PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MONEY
You really can see the class of the store you're shopping at by the way the cashier gives you back your change. The poor gives you the paper money and then the coins on top. The rich always do the opposite.
The blog about the ongoing influence of Andy Warhol's philosophy in the 21 st century. From art to instant fame, sex, beauty, celebrity gossip obsession, business or fitness why we live in a Warholian world more than ever.
You really can see the class of the store you're shopping at by the way the cashier gives you back your change. The poor gives you the paper money and then the coins on top. The rich always do the opposite.
Mariah Carey engaged to Nick Cannon
“Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.“
“Web 2.0 signaled a "V-day" shift of control from company to customer, where increasingly powerful virtual environments and social networking communities proliferate. While traditional wisdom has focused on customer identification for one-to-one targeted marketing campaigns, cross-selling and so on, the reality of Generation V (Generation Virtual) members using multiple personae (e.g., Amazon reviewer, eBay seller, Second Life avatar "World of Warcraft" blood elf, digger, blogger, YouTuber), and the sheer power of their growing influence, means that customers will have a host of online personae driving your business relationship.Discovering customers' true identities becomes irrelevant."
While universal fame might seem to be an unachievable goal, it is important to distinguish between an individual's being recognized for a specific accomplishment and mere celebrity. With regard to the latter, Daniel J. Boorstin noted that "a celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness." Clearly, universal fame requires only meeting the Boorstin standard of well-knownness. The current exemplar of such celebrity is Paris Hilton. (To be fair, Ms. Hilton is young and could well achieve something of note in years to come.)
“When you're interested in somebody and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away rather than take a chance they won't notice them. Maybe, say, you have a permanent beauty problem you can't change such as too-short legs. Just say it.“ My legs as you've probably noticed are much to short in proportion to the rest of my body". Why give the other person the satisfaction of discoverig it for themselves?".
“The good news about "Hard Candy" is that "4 Minutes" is one of only two or three misfires on a fascinatingly mainstream big pop album. It's the sort of widely appealing album that Madonna hasn't really made since the 1980s, and it's one of her most immediately pleasing in years upon first listen. Void of quasi-political message songs or vaguely confessional lyrics — which hung like millstones around "American Life" and portions of "Confessions on a Dance Floor" — "Hard Candy" is the dance-and-feel-good-about-who-you-are Madonna of "Get Into the Groove."
Why do they change the ideal TV demographic range from 18-35 to 18-49 and always complaining about poor ratings when they produce shows for 15 year old girls?
Maybe Obama would be better remembering the Warhol lesson after his arugula salad episode. Have turkey and mash potatoes as your favorite meal, eat Campbell soup for 20 years and above all “think rich, look poor"...
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
The big three TV network newscasts lost about 1.2 million viewers last year, and advertising on their three big morning news shows fell to an estimated $1.03 billion. The average viewer is 60 years old, and the demographic marketers most want to reach is more likely to be facing a computer screen than a TV screen when the evening news comes on.
Le plaisir d'acheter n'existerait pas si ce n'était d'acheter ce que l'autre ne peut pas...
We're shameless
Sticking with the multinational company art competition theme, Pizza Hut has a global design competition where you can design your own pizza box. For the next six months there will be a monthly prize of $1,000 and at the end of the competition the overall winner will have their design printed on a Pizza Hut box.
But it is especially easy to understand why Murakami is often referred to as the Andy Warhol of Japan. Along with his Kool-Aid hues and preoccupation with pop, he fools around with notions of branding.
Jen seen with John Mayer
DENVER (Billboard) - When "Grand Theft Auto IV" reaches stores on Tuesday, the latest chapter in the wildly popular and controversial videogame franchise will make history on several levels. First, it will have the largest soundtrack of any videogame. Second, it will be the first game that lets players tag songs in the soundtrack for subsequent purchase online.
“I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again."
“Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise -then you should do it. But you could really save yourself a lot of trouble either way by first figuring out whether you an energy-getter or an energy-loser. As I said I'm an energy-loser".
WHY FUCK YOUR 60 YEAR OLD WIFE IN LOW DEFINITION IN THE DARK WHEN YOU CAN WATCH HOT 20 YEAR OLD PORN STARS FUCKING IN HIGH DEFINITION ON YOUR NEW (AD SPACE) TV!
The outcome of a lawsuit filed by artist Robert Rauschenberg could send shudders through artists working on canvas or behind the shutter. Art experts, attorneys and law professors are watching to see if new law will emerge from the case. Rauschenberg alleges Naples artist Robert Fontaine took work from his trash and sold it fraudulently under Rauschenberg's name. The work is not authentic and should be returned and destroyed, Rauschenberg says.The case is groundbreaking because there is no legal precedent. At stake is the ability of artists to define what is their authentic or inauthentic work, and whether an artist maintains creative ownership of work he considered unfinished or unusable.
“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. "
“The latest performer making a serious, or perhaps we should just say earnest, stab at post-porn mainstream fame is Jenna Jameson, possibly the world's most famous contemporary porn star. She retired from hardcore a couple of years back (not before caching a fair amount of footage for gradual release over time) and now stars in the horror satire Zombie Strippers, costarring Robert Englund of Nightmare on Elm Street fame."
Cameron Diaz gets support from Justin
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
Kelly Clarkson performs for the Pope.
“Andy has fought by repetition to show us that there is no repetition really that everything we look at is worthy of our attention. That's been a major direction for the twentieth century it seems to me".
Si l’ éternité suppose une absence de tout début et de toute fin comment se fait-il que je ne me souvienne pas du lieu où je me trouvais en 1436...?
“There’s never been an artist who was more open about his commercial intentions. The year after he did the “Ten Portraits” he did a series of dollar signs, and he constantly talked about his intentions to sell his work for the best price he could find. What’s unusual about Warhol is not that he had those desires — because I think that many artists do — but that he spoke so frankly and openly about them. He was shameless: He didn’t think that it was something that needed to be disguised in the name of polite taste. If you look at Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst or Takashi Murakami — with his Louis Vuitton store in the middle of his exhibition — or any number of artists now, they’re also very open. That seems very Warholian to me."
Enrique Iglesias trying to marry Kournicova.
“I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."
“The result of this is that the most expensive contemporary artists are the most branded and immediately visible contemporary artists. You know a Hirst when you see one, or a Murakami, or a Serra, or a Koons. The normal mode of looking at art is reversed: you don't think "I like that, I wonder who the artist is" but rather "Oh, there's a Koons, I wonder if I'll like it"."
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. "
«Let's say you decide you have an OK face, a great body, medium money and no power or prestige. That means you should go after other people who also have two mediums, a terrific and a nothing. It's not supposed to matter which categories the different things fall in as long as it's two mediums, one terrific, one nothing".
Nowadays Takashi Murakami claims that the historical gap between high and low culture have never been so narrow. He refers to that as a kind of new superflat culture. In the pre Renaissance era artisans became artists. In one sense this new superflat culture annonces the growing trend of the future where artists will once again be known mainly as artisans.
“Problems paying the mortgage, filling the gas tank and feeding the family have eroded living standards for millions of Americans during the past several months. Not so for people who manage big piles of money; many of them made a fortune betting correctly on the housing debacle and rising commodity prices last year. Our second annual look at the pay of folks who run hedge and private equity funds shows that the top 20 took home a collective $18.7 billion last year, 43% more than in 2006. To even make the list you needed minimum earnings of $350 million, which is $90 million higher than the year before. No chief executive of a traditional Wall Street investment bank came even close."
Baby for Jen.
“Young males certainly aren't privileged. The vast majority of learning-disabled students are boys, and boys are four times as likely as girls to receive diagnoses of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Girls get better grades than boys and are much more likely than boys to graduate high school and enter college. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, women earn 60% of all bachelor's degrees and 60% of all master's degrees. That adult men are "privileged" over women is also questionable. Yes, men do make up the majority of CEOs, politicians and powerbrokers. They also make up the majority of the homeless, the imprisoned, suicide victims and those who die young."
Richard and Robert DuPont recently discussed what they got up to during their time as precocious runaways in the Studio 54-era Warhol camp. Andy, it seems, had a thing for twins. "He would kiss me, and yes he touched me – he would sometimes jerk me off," says Richard, according to SX News. "Warhol also used Richard to recruit "cute friends" to take part in the creation of the oxidation paintings. "Andy would watch. He didn't touch himself, but he did this moaning. 'Oh!…Oh!…' It was like he was having an orgasm while he watched us. "Or at least faking one. And then he would take us to lunch and give us $100, or some of his silk-screen wallpaper of the cow or Mao."
Toni Braxton cancels shows
“While Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg designed window displays under the pseudonym “Matson-Jones" Andy proudly signed his Bonwitt Teller windows"
April 13 2008
Ivana Trump get married for the fourth time.
”Now it’s scientifically proven: we really do enjoy expensive things more. In an experiment conducted by Antonio Rangel at the California Institute of Technology, the brains of 20 volunteers were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging while they tasted five different wines costing $5 to $90 a bottle. But Rangel fibbed, telling them that the cheap wine was the most expensive, or giving the same price to two different wines. The scanner showed consistently that the flow of blood to the part of the brain that registers pleasure, the medial orbitofrontal cortex, increased when the price was declared to be high, not according to the quality of the wine. In case this got attributed simply to the ignorant palates of the volunteers, Rangel repeated the experiment with members of the Stanford University wine club and got widely similar results."
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
“I′m having boys come and model for the new paintings I′m doing. But I shouldn′t call them nude. It should be something more artistic. Like Lanscapes..Landscapes″.
April 10 2008
‟Buying things in America today is just unbelievable. Let′s say you′re thirsty. Do you want Coke, Diet Coke, Caffeine-Free Tab, New Improved tab, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Light, Pepsi Free, Root Beer, Royal Crown Cola, C&C Cola, Diet Royal Crown Cola, Caffeine-Free Pepsi, Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi, Caffeine-Free Royal Crown Cola, Like, Dr Pepper, Sugar-Free Dr Pepper, Fresca, Mr Pibb, Seven-Up, Diet Seven-Up, orange, grape, apple, Orelia, Perrier, Poland, ginger ale, tonic, seltzer, Yoo-Hoo or cream soda?”
Pamela Anderson is returning to the small screen with her own reality show. The former "Baywatch" actress will executive produce and star in eight half-hour episodes of a new series launching in the summer on E! Entertainment. "The series will offer an unprecedented look inside the life of one of today's most iconic superstars in the style of a uniquely shot documentary film," said Randy Barbato, managing director of World of Wonder Prods.
Nicole Ritchie says motherhood «beyond amazing».
«I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman. »
«Throughout the seventies and eighties, poet, art critic, and Warhol Factory fixture Rene Ricard played a key role in the rise of artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Julian Schnabel. So it's fitting that the latter's 21-year-old son Vito—who's been curating shows since way back in 2003—is now shining the spotlight on Ricard by putting together the first UK exhibition of the writer's paintings at London's Scream Gallery.»
«By the spring of 1956 Andy Warhol was at the top of his commercial-art career. At twenty-seven he was the best known highest paid fashion illustrator in New York making upwards of $100 000 a year and was also represented by a bona fide art gallery».
Paris Hilton says she's in love with Benji Madden
«At the beginning of the documentary Planet B-Boy, as several hip-hop veterans offer a breezy history of breakdance, a not-to-be-messed-with French street dancer describes a transformational filmic experience. “Flashdance,” he says, and pauses to hold back tears, “It’s personally emotional for me.” A Japanese b-boy, recalling his first viewing of the film, is reduced to “wow.” An earnest German promoter confirms that the 1983 film, which includes scenes with the breakdance pioneers Rock Steady Crew, had pan-European influence. In bringing an urban American art form to Seoul, Paris, and Capetown, Flashdance planted the seeds of a subculture all over the map. Jennifer Beals, apparently, is an effective conduit for the culture of the South Bronx.»
Longoria's husband receives cheat apology
The People's Army of former Communist East Germany wasn't all about keeping their country's socialist dream alive; they were also interested in creating home grown pornography for ranking army officials and visiting generals from other Warsaw Pact nations. The films, including "Private Werner's Big Surprise" and the uber-patriotic "Fucking for the Fatherland", were shot using 160 officers in the army and were taped on-location in the actual barracks.
«'What is interesting about Warhol is not the retinal image of the man who paints 50 soup cans, but of the man who has the idea to paint 50 soup cans.»
«His dream was to produce 4000 works of art a day. What he actually managed to produce was 2000 in two years which amounts to almost 3 per day».
April 6 2008
«Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow. »
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