AFTER 15 MINUTES OF FAME

FILMMAKER DAVID CRONENBERG ON WHY WARHOL IS SO RELEVANT TODAY

«Andy is so incredibly relevant partly because of the celebity aspect of his work. He was so ahead of his time in his understanding of the worthlessness of celebrity and yet the power of it. Andy basically invented Paris Hilton I think».

POST WARHOL PREDICTION : IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINES WILL TELL YOU: HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSION WRINKLES WHEN SEEING HOW «SMALL» YOUR MAN IS!

CAMILLE PAGLIA ON ANDY WARHOL AND THE END OF AVANT GARDE

«The followers of Lacan Derrida and Foucault far from bing political and intellectual sophisticates are the real fossilized reactionnaries of our time. They seized on and dogged to death ideas that were totally passé in America well before 1970. Foucault spoke of Beckett Wainting for Godot as the pivotal liberating experience of his generation of Parisians emerging form existentialism. When I saw that play in 1966 in college I recognized it as a repressive anxiety-formation of defunct modernism which the Sixties revolution energized by rock had swept completely away. At that moment in America popular culture rude, vital, brassy had triomphed. Warhol and Oldenberg reanimating the commercial motifs of our daily like had killed the European avant-garde forever».


-Camille Paglia.

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AMERICAN COURAGE

«But I think it takes a lot of courage to be really fat, or have very white skin that never tans or be really old and go to the beach. You wear your bathing suit and show yourself off anyway, and you have the attitude that this is what I am, and it may not be so great but it's me and I really don't care what you think about it. That's a great american kind of courage».


-Andy Warhol

WARHOL HERITAGE

«His heritage is all around us wherever reality feels like television and art like a silk-screened Weggee...


-John Updike.
Rolling Stone magazine
May 15 2003

ANDY WARHOL & KEITH HARING: GRACE JONES VIDEO

I'm Not Perfect

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WOMEN'S MAGAZINES WILL TELL YOU : HOW TO TURN YOUR HEAD LIKE GRACE KELLY WHEN FAKING ORGASM

ACCESS HOLLYWOOD STARTS... RIGHT NOW!

«There is no country in the world that loves «right now» like America does. I guess so many things are happening today that we're too busy to do anything but look, talk and think about all of it. We don't have time to remember the past, and we don't have the energy to imagine the future; we're so busy, we can only think: Now! ».


-Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol - TV Commercial Braniff Airlines