POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A FASHION DESIGNER WILL DECLARE: GAY CATFIGHT IS THE NEW BLACK

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Fans support Clay Aiken

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“ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS" -ANDY WARHOL

LOVE IN THE 21st CENTURY

“Last month, YouPorn attracted 3.2 million U.S. unique visitors, up 1300% year-over-year.
RedTube, meanwhile, scored 2.6 million uniques, up 7600% year-over-year.
XTube grew much slower and dropped to third place, but still more-than-doubled its unique visitors year-over-year to 1.4 million in April.Megarotic grew April uniques more than 500% year-over-year to 850,000.
PornoTube, which led all five sites a year ago, came in fifth with 758,000 uniques, down 2% year-over-year.”

Sillicon Alley Insider
May 30 2008

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“Just a week after his purported $300 million deal with MySpace hit the rumor mill, 50 Cent and Viacom-owned MTV have announced a partnership that, according to a report in Variety, will feature the rapper hosting a new kind of hip-hop "Apprentice"-style show. The premise? Sixteen contestants will live together and compete in challenges that relate to being street-savvy, business smart and, no doubt, showing the same kind of deal-making prowess that is a common theme in the entrepreneurial urban music scene. Each week's episode will end with 50 Cent narrowing his search down by firing two of the contestants, so look out for that new catch phrase "You fired, bro."

-AdAge
May 30 2008

PEREZ HILTON & OBAMA

In North America the popularity of both is in part related to demographics. Today Gen Y count more members (100 millions) that even their parents the baby boomers (70 millions) . This large groups of 15 to 30 years old people is a big consumer of celebrity gossip and pop culture but is also more interested in politics that Gen X. In one sense we have now the first generation to fully reconcile High & Low culture by totally blurring the line between the two. A lesson also perfectly understood by The Huffington Post and therefore explaining its huge success.

“GEE THAT'S GREAT"

Artwork by Tom Wesselman

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: THE FUTURE OF WOMAN MAG ADVERTISING: THESE 10 BEST COCKSUCKING TIPS BROUGHT TO YOU BY (AD SPACE)

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. ”

-Jean Genet

“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

Carmen Electra has another venture to add to her resume - she is launching her own line of portable stripper poles.
The 'Scary Movie' star is such a fan of pole-dancing, she wants women worldwide to be able to enjoy a pole dancer's workout in the comfort of their own home. She tells website People.com: "They're so much fun. I actually put one up in my living room with the help of a girlfriend."

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Are we simply romantically challenged, or are we sluts?"

-Carrie
Sex& The City

“MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR" -ANDY WARHOL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WILD ANIMALS IN NATIONAL PARKS WILL BE ADVERTISING COVERED.

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Jessica Simpson's new single is released

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“PERSONNALY I LOVED PORNO AND I BOUGHT LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME" -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”

-Camille Paglia

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: CELEB MAG: ANGELINA'S TWINS FIRST CUTEST WORDS: “ (AD SPACE FOR SALE)”

“ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS" -ANDY WARHOL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: AGE

Memo to gay men: when you drop the attitude at 55 you′re not five years too late. You′re 25 years too late!

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“Look at the figures: this week, it emerged that average audiences for The Oprah Winfrey Show have fallen by nearly 7 per cent in 2008, its third straight year of decline. From a peak of nearly nine million in 2004, the afternoon chat show's viewing figures are hovering perilously close to the psychologically-crucial seven million mark.
Then there's the failure of Oprah's Big Give, a prime-time philanthropy show that was launched with huge fanfare before Christmas, only to mislay nearly a third of its audience during an eight-week run. A mooted second series, again on the mass-market channel ABC, has been abandoned.Or what about the slow decline of O, the Oprah magazine? Its circulation has fallen more than 10 per cent in the past three years, to 2.4 million.”

-The independent
May 28 2008

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:WOMAN MAG: TEN HOTTEST THINGS TO DO TO A MAN WITHOUT DAMAGING YOUR GORGEOUS (AD SPACE) HAIR!

“I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART" -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"

-Jon Stewart

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Sharon Stone talks Karma

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CAN'T GO ANYPLACE

“
You can't go anyplace in America without seeing boys and girls who look like they've been professional athletes their entire lives" -Andy Warhol

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

Two days, two modern art masterpieces, two record-breaking auction prices -- and one buyer: billionaire Roman Abramovich.A respected art publication says London-based Abramovich was the anonymous buyer of Francis Bacon's "Triptych" and Lucian Freud's "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping," which sold at separate New York auctions last week for a total of $120 million.Abramovich represents a new breed of superrich collector from emerging economies such as China, the Middle East -- and, especially, Russia -- that is buoying the art market through tough economic times.

-Moscow Times
May 27 2008

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LIFE

Life is too short. I don't have time to forgive.

PHILOSOPHIE POUR LE 21UNIÈME SIÈCLE: SAVOIR

Il est bien connu que la chose la plus importante est ce que l'on a toujours avec soi. Bref notre savoir. Or si les plus vieux accusent les plus jeunes de ne plus avoir de référents culturels majeurs c′est tout simplement parce que pour ces derniers, ce qui compte ce n'est plus le savoir mémorisé dans sa tête mais bien de pouvoir accéder en tout temps au savoir universel à partir de son téléphone cellulaire multi-fonction...que l'on a toujours avec soi.

ANDY WARHOL ON WRESTLING: IT'S EXCITEMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC"

“GEE SHE LOOK SO FAT NOW"

Before there was Pink is the New Blog, Perez Hilton, or Jossip there was Andy Warhol. Most people know Mr. Warhol for his art, his films, and his wigs, but what many don’t know is that Andy was a first class gossip.The Andy Warhol Diaries were written by Pat Hackett and pulled from phone conversations the artist had almost daily from the 1970s up until his death in 1987. When the rather large book was released posthumously in 1990, it acted as a social account of the 70s and 80s, a large bound edition chronicling the lives of Hollywood stars, New York society, and the glitterati of the art world.

-QUEERTY
Oct 11 2005

“MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS" -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny."

-Albert Camus

WHY OUR CURRENT 15 Y.O GIRL POP CULTURE IS BECOMING SO F*#@§ BORING

The final point to be made here, is about celebrity culture as a whole. It seems to me that celebrity culture is turning into a pastiche itself. As Tom Mole points out, the classic understanding of celebrity culture is "structuring the production, distribution and reception of texts around the mystique of a particularly fascinating individual" (Mole, "Hypertrophic Celebrity"). As these photo shoots show us (Lindsay Lohan posing as Marilyn Monroe, etc) there is also a new emergent behavior where production, distribution and reception is not structured around the mystique of a fascinating individual, but rather the mystique of the history of celebrity culture itself. Celebrity culture no longer has icons, but imitations of older icons.

-Source: TheAtlantic

SHOWING OFF FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

ANDY WARHOL AND TODAY'S CELEBRITY GOSSIP À LA PEREZ HILTON

“Just look at all the big american magazines , where the exciting things are only the newest things: the book that was just published, the movies that just opened, the latest records. It gets to the point where we can barely remember what came out before we're rushed on to the next, newer sensation".

-Andy Warhol

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Ellen get mariage advice.

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“GEE THAT'S GREAT"

Artwork by Arshile Gorky

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:CELEBRITY MAGAZINE:IS BABY SHILOH WARDROBE COSTING MORE THAN BABY SURI'S ONE?

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“First, IQ scores in every country that measures them, including the United States, have been rising since the 1930s. Since the tests measure not knowledge but pure thinking capacity—what cognitive scientists call fluid intelligence, in that it can be applied to problems in any domain—then Gen Y's ignorance of facts (or of facts that older people think are important) reflects not dumbness but choice. And who's to say they are dumb because fewer of them than of their grandparents' generation care who wrote the oratorio "Messiah" (which 35 percent of college seniors knew in 2002, compared with 56 percent in 1955)? Similarly, we suspect that the decline in the percentage of college freshmen who say it's important to keep up with political affairs, from 60 percent in 1966 to 36 percent in 2005, reflects at least in part the fact that in 1966 politics determined whether you were going to get drafted and shipped to Vietnam. The apathy of 2005 is more a reflection of the world outside Gen-Yers' heads than inside, and one that we bet has changed tack with the historic candidacy of Barack Obama. Alienation is not dumbness."

-Newsweek
June 2 2008

SLEEP 2008 VERSION

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? "

-Jean Cocteau

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

Americans are accustomed to the idea that there is an ideological divide between the 70 million baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) and the 46 million members of Generation X (born between 1965 and 1981). Now comes the greatest split of all, thanks to the arrival on the scene of the largest and most diverse generation ever — the approximately 100 million members of the Millenial Generation (born between 1982 and 2003). According to sociologists and demographers who study the generations, Millenials are more optimistic, upbeat and idealistic about promoting social change than either boomers or X’ers. The Millenials are steeped in technology, fluent in YouTube, Google, Facebook and MySpace. They have faith in the federal government and think it can be a vehicle for good. And they’re more interested in working together to find solutions to difficult problems than in engaging in the partisan, red state/blue state skirmishes that many of us grew up with.

-RomeSentinel.com

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street."

-Angelina Jolie

“THE WORLD FASCINATES ME" -ANDY WARHOL

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Jessica Alba gets married.

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“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

On average, the networks are off the mark by 10% from last year in total viewers and off 17% in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic.Consistently performing shows like ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” NBC’s “Deal or No Deal” and Fox’s “The Simpsons” garnered ratings near or at their series lows in the 18-49 demo during this May sweeps period, which began April 24 and ends May 21.

“PERSONNALY I LOVED PORNO AND I BOUGHT LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME" -ANDY WARHOL

Photo: CorbinFisher.com

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG: HOW TO KEEP YOUR LIP GLOSS SHINY WHEN KISSING THE OTHER BABE IN A LESBIAN SHOW FOR YOUR MAN!

PHILOSOPHIE POUR LE 21UNIÈME SIÈCLE: INVENTION

“Cette semaine j'ai vu à la télévision une femme entrer et disparaître dans une machine qui émettait des radiations. C'était merveilleux parce que la matière est énergie et que cette femme s'est littéralement volatilisée. Il pourrait s‘agir d‘une invention américaine, la plus grande invention invention américaine, pouvoir disparaître".

-Andy Warhol

“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE" -ANDY WARHOL

LIKE NO OTHER

• Marc Jacobs on being likened to Andy Warhol in the June/July issue of Interview: "I don't think of myself that way. Warhol is Warhol. He's practically a god. I thought, 'I'm going to get a lot of hell for this.'"

-New York magazine

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.”

-Nicole Ritchie

“I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART" -ANDY WARHOL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE THE HOTTEST TV REALITY SHOW WILL BE CALLED HOLLYWOOD CASTING COUCH

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

"RuPaul's Drag Race" -- that's as creative as we could get? -- will feature contestants vying for the title of "America's next superstar drag queen," with RuPaul serving as host, mentor and judge. One contestant will be picked by an online vote at www.RuPaulsDragRace.com."Tell Tyra that the Queen has returned," announced RuPaul. "and while you're at it have Heidi clear the runway. I'm going to pump some 'realness' into reality. To be a winner on this show the contestants need to be a fashion designer, an American Idol, and a top model all rolled up into one. And they definitely have to be smarter than a fifth grader."

-www. bananaguide.com

ANDY WARHOL ON WRESTLING: IT'S EXCITEMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC"

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Jen in love.

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PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: WHAT CHRIS ROCK WOULD SAY

You know the world is really fucked up when the best boxers are white, the best American Gladiator is Cuban the best basketball player is Chinese and the best political candidate is black.

“MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR" -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented."

-Brooke Shields

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

The lines between virtual world and real world are becoming just a little blurrier. Ikea has inked a deal with "The Sims 2" to provide an online content package, The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff, available in late June. And H&M, which signed on with the game last year to provide The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff, is pushing its partnership from virtual world to real world.

- AdAge
May 18 2008

“GEE THAT'S GREAT"

Artwork by Robert Rauschenberg

PLAYING THE FAME GAME IN THE 21st CENTURY

“Into the breach between supply and demand have stepped Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the villainous couple from MTV's docu-soap "The Hills" - not be the most famous, but the most fame-ish. Creatures of the game, they have mastered the new realities of celebrity culture, what commodity they're selling and what its value is. "There's only so much gossip," as Heidi said over lunch recently.Heidi and Spencer. "Speidi" for short.

He's 24, and a California kid, growing up in Santa Monica. She's 21 and was raised in Crested Butte, Colo., which she referred to as "the smallest place in the world." She came to Los Angeles in August 2005 after a miserable fashion-school year in San Francisco where she met Lauren Conrad, late of MTV's "Laguna Beach." TMZ.com calls them "celebutards." Perez Hilton calls them "promosexuals." Spencer's response: "Anybody who wants to promote our brand, negative or positive, give me a call."

Los AngelesTimes
May 18 2008

BEING FAMOUS

“A good reason to be famous though, is so you can read all the big magazines and know everybody in all the stories. Page after page it's just all people you've met. I love that kind of reading experience and that's the best reason to be famous".

-The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

SHOWING OFF FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“"Are you kidding? I love men. Sex is the best! ...You have to really enjoy [being sexy]. Not fake anything. Sexy is being in the moment, whether that means being coy or coming on hard. Faking is always lame and it never comes across the way you want it to."

-Cameron Diaz

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE FANS OF LATE STRIPPERS WILL ERECT POLE DANCE ON THEIR GRAVES

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Ellen & Portia to get married

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“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“The CW network, home to teen drama Gossip Girl, may be closed next year thanks to you, a Web-surfing pop culture consumer, possibly between the ages of 18 and 34. If you actually sat and watched network television at the appointed time instead of flitting around the mediascape like a monkey, streaming things here and TiVOing things there, maybe the network could actually get some Nielsen ratings for its shows. Instead, ratings are down 28 percent among 18 to 34 year olds so far this year.”

-Gawker

“MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS" -ANDY WARHOL

HANGING OUT

"He wasn't an iconic figure to me. It was more like hanging out with a young guy from Southern California, who really didn't care about his success. I was more interested in him as a clever, interesting person."

-Christopher Makos

WARHOL & RAUSCHENBERG

“Rauschenberg was Jack Daniels, a mess of mellow impressions dancing off each other. Warhol was Obitrol: speed, whip dances, car crashes, dead celebrities, getting shot. Bob was the kind of young gay male who outshone his hetero contemporaries in physical beauty and prodigious talent. Andy was leather and silver, drag and drugs. Each hosted all-night parties, at Bob’s Lafayette Street digs and Andy’s silver Factory, Bob jumping into the fray, Andy coldly observing. A natural homebody, Warhol forced himself to travel the world in imitation of Bob, while Bob created his own Factory on Captiva Island."

-Artnet
May 14 2008

SMALL TOWN BOY

“When you leave the city and go out in the country you're always tempted to think “This is the real America"

-Andy Warhol

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.”

-Hugh Hefner
Playboy Founder

“THERE′S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES -ANDY WARHOL

Shania Twain & husband split.

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“ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“Back in Victorian America, women embraced the ideal of natural beauty, associating makeup with the artificial faces of prostitutes and showgirls. In the 1910s, when the flapper was the measure of femininity, Vogue signaled a significant shift, urging readers to (discreetly) use lipstick and rouge to enhance their beauty. Decades later, Clairol's legendary 1956 ad campaign - "Does she or doesn't she? Hair color so natural, only her hairdresser knows for sure" - publicized another turn; women in the Eisenhower years were hiding the gray, enhancing the red, and becoming blonde, but they still wanted it to remain a private matter. Unnatural changes to one's physical appearance were meant to be a secret - unless you were Marilyn Monroe."

-Boston Globe
May 15 2008

MODELING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: THE FUTURE OF CELEBRITY MAGAZINES FOR WOMEN: HOW TO TOSS YOUR HAIR LIKE ANGELINA WHEN SWALLOWING HIS LOAD!

DIRTY EXCITING STUFF

“Personally I loved porno and I bought lots of it all the time-the really dirty exciting stuff".

-Andy Warhol

“I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART" -ANDY WARHOL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG:IS GETTING A FACIAL FROM YOUR MAN ECO-FRIENDLY?

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.”

-Larry Flint
Hustler Founder

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT: EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“Old-fashioned music publications like Rolling Stone underestimate the role of the internet in shaping musical history. When, in the summer of 2004, the magazine published its "50 Moments that changed the history of Rock 'n' Roll", the digital revolution – with the exception of the iPod – barely got a mention. Whereas Rolling Stone included the December 1980 assassination of John Lennon in its top 50 moments, it failed to include a much bloodier homicide – the June 1999 launch of the free peer-to-peer website Napster, an event which has unintentionally resulted in the destruction of much of the traditional recorded music industry.”

The Independant
April 21 2008

“THERE′S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES -ANDY WARHOL

Britney & Kevin relationship now better...

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STRAIGHT GUYS IS THE NEW BLACK

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE POPES WILL BE ALLOWED TO GET PLASTIC SURGERY

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“One of Andy Warhol's large portraits of Mao Zedong is on sale for $120 million -- a price experts believe would set a record for the American Pop artist. Christie's International -- which is offering the work privately in Hong Kong, not as part of an auction -- says it is timing the sale to coincide with the coming Olympic Games in Beijing. More generally, Warhol's popularity has grown among Asian collectors in recent years".

-The Wall Street Journal
May 6 2008

“GEE THAT'S GREAT"

Pieta by Michalangelo

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: THE FUTURE OF CURVES ENHANCING CREAM:THE GYRATING BITCH BROUGHT TO YOU BY (AD SPACE)!

“THERE′S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES -ANDY WARHOL

Jenna Bush married

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“ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS" -ANDY WARHOL

SOMETHING ANDY WARHOL WOULD HAVE LIKED

Ever wonder what model BlackBerry Barack Obama uses, or where Reese Witherspoon gets her hair done?
Check out what may be a near-perfect mash-up of celebrity obsession, rabid consumerism, and web 2.0 functionality: Coolspotters.Launched on Wednesday, the site helps you identify — and eventually to buy — virtually any product featured in your favorite shows and movies or used by a celebrity.

-Portfolio
May 8 2008

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE US FIRST LADIES WILL POLE DANCE IN SEE-THROUGH DRESS AT INAUGURAL BALL

“THE WORLD FASCINATES ME" -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I am disappointed that my parents didn't give birth to a porn star”

-Rufus Wainwright

OUR CURRENT GODS

“ Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods."

-Art critic David Sylverster

BEACH BODY

“When you're young and good-looking and you've got a great body, you like to go to the beach and show it all off. And it's easy to make fun of everybody there who isn't so good-looking or in such great shape".

- Andy Warhol

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

Dove's "real beauties" were not airbrushed, but their photos were treated to eliminate dust from the film and provide "color correction," according to Unilever and celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.

In a joint statement provided by Unilever regarding its "Campaign for Real Beauty," the company, Ms. Leibovitz, who created the ads in question, and the celebrity photo re-toucher she works with -- Pascal Dangin, who kicked off the controversy with a quote he said was taken out of context in an interview with The New Yorker magazine -- all denied substantially altering images in the much-lauded campaign.

-AdAge
May 9 2008

“THERE′S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES -ANDY WARHOL

Scarlett so happy

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“MUSCLES ARE GREAT: EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

LOSER NERD

“As for the other Drella impersonators, I must say that Jared Harris did a creditable job with Andy's intonation, and a pretty good job with his posture and body language, although he never would have offered his hand for a shake. Guy Pearce's turn as the boss in Factory Girl, which will go down as one of the worst movies ever made, would have greatly amused Andy. Not only is Pearce a handsome devil, he plays Andy with that I-know-I'm-hot meanness that must come naturally to him.
Andy was, of course, a loser nerd who would have fit in with the trenchcoat mafia in high school, and he had none of that air. He said of the Factory that it wasn't people hanging around him, he was hanging around them."

-Glenn O' Brien

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."

-Cioran

“SHOPPING IS MORE AMERICAN THAN THINKING"- ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

Actress Joan Collins has hit out at society's obsession with celebrities, claiming that "we're turning into a world of idiots."
The 75-year-old former Dynasty star attacked celebrity magazines for "dumbing down" the public. "Our civilisation has become extremely dumbed down, with shorter attention spans. All they want are sound bites."

-Daily Mail
April 16 2008

“MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR" -ANDY WARHOL

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: PONDERING

May 6 2008

Walked down Madison and there was some obese guy wearing a t-shirt saying; trust me I’m a Jedi. Gee, what does it mean?

“THERE′S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES -ANDY WARHOL

Scarlett Johansson engaged

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WARHOL’S CHILDREN

HUMANITIES PUBLISH OR PERISH CLOWNS

“Last year, Anthony T. Kronman, the former dean of Yale's law school, published "Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life." This superb book traces the historical rise and fall of the humanities, which, Kronman writes, "are not merely in a crisis. They are in danger of becoming a laughingstock, both within the academy and outside it."In the past, Kronman argues, colleges and universities understood that undergraduates were hungry for answers to the Big Question: What is the meaning of life? And schools believed that not only religion but also higher education could help students find them. Humanities departments focused on great works of Western civilization, from Homer to Shakespeare. In short, Kronman writes, they gave their students a four-year seat in the unending "great conversation" of their civilization. But between political correctness and the "publish or perish" ethic of the modern research university, the humanities have lost the desire and the capability to guide students' spiritual quests. Instead, humanities professors stake their authority on an unrelenting critique not just of contemporary society but of meaning itself.
Once, humanities teachers cultivated perspective in their young charges; now, many of them instill grievance."

Washington Post
may 3 2008

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“It takes a long time to become young."

-Pablo Picasso

“MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

Beet, a searing and humorous indictment of American higher education, follows the decline of a fictitious, New England liberal arts school. Marked by tradition, attended by the elite and paid for by the prestigious, Beet College is in trouble. The entirety of its endowment has been squandered and no one knows how to save the venerable institution. Though the Board of Trustees seems ready to sell anything not stapled to the ground, they hatch a "plan" to save the school by reforming its curriculum. Maybe it would have worked at Antioch, the well-known liberal arts college that shut its doors last year after ushering in the era of 1990s political correctness by adding the phrase "may I proceed to the level of intimacy?" to the national discussion.

Forbes
May 1 2008

“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE" -ANDY WARHOL

BEFORE

“It's just like the comedies from the thirties where the poor young guy arrives in Gotham showers, shaves puts on a good suit, and goes out into Society to mingle and nobody can tell that he's not the heir to some fortune. He's intelligent and well-dressed and clean, so what's the difference?".

-Andy Warhol

AFTER

“You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.”

-Paris Hilton

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE A WOMAN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE «IS GIVING HEAD AS FACIAL EXERCICES GOOD AT PREVENTING WRINKLES? A QUIZZ FOR YOU!»

SLEEP 2008 VERSION

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“No one really cares like, you know, ''I woke up today and I got into a fight with my mom and then I went to jog in the park and then to my ex-boyfriend's and then someone tried to mug me.'' Who gives a fuck? I don't give a fuck. I don't want to read about some random stranger's life. But I like to read about celebrities' lives."

Perez Hilton

WOMEN IN REVOLT

“If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them."

-Camille Paglia

“EVERYBODY MUST HAVE A FANTASY" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

“The decline of star power comes as consumers are viewing film actors differently. Such voyeuristic media outlets as "Access Hollywood" and TMZ.com have demystified celebrities even as they feed unprecedented interest. Why turn out for a favorite star's movie if you can watch him walk his dog on TV and the Internet?

"Mystique is what draws people to the movies," PMK publicist Catherine Olim says. "People want to go to the movies to get lost in a performance. And it's hard to do that with so much interference."

-Hollywood Reporter
May 1 2008