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The Factory” is an acclaimed live-action short film directed by Aly Muritiba, which is a finalist in The Wrap’s 2012 Short Films Festival, a new festival presenting 12 award-winning short films selected from this year’s top international film festivals. “The Factory” has received more than 50 prizes at international film festivals, including: Best Short Film at the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival 2012 (LA, United States); Best Short Film at the World Wide Short Films 2012 (Toronto, Canada); Best Short Film at the 14th Encounters South America“n Cinema de Marseille (Marseille, France); Special Jury Mention at the 34th Festival of Short Film Clermon-Ferrand (France); and Best Film Award at the Lake Film Festival (Italy).
“The Factory” tells a daring and emotional story of family ties, taking an an intense journey beneath the hard surface of a brutal prison environment, to show the spark and beauty of the human condition. The film takes place on visiting day at the prison. An inmate has convinced his mother to take a huge risk, smuggling a cell phone into the penitentiary for him. Lindalva prepares food to take to her son, while her son, Metruti, shaves and dresses in his best clothes to welcome her. Today is a very special day, and Metruti really needs to make that phone call.
This piece includes a number of color photographs and the award-winning short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/the-factory-a-story-of-love-sacrifice-and-the-human-condition/The Factory” is an acclaimed live-action short film directed by Aly Muritiba,... more
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An iconic portrait of Elvis Presley by pop artist Andy Warhol went for $37 Million when it hit the auction block tonight at Sotheby’s. The life-size 1963 painting, “Double Elvis (Ferus Type),” epitomizes Warhol’s obsessions with fame, stardom and the public image, according to Sotheby’s. Previously estimated to sell for $30 million to $50 million, it was included in the auction house’s May 9th sale of post-war and contemporary art.
Art auctions have turned into freak-show casinos, spectacles where the uber-rich can act out as much in public as possible, trying to buy immortality, become a part of art history, make headlines and create big profits. They are despicable for what they do to art, for the bad magic of making mysteriously powerful things turn into numbers.
This piece includes a number of vintage photographs, two videos and a documentary about Warhol's art and life.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/another-freak-show-big-money-art-auction-warhols-double-elvis-brings-33-million/An iconic portrait of Elvis Presley by pop artist Andy Warhol went for $37 Million... more
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“Before They Were Famous: Behind The Lens of William John Kennedy” is an extraordinary collection of images by the photographer William John Kennedy, which is currently on exhibition at the new gallery Site/109 in New York City. The collection presents a number of never-before-seen photographs of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana, among them Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe” and Indiana’s “LOVE,” taken by Mr. Kennedy in the mid-60′s when they were both just emerging American artists.
The fact that these early images of the two iconic American artists happened isn’t necessarily the exciting part. It’s that the amazingly early, naïve portraits of the artists with their own works were created before they were famous. These early images sat untouched for over 50 years, until Kennedy uncovered them within his archives and decided it was time to finally print this project.
This piece includes a number of photographs, a photo-gallery and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/never-before-seen-photographs-of-the-young-andy-warhol/“Before They Were Famous: Behind The Lens of William John Kennedy” is an... more
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An iconic portrait of Elvis Presley by pop artist Andy Warhol is poised to go for as much as $50 million when it hits the auction block in May at Sotheby’s. The life-size 1963 painting, “Double Elvis (Ferus Type),” epitomizes Warhol’s obsessions with fame, stardom and the public image, according to Sotheby’s. Estimated to sell for $30 million to $50 million, it will be included in the auction house’s May 9th sale of post-war and contemporary art.
The silver background of “Double Elvis (Ferus Type),” along with the subtle variations in tone give the serial imagery a sense of rhythmic variation that recalls the artist’s masterpiece, “200 One Dollar Bills,” completed the previous year. That work soared to nearly $44 million or four times its estimate in 2009 and achieved the highest price of any work at the fall auctions. But it was a work from Warhol’s “Death and Disaster “series that set the artist’s record, which still stands. “Green Car Crash (Green Car Burning),” also from 1963, more than doubled its estimate and sold for $71.7 million in 2007, at the height of the art market boom.
In the “Double Elvis” work, Presley is dressed as a cowboy, shooting a gun. Sotheby’s describes him in the work as “a Hollywood icon of the sixties rather than the rebellious singer who shook the world of music in the sixties.” The double in the title refers to a shadowy image of Presley in the same pose that appears next to him in the work.
This piece includes a number of vintage photographs, a video about the Elvis portrait and a documentary about Warhol's life.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/andy-warhols-cowboy-double-elvis-could-bring-50-million-at-auction/An iconic portrait of Elvis Presley by pop artist Andy Warhol is poised to go for as... more
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Jean-Michel Basquiat or SAMO was many things. First known for graffiti in the late ’70s, this “genius child” and artist of inspiration; quickly becoming an international art star but just as quickly lost his life. A new film by Tamra Davis includes never-before-seen footage of the artist being interviewed by friends and more.
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/jean-michel-basquiat-a-new-film-on-the-radiant-childJean-Michel Basquiat or SAMO was many things. First known for graffiti in the late... more
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Halston. Can it get anymore groovy and Studio 54 than that!! His designs and fashions have lasted the years and this Wish List will make you feel like a disco queen, but of 2009. Snakeskin heels and a silk, canary yellow strapless Grecian dress will make you wish Andy Warhol was there to paint your picture! Did we mention he is the one who created the famous pillbox hat for Jackie Kennedy!!!! This is a GREAT fashion entry!Halston. Can it get anymore groovy and Studio 54 than that!! His designs and fashions... more
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This posting is meant only for those who have a strong interest in the development of modern filmmaking, and who are capable of maintaining a sustained level of interest (i.e., it's not for snarky-Farkers or dumbed-down Diggers). "Warhol’s Cinema" is a 64-minute 1989 documentary about a number of films made by Andy Warhol in the 1960s. During the five year span of his obsession with films, Warhol made more than 50 films between 1963-1968. He made many of the films in his mid-town studio, known as The Factory, where the young people in his offbeat cortège, alternately beautiful and bizarre, spent most of their time.
The original Factory was thought of as the Silver Factory by the people who came to derive a sense of attachment from being involved in the air of creative excitement that was evolving there. The shimmering silver was made from fractured mirrors and tin foil; it represented the decadence of the scene, as well as the “proto-glam” of the early sixties.
Includes a number of great vintage photographs, the full 64-minute version of the documentary and a stunning Slide Show.This posting is meant only for those who have a strong interest in the development of... more
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Works by Pietro Psaier have appeared at sales all over the world, including several held by Christie's, Sotheby's and Bonhams, attracting prices of up to £14,000.
They were given added kudos by the claim that Psaier worked in Warhol's studio, the Factory, and that the pair were friends who collaborated on several pieces.
However, officials at the Andy Warhol Foundation have come forward to say they have never heard of Psaier, and suggested that the whole relationship may have been a hoax.
The auctioneer John Nicholson, of Fernhurst, Surrey, the leading Psaier dealer, is trying to prove his existence and has even hired a researcher. In the meantime, he has been forced to delay the latest sale of Psaier's work, which had been scheduled for tomorrow.
The artist is said to have been born in Italy and lived a nomadic life before he was killed by the tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004, although his body has never been recovered. There are also few official documents and witnesses to help prove the story.
However, the main supplier of Psaier's works, Peter Psaier, who claims to be the artist's son, has sent a signed notarised statement to Mr Nicholson, confirming who he is. A psychiatrist in Madrid has said he treated Psaier, whom he described as "an accomplished artist" who had a working relationship with Warhol. Works by Pietro Psaier have appeared at sales all over the world, including several... more
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The Gritty and The Pretty strives to find TV shows that do not SUCK. We caught the premiere of Spike TV's new showm The Factory and guess what. It is pretty good.
Read our review and catch a full episode of the show before it airs on Sunday night. You got to love Mitch Rouse. He worked with Amy Sedaris!The Gritty and The Pretty strives to find TV shows that do not SUCK. We caught the... more
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