Subtracted from the sum of the human condition...embarrassment?

...question to a cynical wolf: "Are we witnessing the death of embarrassment?" Evidence cited (examples recent and current): The unrestrained rise of the paparazzi. Kiss-and-tell culture. Celebrity blogging/Tweeting. Warholian-style fame for nobodies/the active pursuit of public attention for its own sake. PR. (Me: " Just PR?" S: "Its de facto existence under that name, and its misapplication...

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Rooftops, Hallways and Beds

... is a disaster.) In the meanwhile, a friend asked me to collaborate with him in an art show in the UK where our collaborative piece will hang next to an original Van Gogh for five minutes (our Warholian five minutes of fame). He was inspired to include me because of this piece I wrote on how Van Gogh influenced my art combined with my sex work background, since the Van Gogh painting will be “...

Tags: art kdd a life

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Just say "Yes!" to Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys

... hard and we wrote three songs with them. Bill: For me, The Pet Shop Boys have their own warholian sense of design in your production values for your live performances and the artwork for your music. How would ... do something that is simple or minimal but with a certain glamour. That's why it's a bit Warholian actually. It's a bit like Andy Warhol; we think that anything can be art. Bill: I saw ...

Tags: neil 2009 liza txt arc

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Her Gig Was Deceitful Above All Things

... by a lady named Speedie, and, sometimes her husband, Astor, who just happened to have a rock band called Thistle. JT wrote lyrics for them. The rare times he did appear in public he was in a Warholian wig, huge sunglasses, wearing dresses. He came across as a cornpone sissy, in a high voice, goofy, sometimes rude, seeming like he'd blow away with the merest puff of wind. A movie was made of "The ...

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Epic lady gaga article

Released at the end of the Decade of Celebrity, the Warholian message of Lady Gaga 's The Fame – nowadays, we're all superstars – was timely and almost profound. Railing against the "noise of mediocrity", the 23-year-old New Yorker, otherwise known as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, not only unleashed a series of fantastically hook-laden singles, she also dressed exactly the way a pop ...

Tags: general media misc media: interview

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And with Warholian leverage, though shoddier than average, this shit would totally sell

... mood go so well Emotion'lly eating, can you tell? But-- ooh and there goes the bell and I must cut this short FML IKR OMG What the hell This is not poetry, pray tell Alas, a modern one, this be, I propose Aligned with today's modern prose And with Warholian leverage though shoddier than average this shit would totally sell Nowadays I talk better than I write and that is not saying much

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The Real Story Behind James Franco's Soap Opera Career Move

... some celebrity? “Follow me!” I don’t know! It’s a certain kind of celebrity, isn’t it, like a quasi-celebrity? I really don’t know what it is, but you can’t deny that it’s something. It’s really interesting, though — and it’s really not interesting at all. It’s truly Warholian to document the most mundane things that no one cares about, but somehow, people are watching. source

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MTV has reviewed The Fame

... of Saturn around her head or give interviews dressed in the carcasses of Kermit the Frog. Imagine if she didn’t speak her mind, delight in tweaking the media or treat her fame as one gigantic, Warholian art project. In other words, imagine if she were just another boring, bottle-blond, midriff-bearing pop star. I know all that is pretty difficult to consider — without any of the flair or the ...

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Did Lady Gaga Influence The Clothes At Haute Couture?

... believe she had a major influence on the clothes that came down the runway at haute couture? Style.com says yes. According to the site, “allusions to this pop culture omnivore (who is attired by a Warholian gaggle of twentysomethings working under the moniker Haus of Gaga) [were found] at the haute couture in Paris. And yet it was hard not to detect a hint of the Gaga effect in Gaultier Paris‘ ...

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Haute Couture imitates Gaga and all the Haterz can officially SUCK IT OUT LOUD

...’s another thing altogether to find allusions to this pop culture omnivore (who is attired by a Warholian gaggle of twentysomethings working under the moniker Haus of Gaga) at the haute couture in Paris. .... According to the site, "allusions to this pop culture omnivore (who is attired by a Warholian gaggle of twentysomethings working under the moniker Haus of Gaga) [were found] at the haute couture...

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