A List of Names

[jimmalenko]

You were really concerned for a moment there, weren't you Jimm?

Don't worry. The tgpo tattoo thing is just talk ....

It was just one of those answers that needed clarification ...

Like when you ask someone a question and they say "yeah, no ....". Well, which is it, yeah or no ?

Yeah I don't know what you mean, don't you agree?

Yeah, nah, you're right ... sort-of

[Rookie64]

I'm with you hech54. Warhol was a hack. We might not have Photoshop today? How so? There may not be those specific plugins and filters but I could give a rat's ass.

Well...I use 'em regularly - they are cool effects and can enhance many images. It's also cool to be able to present a single image over a thousand different ways.

The music videos I've seen that I like do not have any hint of Warhol influence. Nico and The Velvet Underground? Blondie?

There's heavy influence in most alternative music videos.

Warhol was active in the music world, doing album covers for a few artists, like The Rolling Stones, producing the 1979 punk rock film, The Blank Generation (which included Blondie among many music acts)..
He also directed music videos in the '80s and had his own show on MTV.

Madonna copied the same style for a few of her videos and even did parodies of early Warhol films, such as Mario Banana for her Deeper And Deeper video....and the entire Warhol mockumentary, Truth Or Dare

Debbie Harry hung around Warhol a lot thru-out her career - and worked with him a number of times, appeared on his show and made some Warhol style Underground films in the late '70s to early '80s.
Blondie did a song, Underground Girl which is about the Warhol Factory Underground of the '60s.

The Cult did a song about the Warhol pop icon, Edie Sedgwick.
There's a new controversal film coming out soon that's based on her wild life that ended early as a result of barbiturate overdose.
Edie starred in most of Warhol's underground films.

Warhol produced The Velvet Underground's early ablums and they were a part of his traveling circus in the '60s.
They hung out at the Warhol Factory and Warhol put them in a couple of his films.
Nico appeared in a few Warhol films - it was Warhol's idea to include her in The Velvet Underground.

It may be art but so is the work of that painter that stuffs paint up their ass and shits on the canvas.

Well...he did urinate on the canvas of one his later works


I'm not saying the guy was a genius - but I don't know of any other 20th Century artist that had such a dramatic influence on American culture.

Warhol introduced films shot in 'real time' - this was long before people owned vidcams (today, this isn't a big deal to anyone because anyone can do it)

He was one of the first to do parodies of Hollywood films and/or Celebrities - and even directed some of the earliest segments on Saturday Night Live.

He also introduced multi-screen films - something that would later influence directors like Brian De Palma....and Quentin Tarantino.

He did the first concept music videos - before music videos were even a concept.
Up until that time, the closest thing you had to that were Hollywood musicals.

He can even be credited for making the first porn films - up until Blue Movie, porn flicks were only stag shorts - Warhol did the first softcore and hardcore feature film (though they weren't mainstream, hence Underground...Deep Throat is credited for being the first mainstream porn feature film...despite it was made up of previously made loops and somehow they connected into a story...go figure)

"Andy Warhol - poet of kitsch and high-priest of camp - is now more famous as a cult hero than as a filmmaker. His cinematic vision and the output of his art Factory nonetheless were a radical and disturbing prelude which influenced the structuralist Seventies" -- Movies Of The 60s

"Avant-garde art problematizes contemporary cultural issues - economy, history, sexuality, politics - and Warhol's work is in the foreground of that problematization. "


He's also famed for foretelling that in the future every person will be famous for 15 minutes.

In the early days, he'd take people right off the street, bring them into his Factory and sit each one in front of his camera for 15 minute screen tests.
Some of these people became known as his "Superstars" - some even went into the sun instead of staying underground...such as Dennis Hopper, Sally Kiirkland, Phoebe Cates, Patti D'Arbanville, etc

Even Valerie Solanis appeared in his films...who would become famous for shooting/almost killing Warhol.
The movie, I Shot Andy Warhol is based on Solanis.


And most importantly, Warhol also was the one to introduce us to this -

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059880/


See...even Capmaster is influenced by Warhol

[Hardcoreruss]

So how have any of the people on the list....and Warhol changed your life

The after shave may of helped me get laid back in the day.