Muses

Muses make the world more glamorous by the second.

Take note.

Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy and Mary-Kate Olsen.

The Silver Factory

Day 8:

The above photo is of Andy on the infamous couch

at the Silver Factory located at 231 East Forty-Seventh Street.

A brief blurb on how the factory came to be:

"In November of 1963, Andy Warhol moved his studio into what came to be know as the Silver Factory.

Located in a non descript midtown Manhattan neighbourhood in the east Forties, the new space was an enormous loft on the fifth floor: In early 1964, he met twenty-one year old Billy Linich, soon to be Billy Name- a fixture on the downtown art scene who lived in a silver apartment. Warhol asked him to do the same thing to his studio.

In POPism he wrote, 'It must be the amphetamine but it was the perfect tie to think silver. Silver was also the past-the Silver Screen...And maybe mor than anything else, silver was narcissim-mirrors were backed with silver.'

Linich worked for several months in early 1964 plastering the raw space with aluminum paint and tin foil, transforming it into the mythic Silver Factory."

The make shift shrine

Day 7:

My make shift Warhol shrine.

It's not yet complete.

Includes 4 Warhol works, 2 Grand Marnier ads

and 1 Lady Gaga photo.

Connections

Day 6:

Everyone's connected. You know, the six degrees of separation?

I'm six steps away from Warhol apparently. However, Madonna is only one away from Warhol.

In a recent Rolling Stone interview Madge explain the connection:

"At that time I was hanging around with a lot of graffiti artists, Futura 2000, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Jean-Michel introduced me to Andy Warhol. I remember we were all at a Japanese restaurant on Second Avenue and Seventh Street, where Keith had done a bunch of drawings on the wall, and Jean- Michel was telling me how jealous he was of me being on the radio. Because he thought that I had a more accessible form of art, and more people would be exposed to it. Andy told him to stop complaining."

"Keith and Andy did four pieces fro me as a wedding present when I married Sean (Penn). They're pictures of me from the cover of The New York Post when all the nude photographs of me came out in Playboy and Penthouse. The headline says 'I'm not ashamed'. So they took all the Post covers and painted over them. They're in my house in L.A. - a sign-post, a watershed moment..."

Day 5 of 28 Days of Warhol

Day 5:

So behind on these 28 Days of Warhol.

This is a photo of Edie, Andy, and Chuck Wein, in 1965 on the streets on New York.

These were the happy days...

Invasion of the Leopard Coat!

Here's the leopard in its prime.

On the back of Kate Moss and draped on another model.

Fabulous

Yes. It's all I can say...

Yesterday, I almost fell out of my chair when I went on Twitter. I almost had a full out explosion in front of a silent room of 30 people.

It was announced that the beloved Strokes are in the studio working on a fourth album.

All I can say is....Yessss! This is music to my Stroke hungry ears. It's been straight up famine until Julian did a cameo on that Lonely Island song "Boom Box" and then release his solo album.

Now, with this recent news, truly all my dreams and fantasies can now come true.