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Andy Warhol, Sleep (1963), featuring John Giorno. 5hrs21min. #RIP

From warholstars.org:

Sleep was shot in Giorno's apartment whom Warhol was having a sexual relationship at the time, according to Giorno. On Memorial Day weekend of 1963, Giorno woke up to find Warhol watching him sleep and Warhol asked him if he'd like to be a movie star.

John Giorno:

On Memorial Day weekend in 1963 we went away for a few days and I woke up in the night to find him staring at me -- he took a lot of speed in those days. That's where the idea for the movie came from -- he was looking for a visual image and it just happened to be me. He said to me on the way home: "Would you like to be a movie star?" "Of course," I said, "I want to be just like Marilyn Monroe."

He didn't really know what he was doing; it was his first movie. We made it with a 16mm Bolex in my apartment but had to reshoot it a month later. The film jumped every 20 seconds as Andy rewound it. The second shoot was more successful but he didn't know what to do with it for almost a year.

The news that Warhol had made a movie triggered massive amounts of publicity. It was absurd -- he was on the cover of Film Culture and Harper's Bazaar before the movie was finished! In the end, 99% of the footage didn't get used; he just looped together a few shots and it came out six hours long.

#RIP #JohnGiorno

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Now they are making Andy into the Ad

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#records #underwearpower #warhol

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"It reminded me of Andy Warhol, these artists who use students to paint their backgrounds and things. It's a well-used technique." -- Paul McCartney comparing Kanye West to Andy Warhol 

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Andy's New York kd

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If you haven’t read Eric Lott on Andy’s Mick, well, what are you waiting for?

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Andy on the streets of NYC.

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I keep a close watch on this heart of mine.

Warhol’s GraveCam.

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Jonas Mekas on how New York saved his sanity when he moved here in 1949.

Take the time to watch this today. Share it with someone. It’s as good as “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.”

#RIP

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Andy took every rejection personally. He had a habit of carrying around issues of Interview when shopping, to give out gratis. From the diary: “And when people on the street turn me down when I offer them a free Interview, it just gets me right in the gut.” -- Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Warhol

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Warhol, Endangered Species.

All good things come to an end.

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Untitled, 59.6x71 cm, Oil on Canvas

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One of the earliest issues of Warhols Interview Magazine / July 1971 - Bjorn Andreson.

“In the fall of 1969 Andy Warhol began publishing inter/VIEW magazine under the direction of Gerard Malanga,” writes the poet and Warhol scholar Kenneth Goldsmith in our book Andy Warhol "Giant Size". “Warhol had originally devised the idea of the magazine as a way to get into movie premiers and other events to which he was not invited.”

The title began, Goldsmith explains, as an underground magazine, devoted to movies. However, its style and focus altered in the early 1970s, with new staff, and a new emphasis on glamour. via

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Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol at The Factory, October,12 1982 photographed by Christopher Makos. via

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Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1984.

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Be somebody with a body.

“Andy’s Last Suppers are predictive accounts of his own upcoming death, as well as paranoid portraits of factory behavior, in which Warhol as Christ is surrounded by disciples and a lurking betrayer (Valerie Solanas, and other, nonviolent defectors).”

- Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Warhol p. 197

It’s interesting to consider this parallel and then also the punching bags and their possible implications. A few posts ago I posted the ad for Warhol’s and Basquiat’s joint show, which showed the artists in boxing gear. Maybe his personal relationship with Basquiat was the boxer in this scenario, if we place Warhol again as the Jesus on the bags, the punchee. Which hurt more - Basquiat or Solanas? 

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